The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-11
Arthur Wells Killed Sarah
Gereau in Greenfield
Last Evening
THE COUPLE HAD
RECENTLY SEPARATED
Lived Together Seven Years, and Man
Was Probably Maddened by Thought
of Parting-.'I Said I'd Get You.
Wells's Alleged Remark.

GREENFIELD, Jan. IL. Arthur
Wells, SO, shot and killed Sarah Mabel
Gereau, with whom he had lived for
seven years, at her home on Coombs
avenue shortly after o'clock last
evening.
Wells sent four bullets from 80 cal
ibre revolver crashing into her body.
The first and fatal bullet entered the
right side of the abdomen, second
shattered the right elbow. third
pierced the right shoulder and the
fourth entered the right armpit and
passed through the lungs
The shooting occurred in the dining
room of the second story fiat occupied
by the woman and is thought to be the
| result of the separation of the couple,
who had not lived together for the past
| two months.
Lucy Gereau, aged %, sister of the
| slain woman, and Catherine Dow, a
roomer in the house, Were in a room
above when the shots We're fred and
rushed downstairs and into the bed
room where the wounded woman had
collapsed.
As they entered they claim they
iheard Wells say: 81 said I'd get you,
land l have got you now.
The sister secured possession of the
revolver, which Wells had thrown on
a table in the room, and kept it until
the police arrived
The wounded woman was attended
by DIR. J. G. O Brien and was placed in
an ambulance after first aid had beer
applied at the house, but died before
reaching the hospital.
Wells was arrested by Police Officer;
James J. Burns and Joseph A. Clou
tier, who arrived on the scene not fv,
minutes after the shooting took place
The alarm was sent in by Edward Car
5 ley, a neighbor.
In answer to a question put by Off
r Ger Burns. the dying woman gasped
; eyes, he shot me, - indicating Wells
f Wells expressed 4 wish to remain
: with the dying woman during her las
moments, but she refused to permit hin
/ to stay and begged the police to ia k
| him away. Her clothing bore powde
/ marks, showing the close proximity 0
/ the revolver when discharged.
Il Robert Littleton, who with his wifi
II | rooms at the house, was shaving whe
/ the shooting took place in q room jus
Il off the dining room, and as he entere
= the room Wells tossed the smokin
weapon on table and Littleton state
4 that he said: "Wen, 1 guess We don
Il it, - after which he went into the roo1
II where the woman lay.
Il The dead woman leaves a six-yeal
Il old daughter, Frances, and it is admit
II ted that Wells is her father. She ais
II leaves/a sister, Lucy, and brothe
II Capt. Alex. Gereau of the ship Blancl
! ard Howard, supposed to be in Me-
York barber Investigation by tn
a local police shows that the dead woma
I was the divorced wife of William Hak
( of Adams, and that the decree was OF
/ tained in Pittsfeld For the past sey
I on years she had been living wit
L Wells as his wife and was accepted 8
| such.
I Wells refused TO make any statemer
[ | regarding his motive for the deed. II
says he did not intend to kill her.
III The revolver with which he commi
ted the deed was bought yesterday at
I gun shop.
III Wells expressed no sorrow over til
| death Of the woman. He was very MOI
committal about the shooting. althou2
perfectly willing to give details abor
8 his past life. He said he became a
= quainted with the woman some seve
years ago in boarding house in Al
> ans and that they were never Marie
although they had lived together f;
man and wife. Wells, however, state
t. that no other man figured in the cas-