The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-26
ASSA|LAN ARE
LANDED IN JAIL
Sheriff Mann and Posse Capture SpingIa and
Geugonis on Railroad Track in New Hampshire
Both Prisoners Admit Geugons Held Knife
with Which Vernott Was Stabbed

by Keeping eVerlastIngly at 1t SherlH
q. +. Mann landed in Newfane Jail last
evening Nicholas Spingla and Frank
Beugonis, known also as Frank Legor
don, the assailants of Albert G. Yer
mott, who is in the Melrose hospital
suffering with very dangerous knife
wound IN his abdomen. The men will
be held to await the result of Vernott 5
injuries. The injured man was report
ed this noon to be resting SATISFACTORY
ly, although by no means out of dan
ger.
Vernott was assaulted yesterday
morning in n pathway leading from
Morningside cemetery down the en-
bankment towards the factory of the
White River Chair Co., where all three
men were employed. Spingla and Geu
gonis, after the assault made their tenn
porarv escape and were at liberty un-
til about $50 yesterday afternoon,
when they were taken into custody on
the tracks of the Boston & Maine rail
road in Hinsdale about three and one
half miles from Brattleboro.
All day State s Attorney O. b.
Hughes, with Police Chief George Will
son part of the time in the morning,
had been engaged in running down
clues. He believed that the men had
crossed the river into4New Hampshire,
and with Sullivan Barbetti, who knew
both men and speaks Italian, he made
a trip over there, but did not get defi-
mite track of them.
In the afternoon Sheriff Mann came
to Brattleboro from Newfane, with
Charles Benson, son of Deputy Sheriff
NJ. z. Benson of Newfane, to drive
his car. Officer Ellis G. Worden, Com
missioner Solon A. Richmond, his son
Abbott b. Richmond, and five EN-
ployes of the White River Chair com
pany put in the afternoon in search
that combed every likely location and
some that were not very likely.
States Attorney hughes received
numerous tips of suspected individuals
being seen IN widely separated. local.
ties, and the officers and volunteer!
followed these up as rapidly as posi-
BILE, using two automobiles.
1t was while chasing down one O.
these tips to the effect that two mel
had been seen hurrying down the bacl
way from the Valley fair grounds il
the direction of the tenement distric
in Fort Dummer Heights that Sheriff
Mann proved his eyesight to be goo,
and his persistency to be of the stick
to-it kind.
officer Makes Discovery.
He had gone down well below tn
factory Of the Vermont Last Block Co
following the fair grounds tip, and ha
turned around when, looking across tn
Connecticut river into New Hampshire
he saw a man walking along the raj
road tracks south III the direction o
Fort Hill station. AS he looked he sa'
another man come out from cut i
the banks and follow the first.
With him were Mr.. Benson, drivin
the car, and Barbetti. Il m goln
over there to look those fellows over,
the sheriff announced, and back int
Brattleboro and over the hlghwa
bridge the automobile was driven
rapidly as possible.
Meantime the state S attorney hi
received a telephone message to ca
up a number in Northfeld and
would receive information that wou
be valuable to him.
He learned that G. A. Martin, ra
road man of Greenfield, Mass, viii
riding on the back platform OF t
passenger train leaving here at A.
had seen two men walking on t
tracks between Brattleboro and re
Hill station, and had notified the te
graph operator at South Vernon tn
the men answered the descriptions
The Reformer, which he had just re;
of those wanted for the assault
Being unable to get in touch Wi