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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
FOR SALE
Blacksmith Shop and
Carriage Business

Am going out OF blacksmithing and
carriage business. I will offer for sale
all my blacksmith and carriage tools and
shoelng outfit, consisting of one new tire
bender and upsettcr for heavy tires;
enc new power drilling machine, never
used; two secondhand drilling ma
chimes and all other tools; one h. p.
engine, Little Jewell never used;
sh2fting and pulleys; full set Of hosiery
machine for making $50 dozen day, in
frst-class condition. All kinds of car
rtages, two rev grocery wagons, two
secondhand; one new 2-horse low-down
spring wagon carry two tons; enc sec
!ond-hand spring wagon, carry 8 tors;
nice depot wagon, good hacks, l
truck, carry 4 tons; also have 10 other
wagons Of all kinds, must be sold at
some price; 40 new odd carriage wheels,
H-ton auto truck, cost when new $780,,
that I used to carry my large horse,
Duke, in at the fairs, but now that he
is dead will sell for $1,000. Also one
SO h. p. touring car, made into q truck,
that will sell for $3.50.
Doors, windows, blinds and frames;
barb and woven wire fencing and metal
( fence posts; new tires, axles, fellies ana
spokes; one ton Of new horse shoes
CHARLES MINER.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
TWO DIVORCE SUITS.
Erattleboro Woman and Dummerston
Man Want Bonds Severed.

Two divorce suits have been entered
IN the county court by Attorney A. F.
Schwenk. Ethel NJ. Waite Of Brattle-
boro sues for divorce from Herbert T.
Waite Of Greenfcld Mass. She charges
intolarable severity, neglect and refusal
to support and improper conduct. They
were married March II, 1894, at Wards
boro by Rev George H. Rogers They
separated February 10, 1915.
Charles 4. Dane of Dummerston sues
for divorce from Amelia Ruth (Zancan)
Dane, now Of Turner's Falls, Mass. He
alleges desertion January ] 1914 They
were married December 5, 1913, in
Brattlcboro by Carl S. Hopkins. Esq.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
Motion Picture Attractions.

The program for tonight at the
Princess theatre includes Richard TRAY.
ere aud Gertrude Glover in What |
Said Goes, q Black Diamond comedy,
and The Lass Of the Lumbcrlands. On
Monday Wallace Reed and cleo Ridg
ley IN The yellow Pawn, a Paramount:
picture, will he shown.
The attraction at the Empire today
IS The Lie sublime, a two.part drama,
featuring King Baggot. The Woman
bic Feared, q threcpart drama, and
How DO You iHol! a Nestor comedy
On Monday William Fox will present
Ormi Huwlcy in Where Love Leads. a
problem Of today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
Light where Weight is Detriment- But
Husky where Weight means Strength
and Long Life

A fat unconditional man hasn' the en-
durance of an athlete simply because he
carries around with him a lot Of dead
unproductive weight.
A motor car with cast iron motor is
suffering from mechanical obesity. It
can not have the stamina and the endur-
ance Of a car which weighs 255 pounds
less in its motor alone.
Any unprecedented engineer in the
world will tell you that the only correct
way to build motor is to build it out of
allminum-if you can afford aluminium.
The Premier motor is built of LY-
MITE, an aluminium alloy produced by
the Aluminium Castings Company of
Cleveland, Ohio-and our source Of sup
ply is dependable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17

What grafters need is insurance
against exposure.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
CHURCH NOTICES.

Methodist church, Rev t. ". Owens
minister. Sunday services: Divine wor-
ship at 1870 with sermon by the minis
ter; 1l.45 a. m, session Of Sunday
school; 6 =. m, meeting of Epworth
League; =. m, regular church service
with talk by the minister. Church prayer
meeting FRIDAY evening at 80 III the
yestry.
II takes IN unusually good man t
make good il a puslic Office
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
PERSONAL.

Edward G. Crosby of Bgattlcboro was
in Boston yesterday at the time of the
explosion in the court house. He was
not very far from the scene. He saws
there was great excitement and no one
Eas able to get very near the build
NJ. which was ropcd off by the Off
.ials
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17

The girl who takes the cake is the
nc who can bake bread.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08

he said, by the front door. However
George Kennett, the liveryman who
drove him to the station, says he
emerged from the side door, calling a
farewell that was unanswered. II rs
Fennett's belief, as he testified, that
the lock snapped as the door closed.
A sister Of Mrs Small had told OF
the spring lock on the side door, which
once had tricked her, she said, and kept
her in the cold until Mrs. Small could
arise from a sickbed and let her m.
Confederation Of this came in rebut-
tai when Mrs. Frank Ferren, the
neiehbor whose husband apprised Small
tbat his house had burned and his wlie
was missing, told another story OF the
~ never saw Mr.. Small leave the
house or enter IL by the front door,
sbe said. THAT there was spring lock
ON the side door I'm certain. Once l
noticed that when Mr. and Mrs. Small
left the place together TO be gone sew
cral DAYS they didn't have to stop to
lock up. / heard click as the lock
snapped automatically"
Mrs. Ferren's testimony although
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
DIR. BIGGS TO FIGHT
PHTHISIS BEHIND
LINES IN FRANCE
State Health Commissioner Re-
leased for Rockefeller Foundas
ton Work by Whitman

Dr. Hermann NJ Riggs. State Com
missioner Of Health, will leave Tor
France within the next Ten days to
make a survey Of the tubercular condi-
tions obtaining behind the trenches Tor
the Rockefeller Foundation and organ
ize a campaign against the disease
Governor Whitman, in making the
announcement, said that he had
granted an indefinite leave Of absence
to DR.. Biggs. Or. Linsley R. Williams
first deputy, will act as Commlss'ohe'
during his chiefs absence.
"The need Of an expert OF Or. Bggs g
calibrc was so strongly impressed or
me" said Governor Whitman, "that }
could not deny the request.
The Governor made public at inc
same time letter from Jerome. ~
Greene, secretary Of the Fouhda''on'
which follows in part;
For some time past our represent
tives i'm France have been much I'M
messed by the need Of effective meas
ures for the relief and control ol
Tuberculosis. Our representatives nave
made a preliminary study OF tne slt-
nation and the trustees OF the Roche-
feller Foundation have been so I'M,
presscd with the gravity of the ncod
that thev have taken steps TO ascer
tain definitely the lines along which
American sympathy and generosity
can be made most effective.
After declaring that Or. Blggs was
mos, cminently htted, both as a pny
sicisn and a public health aun'ln.s'i Z"
'The trustees felt that If it should
be the happy result Of DR.. Riggs 5
coing to France that the benefits Of
his long and wonderfully fruitful ser
vice could he availed OF m inc orgam,-
try. the effect in terms of human wei
fare would be so large and far-reach-
ing as to constitute very strong claim
ON his public spirit and upon the gen
crosity Of the state Of New forN'
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
Will Wait Until Charges
Against Breckenridge
Are Sifted Out
BOTH SIDES COUNT
ON SAME WITNESS
Wilson to Play Important
Part at Magistrates
Hearing

Governor Whitman will not act on
the charges fled against District At
torney Swami by Judge Delehanty until
the counter charges Of the District At
,orney against Lucian S. Breckinridge'
with whom the charges against Mr.
Swami originated, are "sifted out down
here"
But while the Governor is taking no
official part in the case Just now, he IS
watching it closely. and will keep him
self informed OF the proceedings which
District Attorney Swami has started.
Should the occasion arise for the ap-
pointmcnt of referee TO hear the
charges tho Governor will name a man
who will not be swayed by any 9o!iti-
cal considerations.
The District Attorney made lt known
last night that he would 20 before the
grand Jury on Thursday and present
the evidence he claims to have TO ms
possession against Mr.. Brecknrdge.
Friends Of Mr.. Swami declared yeStef-
cav LildI IllI~ NNulA t"fNAfN WV"
bers of the Police Department
The District Attorney is waiting tor
word from Martin W. Littleton, counsel
for Mr. Breckinrdgc, to start the John
Doe proceedings. These will be hearG
before Chief Magistrate McAdoo, ana
will be public. Mr. Swami said that
he would not take up the John Doe
hearing until Mr.. Littleton announced
be was prepared.
Both Mr.. Breckenridge and his coun-
sol expressed themselves as ready 10
face any charges that Mr.. Swami might
care TO bring MIR. Breckenridge has
maintained that the sole purpose OF
bringing the charges is an attempt 10
bIacken his reputation and thus dc
stroy his usefulness as witness nm
any proceedings that might be brought
agains, the District Attorney.
The singular fact is that both sides
are RELYING on A. l.. Wilson, or Wolf
sohp. who was suddenly clapped into
the Tombs Saturday night on motion
of one OF Mr.. Swann's assistants that
he was material witness for the
prosecution and was likely TO leave the
Jurisdiction of the state.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08

ct ann trying TO make this letter in
,clligcut 20 YOU.
When / left for Chicago it, was TO
get us on our feet again but ] failed
miserably. and but for my oyeranMety
10 have us in an old position again ]
wouldn't have tried IT, ] can't explain
what / attempted, but ] failed, and
there is no help for me now. You viii
get our insurance. and for what we
once were to each other please take
care of daddy and mamma for the few
davs they have left TO live, and tell
little Betty that hcr father was sick
and God knows ] ann.
you have been a wonderful wife
Laura. and have wrecked your whole
existence. but pray for me and hold my
memory now as d. used TO be to YOU
Kiss Betty and daddy and mamma for
me. May YOU get all the blessings you
deserve. This is good-by, Laura, to
YOU. the truest and best woman God
ever allowed TO live. BERNARDO
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
Physicians Aid Defence

DR.. Lindsay L. Grant, Of Somers-
worth: Dr. Harry L. Anderson, Coro
ner at Milton Mills, Me-, and DR.. VIII
lam Elliott. Of Berwick, agreed that
al the edges Of the burned tissue
there had been noticeable line OF
red. vignetting away into the un-
scorched skin. This would not have
been apparent. all three testified, il
the woman had been dead more than
an hour or two at most before being
catapulted into the cellar
Cross-examination failed to break
the assurance Of the respondents eT-
nerts. although Dr. Magrath and others
who had an carly view ol the Douy
went on IN. stand in rebuttal and
said they had not seen the red llne'
Upon this testimony and that OF q
Boston reporter, Jack Casey, the de-
fence rested.
Casev's testimony concerned lock
which he picked up in the debris soon
after the murder IL was a lock whose
ornateness suggested it had served to
fasten the front door Of the bungalow.
The key was on the inside and the
bolt had been shot
As presented By the defence, the lock
was looked upon as proof that Mrs.
Small had been alive when her hus.
band started ON his suddenly planned
trim to Boston, or that at least some
body had been alive in the bungalow
when Small left.
Small's Statement
Smalrs story was that his wife had
shot the lock after him. lie had left,
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
NEW MAN SOUGHT
IN ROBERTS CASE
Continued from psEe I

ccmbor n on the stationery Of the
Hotel Savoy, IN New York.
Lewis was buried to-day from the
family home. The Rev Dr. Hugh 7.
Kerr. pastor Of tho Shadysidc Presby-
,orisn Church. oficiatcd. Friends who
saw the body assert the tooth marks
which the Philadelphia police say were
ON his hands were not there. II had
been the police contention that Lewis
marked his kuUckles striking the Rob
erts girl a blow In the mouth which
felled her against radiator, causing a
fatal skull wound.
Lewis's last letter TO his wife fol-
lows:
Dear Laura;
81 have come 10 tho place where
there is no way out but one end. Be
fore I 60 I must tell YOU as my last
words-that YOU. are the ono woman ]
have really loved. ] have wrecked our
lives and ! suppose the payment viii
ne pretty severe for me. My head IS
au befoggcd from an our trouble.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
1fiftl! AurnaR. Nem pnrk

subtler in its purport is considered !.
the state % rival in importance thstc y
Dr.. John J.. BACON, practit.orer y
Southboro, Mass, the former hon, y
the Smalls.
Tells of Threat
Dr.. Bacon. halted by objections r.,.
he started 20 describe a profewo.
visit 10 Mrs. Small in 1912, vas =,
mitted only 20 repeat Tor the fsa,
words which he asserted had b..
spoken az the time by Small
"Yes, damn her." he quoted the lt,
band az saying, II hit her on the i,
with a bootjack. ! ought TO have s's
her and I win yet"
on cross-cxamiuatlon The jury b.
its new index 90 the spark which bur-
I'm the soul Of the little cripple, for o.
Bacon was forced 20 admit that her.
Small had had trouble.
Content with this, with its own D.
lief in the effect Of Casey's lock sar
and with that made on the jury by 4
EXPERTS, the defence rested With,
availing itself Of the privilege Of a.
rebuttal.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08

Finally. there was the cord with
which the murderer. supposedly loath
60 risk another shot because OF the
noise. had silently rounded out his
work. This cord length OF common
clothcsline had been knotted a. the
back of the neck iu a style that smachcd
OF nautical habit.
it was a square knot, such as is used
In securing the reef points on boats
and vessels OF fore and aft rig a knot
that holds stoutly against wind strain.
yet may be undone by skilled fingers i'm
twinkliug. Your landlubber, trying
10 make himself useful ahoat, or mere
y fastening a bundle ashore. will in
variably accomplish what the yachts
man scurrilously calls granny"
Here again, IN this tiny detail. cir
cumstance grips Small. Cripple though
he is, the salt water OF the New Eng
land coast Is in his blood and small
boat sailing has been his lifelong hobby.
Then there is another hobby that
tichtens the meshes OF the net. a nc-
chenical hobby, IN pursuance Of which
Small had set W a workshop behind
bungalow, q hobby evidenced further in
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08

story, as it would make it appear that
his wife mad eaten "a meal after he
started for Boston. From the progress
of the natural processes DR.. Magratn,
swore TO his certainty that Mrs. Small
did not survive her meal by more than
an hour.
The defence introduced expert testi'
mony tending TO prove by methods as
technical as those Of the prosecution
that Mrs. Small had been still alive, or
dead only a short time, when her BODY
descended into the pool.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08

his keenness for INCORPORATING and ms
boast that he could make the balkiest
of 'em run" A man 40 deeply interest
cd in mechanics. contends the proseou-
tion. is man 10 whom the construc-
tion Of timing apparatus 10 start
fire many hours after "A train had car
ried him away toward alibi-land wouid
be no great problema man VINO woulu
be likely to know also that the same
end could be accomplished by dipping
a thin rope in a sugar Of lead solution
making il slow fuse, certain to Durh
no faster than foot an hour.
Theory Of the state
As the theory OF the state has It, the
master mind which planned the chemi-
cal stimulation for the flames placed a
quantity of "thermit" on Mrs. Small
body and then either touched a match
TO the end Of long fuse or set clock
work timer 10 ticking. The bed on
which the body lay was directly over
the base-burner stove in the living
room, and the cellar pool, still iurther
below. .
"Thermitp touched into life by a
spark generates Immediately heat Of
5.40O degrees Fahrenheit. The heat re-
mains the same throughout the re-
action.
Such heat as that Of "thermit' un-
leashed is irresistible. Thus, before the
body could be entirely consumed, the
bed had vanished, a hole had appeared
i'm the floor as il at the wave OF n
gents hand, the liquid fire had eaten
the record Of its existence into the
stove and the way 70 the cellar and the
legal aid pool had been as maglcally
cleared.
There have been introduced as state s
exhibits, as probable components OF the
firing apparatus, six carbons that once
were in dry cells. two spark plugs, me
remnants Of vibrating coil, an eight-
day clock and the back of what was "A
dollar alarm clock, all found IN the
cellar near the body.
One Clock Not Altered
On the witness stand j. Alex. Lane
tot, jcweller, brought from the neigh
boring village OF Somersworth as a
witness for the defence, testified nc
was positive the cight-day clock had
not been altered TO serve any other
purpose than that Of telling time. But
of the cheaper clock there was not
enough left for any such deduction.
The body, when found, lay on its
back, which had not been burned.
whereas the upper parts were little
more than a smudgc The water had
preserved the stomach intact and the
analysis Of its contents is among the
pertinent things the jurors have heard.
Small, who would have been put on
the stand except for an eleventh hour
reconsideration bv his lawyers Judge
Sewell p. Abbott, of Wolfeboro, n. H.;
william S. Mathews, of Berwick, Me-,
and Sidney F. Stevens. OF Somersworth
has said that shortly before he last
saw his wife they had made a meal
OF canned shrimp.
Red and white meat and cucumbers
were found in the stomach. only partly
digcsted. This was i'm line with Smal's
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
JACOB H. SCHIFF, 70. KONORED
Educational Alliance Congratulates
Him on Birthday

RESOLUTIONS coneratulating Jacob II.
Schif on his seventeen birthday, on
January 10. were passed last night at
the annual meeting of the Educational
Alliance, held at the new Young Peo-
plc's branch Of the alliance, 26 to SO
Stuyvesant Street. Justice Samuel
Greenbaum, president Of the alliance,
presided.
Among the speakers were Felix ".
Wsrburg. DR.. Sidney A. Mezcs, presi-
dent of the College Of the City Of New
York; Samuel Strauss and Lee kohns
The board OF directors was reelected.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
CHURCH RAISES $l,OOO,OOO
ST Bartholomew viii Start Work on
New Edifice at Once

The Rev. DR.. Leighton Parks an
nounced yesterday in st. Bartholomew's
Church. Madison Avenue and Forty
fonrth street, that the congregation
Mad raised 81 100000 TO construct the
now church at Park Avenue and Fiftieth
street. Work on the structure. whicn
,yilI cost 81 100000. will begin at once.
Tbe narish has a 100000 endowmen, m
the Charles ". Harkress memorial
fund -,
be completed by the fall Of 1918. 1t
will occupy frontage Of an entire
block
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
4 MEXICAN F1LIBUSTERS
REPORTED SHOT ON BORDER
New Hampshire Infantry Said TO Have
Been in Encounter

Laredo. Tex, Jan. -Four alleged
Mexican filibusters were either KILLED
or badly wounded in an encounter last
night with troops OF the lst New
Hampshire Infantry at Zapata, TEX
according to apparently reliable re-
ports reaching Laredo tonight
Military headquarters here, however
DENY having received any information
regarding the reported fight.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
100 Walk Out at Movie Fire

One hundred persons marched coolly
from a moving picture theatre at $50
Grand Street yesterday afternoon while
smoke and fame curIcd upward from
the operators booth. where "a film had
caught FIRE from spontaneous combus-
tion. Employees eXtinguished the blaze.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
MARQUIS TO WE'D LADY CECIL
Daughter Of Marquis of Salisbury En-
gagged TO Duke Of Devonshire's Son

Ottawa. Ont, Jan. THE engage
ment was announced yesterday of the
MARQUIS Of Harrington, eldest son Of
the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, 10
Lady Mary Cecil. second daughter OF
the Marquis and Marchioncss Of Sails
bury.
The Marquis Of Harrington, Who was
ircapacitatcd at Gallipol, is now in
Paris.
New-York tribune., 1917-01-08
SMALL CHAMELEON
IN CRIME PUZZLE
Continued from page I

and decided its top had been melted
and welded by a chemical reaction. Both
he and Dr. George B. Magrath, the
states medico-legal pathologist, have
testified that only a chemical compound
known as "thermit' or shoot from
blast furnace could have come into con
tact with the stove with the evidenced
effect
Gap in the Case
The experts recalled, in connection
with the sudden descent Of bed and
body from the second floor TO the cellar
Of the bungalow. that this hottest Of
hot stuff. "thcrmit," escaped from its
demonstrators I'M an experiment in the
Harvard University laboratory last year
and ate its way through three sets Of
floors and ceilings In as many seconds.
So far as this chemical explanation Re
concerned. though, there is a gap in the
case which may serve 10 shore mp lu
the lay mind Of the jury the rcspon-
dents contention that the intense heat
for the stove melting came from the
! cellar coal pile.
No purchase OF "thermiU' has been
traced TO Small At the same time, it
has been pointed out that his brother,
+ who has been in Judge John Kivels
courtroom through every session Of the
trial, is an engineer on the Maine Cen
tra Railroad, and that the road has
been a heavy purchaser Of the com
pound.
From the course taken by the bullet.
which entered Mrs. Smalis left temple
and lodged several inches below in her
right jaw, state experts have been en-
abled TO testify that in all probability
the woman was living on her bed. un-
conscious from the blow which caused
the skull fracture, when the shot was
tired The bullet itself is one OF the
calibre Of an automatic pistol owned By
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-15
JeffersonHighwayT Tourists
Will Arrive This Afternoon:
EnrOute to New Orleans

drink to to the health of President
Wilson, while General Manager
Clarkson said he hoped that by the
time the return trip of the tour was
completed that United States troops
would be in the trenches in France
fighting side by side with the SOL
diers of Europe
The Winnipeg delegation of tour
lists and J. D. Clarkson of Des
Moines, manager of the Jefferson
highway, are due to arrive in Be-
midji at o'clock this afternoon and
will stop at the Markham and there
will be joined by a contingent of
Bemidji autoists and accompanied to
State Park where all will take sup
per.
The visitors will stop at Douglas
lodge tonight and resume their
journey over the Jefferson Highway
in the morning.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-15
RED CROSS HEADQUARTERS
DEDICATED IN WASHINGTON

Washington, May 15.-Elaborate
dedication ceremonies were held
here for the new American Red Cross
headquarters, big white marble
structure, with President Wilson,
Secretary Baker and former Presi-
dent Taft on the program. Repre-
sentatives of Red Cross chapters all
over the country, many high govern
ment officials, diplomats and others
attended.
AS feature Of the ceremonies,
the Washington chapter arranged a
parade of 1000 women in uniform.
with motor ambulances, trucks and
field kitchens. for review by the
president. The marshall was Mrs.
Hugh L. Scott. wife of General
Scott, army chief of staff.
The new building, which cost
100000, faces the Mall. about
which many of the capitals newest
and most beautiful buildings are
grouped, and stands between the Cor
coran Art gallery and Contin entail
Memorial hall, home of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution. Ex-
ercises were held in the latter hall.