The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-05
b0RST AND DURANT
IN DURANGO VILE
Former Believed to Be Man
Who Passed Bogus
Check Here
LATTER WANTED FOR
HORSE STEALING
Said to Have Secured Team at Keene
Livery Stable and Left it at Newfane
Worked Various Auto Drivers-Ar-
rested in Greenfield
rested in Greenfield.


John H Borst who is thought to have
beaten the Brooks House out OF $40 re
Gently and who cut a swath in Bellows
Falls and Rutland wearing soldiers
uniform and borrowing funds, was placed
under bonds in Boston yesterday IN the
sum of $500 to await the action OF the
federal grand jury by Judge Dodge OF
the United States district court. Bail
was furnished by his aunt He is
charged with impersonating an officer OF
the United States.
officer in the Connecticut state guard
and stated that he had his commission
to prove his statement. He Is SAID TO
have come from Bridgeport
Interesting stories of night flying by
lairplanes at Mneola, L. l.. are said to
/ have comprised part OF the entertain
ment furnished summer soiourners At
Nantasket beach who have enjoyed the
Iacouaintance of Borst He is said to
have appeared in the uniform of a lieu
tenant at hotel there
He IS also said to have borrowed APP
lproximatelv 800 from Miss Bessie Rosen-
Iberg at the same resort, on the represen-
tations that his pay checks had beer
sent bv mistake to Nantucket, instead OF
iNantasket.
Officers at the army headquarters OF
the Northeast are inclined to believe tha
IBorst has been in the Connecticut statt
guard within six months at least, an'
that before then was in the New Jerse.
National Guard.
At Bellows Falls late in August a maj
giving the name of John Borst appeare'
as an army officer and later was in civil
ian dress He attempted to borrow mon
ey and said he wanted to 90 to Platts
| burg, and his conduct was so suspicion
that he was arrested. United State
; Marshal A. p. Carpenter of Brattlebor
5 and District Attorney Bullard thought h
might be a Stacker as he did not have
registration card with him. but later hi
card was found in his effects and he wa
released.
A day or two later while Mr.. Carper
e ter was in Rutland people there who ha
been victimized by Borst and learne
that he had been arrested in Below
i Falls asked Mr. Carpenter to have hi
located again, and as ii matter of accon
modation Mr. Carpenter notified the Be
( lows Falls police. but Borst had gone.
Y While Borst was in the Bellows Fal
; police station Clerk Harry Holland
IL the Brooks House went in to see him az
l. was satisfied that he was the man WI
I stayed over night at that hotel and
payment for his entertainment gave Il
y clerk a bogus $50 check and receive
I good money in change He wore a SC
dier's uniform at that time.
Since leaving Bellows Falls Borst h;
: not been heard from until arrested
Hull, Mass, this week.
I Another man who is in the tolls a.
who has been in various escapades
this section is Clifford Durant of Cheshi
- county, New Hampshire, who is kno,
to Brattleboro officers Durant has be
% wanted at various times for horse ste
ing He was arrested in Greenfie
= Mass, Monday night for the larceny
an automobile keene, n H., office
however, do not think he stole t
motor, but have case of horse steali
to press against him.
Dtirant Is believed to be the man W
es took team from the Minis stable
Keene, hiring it by telephone 1t "
left in Newfane, where Durant register
res as Bancroft. Since then he has tr;
m eled extensively. He went to Maine q
av had pleasant time, arriving finally
TO Portsmouth There he hired a mo
zee and was driven to Bellows Falls, clai
,st ing he was Massachusetts state otlic
Mt He stopped at police stations in Sal
in and Lawrence on the way, to carry
ill the idea of being an officer He got av
from the cars driver at Bellows F;
and hired another ear, going to Leban
where he fired" the Bellows Falls dri
and hired a new one He got to Newr
+h and there hired another car, being dri
through keene to Greenfield
stopped at the Cheshire House in Ke
ko for dinner.