The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-02
THINK MINISTER
IS J. III. STANTON
Boston Police Try to Identify the Man
Who Is Under Arrest on Charge
Of Staying Policeman
Reiser.

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Manster, alleged murderer OF Patrolman
Joseph c. Reiser as person not entirely
ignorant of Boston and its surrounding
communities. Ii the word of persons in.
| tervewed by Inspector Walker A, Smith
and Special Officer Thomas Harvey may
be correct, Manster's real name is John
II. Stanton.
Furthermore, if these persons be right
in their belief, John II. Stanton was ar
rested in 1908, in birmingham, on a
breaking and entering charge, and was
for three months confined in the East
Cambridge Jail awaiting trial Subse
quently he married girl in Framing
ham, beat her and deserted her,
All efforts to locate the young woman
whom Stanton married have proved un-
awaiting. She and her parents left Fra
mingham some few months ago, and
though officers tried to secure some in
formation regarding her present where
abouts, they failed utterly. They did,
however, see many persons who are will
ing to testify that Manster is the same
John ii. Stanton who went TO work in
Beans pharmacy, birmingham, as boy,
and who worked there for several years.
Furthermore, the proprietors of Cole
man Il Donovan's stores here in Boston
are positive that Manster is the John II.
Stanton who worked in their store at
the corner of Columbus avenue and West
Newton street in 1909. They positively
identify his picture as being that of their
former employe. They assert that fol
lowing his seyering connections with
them he went to New Bedford, where
he was employed in a pharmacy for
time.
Facts gathered in birmingham, and
substantiated by the police, tend to
point strongly toward Manster being
Stanton II is known that Stanton, fol
10 wing his departure from Massachu-
sets, went west and settled in Oakland. !
Cal Furthermore. it is known that he
went wrong in that city and that he
wrote to birmingham to a former EN-
ployer seeking loan of some money |
with which TO extricate himself
This money he did not receive. Fur, |
thermore, the birmingham man, or a |
friend of his who knew Stanton saw t
Manster in west end eafe.a few months [
ago. He returned to birmingham and /
at once told others who knew Stanton
that he had seen him in Boston and de-
scribed the circumstances surrounding
the affair.
The points established in birmingham
have been grasped at by the police, and
il is thought that through them some
line on Manster's actions in the West
will be secured The boy Stanton, with
his mother and two other children, first
appeared in birmingham i'll the early
l900s. The mother was employed by
Mrs Brooks while the children were sent
10 school
At the time il was said that Mrs
stanton and her husband had separated
md she was forced to work to maintain
part of her small family. Two older
IONS were not with them. The boy,
John. proved a very bright young fellow
md soon after the arrival of the family
le was given employment in Beans
,harmacv. He ran errands and did other
work about the store and displayed an
ptitude for such work.
Subsequently 4. j. Robbins secured
os session of the store and young Stan
on continued to be employed there. A /
mall store was broken into one night
nd some property stolen. Stanton was
rrested for the crime and in the Fra
bingham court probable cause was
ound He was ordered held for the Z
rand jury, which indicted him. For
hree months he lay in the East Cam
ridge Jail. He was finally placed ON
rotation, with the understanding that
obbins would again give him employ
lent.
Robbins was willing and Stanton re- I
1rned to birmingham to work Not
ing after that he and girl well known
the town were married They lived
,gether for short time, with every
ling going pleasantly. Suddenly Stan
IN beat his wife and left her The next
,ard of him was from Boston, where he
as employed BY Coleman & Donovan
Mr.. Robbins knowledge of his life in
oston is limited, but he did hear that
Lanton left the city to work in another
massachusetts, store. His next informa
on was that Stanton had gone west
I'd settled in Oakland, Cal. Ii wasn't
ne after he received that word that he
ard from Stanton himself by mail,
stanton wrote that he had married in
e West and that he had gotten into Sc
Dus trouble in Oakland He wanted
r. Robbins TO send him some money
hich might be used to get him out of
e difficulty This the druggist did not
!, and as result he heard no more
ON his erstwhie clerk Three months
% word came that Stanton was in Bos- |
n and that he had been seen in cafe
the west end. IL
Efforts TO locate Stanton's mother in
amingham revealed that she, too, had
L the town at about the same time her
n did. No trace of her can be secured
the city II was also found that the
Il wife and her family. whose names
e not made public at this time, had
20 left the town for parts unknown.
The birmingham facts were assembled
: the police by Special Officer Harvey
the Back Bay station. Here in Bos
\. Inspector Smith gathered in the
is concerning Stanton's having been
ployed at Coleman & Donovans One
the members of the concern saw Man
RS picture in the Boston Traveller and
ntified il as being that of clerk once
ployed by them al their Columbus
enue and West Newton street store
Meanwhile, the work of identifying the
/ secured in Manster's room and in
W York progresses. Thursday was
ookline and Brighton day at the Back
v division. Many persons called and
ntifed some of the property. Capt
ode was assisted in the receiving line
a policeman from Brookliue and the