The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-29
STACEY CHILDREN HOME AGAIN.
Continued from Page IL


found they were on their way home, hav-
ing gotten enough of adventure
Ihev walked to Mortified, Mass, Fri
day and slept that night under a robe
which they took from an automobile stand
ing in a ward At first they thought they
would sleep in the machine, and then de-
cded to sleep on the ground They re-
turned the robe in the morning On Sat
urday they renewed their journey, and
night found them on a hill between
| Mortified and Bernardston They slept
on the ground near house.
| Their tramp Sunday took them below
Bernardston and late at night they saw
a horse and carriage standing under a
church shed They were footsore and
hungry, and here was an opportunity to
return home, so they unhitched the horse
and started to drive home,
News of their disappearance had become
widely spread and when they reached
Bernardston with the horse they were
recognized as the runaway girls and were
detained and the Greenfield police were
notified.
For sustenance they ate chestnuts, cab |
Ibages and such things as they could find
in gardens and fields. They had cabbage
in their possession on reaching home.
|
day morning as usual, about $40 O'Clock,
Ethel being in the eighth grade and
Pearla in the seventh grade, both in the
Main street building They did not re-
turn for dinner, and although their moth
er wondered why they did not come home
she did not worry about them until they
, failed to come home in the afternoon
, | Then a search was made and some chill
, dren found Ethels books in shack on
, the edge of the woods near the Stacey
home, where the children play Mrs
I Stacey communicated with Miss Florence
y NJ. Wellman, superintendent of schools.
I at noon and found that the children had
not been in school that forenoon Miss
Wellman also informed her that Ethel
O had not been in school since Tuesday. Her
. mother had supposed the child was in
n school every day as she left with the other
q children and returned for dinner The
truant officer looked around that after
noon, but found no trace of the two girls.
1t was thought that probably they
would go to the pictures that evening and
return after the entertainment, but they
did not return, and by this time their
prolonged absence was causing consider
; able concern on the part of their parents,
: A further hunt was made in the woods
" but without success.
4 Next morning States Attorney E. w.
Gibson was notified, and Sheriff Frank l..
l. Welman, Deputy Sheriff Fred Greasy and
Policeman w Z. Tyler searched the woods
y and in the village All the time it was
} thought the children had run away, al
10 though they never had done so, and would
return.
At the Direct Importing store Manager
1 +ba uiplS
y about O'Clock Friday morning and bought
q some candy Mrs Stacey had given Pearla
; Is cents with which to buy the paper,
> School Events, for use In school. So far
; as she knows, the children had no other
= money. Preston Gibson, schoolmate
y saw them on Elliot street about O'Clock
- that afternoon.
!" ID. F. DOYLE ianitor at the union sta
ton, saw two girls answering the descrip
ton of the Stacey girls at the railroad
station Saturday forenoon Sheriff Well
man saw two girls answering their descrip
ton at the station the same forenoon
but they wore military caps, while the
Stacey girls had no caps when they LEFT
or home They seemed to be with mar
in who was taking things from the station t
I'd the fair grounds.
IN Mrs Floyd Prouty, who lives at thu
NJ Bradley farm. is a sister of Mrs. Stacey
I'd and on Saturday night Mrs. Prouty Wis
u tied Mrs. Stacey and said that about
d. week earlier, when the two girls were a
no the Bradley farm, Ethel told her tina
when she got money enough she was &c
ing to visit Aunt Della who Is anothe
>. sister living in Chester, Mass, widow o
! Harold Burbe, who was killed in an auto
-, mobile accident last Thanksgiving. Mrs
y Burbe lives with her father-in-law am
mother-in-aw, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bun
be, who run lumber camp and farm an
in who formerly had lumber job severa
he years ago in Townshend.
1c- This led to the belief that the girl
ID might have started for Chester, Mass
which is between Springfield and Pitts
- field, so yesterday forenoon L. T. Brit
- tan took Mr. Stacey to Chester to Sc
the Burbe family, but they had seen moth
ing of the children The idea that the
might have gone to Chester was strength
ened by the fact that Mrs. Stacey i
,oking over Ethel's clothing, found tina
the girls best dress was MISSING Sh
thinks the child must have worn it unde
her school dress 1t is q thin pink an
blue striped wolfe
Other relatives were reached by tex
phone, but as they knew nothing of tn
whereabouts of the girls States Attorne
= Gibson decided to apprehend some band
of gypsies who were in and around Bra
tleboro Friday and Saturday.
Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Wellma
sent notice by telephone to the police j
various towns and cities i'll Vernon
New Hampshire and Massachusetts askin
them to apprehend all gypsy parties an
look over their outfits, although the Off
ers here had little idea that the CIR
would have been taken by the gyps
bands
Ethel VIII IN she left home, wore a gree