The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
SEVERAL KILLS
OF DEER TODAY.
BrattleborO Men i'm List of
Hunters Reported
'H Successful
TRAIN STOPPED so
CREW MAY SHOOT
Two Stops on West River Road on
SOuthbOund Trip and Rifles Crack,
but Deer Gets Away i'm Each Instance
Apparently Unharmed

| Although it is a little early to get re-
ports of the results of the deer hunting
| in the woods and fields enough reports
/ have come in to indicate that the hunt
ers We're fairly successful this forenoon.
The six-day open season began at 8
O'Clock and found a small army of hunt
ers in readiness throughout Windham
county.
The first report to reach The Reformer
Office was that Harry Greenleaf of West
Dummerston shot a doe about 730
O'Clock. 1t weighed $50 pounds. Up to
, O'Clock reports of two other deer being
shot in the town of Dummerston had
been received Harold Reed secured
good sized doe near West Dummerston
and Herbert Tarbox shot a five-point
buck weighing 200 pounds on Black
mountain. At*
Henry w. Johnson of Brattleboro se-
cured six-point buck weighing 300
pounds in Vernon and arrived here with
! it about 1890 o'clock. Four deer We're
known to have been shot in or near South
4 Newfane before noon. Carl Brown of
BroOksde secured a doe near the Sidney
4 ID. Jones place. Mr.. Smith of Brattle-
1 bero. who arrived at Carl Browns Sat-
urday night, shot a buck this morning.
John Bulley of BrOokside brought down
a four-point buck in Dover 1t was drawn
about a mile through the fields to the
1 East Dover highway. Howard Thayer
of Brattleboro secured doe The ami
NAL was started on deer hill, waded
across the branch near Mrs. Frank
! Morse's, and fell on the bank below John
Stratton's
Passengers on the southbohnd train
on the West River railroad this morn
ing went through the unusual expert
ence of waiting twice while members of
the train crew and others took shots at
deer seen along the line of the railroad.
! At least three of the trainmen were
armed with rifles and several hunters
who were destined for various points
were on board.
/ About a quarter of a mile above the
Pratt bridge in Jamaica the. speed of
the train began to slacken and finally
the train stopped Before the stop two
men fired at q deer which stood on the
range, and after the train came to a
Standstill two or three more shots were
fired. The deer then in apparent dis
gust at the poor craftsmanship displayed
deliberately sauntered off into the woods.
/ One of the trainmen said he though he
hit the animal when he fired the second
| time but if he did the animal showed
no indication of the fact.
When the train had proceeded about
a mile and half farther it was stopped
! below the Pratt place IN Jamaica, anu
! from the engine and rear platform the
rifles cracked again and a deer was seen
across a field. At the same time shots
were heard on hill beyond the deer, and
it is supposed that hunters on the hill
saw the same animal. When last seen
| the deer was running rapidly toward to-
ward the river and appeared to be un-
| harmed.
At the twin crossings between Town
shend and West Townshend an auto
mobile was seen in q meadow and be-
men standing beside it. Before that the
conductor saw deer being dragged
across the field.