The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
GRISWOLDS HELD
IN $1,000 EACH
Mrs. Wheeler Says They At
tempted to Rob Her
in StrattOn
ARE IN LOOKUP
AWAITING BAIL
Hearing i'm Municipal Court, but No Tes-
timOny Offered i'm Behalf of Respond
ents-BaiI Expected from Whiting
ham When Travelling Permits.


Charged with assaulting Mrs. Mary
Wheeler of Stratton with intent to rob,
George Griswold and son, Earl Griswold.
both of Whitingham, pleaded not guilty
in the municipal court yesterday after
noon, and after a hearing Judge A +.
Cudworth held them for the April term
of Windham county court under bail of
81 900 each.
Bail from Nottingham has been ar
ranged for but on account Of bad trav-
cling the details cannot be completed to-
day. Meanwhile the respondents are in
the police station.
The hearing was to determine whether
the evidence was sufficient to warrant
binding them over to the county court.
States Attorney L. w Gibson appeared
Chase and Orrin b. Hughes for the re-
spOndents. No testimony was introduced
in behalf of the Griswolds. Mrs.
Wheeler, who was a witness at an inquest
IN WdrdsbOTO last week and identified
the GTlsWOlds as the men who attempted
TO rob her IN her home Oct. I3, was in
court yesterday and again pointed out the
| GrlswOlds as the ones who bound and
gagged her and then searched for money.
Fred Ii. Wheeler, husband of Mrs.
q
| Stratton farmer and fern packer for b. G..
Shaw OF Wilmington and that soon after
| 10 O clock on the morning of Oct. l3 he
| and his cousin, Henry Wheeler, and
| Thomas Conway were digging potatoes
| about 30 rods from the house when their
| attention was attracted by sound and
| they saw Mrs. Wheeler standing in the
| dooryard. They went to her and found
| a spool of thread in her mouth and her
hands tied behind her back with a hand
| kerchief. Mr. Wheeler removed the spool
| with some difficulty and with hlS knife
cut the handkerchief. The men made d
search with a gun and faand tracks as Of
somebody standing bel nd a small tree
near the house, also tracks as of some
body going through the alders and black
berry bushes a short distance from the
| house. Mr. Wheeler said he knew George
| GriswOld but had not seen him for
several years. He did not know the son,
| Earl
Henry Wheeler testified in substance as
did his cousin, adding that when he and
/ Conway went to work that morning they
went directly to the potato field, but at
10 o'clock all three men Went to the house
after water and were together all the
time until after the attempted robbery.
I Mrs, Wheeler told of Mr.. Shaw BRING
ing $50 to the house Sunday, Oct. ~,
and of arranging to send $500 by regis
tered letter so it would come Tuesday.
On Tuesday afternoon a man called at the
lfrOnt door to see Mr.. Wheeler. She
went to the back side of the house to
sneak to him, and when they returned
the man had gone. He was one OF the
two who came the next morning and tried
to find money i'm her bosom, it being her
: custom to carry it there for safety. She
! repeated the facts as previously published
; as to what occurred, including the tact
/ that the older man cuffed her and told
{ her to tell where the money was, and OF
| the fact that the younger man addressed
I'll the other as father She described
Il their clothing and told of a seuttte that
: occurred as she resisted their attempts
p to search her. ,.. cl
! When asked by States Attorney s5lb
son If the two men were in court MIS-
Wheeler said they were, and she polnteI
ont the Griswolds. saving, 4 think theS
are the ones 3" She said she saw the same
men In Wardsboro at the inquest lasl
e week She said the handkerchief WITT
which her hands were bound was takei
:. from the young mans pocket; IT, ap
l Deared that several persons had Deei
: taken before Mrs. Wheeler TOR ldehtllct
! lion She said she knew all the men DICK
inp ferns for Mr. Wheeler and ina
neither of the men in the attempted ROD
, berry was AMONG them. II,
i The evidence related only 20 Ear
= Griswold. whose case was taken ul
u first hut it was agreed by counsel tina
I tba same evidence might apply IN th
case of George Griswold, so the cour
bound both over to the county, eouiI
and they were taken to the lookup ~ =.
Sheriff Frank J.. Wellman % await 'h
5 outcome of efforts to secure ball'