The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-01
THINKS SARGENT
WILL COME HOME
Sister of Missing Farmer
Believes He Is iii
Somewhere
CANNOT EXPLAIN
LETTER RECEIVED
No Ticket Sold at BrattIebOrO Railroad
Station for Manchester, y. H., on Day
Mr.. Sargent Said He Was Going to
That City.


No developments have occurred since
yesterday to throw any light on the
whereabouts of Carl Sargent of West
Brattleboro, a farmer II years old, who
left home Wednesday, Oct. l., but few
additional facts have been brought out
Mr.. Sargent's sister, Miss a. Belle Sar-
gent, who lived with him on the farm,
states he had not been feeling well and
had cold when he went away. He told
her that he was going to Manchester. \.
H., to visit relatives, whom he had visited
before. His relatives there are Mr.. and
Mrs Ari Stearns, the latter being an
aunt, and their daughter and husband,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward A. Damon, all of
DO Harrison street.
Royal II. Faulkner of West Brattle-
boro, a neighbor whom Mr. Sargent en-
gagged to do chores on the farm, telling
him that he would be back the following
Monday, says Mr.. Sargent had a bad
cold when he left Mr.. Faulkner saws
Mr.. Sargent did net tell him where he
was going. Mr.. Sargent had been treated
for heart trouble by DIR. George b. Hun
ter of West Brattleboro.
To a representative of The Reformer
Miss Sargent said this forenoon that
while she was anxious about her brother
she did not think he was the victim of
/ foul play but was i'll somewhere and
would return home. She says he took
/ with him an extra suit of clothes, besides
underclothing, an extra pair of shoes,
etc. and while she does not know how
/ much money he had the amount must
have been substantial.
] When asked what her theory was rel
/ ative to the letter she received in a pink
n npVpfana fba Saturday fol hors
, brothers departure and which purported
to be from him, saying he had secured
! work in a cotton mill in Manchester. Miss
+, Sargent said she had no theory and could
| not explain it, She did not notice the
/ pOStmark and burned the letter as is her
| custom. The letter asked her to sell off
/ the stock at the market price. but she did
/ not do so, having some doubt as to the
/ authenticity of the letter and feeling that
her brother would return.
As Mr.. Sargent'S absence heightened
| his sister wrote to the Manchester rela-
! tives and was told by them they had seen
nothing of him.. The letter from them she
is preserving. She says he had had no
( trouble with anyone as far as. she knows.
Mr.. Faulkner'S idea is that Mr. Sar-
gent was taken i'll and had someone write
i his sister and sign his name so she would
4 not worry about him, but on that basis
! it IS hard to explain the statement that
/ he was working in a cotton mill. Mr..
i Faulkner says he brought Mr.. Sargent
| to the railroad station by automobile and
| did not see him buy a ticket
Ticket Agent David S. Carey does not
know Mr. Sargent by sight. and could
not place him when shown photograph
of him this forenoon. He said he sold no
/ tickets for Manchester, y. H.. on Oct. II,
/ but two were sold the day before to other
persons. He might have bought a ticket
! to Keene or some other place.
/ A report was current this forenoon
| that Mrs. A. p. Eddy, who delivers the
mail on the rural route from West Brat
/ tleboro on which Mr. Sargent is a pa
tron. had delivered letters in pink enve-
lopes lately to Mr.. Sargent, but Mrs
! Eddy emphatically denies the report and
i says there hes been nothing about anv
/ mail she has delivered to him that could
4 b. used as the basis for any supposition
concerning his disappearance.