Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-07-07
OFFICERS CATCH
RUNAWAY YOUTH
Cuts Figure in Various Towns in
H. This Locality
Sentenced to Vergennes by Bellows Falls
Court, but Will BE Returned to
Worcester Insane UOspitaI

Worcester Insane Hospital
Police Chief Charles Tracy of Bellows
Falls and Chief Smith of Charlestown,
H., traced a 15-year-old boy, Ernest
Nenette, to a haymow on n back road in
Acworth, n. H.. on Sunday morning
after the boy had stirred up the police
departments of several towns by rapid
succession of acts of thievery between
Northfeld, Mass, and Bellows Falls by
way of Brattleboro. The persistence of
Chief Tracy in running down clcws
finally won out and the boy was brought
from Acworth to the Bellows Falls po-
lice station Sunday for n hearing Mon
day before Acting Municipal Judge
Robert k. Twitchell, Judge T. +. O'Brien
being absent.
The boy had been farmed out by a
Massachusetts institution, to Robert
Lee Denton of Cumberland Head, near
Plattsburg, n. y. He decided to run
away, and his first appearance in this
locality was at Mortified, Mass, on
Thursday of last week. After staying
over night there he arose early Friday
morning and went to South Vernon,
where he tried to sell two pairs of
shoes. The officers here have not been
informed where the boy obtained the
shoes.
At South Vernon Venette stole a
Dayton bicycle from L. w. Keeney at
the old Alderman hotel. Mr.. Kenney is
employed by A. A. Dunklee. The boy
rode the wheel past a group of Mr..
Dunklee's employees on his way to Brat
the wheel looked like Mr.. Keeney's.
His next stop, so far as is known,
was at the w. II. Thomas farm on the
West Chesterfield road, south of the
suspension bridge, about 745 o'clock
Friday night He asked Mr.. Thomas if
he could work for his supper. Mr..
Thomas said he had nothing for the boy
ground. Mrs. Thomas asked him what
the trouble was and he replied that he
was 'all in" He said he had eaten
nothing "since day before yesterday"
He told Mrs. Thomas that he lived in
Vernon on the Rock Brook" farm, that
his mother was dead and his father
married again three years ago, and
that his stepmother had a son with
whom he quarreled, which caused him
to run away from home thr>e weeks
ago. He said he went to Burlins ton and
Plattsburg and decided to come back
home and left Plattsburg at 8 o'clock
Friday morning. on his wheel. Mrs.
Thomas knew, however. that it would
be impossible for him to cover such a
|
Thomas says that he was a French boy
and talked French with him. After sup.
per he was given blankets on which tc
sleep in the barn, and on Saturday
morning he left about s o'clock, aftel
having breakfast. He askAWo,fld writ,
Thomas.s siikga gave him her card, whicl
ie put in his pocket.
stopping place There he walked int
j. j. Fenton & Co. s clothing. store abou
10 o'clock Saturday morning in full
view of the clerks and customers, tool
suit of clothes from rack and walked
out again. The bookkeeper inquired o
a clerk if the boy had bought the sui
and the clerk decided to investigate, bu
by the time he reached the Sidewalk
Vcnette had disappeared.
The police were notified and Che
Tracy found that the boy went to The
Robertson paper mill and started t,
change his clothes on the loading plat
form. He changed his trousers but fo
some reason didn't take time to pu
on the coat and vest, leaving them a
the mill.
In the old trousers was found thu
card with Mrs. Thomas's address. $,
Chief Tracy called Policeman w. f.. "
Ter and the latter and Sheriff Frank l.
Wellman learned what Mrs. Thoma
knew about the case and went to Bel
lows Falls. They also covered thu
ground to Keene and Vernon and Chic
Tracy and officers went to CharlestowI
and telephoned to Chester, Ludlow ant
other places.
Chief Tracy learned Sunday mornin
that a boy who might be the one wante'
had been seen near Charlestown, so, h
and Chief Smith of that town combe'
that section with the result that tn
, wheel was found by the roadside an
they located Venette in n barn in a
! out of the-way place in the town o
AcwOrth.
Vnnettn was sentenced by Acting Judg
Twitchell to spend the rest of his m
nority in the Industrial School in Nel
gennes. and he was taken there las
night by Sheriff Frank L. Wellman. bu
he will be taken to the Worcester insan
hospital. from which it was learned b
| the officers that he escaped.
u. Chief-of Police Tracy learned afte
, Venettes capture that the boy, who CAV
2 his rame ms Edward Bedard. had hon
!. in Athol Mass. A year ago he was pt
$ ont by the Lyman school and went
. Plattsburg. He was there two weeks an
/: disappeared. and soon afterwards shove
[ mn in Hyde Park (Vt). where he n
d tempted to commit suicide. lie We
; taken home and returned to the Lyma
u school.
On June 10 of this year he was con
mitted to the Worcester insane hospita
r but he escaped and went TO Plattsbul
r and from there came back down
n Mortified. Mass, which was the fir
heard of him in his escapades of Il
4 past week.
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