The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-07
GIRL WITHDRAWS
WALKER CHARGES
Declares Lyman GaIusha, %, Father of
Her Child - Aged Minister VIII
Support Her.

ADAMS, Mass, Sept. Lyman
Galusha, -, son of Town Clerk Frank
G. Galasha of Windsor, was arrested
late yesterday afternoon by Deputy
Sheriff John J. Thompson of this town
on charges made by Evelyn Goodell, IS
year-old Windsor girl. Miss Goodell.
with her three-weeks' old baby in her
arms. yesterday morning appeared be-
fore officers of the local court to with
draw the sensational charges she made
several weeks ago against Rev. Joseph
Walker, pastor of the Windsor Union
church. and to name Galusha as the
father of her child in Rev. Mr. Walker
place. The young man was brought to
Adams, where at last night he was re-
leased under 81 900 bonds furnished by
his uncle, j Frank Leslie of Windsor.
Beyond denying his guilt in the case,
the boy, whose father is both town clerk
and a justice of the peace at Windsor,
and who has himself been prominently
identified with the little white church on
the hill over which Rev Mr.. Walker
presides and in which the Goodell girl
sang each Sunday, refused absolutely to
discuss the case.
New developments in the famous case
which involved the aged and venerable
pastor and the 1S-year-old chorister as
its principal figures at one time, have
been thick and fast in the past two days.
Less than an hour after she returned
to her home in Windsor Tuesday from a
Boston hospital, where her baby was
insisted upon visiting Rev. Mr.. Walker
at the parsonage across the meadow
from her own residence
There the aged divine welcomed her
cordially, it is said, and as she sobbed
out her plea for his forgiveness COM
forted her with words of Kindness. Eve
lyn is said to have told him at this, their
ref
covered and she placed the responsibility
upon his age-bent shoulders. that she
was ''made to sign the charges against
him. but that she would leave no stone
unturned to vindicate him of the serious
charges of which she and her family
were authors.
From her home Evelyn came yester-
day morning to Adams and almost be-
fore court officials had opened their days
routine she appeared before Clerk Ed
win X McPeck and demanded a war
rant for the arrest of Galusha at the
same time clearing the name of the aged
minister, at whom she had several
weeks before pointed the finger of accu-
SatiOn.
Rev Mr. Walkers case is still pend
ing before the local court, the 26th hav-
ing been set as the date for a hearing,
but it is regarded as likely in official
circles that it will be dismissed on that
date.
The Goodell girls retraction of the
charges against the gray-headed pastor
and her statement that she will do all
she can to clear him, make it highly
probable that the charges against him
will not be pressed and that dismissal
will be in order.
Evelyn is said to have told Rev. Mr..
Walker that she did not previously inn
plicate Galusha because she feared that
he. Walker. would no longer love her if
he knew of her intimacy with another
man.
Rev. Mr.. Walker is understood to
have assured her, however, that his af-
lection for her fingers and to have of
fered to care for her and educate her as
far as he can within his means.
Evelyn is understood to have told
officials here yesterday, in advancing the
charges against Galusha, that he at
tackled her on a Sunday night last Mo-
vember when she was alone in the little
white church on Windsor hill, prepar-
ing hearth fire in anticipation of the
weekly meeting of the Christian En-
deavOr society of which both were mem
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