The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-04-10
DAUGHTER LAYS.
!. IT TO JEALOUSY
Why Mrs. Lynn L. Stearns
Shot Her Husband at
Bellows Falls
SAYS FATHER HAD
WOMAN FRIEND
Slain Man Was Son OF a
Prominent Mill Man in
Johnson

Bellows Falls, April l0,--Aliss Beu,
lah NJ. Stearns, the only daughter Of
Mrs. LYNN i. Stearns, who lies in q
| critical condition at the Rockingham
{ hospital here from the effects OF leap
ing from a third story window at 40
soak street after fatally shooting hei
! husband nearly two weeks ago, yes
| terday gave the first authentic account
| of the life ST her parents, and OF the
| circumstances leading up to the ter
rible deed.
She is an attractive girl of 10 years,
graduate OF Peoples academy in the
class of 1920. After graduation she
| taught school in South Fairlee several
| terms and then went to Lebanon, n,
H.. where she has since worked until
she learned of the tragedy. She came
at once and remains to await the re-
suits of the mothers injuries.
She says that her father, the vic
tim of the shooting, was born in john
son, where his father, William IL.
Stearns, is prominent mill owner,
and the unfortunate man is buried in
that town. He has four brothers and
two sisters residing in that vicinity.
He was 80 years old and the mother IS
40.
The father OF Mrs. Stearns was a
colored barber, who worked many
years at his trade in Hyde Park and
Greensboro. and his name was Luther
Pell Jackson. He died in Greensboro
about II years ago. The mother OF
Mrs. Stearns was a white woman
named Lizzie May Malson, born in
Pennsylvania and now living in Ger
mantown, Pa.
The participants in the tragedy were
married in Plattsburg, n X, about 20
years ago. They returned at once to
johnson. The woman had been a
teacher in the public schools OF Hyde
Park and Eden. They later removed
to South Fairlee and Nershire, and
eight years ago they moved to Ely,
where he owned and conducted gro
Gerry store five or six years. About
two wears ago the family moved to
Lebanon, N. IT., where Mr.. Stearns
worked in a creamery about year,
coming here as the superintendent OF
the c. Brigham Go. creamery across
the river in North Walpole in Febru
airy, 1921. The couple boarded with
G. G.. Garrow at No. III Green street,
storing their household goods in an at
tic at No. Oak street. Last Mo-
vember Mrs. Stesrns was in hos
pitaI several weeks in Littleton, y. H.,
returning hero just before Christmas.
During her absence in the hospital.
the daughter saws, Mr.. Stearns brought
another woman to the boarding house.
asking for board, but she was refused
admittance. While the mother talks
to no one since the tragedy, and Is
closely guarded day and night, the
daughter understands il was jealousy
over the relations of the father with
this woman that caused the act OF
frenzy. The two went to the attic,
where the goods were stored on Oak
street. ostensibly to get some things
stored there to send 10 the daughter,
who was soon to be married. Three
rapid revolver shots were heard by
neighbors and the woman suddenly
leaped from window to the frozen
ground 40 feet below, breaking one
leg above the knee and injuring her
internally in a dangerous manner. Her
recovery is doubtful. Mr.. Stearns sur
vived only about three hours.