Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-23

JUSTICE, IF NOT LAW, IN SPENcRR.-
If all our judges fired as straight at the
mark, regardless of all forms. technical
tiles and side issues, as Mr.. Trial Justice
Lee Of Spencer, there would probably be
no difficulty in enforcing the most strin-
gent Of liquor laws. He gave his testi-
mony before the committee on the liquor
question at the State House. last week.
and created some merriment, as he had
previously done in private circles, by de
falling his ways of administering JUS
tice and enforcing the laws. He said
the liquor law was very easily enforced
Up in his neighbOrhood he could al
ways tell, he said, whether the defend
ant was guilty, whatever the testimony
might be; and if he thought the wit
neSses lied about it, he convicted as we'll
and sentenced in short order. In one
case man was arraigned for liquor sell
ing; the article sold being ale, thin,
sour and heady. The judge ordered the
officer to bring along with the prisoner
pitcher of the ale. The prisoner plead
that he bad not violated the law; that
it was not intoxicating We will see
about that" said Justice Lee, q" do Won
drink half of what is in the pitcher and
| will drink the other half and then we
will adjourn the court till three o'clock
(nOw 10Y and see" The ale was divided
and drank, and the court adjourned
On re-assembling short work was made
Of the case" guilty and sentenced for
three months"
Another Of Justice Lees cases was
Nf ~ t,,b, l.
together consistent though perhaps not
guilty of any technical crime; the JUS
tice Knocked him down in the street,
sent for an officer to pick him up, and
then persuaded him to enlist as com
promise 1t is evidently a rough sort
Of justice that is administered in the
Spencer neighborhood, but we opine it
is more like justice than is found in
most towns,-Spriagfeld Republican.
A MATRIMONIAL COMPLICATION. SIEVE
eral weeks ago, the wife Of a soldier in
one of the Rhode Island regiments called
on our worthy Mayor to say to him
that, from the intelligence she had re-
ceived, she believed her husband had
been killed in the trenches in front of
Petersburgh. A short time subsequent
ly she was married to a soldier of the
18th U. S. Infantry, stationed at Fort
Adams.
Ten days subsequently the last hus-
band of the woman called on the may
or, saying that he had reason to believe
that her first husband was still living,
and inquired what he should do. He
was Informed that he had nothing to do
but to leave the woman, as she was not
his legal wife, and he departed.
Subsequently the woman came to see
His Honor with about the same story,
amplided by the statement that informa
ton had reached her that her first hus-
band had another wife living at the time
of his marriage to her, on hearing which
His Honor was constrained to say to her
that through much marrying she APP
peared to be fated TO be not married at
all. She was comforted somewhat by
the information that if the fact of the
previous marriage Of her husband could
be established, then would the marriage
relation be established between herself
and the last husband. This she profess
ed herself determined TO do, but said she
was bound TO stick to one of them
anyhow"
ARENAS Ward said Of Brigham Young
that he was the most married man he
ever saw" and we should sav OF this
woman that she was the least married
woman around-Prog. Post.