Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-02
FINLAND County Court.
SEPTEMBER TERM 1878.
Hon. HoYT H. WHEELER, Chief Judge.
4" IsAAcC. WHEATON, Assistant
" HEEL HOLLIsTER, Judges.

non. hOIT IL. w HELLER, ChleI Juuge.
IsAACC. WHEATON, Assistant
HEEL HoLLIsTER, Judges.
Frjdag, September 2GA.-The entire
day was spent in the trial of the GRIMM
al case of State V. William j. Vaughan,
for an assault and battery upon Edwin
Staples of Dandy. The case was argued
by A. A. Nicholson and G. II. Joyce for
the prosecution Joel c. Baker and d.
Z. Nicholson for the respondent. The
verdict was mot guilty" and respondent
discharged.
Saturdgy, Sept. 27M.-The case of
State IS. Jerry Lisbon, which was as
signed for trial this morning, was called,
and, both sides being ready, a jury was
empannelled and the case tried, which
resulted in a verdict of guilty of two Of
lenses of selling Intoxicating liquor, and
the respondent was ordered into the Gus
tody of the Sheriff until the prosecuting
officer shall move for sentence. In the
absence of the States Attorney, Joel c.
Baker represented the prosecution
Reuben X. Thran aud Charles IT Joyce
were attorneys for the respondent.
The following divorce cases were tried:
Eugene Scott as. Walter S. Scott. Bill
granted for intolerable severity, and pc
titioner allowed to resume her maiden
name. Barnes Frisbie, attorney for
petitioner.
Harriet A. Childs as. Frank Childs.
Bill granted for willful desertion; Gus
tody of child decreed to petitioner, and
she was allowed to resume her maiden
name. Nicholson & Baker, attorneys
for petitioner.
Tuesday, September 30h.-The Court
convened at 8 a. m, and commenced
the trial of the State V. Hiram f. Adams,
which had been assigned for this morn
ing. To guard the contingency of many
jurors being excused on the ground of
having formed and expressed an opinion,
founded upon having read and heard of
the case, eighteen new jurors had been
summoned to appear this morning. AT
quarter past nine the clerk commenced
to call jurors by lot from the entire
number in attendance. About half
dozen in all made known to the court
that they had formed and expressed an
opinion upon the case and were excused,
and one was challenged peremtorily by
the respondent and one by the prosecu-
ton. The jury being sworn, the indict-
ment was read by the clerk. 1t charged
the respondent with larceny, in stealing
five L. 5. 500 bonds, of the denomina-
ton of $1,000 each, the property of
Horace II. Dyer of Rutland. We re-
gard it very questionable whether we
ought to say anything about the case, or
even give an abstract of the evidence
while the case is on trial, but we con-
scented to print an abstract of the testi-
mOnY at the request of a large number
of our readers, who take a great interest
in the case. The first witness examined
was Horace IL. Dyer, who testified that
in April 1871 he left trunk containing
five United States bonds of the denom-
lnatlon of one thousand dollars each,
and some other papers, with Mr.. Adams,
to be kept in his store on Center street,
Rutland That the bonds were the
5-2Os, and numbered 17077, 1707S,
17OS2, 1908 and 1854, respectively.
That previous to delivering the trunk
into the keeping of Mr.. Adams, he ex-
ahmed his safe and saw that it had an
inner lookup, which he considered gave
additional security, and that Mr.. Adams
offered him privilege of putting valu-
ables in there if he desired That he de-
liyered the trunk to Adams and saw him
put it in the inner lookup in the safe,
ard that he told Adams there were valu-
ables in the trunk. In July following
he went and took the trunk into the
back store and cut off the coupons.
Mr.. Adams was not present, but was in
the front room and took the trunk and
put 1t back when he got through with
It. That he went to the trunk several
times. That about the 1st of January
1872, he went and took the bonds from
the trunk and cut off the coupons in the
presence of Mr.. Adams in the front
store, and before he put them back he
was hesitating over them, and unrolled
them and counted them over, when Mr.
Adams inquired if they were all right,
and he replied he was trying to make
$6 600, but as he only put in $4,000 he
supposed he must be satisfied with that.
This was the last he saw of them before
the fire. On the next day after the fire
he went to the store and inquired for his
trunk, Mr.. Adams was there with others.
No response was made at first, but after
wards he told me of the robbery and
that fragments of the box were found
when the fire was set. Mr.. Adams
looked Respondent, as might be expect
ed of a man who felt badly. He APP
'peared as a man would who had met
with a great loss. That he had but little
conversation with him, but offered re-
ward of 81, 600 before he went home,
$500 for the recovery of the bonds and
$500 for the apprehension of the thief.
That the next morning Moses J. Perkins