Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-03
Washington County Court.
No., rrNfO p REDFIFLD, Chief Judge, Presiding
IAN WILLARD s MARTIN, Assistant Judge
Hon. PHTLANDER RIFoRD, Assistant i..sts,, judge
FRANZ PLuMLEY. Stateg Attorney.
JOHN L. FUTILE, Sheriff
MELVILLE e. SMILE, Clerk
TTWo p MERRILL, Deputy CLERK,
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, is supposed the sessions of the Supreme
Court will be through. Washington Coun
ty Supreme Court will begin on the 23d o
October, and the General Term will beglI
on the 30th of October. The cases ap
pealed to the Caledonia County Supreme
Court will be heard at the General Term
The civil jury trials have been ended, an(
the county court upon re assembling vii
} first attend to the criminal cases, of which
there are thirty.on continued from form
or terms and nineteen new indict
ments found by the present grand jury
Many of the old cases will not be tried, in
all probability as thirteen of them are Ii
quor cases, the evidence in which soor
fades away, and some five Or six are in
dictments against the Barre Bank burglars
The grand jury made their final report
last Thursday afternoon, and was discharg.
ed. Eighteen of the indictments found
have been made public, as follows:
Simeon Corey of Cabot for bigamy, in
having married Mary A. Tilden of Hart
ford, VT, June %, 1866, and while she
was still living, having married at Rich
ford, on the 9th of June, 1875, Della A.
Sarg ent.
Nathaniel Blair and others of Warren,
for arson, noticed in last weeks paper.
Mary Kendall of Warren, for keeping II
house of ill-fame al Warren.
Almus Stevens of Warren for selling
liquor at Warren.
james Richards of Planfeld, for setting
fire to the shop of Leonard Dix at Plain
field, May 16, 1877, (thereby causing the
great fire in that vllage).
Joseph Robert of Plainfield, and Alfred
Badger of Philllpsburgh, Kansas. IL sepa-
rate indictment against each for grand
larceny in stealing lot of carpenters and
joiner's tools at Waitsiield, Jan. Is, 1877,
the property of James S. Newcomb and
VIM. M. Strong.
Hiram j. Pratt of Warren, for selling
liquor at Warren.
James and John Sweony, of Waterbury.
a separate Indictment against each for as.
sault and battery upon Heber Holman ut
Waterbury, May 20, 1877.
William Thurston of Worcester, for rape
upon Hannah Slattery, sixteen years old,
at Worcester, Oct. l, 1876.
VIM. Chaplin and Ephraim PRAY of Cal
ais, an indictment against each for assault
and battery upon Geo. Whitman at Wood
bury, Jan. %, 1877.
Robert Bickford of Waterbury, for
stealing horse and sleigh, harness. robes,
etc. at Middlesex, Feb. II, 1877, the prop
erty of w. L. Scott.
Lyman Potter of Marshfeld, for adultery
with his step-daughter at Marshfeld. Dec
|, 1875; bailed at $i00.
Nelson Hunt of Walden, for selling Ii
quor at Cabot.
Bloomy Ann Quade of Montpelier, for
keeping house of ill-fame on Elm Street.
Montpelier. The respondent was arrested
tuesday morning and gave bail in the sum
of $500 'O Gum
Frank Kendall of Windsor and VIVA
Fisher, wife of Noah Fisher, of Noretown,
for adultery at Montpelier, Nov. 18th. 1876,
Each furnished bonds in the sum of $500.
An indictment found by the grand iury
1t the September Term, 1876, is now for
The first time made public, the respondent
having eluded arrest till last Friday night.
when Sheriff futile found him at Walden:
Horace Orlando Heath of Cabot, for bio-
amy with Josie Balaw of Cabot, the mar
,iage having taken place at Walden, Feb
70, 1876. lie was bailed at $500.
There has been one divorce granted
lois Fisher from Alonzo G. Fisher for re'
usal to support and one thousand dollars
'limony decreed to the petitioner BY agree.
nent. This will be remembered as the
divorce case of last term, when
zach party charged the other with adultery
ina apparently proved it. The court re.
useu divorce last term. The parties
we're formerly residents of Barre.
James Carpenter VS.. Stebbins J, Ashley
This was suit to recover damaoes for a
alse warranty of horse, the merits of
vhlch were noticed in last week s pnner
erdlct for the plaintiff, one cent DAMAGES
lhu one cent costs, sensible decision for {
was case of dog eat dogn with n I
,,engeance; &. A. Heath, G. II. Heath and
randall for plaintiff; Dillingham;, for de.
endant. "' -o' u0- :
Timothy j. Hubbard and Nathaniel q
'acon VS.. Edwin j. Woodbury.. This was
n action to recover damages for ininrio as. a
o plaintiffs farm caused by Defendants u
a1Lie' appeared that in the spring Of 5
90 loe defendant hired Il pasture of the a
l"'htlilS adjoining the farm in question in ;
nc Town OF Berlin, agreeing in the lease 70 a
bantam legal fences around the nostnro i
10 put lot of two-year-olds, vearlings "
nu colts into the pasture and does net Il
ontend but what they lrespassed; in Sct .
rendered the plaintiffs five dollars NV b
ne 10Th of July in payment of the iniurie "" .
' q ~ was refused. The defendant Claim '
lhat the Injuries were worth much las. {
IAN Tie tender, inasmuch as the pIaintifTs' q
'r'll was very sterile and but little cr.SO il
rev on 1t. The plaintiffs claimed that aI =
10 Ilhe OF the tender the defendants cattle ri
u some sixty or seventy bushels of onnIeS .
y TINS was denied dy the defendant r who d
leSed That another neighbours sheen woro a.
re guilty ones. The jury found for ,bo q
alntltf to recover S3.7l. Of which ., '1 10 =
,c nn before the time of the tender and
30 subsequently,, so the tender was m '' Ct
I ' Sunlclent for the injuries and ms be Il
y y: nelgnoors ought to have been taken &c
ny ior plaintiff; Shurtleff for defendant IA
a tni,,n atkins VS.; G. X. Ely, apt. The :.
alntlh demanded payment for n iol n nf St
'iintlng done for the defendant J'T VI 10 10
llnlst in Mortified. His bill was Slo No. aN L
ne defendant claimed that his c 80. q.
Us with boy named Edwin n. Thnn r"o' is
H. IT, an an amateur printer in Mortified, and To-
d" ''n ne was responsible to him for tho ID
ymenl' and not to the plaintiff, Tbo oro -
- , no real question but what the plainti an al,
y Tue WORK, did it well, and at ransnm
Nc price; mat the defendant knew H. n nar
Is dong 1t, and that Mr.. A. w via nc s se
salesman OF the defendant. snnnrn ri,oi gr
JOB The defendants case WINS , rS Id Id.
H. and the jury soon returned n von WY s
plaintiff, S43,42, the face Of tho e'4 LEt pc
IN interest. Gleason and F;nI 1 p!'l &c &c
unfit; Fisk and Lord for defand ,enu Tor pr,
FRANK ta% "A; a. Joslyn b. n. f. VS.. Encoro e egc
'ouy, Inc parties reside in Water5YrU ~
y P'1lnGln, minor, bought three c co,S. ia
,ne defendant in May, 1876 for seve eOws ts oI
E >. dollars in money and lien n 1ote" s
ty-hTe dollars. The cows wo DYo 10, not b., 6a
On , Ia = farm in Duxbury owned nv ' b Iu. ma ma
ms mother, and leased to Marx n, nlm ms
" living in Or,nro w. Wal Davis, sal
hoon 81 AFTER the Cows sell
neeh used upon the farm all snm rO"s ha,
Ine ayalls mostly devoted to na a,Ip, 'OT r
rent, the plaintiff retnrnnd L. w. Paymg Fin