St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-06-22
Caledonia Court. June Term, 1877.

| HON. =. L. A. HUMPHREY I Al. T1
Hon. NJ. r. GRAY, Ass 'uuSeS'
A. E. Rankin, Clerk.
w. III. Preston, Sheriff.
Henry c.. lde, States Attorney.
Elisha May, Court Auditor.
Fanny A. BOWker Us E. j. Stone ct ais
Action on case for disturbing her house
at st. Johnsbury Centre, fastening door,
&C., on the 2Sth day of Dec 1875. That
evening one Charles Webb, then of
Burke, whose wife was an intimate
friend of Mrs. Bowker, went to Mrs
Bowker's house from a meeting of
Good Templars. Soon after the de-
PENDANT Stone and some other young
men went to the house, fastened Mrs.
Bowker's door and made considerable
noise and disturbance. The defendants
claimed that Webb was there for an
unlawful purpose, and that they were
only there to watch the conduct of Mrs
Bowker and Mr.. Webb. 1t was in evil
dence that Mr.. and Mrs. Webb were ac-
customed to visit Mrs. Bowker fire.
quently, and that on certain occasion
Mrs. Bowker went with them to the
Mountains. The plaintiff claimed that
she was sitting in her room with the
lamp burning; that her conduct as well
as that of Mr.. Webb, was blameless; that
when she heard the noises made by defts,
she put the lamp in the buttery and
| U1itaH Tn vel hot he
doing; that they put up a ladder by
side of house, &c. The defendants
claimed that when they were on the
ladder they heard noises that indicated
familiar relations between plff & Mr..
Webb, and that the lamp was not burn
ing when they went to Mrs Bowker's,
but admitted they SdD nothing i'm
proper. Three of the defts. were dis
charged by order of the court upon plff's
resting her case upon the ground that
there was no evidence tending to prove
them guilty. Plff. offered to become
nOnsuit as to those defendants The
court refused to permit that done, to
which plff. excepted. These three de-
PENDANTS who were discharged were
present AS defendants testimony fully
proved. Each of them were called by
plaintiff before resting her case and
asked If they saw certain other defend
ants on the occasion referred to, but
refused to answer, asserting as a reason
that their answer would tend to Grim
mate themselves. Verdict for plff.
against E. j. Stone for so and costs.
Cahoon and Smith for plff. Belden and
lde for def.
State as II. j. Ha=eItine. Indictment
by grand jury June T. 1876, for unlaw-
fully procuring on abortion upon one
Achsah Holmes of Ryegate, by admin
istering noxiOus drugs and using me-
chanical means. The respondent is a
homeopathic physician and surgeon in
active practice at Barnet and vicinity.
The evidence on the part of the state
tended to show that Mrs. Holmes was
pregnant; that she was widow whose
husband had been dead some four or
five years; that respondent was called
one night about "A week prior to Mrs.
Holmes death that before morning
Mrs. Holmes was taken i'll that an
other physician was sent for, to whom
Mrs. Holmes claimed that there was
difficulty with her lungs-that she
had injured them, that Mrs. Holmes
grew worse and died that after her
death an instrument such as is usually
used by surgeons was found at Mrs.
Holmes house; that the post morton
examination revealed the fact that an
abortion had been produced, and that
the abortion was not the result of nat
ural means.
The respondents testimony tended
to show that he knew nothing of the
instrument that was found there that
it was not his; that he knew nothing
of the manner in which it came there :;
that he prescribed for her but not for
the purpose of procuring an abortion !;
that Mrs. Holmes had been previously
troubled with female difficulty, and
that the appearance of the genital Or
gans testified to by physicians who
made the post norton examination
might have been caused by that diff
Guilty. Verdict of not guilty. Smith
and Davis for State. Belden and Dick
ey for def.
State Us Allen A. CaldaueH. Fined for
one offense selling liquor. The indict-
ment left out the very important words:
''divers other times" or he would have
suffered more.
State Us Hubbard Durgin. Liquor
selling. Plead guilty to three offenses,
and was fined $50 and costs.
State Us Charles Miles. Liquor selling.
Plead guilty to two Offenses, and was
fined $40 and costs.
State Us j. T. Folsom Indictment for
selling liquor at West Wheelock. Yer
dict of guilty of five first offenses. Sen
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