Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-04-14


Benjamin G. Ulmstcad aud Mr..
Fiske were seriously injured, ut White
River Junction, Que day last week
by the falling i'm OF II new root under
which they were working, they being
down By falling timbers.
Both viii doubtless recover in time.
FIRE At ST. JoHNsEyRY. A large
block on Railroad street owned by n.
NJ. johnson, was burned last week.
The losses are rs follows: y. NJ:
Jolnson, $4,000; Quinton Cook,
grocer, $500; both fully insured.
II. c. Bates, f. G. Cokely, lawyers,
". p. Horton, tailor, and {. a.
Aiken, piano tuner, from $50 20 5000
each 10 insurance. Mrs. William
Brown and w. +. Thayer, tenants.
$500 each; no insurance.
Pbairs statement is generally pro.
nounced here as very ingenious, aud
were it not for his previous desperate |
character, public sentiment would
approve his reprieve. Little do0bt
exists Of his guilt in the minds Of
those most familiar with Phair, his
anteccduuts and tbc circumstances Of
the murder Of Mrs. Freze. This Is
said to be the opinion Of Chief Justice
Pierrepont Of the Supreme Court,
Gen. Grandey OF Vcrgennes, Judge
Wheeler of the L. >. Court and
phair's counsel at his trial, Judge
Dunton and Col. Ecazey of Rutland.
There is little prospect that the Coy
ernor will extend the respite beyond
May 4.
MONTPELIER, VT, April 10. This
afternoon Hiram Arbucklc of East
Montpelier, in a fit of passion or
insanity, shot George Short, a lad Of
l6 years, twice. He then left him,
went to a blacks NTH shop Of his
brother-in-law, George Bancroft,
aged so years, and shot him through
the arm while he was shoeing a horse,
Bancroft started to run, when he was
-, shot again in tie back, and as he was
> going through the grist mill door he
q was shot in the ear, when he fell dead
, Arbuckle then went to his house and
said thiaitL ill II the officers came. He ther
and shot himself throu@iFn '' me- all, :
killing him instantly. Short is still
alive, though in . critical condition
h Arbuckle WAS 50 years old an.
!; unmarried. There was no particula
i'll feeling between the parties
- Insanity is said to be in the family
;, lie is reported to have threatcueC
= some such deed for some three
. months, and is said to have made
{ will
' RUTLAND, VT, April 10. TIL,
: Rutland Herald tomorrow morning
viii publish the fac smile of the nam
Of "E. f. Smith, st. Adams, Vt i" q
it Appeals upon the register Of tn
Adams House, Boston, June 8, 1874
: also the fac smile Of the same whicI
d John Z. lhair wrote upon sheet 0
7 paper in Rutland Jail. The hote
register, tie pawnbroker's ticket an,
q the Handwriting of Phair have bees
5 thoroughly scrutinized bY experts to
> day and pronounced the handwritin,
of one and the same person.
=" John Patton, who has been on trial
at Rutland, for some days, for shoot
ing Barney McCue, in West Rutland
last August, has been convicted O
$ manslaughter, and was to-day sen
It fenced by Judge Powers to State
d Prison for y years.
/ ST, ALBANs, VT, April 10. Til
;, April term Of the Franklin Count
1t Court, Judge Royce presiding, opene,
IL here to-day. There are some siztee
s criminal cases on the docket Th
trial Of E Edward Tatro, youn.
If Frenchman, for the murder or Mrs
5, Alice NJ. Butler, the young wife O
II Charles w. Butler, at Highgate, Jun
Il 2. 1876, is assigned for Tuesday next
k Tatro made confession that h
IS entered her room when lie HAD bee
u drinking, pulled her upon the bed
: and claimed that she had ran and h
Il followed her to q room below, sh
:, throwing chair and afterwards a.
It ak at him. She then attacked hin
with q stick of wood, and he kuockc
her down with the same stick an,
killed her with the ak.
BELLOWS FALLS, VT, April TO- A
the close of the Windham Count
Court, Wooley, the tratricide, wa
s sentenced to imprisonment for life
o Townsend, 20 years and Stone, /
a years at hard labor in the stats Prsot
for arson in Dammerston last Fehru
. airy. Stone confessed having set th
$ fire, being hired to do so by Townsend
II Sentence was not pronounced upo
d Lewis, his case going to the Suprem
Y Court upon exceptions. Airing, win
/ testified against him at the trial, i
remand I'd to the State Prison for SAT
: keeping and trial at the Septembe
!, term for completely. lie has made
: statement to the jailor and other
> since finding he ia not 20 be set a
= liberty, saying that he was hired t.
testify as he did, by others, ant
" threatened by detectives and other!
e with trial az principal in the crime j
he did not do SO, and promised release
9 lie now says there is not word o
truth in his testimony on the stant
. regarding seeing Lewis have morphine
on the day Deming died, or that ht