Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-04-30
APRIL TERN.

APRIL TEEN.
HON. JOHN PIERPOINT. Presiding Judge.
iioS Hos. EDGAR H. Lane, Assistant Judges
A. j. HOWARD, Clerk.
L. A. DREW, Sheriff.
II. y. PECK. States Attorney.
JAY READ PENBER. Court Stenographer.
A. V. SPALDISG. Court Auditor.
FERDINAND BEACH, High Bailin
FRIDAY, April %.
At the opening Of court yesterday morning
the criminal docket was taken up. State vs..
Philomenc Lemoine alias Pasha indicted for
keeping house of i'll -famc. was called. Re
spondent failed to appear and her bonds were
declared forfeited.
State VS.. Edward T. Paige, indicted for
ENLIGHTENMENT, WIS next called. Henry
Ballard, counsel for respondent, stated that
he was not ready for trial and the case was
put over until Monday.
After hearings in number of court cases,
etc, court was adjourned until O'Clock
Monday afternoon.
MONDAY, April 90.
On the opening OF court this afternoon the
case was taken up of State rs. EdIrdrd T.
Paige. Many years since the respondent
entered the service of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company in this city as telegraph
boy. BY successive promotions he rose to
the position of chief clerk in the freight
office. where he had practical control of all
the freight business Of the Central Vermont
centering in this city, g. $. Appleton being
the agent and Paige his principal subordinate.
1t was the custom Of the managers Of the
railroad to permit (for consideration of at
first SO and afterwards 80 q carr cars of
lumber shipped from the West to the East
say from Chicago TO Boston-to be brought,
in transit. from Essex Junction to this city,
where the lumber was dressed and subse-
quently reshipped. The charge made for
this was called stop-over charge.
These stop-over charges were not prompt
ly paid and finally were in arrears
to the extent Of large sum
of money-some S21 900. In order to rem
der these payments more prompt, Lansing
Mills, the Central Vermonts general super
intendent of through freight, issued an order
in September 1875, that when through cars
Of lumber were detained here over two weeks
the stop over charges and the freight from
here to their destination should be collected
in this city. For over year thereafter the
managers of the railroad company received
no money from the source named and final
", in October, 1877, they sent down an ex-
pert from st. Adams, William Leard, who
found that the freight office in this city had in
the time mentioned received and not account
ed for to the main office SIC, 900 from stop
over charges and through freight collections.
Soon afterwards another accountant, William
b. Hatch, examined Paige's books and fixed
the defalcation at $4,000. Early in the
year 1878 Page was discharged; and on the
LIST of August, 1879, he was arrested charged
with the embezzlement of $4,000 from the
railroad company. After lengthy
hearing in the City Court he was
bound over in the sum OF $4,000 and being
unable to obtain permanent bail he has re-
manned in Jail ever since. At the last Sep
TENDER term of court the grand jury found n
true bill against him, but for various reasons
the trial was continued until the present
term.
States Attorney II. S. Peck and NJ. X.
Tyler for the State Henry Ballard. and W.
ii. Hare for respondent
A jury was empanelled without much
trouble, only six or eight challenges being
made-two by the State and the rest by re-
spondent-after which the States Attorney
made a statement of the case and the facts
which the prosecution expected to prove.
Testimony was then proceeded with.
TUESDAY, April 30.
The first witness, yesterday afternoon. was
G. s. Appleton, whose examination was not
eouSiuucu at thc uuJoui hihehe w eouis.
WEDNESDAY, April 90.
The following are the jurymen in the Paige
case E. II. Field A. c. Palmer, Char
lotto l.. c. Nichols, B. NJ. Huntley, West
ford j. W. Jones. Williston &. II. Met
calf, North Underhill E. p. n. Fisher.
Colchester p R. Miles, Hinesburgh f.
H. Sabin, Bolton Elijah Porter, Under
hill s. Ii. Chittenden, South Burlington !;
f. s. Whitcomb, Jr.. Jericho.
There is every indication that the case
will occupy the remainder of the week and
possibly day or two next week.
G. S. Appleton was put upon the stand
Monday afternoon and his examination last
ed until $50 p. m, Tuesday. The next
witness was William Leard, the accountant
first sent down from St. Adams 10 examine
Paige's books. He was followed by William
Ii. Hatch, the principal witness for the prose
cution Che having made complete and
searching examination Of the books, whose
testimony had not been completed at the ad-
iournment of court. The testimony thus
far is, generally speaking. identical with that
given by the same witnesses at the preliminary
examination, and fully reported in this paper
at the time.
THURSDAY, April 90.
In the Paige case, yesterday, the exanina-
tion cs William r u-'"h Tha nov, r;,nass
was D. d. Ranlet, treasurer OF the Central
Vermont Railroad Company. MIR. Ranlet
was followed by E. A. Wilkins. clerk in the
freight Office whose examination had not
been concluded at the adjournment OF court.