Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-29


 T. Canty, two complaints, c. B. Andrews, three C Julius Weaver, one " Of the remaining ten unsettled cases, eight are against Geirsch, already in jail on $165 fine and costs !; and two are against one of the men under sentence of Imprisonment by the Dis trict Court: Substantially, therefore, the l docket is cleared of liquor cases, with 3 con- l vctions, 112 settlements, about $2750 paid in | fines and costs and about twenty of the prin- cipal Winsted dealers under agreement to retire from the business. - -.f We have devoted so much time to the mere facts of this important weeks work-the fruit for the most part of years careful, intelligent, plucky, and persistent temperance work in one village-that we have left ourselves no space for comment or commendation. Luckily the facts are such as speak for themselves without comment, and in place of commend atlon, it will be much better if temperance men can be found to initiate the work done by Messrs. Forbes, Holmes, Lawrence and others, in their wonderfully successful assault of what has so long been considered the last strong bold of the liquor traffic-the ''glorious un- certainty of the law!'
 Barkhansted and Plymouth have both been defending suits for damage suffered on their roads, in the Superior Court at Hartford Barkhamsted escaped with verdict of BIO. Plymouth was mulcted in judgment proba- ply amounting with costs. to fifteen hundred dollars. The Ceurant gives the following statement of the case:
 This week the case of Albert Burr of Bristol against the town of Plymouth has been on trial, and will probably run into next week. Mir. Burr claims damages of $5, 900 to con- pensate him for injuries received on a high way. The accident occurred in March, 1876 There was heavy snow-drift in the regularly travelled road, and teams turned out through a gutter and made roadway there The plain tiff drove along there and his horses broke through, and he was thrown from load and injured in one leg, and it is claimed has not recovered from the injuries. The claim is that the town was neglectful, particularly at that springy time of the year, in not keeping the roadway clear There is denial on the part of the town that there was neglect that reasonable care was not taken to accommodate travel. The trial goes on in free and easy way and some of the examinations of witness es have been quite amusing. The jury yes. terday afternoon seemed to enjoy the trial as it were a picnic. Ex-Governor Hubbard and MT. Newell of Bristol appear for the plaintiff, and Elisha Johnson of this city and Colonel Fenn of Plymouth for the town.
 The Palladium tells the following good story of the third trial of Bucholz, now dragging it's slow length along at Bridge port: One of the talesmen stated in his examina- | ton that he had conscientious scruples against capital punishment. Such as would prevent your concurrence in first degree verdict if you honestly thought the prisoner had com
 mitted murder in that degree?' inquired | for jnry honors with great deliberation, II think in that case 1 should follow the exam pie of the Fairfield county judges and find | him guilty of second degree murder" Those who remembered the fact that Judge Boards 1 ley presided iii the Latin and Allen murder l cases and agreed with his associate in find | ing both prisoners guilty in the second de- gree, could appreciate the point made by the 1 witness and understand the cause of Judge l Beardslay's broad and repeated smiles at the retOrt.
 That paper reports as follows regarding the 1 expense of the last trial:
 1 The Cost to the state of the last trial was
 $2, 800. The judges have cut down the bill
 of Dr. Ward of Bridgeport, for less than an
 hours expert testimony from 1875 to $25 and
 the bill of Dr. Burke of Norwalk, for expert I testimony, from $75 to $20 also The bill of | Dr. Sanford, for two days attendance as an expert, was $35 and was allowed. The bill l of Dr. Treadwell, the Boston expert on blood corpuscles, was $25 day and was also allow ed.