Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-03-20
VERMONT MATTERS.


Rutland railroad company VS. John b.
pare. began trial Monday. Mr.. John
II. Mimms has been engaged to as
sist the official reporter of that court
Mr. ppmbpr-and the testimony taken
will he Transcribed as the case progresses.
Each reporter will take notes half day,
occupying the remainder of their time dc
tatinlr to two or three expert type-Wrlttrl
operators. BY this means the court and
council will, each morning, be furnished
with IL copy OF the testimony Iakeu lhe
day previous.
A steam Will Burned.
Buffers steam mill in Franklin wls en-
tirely destroyed 10y fire Tuesday night to-
gether with its contents The engine was
ruined. and IL large plumber OF logs, the
property of l.. Hilton, were burned.
Narrow Escape From Death Near Hart
ford.
Medore Stone of Hartford narrowly es-
capped death Tuesday Driving one horse
and leading another he had reached the |
crossing on the Central Vermont railroad |
lust south of the station at Hartfordwhen
his team was struck by the north bound
Boston and Montreal express train. Both
horses were thrown to the right of the
track 100 feet beyond the crossing and in
stantly killed. The sleigh was thrown to
the left and literally smashed to splinters.
Mr.. Stone was thrown about fifty feet up
the track, upon which he fell, receiving
injuries on the head and body of a very
severe nature but probably not fatal. The
crossing is very dangerous, being near a
sharp curve in the road. Accidents OF a
like nature have twice before occurred at
the same crossing.
Washington County Court.
Thursday the jury returned Il verdict of
1914. ST for the plaintiff, town, IN the case
of Town of RoNbury, VS.. Central Vermont
Railroad company. The railroad company
took exceptions. In the case of Myra
Smith vs.. s ID. Hallister an action on Il
note, the defense was!to have been forgery,
but counsel failed to comply with the rule
in respect to pleadings in such cases and the
case was taken from the jury.
In the case of the town of RoXbury vs..
Central Vermont Railroad company the
Jury rendered Il verdict for the plaintiff to
recover $;314 .33. The case goes to the SU-
preme Court upon several points. The
case of Myra Smith vs.. ID. ID. Hallster
was commenced but broke down on &C
count of some defect in the pleadings, and
no other case being ready for trial the
Court adjourned until Friday morning to
commence the fourth days assignment.
The case, State VS.. Sanders. at Mont
pelier, was called at 2 O'Clock Tuesday
afternoon, but the trial was postponed till
Wednesday morning on account OF the
non-appearance of the stenographer, Mr.
Oviatt, who had gone to Rutland. Mr.
Mimms of St Adams, was telegraphed
and will probably take the case. The
court room was crowded and great inter
est is manifested in the case. As Sanders
sat in the bar enclosure, his little daugh-
ter left her mother and went to his side
making most touching scene Sanders
is a good sized, we'll built man, with
small, bright restless eyes, large nose,
firm mouth and reCedlng chin, and II
general aspect of unsteady temper, tend
ing to bursts of violence. There. have
been several instances of insanity in the
families of both his parents and his de
fense will be insanity. He will be ably
defended by Messrs &. w. Wing, c. II.
Pitkin, G. il. Heath and II. II. Gordon.
States Attorney Kemp will be assisted by
Hiram A. Huse, Esq, and John Senter,
Esq,
A stenographer from Albany, n. V, ar
rived at Montpelier Wednesday morning
and the Sanders murder case was proceed
ed with. Less trouble in getting Il jury
was experienced than was expected. The
following is a list of the iurymen: l.. q.
Town, j. L. Coburn, ID, d, Nelson, W. b.
Page. +. +. Templeton, ID. w. G. Orms-
bee, g. w. Chase, Janus Crassett, Erastus
Keith, Salmon Williams, c. NJ Richard
son, g. w. Grover Mrs. Hattie Carter
was the first witness. She had been a
housekeeper for Carr at some time. She
=. was in Carrs store at the time he was
shot and her testimony had reference tt
what then transpred. Fred. Blanchard
was next called and testified of the sale OF
u arevolver to Sanders on the day of the
killing which was Aug. 23, 1854.
The defence is emotional insanity. san
ders is aquiet Fast Montpelier farmer ant
has always had good reputation. Car
was disreputable mao aud was regarded
by Sanders It's the destroyer OF his happl
ness and the cause of the ruin of his fami
ly. Sanders entered Carrs store and ap
preaching the latter as he was sitting a
his desk, shot him three times in the bacl
of the neck, causing instant death.
Rutland.
o. u. Young of West Rutland vilag
has been appointed overseer of the poo
by the board of civil authority under tn
law of 1881 which applies only to towns O
over TO- 900 inhabitants and consequently t
Rutland alone. Arthur Bave one OF tn
proprietOrs of the Bates House, has sol
out his interest to his partner, w. II. Val
quette George Willis, for many year
tax collector, has been appointed lister b
the seectmen to fill the vacancy cause
by the resignation of W. c. Landon, VIII
was elected both selectman and llste
....Judge Neazey has been re-electe
president of the Village Improvement Sc
cety. The March term of the Rutlan
County Court began Tuesday afternoon
The Rutland Railroad company VS.. Pag
case has been ordered by request of bot
sides to be tried by special jury, struc
under the law of 1851 and the trial whic
is expected to take several weeks, will be
gin Monday next The railroad compan
brought their suit to recover S2OO,OO
which they claim is due from Page fC
moneys of the railroad company which h
had for the interest of large sums used b
him. Page filed a plea.in offset claimin
the company owed him larger sums tina
the company claimed due from him 4
the opening of the court, Tuesday, tn
railroad company obtained leave to ralS
the ddddnlnum of the writ which is a
ready 5000 900. Col. Walker, one of Page
attorneys consenting thereto and remark
ing that a verdict of 81, 2,000, 900 would be +
more disastrous than verdict of $4,000
large number of attorneys have bee
retained on both sides and a great amour
of work has been done in preparing I'll
case, which involves the Oyerhauling
the business during the whole corporal
existence of the Rutland Railroad compar
and durinp the entire time Pnge has bee