Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-22
POLICE COURT BUSINESS.

A LIVELY TIME BETWEEN SATURDAY AND MON
DAY.
Last Sunday forenoon Frank Dunkles,
young man who formerly worked for the
Brattleboro sewing machine company, got
drunk and made an unprovoked assault on
Henry Atkins at the lAttsrs livery stable
vounding him in the face and knocking him
down so that he struck on his elbow and
fractured the joint, inhiciiug a serious injury
After committing the assault Dunklee took
refuge at j. b. RAndAll's, In the Steen build
ing, where he was soon after arrested by OF.
Ger Ais and locked up. Monday morning he
was taken before Justice Newton and put un-
der $500 bonds TO appear for trial at the
county court for assault aud battery, and under
800 bonds to appear when wanted to testify
as TO where the rum came from that he got
drunk on. Mr. Randall became his bonds.
man on both counts and Dunklte was aet at
liberty. Dunklee stated TO Il G court that
Dan Wilder, young man employed as driver
by j. A. Taylor called him into Burke's liy.
cry stable aud showed him bottle of rum
lying on some buffalo robes, from which he
and others drank. Later, about 10 O'Clock.
he (Dunklee) and VIM. Powers, Burke's host
Ter, drove up to West BrAttlebOro and got a
jug Of cider Of which they drank freely, and
the mixture OF rum and old cider made Dunk
lee 30 villainously drunk that lie couldn't re-
strain himself. He said he didn't know
where Wilder got the rum that he gave him.
and no one could be found TO tell anything
about it. When Wilder was sent for he
could not be found and has not been seen
since. He has undoubtedly left town TO
avoid being summoned and compelled TO dis
close on the party which sold him the liquor
He is young man who has borne a good
character, and been faithful 10 his employer.
His friends hope that this false step will
prove a needing warning to keep him out of
bad company in the future.
On Monday morning Mr.. Herrick, in doing
his duty a. best man for q coy and reluctant
bridegroom, got led q very lively dance, by an
uncertain and roundabout way, before he f.
nally escorted his victim to Hymens altar.
Mr.. Herrick, at the instance OF the would-be
bride, through her attorneys, served his prin-
cpal with a wedding invitation at the Ameri-
can House early Monday morning. The
groom said be needed some breakfast before
accepting, and Mr.. HerIick left him seated at
table. He turned just in season 10 see the
wedding coRt-tails going out OF a rear window
with the celebrity of Car(r), and lost no time
in following them. The next step in the bri-
dial pathway was a 20-foot one, straight down
the bank. Both groom and best man took
it on the fly, and then began q go.as-you-
please race to see which could make the best
time through the toll bridge to get breath of
bracing New Hampshire air. The groom won
by about one length, but the best mans ways
were so winning that the groom was induced
10 return to Vermont, and the twain proceed
ed at a more sedate aud becoming pace TO
Haskins a Stoddard's office, where the mar
rage altar was in due time erected, and peace,
II not happiness, reigned once more.
Last Saturday, Just at night, Mike Kelly
had II out" with one OF his chums and has
not been visible to the naked eye since. The
circumstances seem 10 have been that some