Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-19
SUNDRY JUSTICE CASES.

On Wednesday, the 10th inst, VIII
Holden. who lived in NJ. b. Willamson's
tenement house. was arrested. charged
with stealing "A coat and whip from Mr.
Williamson and horse blanket from NJ.
:. Carr residing near by. The hearing
was at the school-house in the neighbor.
hood, before Justice l.. +. Knapp of Mid
dlebury. Holden pleaded guilty to both
thefts and paid fine of S25 and costs.
Before Judge Knapp, at his office, the
same evening, was heard the case of State
against Alonzo Derby. The complaint
against the respondent, made by Special
Prosecutor \. p, Tupper, was for dis
turbing the peace in threatening to NAL
treat Emma Derby, his sister-in-law. if
she pounded his mother again. The par
ties live in the vicinity of East Middle
bury. After a hearing of some length
the respondent was discharged. Mr..
Tuppcr for State; Jesse Stearns, Esq,
for Derby.
The second trial of State against Robt.
Steele, on the charge of transporting in
toXcants from the freight depot to the
saloon of Joan Connors, on or about the
2sth of January, was had at the town
room on Thursday, the llth inst, before
Justice Albert Chapman and IA jury made
up of. w. Lovett, f. j. Matthews. G. II.
Severance. c. w. Matthews. X. G.. Crane
] nd ~
was experienced in getting jury salts
! factory to the parties. and it was late in
the afternoon before much had been done.
| The Jury did not take the case till mid
This finding, however, was not based up
on the merits of the case, but upon the
character of the complaint. That docu-
ment was not signed at the end by the
special prosecutor, though his name and
official title appeared in his own hand
writing in the body of the instrument.
The complaint was amended after the
trial began, but the jury did not consider
the paper good one, and so found for
the respondent Mr.. Upper was assist
ed in the prosecution by w. ii. Bliss,
Esq, and Messrs. James NJ. Sade and
Charles NJ. Wilds appeared for Steele.
Thursday night of last week Doris
Brouillett was arrested at a late hour by
Policeman Dickinson and taken to iAfl.
Friday morning Brouilett pleaded guilty
to intoXication before Justice j. +. sta
pleton and paid the fine of 81 and costs.
lie said the liquor came from Boston.
Special Prosecutor Tupper for the State.
On Monday last Rosy Clark, wife of
Joseph Clark of this village, was arrested,
on complaint of Grand Juror W. IL. Mat
thews of Cornwall. for unlawful cOhabi-
tation, and arraigned before Justice
Knapp at the town room, Middlebury. 1t
appeared that Mrs. Clark, Lewis Sen not
and Scnnott's mother live in l.. j. Samp-
sons tenement house in Cornwall: and it
was alleged that Mrs. Clark and Sennott
sustained the relations of husband and
wife, though Mrs. Clark has never OBJ
tanned divorce from her lawful husband.
James NJ. Slade, Esq, prosecuted, and
c. NJ. Wilds, Esq, defended. The State
was unable to make out case, owing, as
was claimed, to the disappearance of two
of the principal witnesses. The case
State against viii Holden, charged with
the same offence, was nolle-pross'd.
Deputy Sheriff Cobb on Tuesday took
VIII Hance of East Middlebury to the
house of correction at Rutland. He was
on Monday convicted of breach of the
peace before Justice j. f. Stapleton and
sentenced to 50 days at Rutland.