The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-12
Remington County Cnnrt.


ward j. Hall, clerk A. j. Pike, sheriff Chas.
S, Chase, stenographer.
As we went to press last week the case
of VIM. Cook vs. Leon Lamarre was on
trial. Friday the jury brought in YER
dict for plaintiff, $50 and costs. This is
the verdict rendered by the jury when
the case was tried before Judge White.
The "Walder murder trial." as pre-
dicted was reached Friday, and has been
on trial since. 1t is probable that the
arguments will b. reached next week
Tuesday, occupy two or more days, and
after that the jury will take their time.
This case State vs.. Henry Bent and
Byron U. RIDERS is being fought, inch
by inch, by the able counsel, and with
the story has been printed in full three
times IN our columns. The evidence
does not differ from the trials heretofore
had, except that in "pointsn there has
been something added. We shall review
only these points.
The following jurymen were accepted:
Edgar Batchelder, Peru; Charles Gilbert,
Martin Paddock, John Fisher, Dorset {;
Manning Sprague, Readsboro; L. L. Un-
derwood George Bridges, Stamford /;
l. dildlt 1NupClhg a. OducoOu
RI. Orvis, Manchester; Henry Stafford,
Readsboro; Loren Whitcomb, Sears
burgh.
The State rested last evening, the TO-
lowing witnesses having been examined
IN the order named 4: August Valdez "a
lad of ten years, con OF the murdered
mani. Drs. G. G. R. Jennings and Ly-
man Rogers (the attending physicians),
Samuel Mallory, Milton Knapp, Martha
Valdez (twelve-year-old daughter of
Louis Waldel) Mrs. Mary Walder vivid
owl, and DIR, II. c. Day, The defense
stated their line of evidence (self-de-
fense) and to day the trial is proceeding.
To understand the points" referred
to, also the defense, the story Of August
Valdez, the only eyewitness except
these respondents, is given in brief as
follows
August Valdez testified that he went
out at his fathers request and asked
Bent to draw some poles for his father
when Bent went up the road before din.
ner, of Dec. 18th, 1888, to which Bent
replied he could not; and then he told
him his father wanted the money, which
offended Bent That after Bent and
Roberts came down from the mountain
to where his father was in the afternoon,
he went down there and found them
quarreling, and Roberts accused his
father of stealing a wrench, to which his
father replied in way to further mad"
the respondents. That then Bent handed
Roberts short club and told him to go
and strike his father which Roberts did,
hitting him on the left -honlder when the
atf,,ly a nt.f nF hia har I'D Oh
block, several feet away from the dray
where Bent and Roberts were then at
work, and his father would not let Rob
erts get it again, and swung his ak at
him. That then Bent said to Roberts
you take this long stick and ! will take
this and we will go for him. whereupon
they took the side poles to the dray and
started for his father, who started to
run up the road, when they overlook
him and struck him, r Iberts hitting
him first and then Bent, when his father
fell at once; This point is some 81 feet
distant and he halloed for Li' mother
who came soon, and he went to Harry
Harbour's for help. Bent and Roberts
came down the road towards Bennin5
ton. Also that that night he pointed
out the short club with which his father
was struck on the shoulder and the dray
poles with which Bent and Roberts
struck his father when he fell to Milton
Knapp who took and kept them and has
produced them in court.
There Ia no material difference be-
tween the evidence at this and that of for
mer trials, except that the widow, Mrs.
Mary Valdez, was able through the in
terpreter used this time to more fully
testify and related how r Jbarts trea ed
her after she got down there and told
him she would have them both put in
Jail for killing her husband; and upon
which Bent told him (R Iberts) TO come
away he had done enough. or made
trouble enough. Also that Roberts said
when her husband moved his arm, that
he was afraid TO get up as he knew he
would knock him down again IL he did.
The boy entitled these clubs in court,
produced by Milton Knapp, who has
kept them until now, and this portion OF
the evidence 10 new. II will be seen
from the above and what we have here
tofore printed that both sides admit It Q
story up to the point of attack. Tie
going up To The wood lot. the demand
for the 81 % due from Bent to Valdez,
the quarrel over 1t and the wrench, after
they came down, the transfer of the
wood from the dray TO the wagon, the
coming away and leaving the injured
man lying where he fell and his wife
caring for him. But the point in issue
is this
The boy says that Bent handed Roberts
club and Valdez was struck by II in
the hands OF Roberts at the chOpping
block few feet away. The defense say
that this club was thrown to scare back
third horse they had with them the
others being hitched TO the dray, and
falling at Walder's feet enraged him 30
that he (WaldeT) then came at them
Furnishing his ak. The boy says that
his father ran up the road some distance
as he received the fatal blows, that Bent
and Roberts followed (Which wouI
make their course the hypothenuse Of a
triangle, tie ba of which triangle
would be the measurement across the
road, at the drsy, wagon and chopping
block, and the altitude WaldeI's course)
and was struck down as stated above.
The defense claim that Walder came at
them with his ak as they we're wedged
in between the dray and wagon with es-
cape cut Of. the blow struck Walder on
the arm (boy's version at chopping
block was gwen at entrance to V shaped
space between said dray and wagon, and
that blows on Walder's head 10y which
his skull was cracked into sixteen
pieces) were given by Roberts hemmed