The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-01
Washington County Court.

The civil cases closed last week, and the
state cases were commenced. One case has
been tried and disposed Of. The second is
now ON trial. 1t is State rs. John Amore,
and Mary, his wife, both charged with keep
ing disOrderly house at Barre The wit
neSses are very numerous, and their testi-
mony is all of the same nature, tending to
establish for the house the reputation
claimed for it by the state.
STATE rs. GEORGE A. JARvIs.-This re-
Spondent was charged with the crime of
rape in and upon the person of girl named
Frances Hastings, aged sixteen years. The
offence was charged as having been com
mitted on the 2Sth day of last August on
the Central Vermont track at Barre, near
the gravel pits. 1t appeared by the testi-
mony that ON the evening in question the
respondent started out and went to several
houses with a story that his wife was sick
and unable to move hand or foot, and that
he was looking for girl to 90 and watch
by her and pass her water and medicine.
After 60 ng to other houses he went to the
house of one Horace Grant. To him and
his wife, and in the hearing of one Kennedy,
a boarder, the story he had told was re-
peated. He said he was an engineer at the
quarres and could not be home himself as
he had to be at work at four in the morning
He represented such sad state of affairs
that Miss Hastings, a sister of Mrs. Grant,
was persuaded with the asking to go and at
tend the sick wife of the respondent. She
started out from Grants with the respond
ent and when the railroad track was
reached he asked her if she would just as
soon go that way, as it was quarter of a
mile nearer. She consented, not suspecting
evil After proceeding on the track they
came to dark place, shaded on each side
by trees and bushes, and here Jarvis seized
the girl, and, throwing her down, succeeded
in overcoming her struggles and outraged
her person. As soon as the girl reached
hOme about an hour after she had left she
made complaints of what had been done
Thereupon Mr. Grant went in search Of re-
spondent Two doctors, Braley and Packer,
were summoned, and they went to see Miss
Hastings. The examination made by them
more than confirmed the story tol,Xby the
girl. 1t was evident that she had Zen the
victim OF great amount of for J.. Mr..
Grant did not find the man JarIis that
night, but, resuu ing his search the next
day, discovered him and had him arrested.
Miss Hastings, Mr.. and Mrs. Grant, Mr..
Kennedy, Mrs. Colby and Mrs. Hunton, at
whose house he had told the story, all swore
that he was the man. The girl Hastings,
who more than any one else would be able
to identify the man, was positive it was
Jarvis. The respondent introduced his
father and mother, who testified that he
was at home that ey ening at such time that
it could not have been he who was at the
houses spoken of. Jarvis testified that he
was never at Grants house, had never seen
Miss Hastings before, and was at home in
bed at the time the offence was claimed to
have occurred. The jury found the prisoner
guilty. Lord and Huse defended. Bisbee
and Senter prosecuted. The court sentenced
Jarvis to the EXTREMIST punishment pro-
vlded by law, namely, twenty years at hard
labor in the states prison at Windsor