The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-16
COUNTY COURT ATMANCHEsTER.

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III; F. G. Archibald, States Attorney.
Francis A. Purdy VS.. Estate of j. ID.
Purdy. In this case the jury returned
verdict for the plaintiff for full amount
of her claim $1,000 and interest and costs.
Her claim will now be allowed the same
as other unsecured claims against the es-
tate of her insolvent husband.
Illustrated Am. Pub. Co. VS.. Green
Mountain Summer Home Co. This
suit was brought to recover for advertis-
ing in the magazine published by the
plaintiff. The contract was made by
Herbert w. Martin, president and direct
or in the Summer Home Company, put
he claimed on the stand that it was his
own personal contract and that he had
no authority to bind his company. He
also claimed that the plaintiff also guar
anteed that the advertisement would
bring him a certain amount of business,
which it had failed to do. The plaintiff
denied that he had ever made such guar
antep, and that the defendant held him
self out as the president and manager OF
the company and pretty much all there
was to it. The jury were unable to
agree.
State vs. Green. This case was II petit
ton from the respondent asking tor
discharge from the State insane asylum,
to which he had been committed, for
shooting two men in POwnal two or three
yeals ago. The superintendent of the
ASYLUM, DIR. Giddings, stated that Green
had nearly recovered from insanity, 50
much so that he was no longer danger
GUS, but the court thought he had better
stay at Waterbury a while longer, and
RENTED him until the December term of
court
Eva P. Coolidge VS.. Continental ms.
Company. This suit was brought to re-
cover for the loss building and tin ware
and other goods at Arlington in June
1891. The chief defense was that a con-
ditiun in the policy requiring the assured
to give notice of foreclosure on the
property insured had not been complied
with, as foreclosure proceedings had not
only been commenced but the equity OF
redemption expired on the day OF the
fire. The answer of the plaintiff to this
was that these proceedings had been
commenced before the policy was issued
and that there had been ne change, and
that the plaintiff had notified Garfield,
the agent who procured the insurance,
and Burnham OF Rutland who wrote the
policy. There was some contention
whether this was q valid notice to the
company. Each side requested the court
to instruct the jury TO return verdict
in its favor. The court complied. orfer-
ing a verdict for plaintiff for full amount
of policy. The case goes to the Supreme
court ON the law questions.
State Henry Mcdowell. The re-
spondent is on trial for murder in the
first degree, and the case will probably
last all the week. States Attorney Arch
ibald, j. g. Martin and Geo. E. Law
renee of Rutland are counsel for state
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dent.
The Grand jury were discharged
Wednesday morning having found about
a dozen bills and nearly as many not
found. Court may last nearly all of next
week.-Journal.
The greater part of the day Wednes-
day was consumed in getting a jury.
One witness testified for the state. He
was with Crowley, the murdered man.
the day before the murder. They went
south from SALISBURY four miles, and
were there three or four hours. Going
home Crowley had bottle of whiskey.
He drank once. lie was badly intoxi-
Gated and could not walk. He rode
nearly home with neighbor and stopped
awhile. He sobered up so he could walk
the rest of the way. He again stopped
at German Mattson's. Mcdowell
both went out. That was the last seen
of Crowley till II o'clock. when he was
found lying in the road, his head down
hill. He was unconscious and carried to
the house. His head was washed and
bound up. The doctor was sum-
moned, but did not arrive until he died,
which was at o'clock in the morning.
Crowley had bad bruise ever his eye
and his scalp was cut across the side of
the head. He did not recover conscious
ness. There are other witnesses for the
state and the trial will last several days.
MANCHESTER, June 15.--In the Nc
Dowell murder trial to-day the second
witness for the state, German Harring-
ton, one of the selectmen of Glastonbury,
was examined. He testified that he saw
Crowley, the murdered man, on the day
of the crime and that he was somewhat
intoxicated. Mr.. Harrington said:
"Crowley stopped at my house about
I O'clock in the evening and Mcdowell
was there. Both stayed till about o
o'clock. Ny family and myself were in
the room with them nearly all the time.
We knew them well, as they lived to-
gether in a shanty near by. Mcdowell
said to Crowley, John, after l got my
supper | was lonesome, so | thought |
would come up and meet yOu,' They
talked pleasantly together. My daughter
asked Mcdowell to sing and he did so.
saw that Crowley had bottle, but did
not see him drink.
about 8 o'clock Mcdowell and Crow
ley started to go home. / next saw Nc
DOWel about II o'clock the same night.
He asked me who the constable was ana
told him Norman Madison. / then
asked him if lie and Crowley had had
any trouble and he replied that they had.
He said that Crowley wanted to spar
with him and lie refused, as Crowley had
been drinking. He said that Crowley
then stepped in front of him and struck
at him, and afterwards stopped down
and picked up stone, and then he SAID,
Il did him up in a hurry, can ell you'll
asked Mcdowell where it happened
and he replied up at the turn, and when
you find him he will be corpse
Mcdowell then said that he would 60
to SALISBURY and give himself up and
advised him to do so, and he left going
in that direction.
81 then took lantern and went to
look for Crowley poinp bY the houses