Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-06-15

ADDISON COUNTY COURT. \
The II ial of the case of Phenner Vail v.
| Wallace j. Sawyer, which was on when
we went to press last week, resulted
in verdict of $50 and costs for the
plaintiff. y recess was taken Friday
afternoon to 2 o'clock Monday aft ruoon.
Thursday afternoon Warren Hatch of
| Bristol pleaded guilty of two first
otlenScs under the liquor law. lie was
/ fined $50 and costs.
When court re-assembled Monday al
ternOOn, there was no business ready to
be taken up, and after brief session
4 recess was taken to Tuesday morning.
At ihat time it was found that the civil
jury list mad nearly broken down, and
| the criminal calendar was called. In
State Y. George W. Button, the con-
duCtOr of the hog train which ran into
the special passenger near BrOOksVlle,
August 30, 1889. the respondent pleaded
guilty Of mauslaughter two years ago
and the case WAS held open with the eX-
pectation that Button will appear Tor
sentence during the term. 1t will be re-
membered that Engineer Chilson of The
same train was convicted on a similar
charge and was fined $500.
State V. Robert Steele next came up.
Steele belongs in Middlebury and the
charge agains him wasselling liquor con.
trary to law. He was not in court when
his case was called so the bail was declar
ed forfeited, aud At the request of States
Attorney Fish bench warrent was is
sued. The warrant has not yet been
served, owing to Steee's supposed
absence from town.
State V. Myrtia l.. Kennedy, which has
been on the docket for several years, and
in which the original charge was grand
! larceny, was entered not to be brought
! forward
In State V. Richard Maldoon, the
respondent, Il resident of Vergennes,
pleaded guilty of one first oflense of
! liquor selling and was fined so and
costs, which he paid.
State VS.. ID. o. NOOnan of Ferrisburgh
was an appealed case from a Justice
court, in which Mr.. NoOnan was con-
victed of third Offense of intoXication.
States Attorney Fish explained that the
respondent had been through the keeiey
cure and he thought was reformed
man, and recommended that the case be
nol-prOssed. Judge Start thought it
would be better to continue it.
State V. Joseph Gravel, a Vergennes
! liquor case. was nol-prOssed.
State VS.. Jerry Srd, Salisbury boy,
l6 years of age, was next heard. Sird
pleaded guilty to a charge of having
entered Kinsmah's store in Salisbury
late last winter and stealing some grain.
AS he had hitherto borne good Teputa-
ton, the Judges let him down easy and
sentenced him to one year in the house
of correction IN Rutland.
Several other State cases were con-
tinued and none of them was of much
consequence. \ second case of State V.
Maldoon was mol pressed.
Tuesday afternoon the first criminal
trial of the term was begun. 1t was
State V. Joseph j. Jarvis and Fred
Cloutier, the printers who were arrested
in Rutland, March 20 last, and on hear
ing in Middlebury were bound over for
trial on the charge of attempting to pass
forged check at the Middlebury bank
on the afternoon of March ~. The
check purported to have been signed by
Mr.. Joseph Battell, and was for about
$50. Jarvis, the older and apparently
smarter man of the two, had been in
Mr.. Battells employ the preceding sum-
mer and fall as cOmpOsitOr on the
Morgan Horse, which Mr.. Battell
was getting up and is about to publish
Cloutier came here with Jarvis from st.
Juliette, p. O., and it was the under
standing that Jarvis was to get Job for
both of them on the second volume of
Mr.. Battells book, or at least that is the
way they told it here before they got
into trouble. 1t was shown at the trial
that ClOUtier was the one who presented
the check at the bank for payment and
that Jarvis simply was there in his
company, but took no part in the ne
gOtiations about getting the check
cashed. ClOutier told Assistant Cashier
j. A. Fletcher that the check was given
for horse purchased from him in Corn
wall by Mr.. Battell, but the bank Off
cials, not knowing him, inquired pretty
closely as TO his acquantances in Corn
wall, and, the replies being unsatisfac-
tory. the check was not cashed and the
parties left the bank for the ostensible
purpose of getting some one to Identify
/ Cloutier. He said that he knew Ed.
Goulett, who keeps a boarding house
near the depot aud with whom they had
stopped since their arrival in town a
week or so before. They didn't get
Goulett to identify him. and the next
time he was seen in Middlebury was
when he was brought back from Rut-
land with Jarvis by Deputy Sheriff Cobb,
on the 10Th of March. Both respondents
went on the stand in their own behalf
aud said that they went to Rutland,
going afoot the first night to Salisbury,
because they were unable to pay Mr..
Gouett for their board and hoped to get
work at their trade in Rutland, so as to
pay up Mr.. GOulett and have enough to
bring them back here in season to 90 to
work for Mr.. Battell An apparent at
tempt TO break Jail was proven against
them by Deputy Sheriff Cobb, that about
three weeks ago they sawed one of the
iron bars in the window of the Jail near
ly of. lie had suspected that some
such thing was going on, but was una
ble to locate the place any sooner. The
respondents both laid the blame of the
attempt to break Jail on the Sird boy
from Salisbury, but the jury wouldn't
believe it that way. The case was got
TO the jury at the noon recess Wednes-