Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-08-03
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The work of the June term of the
Addison county court was resumed in
the court room in this village at , O'Clock
Monday afternoon, after recess from
June l6. Judge Start was again on the
bench and the remaining officers OF the
court were the same as at the beginning of
the term. j. c. Baker of Rutland, f.
w. McGettrlck of st. Albans and f. Il.
Hard, w. II. Bliss and Henry Ballard of
Burlington were the only out-of-town
lawyers present.
As the Phelps B. Smith will case, for
the trial of which at this time the long
recess was principally taken, had been
settled during the interval and there
were no other jury cases standing for
trial, the jurors were promptly dis
charged for the term shortly after ,
o'clock.
There was nothing of consequence done
Monday. 4 few motions were made and
entries recorded in various cases. but
most of the time was spent in waiting for
the mail train, as it was supposed chat
George w. Button would arrive here on
that train and take his sentence. Mr..
Button was the conductor of the hog
train which ran INTO the special passeu-
ger train from the Horse Breeders meet
ing at Rutland, little way north of
BroOksville, on the evening of August 30,
1889. a plea of guilty of manslaughter
in the third degree was filed August 3,
1892, but the respondent, who is under
stood to have been railroading tout West"
most of the time since the accident. had
not appeared in court to receive his sem
tence. Neither did he appear this time,
and at 3 80 o'clock recess was taken
till Tuesday morning. Chilson. the en-
gineer of the same hog train, paid fine
of $500 on a verdict of guilty of a similar
charge three years ago.
Tuesdays work was confined almost
entirely to divorce business, and some
peculiar cases came on for hearings. The
first case heard was Addie c. Lewis VS..
Charles w. Lewis and the ground alleged
was desertion. These people were mar
ried in Monkton in 1891 and lived for a
while IN Huntington, then returned to
Monkton. Eight years ago, or about two
years after the marriage, the husband
left his wife, without assigning any rea-
son for his course, and although ever
since residing in the same town, he has
never entered her house or even spoken a
word to her. She has worked about in
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her father taking care of their only child.
w. w. Rider appeared for Mrs. Lewis
and Charles NJ. Wilds represented the
| husband, but no defense was made. The
/ petitioner was given her bill of divorce,
the custody of the chill ! and $500 alimO-
ny, the alimOny to be paid by September
! ! next.
| Edgar w. Myers vs.. Nancy Myers
came on next. These persons were mar
ried in TicOnderOga, n. Y, in August,
/ 1873. Myers belonged in Bristol and the
bride was New Haven giIl. They went
to live in B<fstol and resided there until
| five yeaxs ago last November, when the
wops1n abandoned her husband and went
| Yest in company with one Ed. Narney
THE relations between Varney and Mrs
Myers had been openly and notoriously
intimate for considerable time before
they disappeared together. 1t is under
stood that the woman has spent most of
the time since in Chicago, but she was
home on visit at her fathers last fall.
| They have one child. The divorce was
granted on the ground of desertion.
Judge j. NJ. Slade represented Mr.. My
ers and no defence was offered.
The case of Susan ). Gregory VS.. John
Gregory was begun i'm the forenoon and
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for nearly two hours before the noon re-
cess. The court came IN at | 80 in order
! to hear the divorce case of Jessie @. Cap
ron VS.. Albert ii. CaprOn. These are
! Leicester parties, and the petitioner want
ed her freedom on the grounds of deser-
tion, adultery and refusal to support. AT
ter partially hearing the petitioners evil
dence and discovering therefrom that the
| husband had continued to live with the
wife after her petition was brought two
years ago, working on the wOman's home
farm in the meanwhile, Judge Start uncer-
enormously ordered that the case be con
tinued to the next term. Judge c. NJ. Will
lard of Brandon was originally Mrs. Cap
ron's counsel, but as he was i'll and unable
to attend court he got Judge Slade to act
in his place. The libellee was unrepre-
sented.
After some desultory work, the case of
Gregory VS.. Gregory was again taken up,
with Mrs. Gregory still on the stand,
These parties reside in Waltham and
were married in 1876, both parties hav-
ing been previously married. When the
woman married Mr. Gregory her first
husband had been dead four years and
she had known Gregory only two months.
Now she wanted a divorce on the grounds
of intolerable severity and refusal to sup
port. She owned house and 46 acres of
land and claimed that Gregory had moth
ing to speak of when she married him
and was $500 in debt, and that he was
lazy and no good about the farm, but
claimed that he was able to make a living
with his brains. However, the farming
business prospered, and the only evidence
she could give of ntolerable severity was