The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18

CHESHIRE COUNTY. n. II,
RUM RAID At HINSDtLE
The Biggest Ever Had There Nearly
$500 in Fines Imposed and Collected
Leading Citizens Among those Caught
How the Prosecution Kept Raising
its Price

| Lending Citizens Among those Caught
| How the Prosecution Kept Raising
its Price.
Friday morning upon complaint of Mr. Man-cr
of the state Law and Order League, deputy
sheriff Bowen of Fitzwiliam, with five assist
ants from the same place, made at llinsdale the
/ heaviest liquor raid ever known in this section.
! Six places were visited ana in each instance the
! fluid was found. While in some 1t WAS in plain
view, In other places it was curiously secreied,
and by the owner, doubtless intended to be free
4 from Official observation. The parties were in.
/ vited to Winchester before Justice James Bur
nap, where the legal mill did not get into run
ming order til nearly O'Clock in consequence OF
having to wait for the arrival of the rcspon.
! dents council, hut just prior to their arrival
Selectman Worden signified his willingness to
plead ana Cscapd by paving S12.M and de.
parted in peace But when council arrived the
prosecution thought best to raise the price when
the next in order were druggists Jones and
D'Hrien. who have always claimed TO be limo.
cent of any such violation Of law, but they plea
ded and added to the fund S.5.gS. Next were
/ called the genial landlords OF Hotel Ashuelot,
Holland and feriiu, who deposited to the tune
of esj.2i when again the terms jumped and
William Curran walked up to To the table
and deposited SS7.54 which last
sum was allowed to be the standard for Thomas
Raleigh ana Perrin j Woodbury. respectively,
! making S4ss42 in all. This, added to the amount
imposed last Tuesday, makes S1S'.'O for the
week \ strong effort was made to have the
prosecution accept and allow another Justice To
lit with Justice Bnrnap, or alone, but II did not
succeed. The action of the league seems 10 have
and prohibitory advocates feel highiv tickled at
the result, because the other side prevailed at
town meeting and had therefore regarded itself
safe These prohfbitorv people say 1t was not
, vii policemen were on duty on the island by
Bratteboro and near there on the days OF the
valley far, that they concluded that the last
hair on the camel's back was broken, and that
they should take action with the league, and i'll
the future 10 look elsewhere for the enforce,
meht OF law IN liinsdaie. l. Is Lamson appeared
for the state and league. and Batchelder
Faulkner for the respondents. \ funny Incl.
dent occurred IN the case OF Thomas Raleigh,
the last 20 be heard, The respondent ricaded
poverty, had no money! was not guilty. etc, til
Che agent was almost INCLINED to let up on nm,
but the state hetllhct, FINALLY the respondent
found in his different packets 4 small sum which
he declared was all he had, could not give nan,
ami 1t began to look Ike imprisonment for nm,
when suddenly he discovered the required
amount in another pocket, paid, and went home.
Mrs. Kelsey ~tcarns. who lives with her
-tr.st rratne,I hrr "A l1irthdav Tnr.,iaI, Size
retain. her physicai ygnr and mental faculties
ana is,n,. If thp very 7fcv, ueoplr nov living
Nho can date nack their residence in Hlnstiale
Ia wears
Ala meeting of the thautau,ilt club with
ton the coming winter Miss Margaret 4 Leon. 1
ARD was ,Iln.cn urrs idcut Mr.. + Il Holman, Vice
president and Miss Minnie + Burroughs -ecre- /
tary and treasurer
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1has Anderson Of Nj Hermon has been the !
guest Of his uncle, pr { A Gray for a few days. !
VI Cookery Is at work in West -wanzey, re, I
modelling The looms in the wooden mill.
Miss ANNE Npoohef has retufhea ifom fhch' .
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tahai street, ., ,. T., -,
Colbert Klchmphu i2s bceh very seriously ~ /
with hysehtery ana oil'eF c"'hii'''tl"h7t bHt Is
now Improving t..
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MISS Mtll>s" howard Is ~ faf''f' Nt'ss' lot Il
fortnight.
pea AllFrH mafpic ana VIC are on a Nlsll 20
l,uthey anu Bennington W. ana ''fcehheid'
Miss
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