Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-01

BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.
A YEARS IMPRISONMENT.

Such the Sentence for Herbert Clark
for Obtaining Money Under False
Pretences.
A Brattleboro boy has been sentenced
by Judge Lilley in the superior criminal
court at Boston to one year in the house of
of correction for obtaining $500 from
Chas +. Stevens and Peter II. Horne by
false pretenCes.
The offender is Herbert Clark, son of
the late Thomas Clark The parents were
highly respected Woodworking people.
The son worked at the Estey factory II or
more years ago, and since then has spent
a part of the time here Less than two
years ago he was employed at the Elliot
street bakery. lie inherited property from
his father four years ago and more from
his mother, who died in January of last
Year He has, however, proved poor
inancer.
Clark dealt in business chances in Bos-
ton, minus the business it, seems. He at
tracted the attention of Stevens Nov. ,,
1894, by an advertisement in the newspa-
pers for a man with $500 to "invest" in the
real estate business. Stevens only a short
time before had come from Montana and
was DESTROYS of earning livelihood Clark
pretended to Stevens that he was engaged
in the real estate and business chance bust
ness in the Smith building, in Court square,
and that during a year previous he had
made $500. He offered Stevens an inter
est in the business for $500 Stevens ac-
cepted the proposition, and the next day
was placed in charge of the Office in that
building.
Not many days passed before Stevens
found that the business was monoto-
nous, to say the least, everything in the Of
flee, as far as trade was concerned, being
as silent as the tomb. His eyes began to
open to the fact that the business was not
what it was cracked up to be by his part
ner, Clark, and that things were not what
they were said to be-
lie could get no satisfactory understand
ing of the mystic business from his week 5
experience at its seat, and was no better
off when he sought out Clark. He lost
what he paid to Clark.
Horne got swndled out of 5000 in al
most the same way. While Stevens was a
partner in business with Clark in the Smith
building Horne, likewise, was brought
face to face with Clark, through desire
to get business chance. lie was deceived
by Clark and paid the latter 500 for an in
terest in the real estate and business chance
business which Clark was carrying on in al
legged large proportions in the Niles building.
| Horne, after brief experience with Clark,
learned that he had been deceived, as the
! business fell far short of Clarks represen-
| tations.
Neither Horne nor Stevens knew that
! Clark had a partner or other business loca-
ton than the one in which he vas con-
| cerned.
Besides these two places Clark had an
other so-called business Office in Boston.
He was arrested in a house in Rutland
square, and was taken out of closet by
Inspector Burke. He claimed that he did
have plenty of business in the offices which
were partially bought by Stevens and
Horne.
Clark was in Brattleboro only few
weeks ago. At that time he sold the farm
on the Fairs ferry road which his father
had owned Previous to this he had sold
the farm to the Estey Organ company and
then bought it back after the timber had
been cut off. Clark wife was employed al
the Brattleboro Retreat at the time Of
her marriage. They separated three Oh
four years ago and she is now living neal
Gardner, Mass.