Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-12-27

by over 20 respOnsibly men In East Mid
dlsburv. including most of the witnesses
against the respondent, asking for
light sentence. States Attorney Fish
said that he understood some of the sig
natures to the petition had been pro-
cured through fraud. The CONT de-
clned to take the petition into consider
alton. but under the circumstances gave
the respondents a light sentence of 6
months each in the house of correction
in Rutland and to pay all costs of prose-
cution and stand committed until SEN
tence is complied with.
Monday afternoon William Palmer,
lG-year-od bov, was in court and
pleaded guilty to an indictment charg-
ing him with an assault upon an llvear-
od-girl in New Haven on the 10th of
June last. lie was sentenced to serve
one year in State prison.
George and William NandenburgE of
Port Henry. n. Y, pleaded guilty to an
Indictment charging them with illegal
fishing in Lake Champlain at Ferris
burgh last summer. They were fined
500 each without cost. this being the
only sentence the court could impose
under the statute.
One criminal case was tried Monday.
1t was State v. William Hardy. and the
respondent was charged with the larceny
of horse, buggy and equipments from
o. G. Huntlev of Leicester junction on
the 9TH of July last. Hardy is a young
man of about % and hired the team os-
tensibly to go 10 Chpman's Point in
Orwell and get his wife. who was TO
come from over the lake. Instead of
that he went as far as North Hudson, n.
V. about G5 miles from Leicester June
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He tried to trade off the horse couple
of times on the way over. but didn't
succeed. The Button brothers defended
the prisoner and succeeded in getting the
jury to disagree on Tuesday.
Court twas in session Wednesday,
Christmas day, but not much business
was done on account of there being no
cases ready to be begun. \ number Of
cases were entered on the docket as con-
tinued or discontinued. and in the morn
ing one divorce case was heard. 1t vas
Peter Delphv v Annie Delphy. The
parties lived in Lincoln and the bill was
granted in the afternoon for wilhil
desertiOn.
In the case of State V. Charles Ware,
alias Warren, Indicted for the larceny of
horse and rig from Austin Booth of
FerriSburgh last October. the reSpOnu-
ent pleaded guilty Wednesday evening
and was sentenced to serve three years
in State prison. Guerdon Rogers of Or
well pleaded guilty of assaulting an Old
lady in that town several months ago,
and under the circumstances tee court
thought that one year in State prison
would be sentence enough. John Sulli-
van aud Clarke Million were fined S25
and $40 without costs, respectively. for
simple assaults. which sums they paid.
/ Thursday morning Hart, Palmer, Ware
and Rogers were taken to Windsor by
Sheriff Merritt and Deputy Sheriff Cobb.
The prisoners previously sentenced to
Nthe work house were taken there Christ
mas day.
The criminal cases having all been got
/ ten out of the way, the jurors were dis
charged for the term Thursday morning
and the remainder of the day was spent
in hearing civil court cases and divorce
matters. 1t now looks probable that the
term can he bought to Il close today.