Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-11-19
|OE X ELLEY ISINSANE
No SO HE ESCAPES THE FULL PEN
Atty OF THE LAW.

pe New Hampshire Criminal Not of
Iound Mind-Evidence of Experts Given
F. "A Plot for Lynching the Convict Falls
Nirough for Want of Leader.
A despatch from Dover. n. H., says /:
|sss Friday Joseph + Kelley was found
' 'lity of murder in the second degree,
td was sentenced by Chief Justice Car
inter to 80 years at hard labor in the
ate prison at Concord.
When the court came in at 9 O'Clock
. at morning, the state introduced fur
er expert testimony in rebuttal put in
the defence as to the insanity of the
isoner, but without exception the wit
sses expressed the opinion that Kelley
as a person of limited responsibility.
lbme went farther than that and consid
ed him to be insane to the extent of
ing unable to resist impulses. Wit
.sses were also put on by the defence.
r. George F. Kelley of Boston did not
ink Kelley was feigning insanity. His
entail development was no greater than
lat of a child. DR.. Walker Claiming of
bston said that Kelley could not help
Ealing. He had been known to steal
hny things that were of no use to him
said Kelley had tried to feel sorry for
5 crime, but could not do so. Five wit.
|sses in all were examined. That
Z &blley is confirmed maniac, the bulk of
testimony went to show. No argu-
ents were submitted by the opposing
unset. After recess of l5 minutes the
dges came in and rendered their deci-
bn. Kelley received his sentence with
it show of feeling.
1t transpired that a plot was considered
about twenty SOmers worth and Ber-
ck citizens at a secret meeting Friday
ght to lynch Joseph E Kelley, the
urderer of Joseph A. Stickney, cashier
the Great Falls national bank. The
en, among whom were several prom
ent citizens, were enraged at the news
|.hich came earlier in the day that
elley had been given thirty-year
ntence instead of the death penalty for
e murder of Cashier Stickney. The
letting was held, it is stated, for the
" rpose of devising a Ian to take Kelley
of the Jail at Dover and string him
1t was proposed to 90 to the Jail,
in an entrance to Jailer Hayes quarters.
|erpOwer him and get the keys, then
ke Kelley from his cell and hang him
the apple tree in front of the jail 1t
hs voted that the thing could be done
i. true southern fashion, but no one, il
ems, had the nerve to assume the
hdership of the company, so the
nching party came to nauSht. Satur-
V morning Kelley was transferred to
\ e states prison by Shrif1' Hayes under
guard of twelve officers. and he is now
fe from lynchers.
a Deal in Telephone stock.
An important deal in telephone circles
rs cOnsummated last week when Divi
bn Superintendent J. II. Barry of the
. ew England Telephone and Telegraph
mpany completed for the company the
rchase of the stock, franchise, good
II and entire plant of the Vermont
. flephOne and Telegraph Co., which has
. zen operated under the control of A. G.
rOwn. The Vermont Telegraph anC
blephone company covers the entire
uuties of Washington and Lamoillt
d also extends into five other cOuntie;
the state 1t was organized in the
II of the year 1880 by A. C. Brown
4 tn the opening of telephone ex
lange in Montpelier. The plant in
udes seven exchanges located in thu
flowing towns: Montpelier, Barre
Orrisville, Waterbury, Hardwick anC
nderhill and Cambridge. 1t include
arly 5000 miles of wire and between
x and seven hundred instruments
he New England company assume tn,
lire busines of The Vermont cOmpan.
ginning Nov. l.-Montpe ier Record.