Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-26
TWO POLICE COURT STARS.
Watson French and T.. T.. VAN
derpOol on the Rack Again.
Nanderpool semitic she House of Correc-
ton for 100 Days and French for Three
Years---the Latter Appeals and Is TAX
en- 10 the County BsstIIe.

ton for 100 Days and French for Three
Years---the Latter Appeals and Is Taxi
en- TO the County BsstIIe.
The veteran performers of the police
court played a farewell engagement there
this week. f. +. Nanderpool, the colored
| tank artist, left here to 60 to Rutland,
| where he has accepted a 100 days en-
/ gagement in the role Of the marble pOlisher.
/ The versatile Watson French was given a
| three years contract at Rutland, but at
! his request he will star for short time at
the county bastile at Newfane
+. L. Nanderpool was arrested again
| Monday night for intoxication. As is
usual when he gets intoxicated, be exhib-
tied his brutal side, creating such disturb
ance at his home on Flat street that Chief
of Police Hall was sent for Vanderpool
was put in the lock up over night and next
morning was given a hearing before JUS
| tice VIM. 5. Newton, c. c. Fits appearing
| for the prosecution. Nanderpool pleaded
| guilty and was fined $50, with an aterna-
| tive sentence of 100 days in the house of
correction. THIS was the maximum pen
atty under the statutes. Nanderpool was
| sentenced last June to six months in the
| house OF correction, but was released on
| probation in October at the request of the
town authorities. Under the circum-
stances Judge Newton deemed it expedent
to impose the maximum penalty
Nanderpool made a private disclosure,
stating that two weeks ago he bought
| quart of whiskey Of Watson French, pay
| ing 81 therefor, and that he bought an
other quart Monday afternoon. giving in
| payment 81 as before. Sometime within
two weeks, also, French went to Wander
| pools house and got shaved, giving Van
derpool a drink Of whiskey in payment.
1t appears that French was about the viii
| lage more or less during the trial and that
his son attended the trial and, during the
| disclosure proceedings, hung around the
| town hall in order to learn the result so as
TO notify his father as soon as possible.
! The officers were not caught mapping, how
ever, and intimated that they were unable to
| get Nanderpool to disclose. 1t was a shrewd
and fortunate move, for instead of fleeing
| into New Hampshire, as he otherwise
| probably would have done, rench took
car and rode home to West Brattleboro.
Late in the afternoon Chief Of Police Hail
received a telephone message from Mrs.
Hall stating that French had ridden past
the house toward home, and it was not
long before Constable Harmon ard other
| officers had him prisoner.
| His trial was set for the next morning,
| but so much time was taken in drawing a
| jury that it was postponed until afternoon.
/ French objected TO many OF the names
! drawn, and when the jury was finally Sc
| lected there remained but one out OF the i
names that were put into the box. The
| Jury consisted OF c. L. Sturges, II. H.
| Hackley, c. l.. Cobb, j. +. Stearns, John
| Wright and jerome Corbett, but the latter
was excused for having expressed an opin-
| lon- and by agreement the trial was before
| but five jurymen. II became evident in
the morning that the town clerks Office
was far too small TO accommodate the
crowd which was eager to gain admission,
so the trial was held in Festival hall, and
that room was none too large. c. c. Fi:ts
appeared for the prosecution, French con-
| Quoting his own case.
Nanderpool was the first witness He
| testified to having been at French's after
| liquor several times; that twice within
two weeks he had bought of French a
quart bottle full of whiskey, and that on
one occasion French gave him a drink of
whiskey in return for shaving him He
also testified that French came to his house
last week and asked permission to use his
name in ordering a quantity of liquor.
| Nanderpool granted the request but fur
nished no money. When the liquor came
French wrote an order to the express com
pany to deliver it TO w. b. Bryant, who
boards at French's, and Vanderpool signed
the order. The express agent testified to
delivering the box to Bryant and produced
the order in French's handwriting French
made an attempt TO shake Nanderpool's
testimony, but the attempt was Intellectual.
He tried to show that for the past two
weeks he had been confined to the bed
side of his alleged wife, who gave birth to
a child recently, and that during that time
Nanderpool came to the house and made
arrangements with Bryant to procure the
liquor without French's knowledge and
that Bryant, since Nanderpool's arrest, was
in hiding in New Hampshire.
French put his son on the stand to tes-
tify to overhearing conversation between
Vanderpool and Bryant relative to order
ing the liquor. The boy also testified that
Bryant had fled to New Hampshire and
that he had taken tobacco over TO him be-
cause the latter dared not come this side
of the river. Cross-questioned by Mr..
Fits the boy Internationally dropped sew
eral things about French's ranch, which
were damaging to its proprietor. He new
er knew his father to keep more than one
jug of liquor in the cellar at a time and
thought that only five or six men had ever
come there and they only five or six times
each. When asked if his father and Bry-
ant had had any other business than to
sell liquor since coming home from Doc
Titles logging camp he said he thought
not.
Mrs. Vanderpool testified to overhearing
the talk between Vanderpool and French
about ordering the liquor, and j. A. Titus
testified to seeing Vanderpool 90 to
French's house Monday afternoon. At
French's request Mrs. Phillips took the
stand and testified that she boarded at
French's and took care of a sick woman
there. She said the womans name was
Eva, but didn't know what her surname
was. Neither she nor her husband, who
also boards there, ever knew French to sell
liquor.
g. B. Kirwan testified that Bryant
brought box to him Monday night for
storage, The box was addressed to Van
derpool and contained gallon jug. There
was sensation in court when Kirwan pro-
duced the box as evidence. While wait
ing for Kirwan to get the box French
asked Mr.. Fits if he was being tried under
the papers under which he was arrested
Monday. Mr.. Fits stated that he was
not, whereupon French made the claim
that the trial was illegal as he had not
been arrested on the count for which he |
was being tried. Mr.. Fits explained that |
the first case against him had been mol |
pressed, as he saw a chance to bring more |
counts against him, but that the original |
count was embodied in the new papers, |