Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-31
THE COUNTY COURT.
CRIMINAL CASES BEING RAPIDLY DIS
POSED OF.

The Notorious Noonan Woman Pleads
Guilty and Gets Five Years-A Divorce
Granted-NIinor Culprits Get Minor SEN
tences-.NIl Given Justice.
The business of the county court was
resumed Tuesday, after a brief recess,
with Judge Start of st. Adams presiding
! and Judges Walker and Barnes as asso-
ciates.
The case of the state VS.. Brashaw was
tried last Thursday, too late for publica-
ton. The defendant. Brashaw, a resi-
dent of Middlebury, last June took a
bicycle belonging to Miss Ida Waugh,
.also of this town, and rode it to New
Haven. where it was left. Brashaw
pleaded guilty to the charge preferred
against him, and was given two years in
the house of correction.
The first case to be tried Tuesday
morning was that of the state VS.. Allen.
lawyer Page appeared for the defendant.
William Allen of Bristol was charged
with breaking and entering Bisbee's drug
store at that place last June and taking
money to the amount of SS, quantity of
LIQUOR and revolver. These goods were
subsequently found in Aliens possession.
8The defendant reversed his former plea
and entered one of guilty to the charge,
. and was sentenced to two years in the
states prison at Windsor at hard labor
The case of Alonzo Ryan (colored) of
'Ferrisburg for assault upon small boy
+ of that place last summer recalled the
,indignation aroused at that time over the
affair Owing to a technicality the in
. .dictment was changed to "breach Of the
peace" and the sentence was pronounced
. of one year in the house of correction at
4 Rutland.
The notorious case of Mrs. Lizzie Moo
nan of Ferrisburg was quickly disposed
. of, she pleading guilty to the charge of
stealing 80 chickens last June. Four
other indictments against the defendant
were not pressed. She has for several
years been the nstigator of much crime
in and about Ferrisburg, having been the
Header and organizer of band of thieves
4 and borne hard name. Her sentence
was five years in the penitentiary at
Windsor at hard labor.
In the case of Steady VS.. Steady for
divorce, the plaintiff, Mrs. Steady of
Ferrisburgh, charged her husband with
non-support covering a term of nearly
three years. The bill of the petitioner
was granted and the right given her to
resume her maiden name of Fields.
Lawyer Donaway appeared for the plain
+ tiff.
The first Jury trial was begun early
Tuesday afternoon in the case of State
. VS.. McCrea. William McCTea of Ferris
burgh was charged with entering the
house of John Comstock of that place al
. abut nOoOn one Sunday about month
ago, with intent to steal quantity OF
pork and cider. The attempt was frus
trated by the entrance of ComstOck
4 After several witnesses had been exam
ined the defendant changed his plea tc
guilty and was given one year in the house
of correction. Fish and Button & But
. ton were the attorneys.
All day Wednesday and most of Thurs
. day was employed in the examination oI
. witnesses in the case of State VS.. Will
i lam Dibbe. The case is substantially a!
+. follows: On April 10 last the sum o.
| Sl0250 was stolen from Mrs. Rachae
+ Potter of MIddebury. and Peter Smith
a young man of this town, was arrested
. aud confessed, charging William Dibbl'
; with instgating and aiding the crime
. Peter Smith had lived nearly all his lif,
/ in Middlebury and is now in the reform
4 school at Vergennes. The case is beins
I ably handled by Fish for the state ant
f Button 81 Button for the defendant. A
. the time this is being put in type the cas-
4 has not been decided.