Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-09-03
UNDER $4,000 BAIL.

Patrick GuIbeen aud John =. Ciearv
Charged win Rape at northampton
a Young Man Frightened by Them
Committed Suicide.
John p. Cleary and Patrick Guiheen
we're arrested at Northampton. Mas
Monday night charged with abuse of f..
male child under 1G years of age. Their
cases came up in the superior court Tues.
day. Both were' held under $4,000 bonds
for the preliminary hearing Thursday. ]
T. Heating, who will be remembered in
BrattlebOro as player on the local ball team
10 years ago, appeared for the men and
asked for the continuance of the case for
week, in order that the friends of the pris
oners might be summoned. He said if
might possibly be the plan to connect these
men with the death of Exzaird Grimard
but District Attorney Hammond disclaimed
any such intention on the part of the com
mon wealth, and urged, in view of the gray.
ity of the charges, a speedy trial. Judge
Fargo held that as the bail was heavy there
was no'more likelihood of securing it in
week than sooner, and fixed the trial for
Thursday. Both men have been employed
on the grade crossing changes at North.
ampton. Guiheen is a Brattleboro boy
who was a brakeman before going to
Northampton. One of his brothers was
killed in railroad accident at South Yer
non several years age.
The rape alleged in the complaints is on
the body of Mary Galipeau, IA, whose pa
rents live on Pleasant street in Northamp-
ton. On Sunday evening, August %, she
went to walk with Exzaird Grimard
through lower Pleasant street TO the mead
Ows near Mill river, where she was be-
trayed by him. Grimard, discovered by
the two defendants, was thoroughly fright
ened by the cry that they were policeman
and would arrest him for his crime, and.
running in frantic terror, he plunged into
Mill river 1t is supposed that during the
night he committed suicide by placing his
head on a railroad rail near Mt. Tom. His
head was severed from the body Physi-
clans were confident that the young man
was alive before the locomotive struck
him. He was only IS years old, and was
employed in the Belden silk mill at North
ampton.
The two men, returning from the chase
of Grimard, in turn ravished the girl, leav-
ing her in such a condition that she was
hardly able to walk from the place. She
was assisted by the men until near the
house of friend, when the men left her.
To the friend she explained that she had
been chased 10y tramps, and though nearly
in state of physical collapse, yet managed
to conceal her real state from them, her
alleged fright giving excuse for her nervous
and hysterical condition.
1t was not until after the chief of police
had inquired into the case that the girls
real condition became known. As soon as
she was able TO be out she was sent ont on
the street to watch for the two men, and
after several days she identified one of
them, Cleary, and he was arrested The
men separated after the deed 1t is said
that Guiheen wished to leave the city. but
Cleary prevailed upon him to stay. After
Cleary was caught Guiheen could not be
found, but was trapped into the hands of
the police by decoy message. Both men
were put on the rack by the chief of police
They confessed being criminaly intimate
with the gnl, laying the blame, however,
on her The girl positively identifies both
assailants.