The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
Not
Sustained
AGAINST C. G. VAYO.
Lived Within the Law Per
tanning to Checks.

Webster Nov. 26.-The case of Charles
G. Vayo was heard by Judge Bartholo-
new this forenoon. The case had at
tracted considerable attention, from
the fact of the defendant marrying a
Webster girl and the number Of checks
that were associated with the case.
The prisoner was entirely exonerated
and was discharged.
The allegation against Vayo was false
pretense, but his counsel, Charles B.
Perry of Worcester who taught school
in town about $780, on School street,
waived the reading and entered plea
of mot guilty" Albert Tuson of Wor-
cester the defendants bondsman, with
other members of the family, were pres
ent.
l.. E. Clermont, freight clerk at the
local railroad depot, was the first wit
ness. He said that as agent of the
/ Fitchburg Railroad Company, he sold
tickets to Vayo on June IA, 1898, includ-
inf passage from Worcester to st. AL
bans, Vt, and return. The sum paid
for the two tickets was $21 80.
Mr.. Clermont went to the house where
Nayo was boarding the night previous
! to his marriage and gave the defendant
| bills, but asked the witness if a check
would be acceptable, and as Clermont
was then satisfied but he is not now,
Vayo made out a check on the local ma
tional bank for the sum of $21 30. A
couple of days later, when Clermont
presented the check at the bank, he was
told that Vayo did not have that
amount deposited.
Clarence NJ. Nash, assistant cashier
OF h. Cd l.. g
: the government. He said that Vayo
/ opened his account with them on May
49, 1898, and continued to make depo-
sits. His last deposit was June 8 of the
same year, of 81. During the interven-
ing period deposits and Withdrawals
have been made, until at the present
time Vayo has to his credit the sum
of rs cents.
Mr.. Nash showed records of the de-
posts from records he had kept. He
said that there were also two protested
checks, and he proved the same by OPP
ening the records of Notary Public E.
i. SpaldingS books. Both were made
out by Vay0. One is dated June g.,
for $3.50, and the other June Z, for So.
He also said that a man by the name
of Levine, a dry goods agent had left
a check at the bank amounting to $40,
which was made out by Vayo, for col
lection.
Another surprise was sprung when
an agent of John Clerkings of Malone,
N. Y, was called to the stand. He said
! that Nayo had purchased a carload Of
potatoes from him, and had gwen him
a check for $20702 The bank refused
to honor this check also and he Clerk
ings) is out a couple of hundred.
Vayo was then placed on the stand
by his counsel. The defendant admit
frI ,sr,I, &c
the basis of the case but stated that
the date on the check had been changed
since he saw it last, from the year 1898
to 1888. He said that he dated this
check of C'ermonts, with Cie"mOrL' S
it'll PERMISSION, two days ahead, and
by this act, his discharge was accom-
plished
This is where the case of today, and
whether the others who Were prose ating
worthless checks would be abba to try
their cases later, hinged. Vayl poi
! Icy i'll eating the checks lhaad was
good, and on this technicality his dis
charge was secured. He would now
| still be under the same shadow, prob
ably, had he dated the check Tune a.,
1898.
Judge Bartholomew in summing up
the evidence, said that no case had ap-
parently been made by the government.
I1G Sdlu lIldL IIldhlDS OuL anu QdIlHS
| checks ahead of time was not a GRIM
inal offence, and if any one accepted a
check of that kind with only a verbal
promise that money would be there on
that date, they did so on their own re-
| sponsibility, and the signer of the check
was entirely free from any criminal
litigation.
A charge of assault and battery was
/ So, Al II
avenue baker, against John Sweet. a
| tenant AS the complainant is a Jew
and the defendant a Pole, the evidence
was anything but interesting. The de-
| PENDANT was fined So He was defended
by Associate Justice II. j. Clarke, while
Hon. Charles Haggerty was for the
! government.
Levi Gadowry Of Sturbridge was
charged with and found guilty of dis
turbing the peace. He was fined $40,
which he paid.
Joseph De Coreau of Jericho Village
pleaded guilty to non-support of his
wife from June l to November %. He
| had been out on bail, but when he came
to court today he was two-thirds full of
| liquor, and as he used considerable
slang in trying to explain the matter,
his honor ordered him to be locked UP
until Tuesday, and when sober the case
will be tried.
Patrick Moore the ex-soldier who has
been at the soldiers home in Togus
Me. for the past year was given one
more chance. Pat" said he had been
furloughed for three months, and at the
expiration of that time he would return.
| He also promised to keep sober. He was
| fined $40 and placed on probation until
Dec a. in the hands of Probation Off
Ger Wakefield
| Jasper Kodask Of Dudley. on a charge
of disturbance had his case continued.
Jacob Caron for drunkenness was
placed on probation for the ensuing
! three months and paid the posts of his