Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-12-15

When court convened Monday after
noon the case of State vs.. L. o. Allen
was called, the charge being the illegal
sale of intOxicants. Allen entered a plea
of guilty of first Otfense, and a fine of
5000 and costs was entered against him,
which he paid.
One of Lincoln's feud cases came next
that of State VS.. Sylvester Atkins.
Atkins is farmer in Lincoln and the
claim was that on the 9Th day of Decem-
Der last year he assaulted and severely
beat one Sidney w. Buttes, who lived
on the adjoining farm to him. The de-
fense claimed that Buttles began the
trouble and struck the respondent with
snow shovel over the head and on the
arm before Atkins retalated and only
did that in self defense.
This case took up the remainder of the
afternoon session and was resumed on
Tuesday morning, taking up most Of the
forenoon session. The jury was out until
3 o'clock in the afternoon, when a verdict
of guilty" was brought In. A fine of
500 and costs was imposed by the court,
with alternative sentence. 1t was paid.
Frank Perkins, who on Saturday plead
ed not guilty to an Information charging
him with having stolen a 500 horse and
a $50 wagon from Len o. Allen last Sep
tember, came into court, retracted his
former plea and entered a plea of guilty.
The court sentenced Perkins to serve not
more than seven and not less than six
years at hard labor in the state prison at
| Windsor, to pay costs of prosecution and
to stand committed until sentence was
complied with.
| Fred and Alexander Fuller. the Addi-
son brothers who on Saturday forenoon
pleaded not guilty to a joint indictment
charging them with grand larceny In the
stealing of about $50 pounds of butter,
withdrew their former plea and pleaded
guilty. They were sentenced to Windsor
for not more than eight and not less than
seven years each.
| Mrs. Harriet IIepburn's case was called
at the opening of the afternoon session
| She was charged with the theft of a
pocketbook containing he sum of $40 in
money. This case filled up the remain
der of the afternoon session. The case
was called up at the opening of court
| Wednesday morning, and went to the
jury at 80. They came in twice, dis
agreed, and were sent out to ider.
| No verdict was reached at time of ad-
| iournment.
| Fred Eastwood was arraigned and
| pleaded mot guilty" to the four indict-
ments found against him by the grir d
| jury. His lawyer asked for continuance
OF case to the Juna term, pleading lack Of
time for preparation, as he had Just been
| assigned the case by the court. Eastwood
himself made statement, saying his
lawyer knew nothing of the case
Robert Hays, charged upon informa-
tion of being Implicated with one Elmer
Hier, in stealing heifer belonging to
Frank Callahan of Bristol from a pasture
occupied by him in New Haven on or
about the 18th of September last, follow
ed the Eastwood case. This was another
case vOlving a lot of witnesses, and the
case was not finished Wednesday night.
Plans of the eRutland-Canadian.
1t is understood that President p. W.
Clement, who went to Chicago last week,
did so to arrange plans for the constru:-
tion of large warehouse on wharf prop
erty of considerable size purchased with
in short time by the Rutland railroad
interests. The property ia situated on
the Chicago river and was purchased for
and will be used by the boats of the
Ogdensburg Transit company which is
practically part of the Rutland system
and which, it is said, will soon be form
ally made so ard called the Rutland
Transit company. The warehouse will
be completed by the time navigation
the Rutland and the Ogdensburg & Lake
Champlain railroads met in New York
city last week, aud per cent dividend
on the preferred stock of the Rutland
road was decared.-Rutland News.