Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-04-13

JOB LOT In COURT.
NEARLY A SCORE OF CASES DISPOSED
OF IN ONE DAY.
Drunks, Disclosures and Seizures Before
Judge Russell While Justice Hnw-
kins Attends to the Chicken
aud Rife Thieves.

Mondays business in City Court and
before Justice f.. W. j. Hawkins was the
largest which has been transacted in
many months and all day long, from 3
O'Clock in the morning until in the af-
ternoOn, the rooms of the city Court and
the clerks office were filled with prison
crS, witnesses and spectators, until the
show babe fair TO become a continuous
performance. The cause of the unusual
amount of business H. due to the several
arrests made by Sheriff Reeves on Satur-
day and sunday, to which woGe added
several made by the police. The days
business in the two courts aggregated no
less than II cases most of which were
completed and finally disposed of before
night.
iho business Of the morning session in
the city Court before Judge Russell open
ed with the familiar face of Nellie Scott
Kelley in the prisoners chair. Nellie was
drunk on Saturday evening and knew it,
50 she entered II plea of guilty and dis
closed on some whlskey which was given
her by two soldiers and man whom she
thought WAS named Laduke. Nellie was
arrested by officers Coon and Brothers
AMI had no hat 80 that the sheriff was
obliged to loan her cap, in which she
appeared. She was fined $50 and costs of
S9.u1.
Later in the day. and in fact the two
cases opened and closed the days bust
ness, james Laduko was arrested in Shell
burnc by Officer Coon and brought to the
city to answer to the disclosure. Nellie
thought he was the man but he entered
a Plea Of not guilty, saying that tho bot
tie, which was produced in court, was the
property of the soldier, who had passed
it to him and he gave it to Nellie This
case was continued until Tuesday for
further investigation.
John Ready was arrested Monday
to chief Smith and was brought into court
/ to answer to a charge of intoXication. He
pleaded not guilty but was convicted re-
c"iNlng "A fine Of 80 and costs of $S.i2, with
an alternate sentence of 20 days. He dis
closed on two soldiers in party of sew
eral which he carried from Lees Hotel
eaAly sunday morning.
During the afternoon session Charles
Richelieu came into court and made a dis
closure to settle up a. drunk for which he
was arrested some weeks ago. He tod "A
story of drinking from his own wine and
this was accepted. Grand Juror Ferguson
prosecuted i'm this case All of the others
i'm the days proceedings were conducted
by states Attorney Brown for the prose-
Cution.
Thomas Barrett also came in for an Old
disclosure He got his whskcy from
Henry Kileore at the Lafayette House.
having given MIN money with which to go
out ana get a DOttlc nlleu. | MS was on
january 2S kilgore came into court and
pleaded guilty to tho charge with the eX-
PLANTATION give above and the statement
from his attorney that he did not deal in
liquors. He was fined $40 and costs of
$500 for furnishing.
The recent search at the store Of NJ. G.
Powers ON Cherry street was the next
case brought before tho court In this IL
hearing WIS had and Sheriff Reeves was
placed upon tho stand tn testify tn the
seizure and the arrangement of the rooms
in the block For the purposes of the
hearing no defence was nude and Judge
Russell adiudgcd Mary T.. Powers to be
the owner OF the liquor and she was or-
dcrcd to pay the costs of the seizure,
which amounted to Slab. 1t was shown
that Mrs. Powers held the lease of the
store and not her husband. The same tes-
timOny was allowed to go into the cage
for having on hand with intent to sell
and in this case Il fine of $50 with costs of
Sill was imposed. An appeal was taken
in each of the cases and bail furnished in
the amount of $50.
BEFORE JUSTICE HAWKINS.
The day was not made up entirely of
liquor eases and the he ~ of papers upon
the clerks desk contained several ON
which appeared the name &c. W. j. Haw-
kins, Justice" Among theS" We're the
misunderstanding cases from Ess,X Centre
and the case of the man who stole the ri
lie from II. NJ. Wight in this city both Of
which are reported elsewhere in the Free
Pr -
MI G erie Foster, the wife of John
Fostc" of essex Centre, was airaigned
and entered Il plea of guilty to four count :
of chicken stealing. There Were ter chick
ems FROM :. l.. Bliss # Essex, tor which
she was sentenced to three months at the
House of Correction at Rutland; eight