Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-06-24
Windsor County Court.
June Term, 1899.

| -SAhAs tOVOs
Hon. Henry R. Start, Presiding Judge.
Hon. Charles 4. Markham, Assistant
| Officers Of the Court
j. +. Pember, Clerk.
Fred b. Pingree, Deputy Clerk.
John q. Sargent, States Attorney.
X. A. Spafford, Sheriff
| d. G. Jones, High Bailiff.
John III. Mimms, Reporter.
Since our last report, the following
cases have been disposed of.
George Ashe has been convicted of steal
ing a bicycle, and sentenced to three
months in the house OF correction. He
was defended by E. B. Finn and j. c.
Enright.
Edward W. Cushman of Hartland was
put on trial for adultery with May Sturte-
want. This was the outcome of divorce
case in which Mr.. Cushman's wife had
obtained divorce for adultery with that
same woman. In the divorce case, the
alleged adultery was proved by the testi-
mony OF the two sons of the divorced par
ties. Mr.. Cushman did not contest that
case, but allowed it to 60 by default, and
his wife has subsequently remarked. The
case as proved by the testimony of the two
sons was so gross and scandalous that the
proper authorities considered that Mr..
Cushman ought to answer in the criminal
court for the alleged crime, and accord
ingly an Indictment was found and Mr..
Cushman was arrested and has been in iail
for several months. When the case was
reached for trial, however, these two sons,
who are about 16 and 1S years of age
respectively, had disappeared and eluded
the vigilance of the sheriffs, until last
Tuesday night, when they were found in
barn OF MIR. Wheeler, near Windsor,
and were duly subpoenaed and appeared
in court. Their father was placed on trial
the 18th, but these two sons, on being
sworn and called upon to testify, repudi-
| ated their former statements, could remem-
Der nothing of any such adulterous trans
actions, and as consequence their father
was acquitted. Now comes the result.
The two sons were Immediately arrested
tor perjury, and are now in jail here, await
ing their trial. Evidently there has been
lying at some time. Mr.. Cushman was
defended by E. B. Finn, j. c. Enright
and Ed r. Buck.
John jackson of the Ascutney house in
Windsor on the 18th inst. came into court
and pleaded guilty of five first offenses of
selling liquor contrary to law, and he also
pleaded guilty OF keeping with intent to
sell. Sentence not yet imposed.
Maggie Beach Dantorth has been
arraigned and pleaded guilty of adultery
Sentence not yet imposed.
q. 5. Weeks, on plea Of guilty, was
fined So and costs tor assault and battery.
John Gilbert, on a plea of guilty, was
fined so and costs for assault and battery.
Ector 2. Gobie of Woodstock pleaded
guilty of transacting insurance business
without license, and was fined 800 and
costs.
Other indictments or informations have
been filed against the following named per-
sons, but their cases have not vet been dis |
posed of:
Mrs. May (Sturtevant) Crandall for
adultery with Ed Cushman. /
L. A. Ballou of Chester for adultery. |
Whitman D. Allard of West Windsor for
gross lewdness.
Gilbert F. Benson for violation of the
liquor law.
Herbert Cate OF Hartland for gross
lewdness.
Ira j. Clark alias Ira j. Davis of Wind
60r Tor adultery.
@. M. Ford of Rochester for impeding
an officer.
Josephine Grant Quimby for bigamy.
M. j. Stowe tor violation of the liquor
law.
Charles F. Richardson of Hartford for
of the divorce law.
HI. E. Richardson for violation of the
liquor law, by keeping with intent to sell.
John Rogers for violation of liquor law.
Willie and Eugene Cushman of Hart
land each for perjury.
Charles Jordan for adultery at Hartland.
Max Sweet Of Windsor tor adultery.
James McGrain of Rutland for rape.
Mary A. Donahue OF Plymouth was put |
on trial before a jury on the 10Th inst. on
an indictment tor wiltully burning her own
dwelling house in Plymouth, with intent to
defraud an insurance company, the New
England of Rutland.
The state had some very strong and posi-
tive witnesses, and matters looked rather
dubious tor the respondent, but her testi-
mony and that of her witnesses cleared
away the doubts, and rendered it an easy
matter for the jury to acquit her which was
done.
Disappointed love, broken engagements
to marry personal spite and lapses of men,
ory were developed on this trial, which to
be appreciated ought to have been heard.
The defense was that the origin of the fire
was purely accidental, from defects in the
chimney of the house. w. B. G. Stickney
ot Bethel and Albert Sargent of Barre, con-
iucted the defense.
The states attorney for the state. Yer
lict, not guilty.
On Monday afternoon, the Segur will
,ase from Bethel was taken up, a jury en-
oaneled, and the trial begun. This case
las been once tried by jury in this court,
'ut the judgment was reversed by the su-
,reme court on account OF an error in the
,hsrge, and the case is here for a re-trial.
L will probably occupy all of this week.
The other panel have been excused until
lext Friday morning. 1t will not be ad-
'issble to give any statement of the facts
10 long as the trial is in progress. 1t is
closely contested in all points, material and
In the efforts on the one side
o sustain and on the other to break
he will of Ellen B. Segur, the moth
IT of Willard Segur the contestant, who by
he terms OF the will is entitled to the use
4 her property, Instead of being given the
property ITSELF w. B. G. Shckney and
J. E. Pingree for proponent. VIM. Z.
Johnson and VIM. bstcheider for contest
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