Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
HELD IN $500 BONDS.
DummerstOn BOys Charged With Burg
larry and Assault.

Hearing Before Justice Mansfield We'd
nesday---the story of the Case and the
Claims OF the Counsel on Both sides.
States Attorney Barber for the state and
Lawyer G. G. Fits for the respondents
we're In Dummerston Wednesday when the
case of the state against James Breed and
Kit Dean for alleged burglary and assault
with the intent to rob one Miss Mary Miles
of Dummerston was tried before Justice
d. L. Mansfield The boys we're arrested
last Friday by Deputy Sheriffs Miller of
Dummerston and wilkins of Putney and
were arraigned before Justice Mansfield,
but the case was continued, G. K. Glldden,
by whom the boys we're employed, furnish
ing bail in the sum Of $500 each for their
appearance.
The facts brought out at the hearing
Wednesday were that between 1880 and
o'clock on the evening of Nov. rs two
masked persons with firearms entered the
house on the Alanson Gates place in Dunn
merston, occupied by George Miles and his
sister Mary, that Mr.. Miles was at the barn
at the time, that the persons demanded Of
Miss Miles her money, that they threw her
down and while one held towel over her
mouth the other went into her bedroom
and took what money he could find, about
S12, and that they then put Miss Miles
into the cellar, locked the cellar door and
escaped.
The states evidence tended to show that
between $50 and O'Clock on the evening
of the robbery Breed and another person
were met on the road from Putney TO Mr..
Glidden's, near a road which turns off
toward the Gates place, and that Breed
al. T..N.
office with Mr.. Glldden's mail. II also
tended to show that Breed did not arrive
with the mail until after 8 o'clock and that
Breed and Dean stayed together at Mr..
Glidden's house that night contrary to
their usual custom, their own home being
near by
Miss Miles testified that one of the rob
bers was about her height and that the
other was shorter, that the taller one wore
brown coat and had blue eyes and that
the shorter one had black eyes, which de-
scription, so far as it goes, tallies with that
of Breed and Dean. The prosecution also
introduced as evidence a sumach stick
which the robbers left at the scene of the
robbery, which appeared TO have been
chopped off with a dull axe, and it was
shown that Breed and Dean had been cut
ting wood of that kind at Mr.. Glidden's.
The defence claimed that II would have
been impossible for Breed and Dean to
have committed the robbery as at that time
they were either at home or at Mr.. Gid
denis. II appeared that Breed was about a
half hour late in arriving at Mr.. Glidden's
with the mail. Postmaster l.. p. Bailey
OF Putney testified that on that evening
the train was 10 or Is minutes late, and
Mrs. Howe, the mother of the boys, testi-
fled that as Breed was late home she clear
ed away his supper and upon his arrival
put II back on to the table, which caused
another delay Of several minutes.
Further testimony tended to show that
Dean ate supper at Mr.. Glidden's about
$50 O'Clock and then went toward the
barn to do the chores as usual. At TAO,
the usual time for the mail TO arrive, Mrs.
Glidden called Dean in and asked If Breed
had come, which the defence claims shows
that Breed and Dean were not together at
the time of the robbery. The testimony
of the defence was also 10 the effect that
Breeds reason for staying at Mr.. Gid
dem that night was to assist Dean in car
ing for a sick horse, that the Miles house
was a third of a mile from the main road
so that Breed would not have had time to
go there and commit the robbery, that any
tramp or other person could have picked
up sumach stick in passing through MI
Glidden's pasture, and that the description
OF the robbers given by Miss Miles is APP
plicable to many persons besides the ac-
cused boys.
Justice Mansfield bound the respondents
over to the county court in the sum of 500
each. Mr.. Glidden furnished bail for Dean,
but Breed ives taken TO Newfane jail in de-
fault of bail.