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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24
East Braintree.

Mr.. and Mrs. Spaulding OF Bethel are
the guests OF K. j. Flint and wife.
Mrs. r. NJ. Simonds 10 caring for Mrs.
Andrew Ladeau and little daughter.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Geo. Lackey OF Worcester
visited Mrs. II. Ferguson over Sunday.
Miss Luella Powers has gone to New
York for visit OF few weeks with an
aunt.
News was received here Monday OF the
death OF Mrs. d. b. Adams OF Gouldsville,
formerly OF Braintree.
T.. /. Clafiin and wife were in Goulds-
vile Wednesday to attend the funeral OF
Mrs. Minerva Adams.
q. w. Flagg and wife and II. j. Farms
worth and wife attended the funeral OF
Mrs. Adams at Gouldsville Wednesday.
The easiest and most effective method OF
purifying the blood and invigorating tho
system is to take DeWittis Little Eariy
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

A number OF small engagements
nave lately occurred, with the usual
results. Two entire companies OF IN
surgents with arms voluntarily sur
rendered at one place.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24
ReRare nfa Cough.

A cough is not disease but a symptom.
Consumption and bronchitis, which are
the most dangerous and fatal diseases.
have for their first indication a persistent
cough, and II properly treated as soon as
this cough appears are easily cured.
Cbamberlain's Cough Remedy has proven
wonderfully successful, and gained its
wide reputation and extensive sale by its
success in curing the diseases which cause
coughing. IL it is not beneficial 1t will
not cost you a cent. For sale by Bailey *
Allen, Randolph, and A. X. Hood a Son,
Chelsea, druggists.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Confessions of Cuban postal officials
as TO their defalca tions continue.
There was evidently an organized
loOtinp of funds.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Rioting marks the street railway
strike that has been on in st. Louis
Tor some time. There have been a
number Of casualties and at least one
death. The strikers have been enioin-
ed from interfering with the United
States mail cars which pass over the
lines.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

A Turkish admiral, who is said to be
empowered 10 settle the claims OF
Americans against Turkey, has arrived
in this country.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Detectives claim to have absolute
proof that the blowing up of the Well
and canal was plotted by the Clan-na-
Gael
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

The Spooner resolution, leaving the
control Of the Philippines 70 the presi-
dent Tor the present, is before the Sen
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

A Scandinavian sailor killed seven
men and wounded seven other people
on board the steamer PTins Carl.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Admiral and Mrs Dewey have re-
turned TO Washington from their trlp.
They will take another trip shortly.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Boston continues at the tail end OF
the baseball league. Philadelphia
leads. with Brooklyn second.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Il is said Jim Corbett viii run Tor
Congress on the Tammany ticket.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Neglected colds make fat graveyards. =
Or. Woods Norway Pine Syrup helps
men and women to happy, vigorous old
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24

Mccoy defeated Creedon in six
rounds last week
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-05-24
Rochester News.
E. NJ. HARVEY, Local Editor.
To "a Budding Violet.

To "a Budding Violet.
Violet, tender and shy,
Wrapl like a nun in thy hood
Put back this garb so severe
Dear little saint OF the wood
show me thy rapturous face;
Born Of thy vigils so lone,
Give Of thy sweet budding hopes
Something TO quicken my own.
Speak OF the life that abides
Buds that keep warm meath the snow
Promise Of springs risen morn
And thy awakening TO know.
ELEcTA WEBER MORSE, in Boston Transcript.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-31

years against a wife whose cause was
vigorously defended IN to the house OF
lords, when there Unexpectedly app
speared at the bar an elderly and res
pectable- looking clergyman, who de-
posed upon oath that six or seven years
before he had been an actual eye-wlt-
ness TO the guilt Of the lady. No cor
r0bOratlve circumstance was adduced
TO support his testimony and within a
few months the truth came out. The
respectable clergyman gave himself up
10 justice as having been guilty Of the
forgery OF certain bills OF exchange. Up
on investigation Il turned out that there
had been no forgery, no sach bills OF
exchange having ever been In existence.
The poor man was simply lunatic with
decisions Of crimes committed either by
himself or others. In this case, as In
the other, positive testimony becomes
worthless when confronted with facts
which cannot lie or when unsupported
Is facts which must exist II the testi.
mony were true.
Il is not altogether unknown that
persons condemned upon circumstantlal
evidence have been regarded by the
community as innocent victims Of the
law This was the popular verdict as
against the jurys verdict In case oc-
| curing thIrty-five years ago in London.
The accused. Eliza Tanning. 22 years
old was a domestic servant, She pre-
pared a meal by which the whole fam
| lily was poisoned from arsenic contained
| in It. She herself partook Of part Of 1t,
and suffered In her turn. This circum-
stance was used both for and against
her. She had access 10 a drawer In
which the arsenic was kept, and this,
with certain contradictions In her testl-
mony and the fact that she had tried TO
| prevent one Of the apprentices OF the
| family for whom she might be suspect
! ed OF Partially, from partaklng OF the
! poisoned food-which, however, he per-
| sisted in doing-was about all there was
against her. Nevertheless, the jury,
against some Of the best opinions, legal
and other. OF the time. found her guilty
| and she was executed Her body lay, as
II were, In state In her humble home
near High Holborn, for five days and
was viewed by an immense throng. a
| funeral procession. IN which the pail
/ was borne by six young women robed IN
/ white. attended II 10 the grave. Sill
Samuel Romilly recorded his belief In
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rHF FALLIBILITY OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

her innocence, and the eloquent Curran
detained on the Injustice OF her fate.
Nothing was ever discovered TO solve
the doubts Of her guilt or innocence,
ana the author last quoted classes the
case among bis judicial problems.
when the accused IN olden times was
person OF rank and influence, II took
stronger evidence % hang him than IL
did to do away with a poor servant
maid. The grandfather Of the poet,
Cowper who belonged to a powerful
family, was placed on trial 200 years ago
for the murder Of young Quaker lady,
Who was passonately attached 70 him
before and after his marriage to an
other" II was very concluslyely proved
that they left her mothers house to-
gether late one night, the next morning
she was found drowned His account OF
his motives for certain important acts
was contradictory, and he had what
poor Eliza flaming had not--a motive
for such a crime But the jury gave
him the benefit Of the doubt and ac-
quilted him, He was subsequently
raised 10 the bench and Il IL pleasant 70
know that In his judicial career he was
distinguished Tor caution and mercy
qualities 10 which In his jury he may
have owed his own escape-and that he
did not like Gilbert's "Old Smailey,"
"endeavOr 20 atone for the weaknesses
Of his youth by uncOmpromising sever
ity to all offenders brought before him."
The COwper case win be found I'm Ma
cauley. where Il IL ably argued for the
prisoner The other side will be found
strongly presented by Mr.. Paget in his
judicial Puzzles"
1t Is and ever will be a grave ques-
tion in every case Of circumstantial evil
dence how Ear 1t justifes a conviction
In a capital case. The one rule 10 be
borne In mind is that the proof must
first fairly warrant the conclusion Of
guilt. and, second, must exclude every
other reasonable Inference and the last
Is the most important.
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her; but the fraud vas detected, and
this lent such color TO the other cir
cumstances that he was convicted and
executed. IL was afterward found that
the niece was living. And Sir Matthew
Hale mentions case IN Staffordshire
where a man was accused upon strong
circum, tances OF having murdered q
missing person and burned him to ashes
In an oven. He was executed. and q
year after the missing man returned.
Warren also cites the case OF Ambrose
Grayunet who, upon circumstantal
evidence. which II Is said really ap-
peared conclusive and irresistible, was
gibbeted. yet by extraordinary circum-
stances survived his supposed eXecu-
ton. escaped 20 foreign parts and there
met the very person for whom he had
been condemned to die. But the two
latter cases occurred at very early
period, before the law required as the
first proof OF murder that the body OF
the victim be produced or accounted
for. In the first case mentioned by
Warren, Il was not until the discovery
OF the body, eleven years after the hrst
suspicion of crime that the accused
could be placed on trial
Sir Matthew Hale reiates anothef III
stance of erroneous conviction upon the
strongest kind Of presumption. II was
I'm the days when horse stealing was
capital offense. and man having been
found In possession Of stolen horse
was condemned and executed at OK
ford assizes. And yet within two as
sizes afterward a man apprehended for
another robbery and convicted, con-
fessed that he had stolen the horse
and. being closely pursued, induced the
former prisoner to walk the horse for
him and escaped, and his dupe, beng
apprehended with the horse uied ihho-
Gently.
A singular case illustrating the un-
certainty both Of positive and circum-
stantial evidence was that OF the ser
want girl Elizabeth Canning. immor-
talized by the novelist Fielding TO
whom. as a police magistrate the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-31

hypothesis is excluded. This delicate
and important duty Is intrusted to
ordinary iuries, and sometimes grave
errors have resulted OF course. In
many cases the plainest minds may
draw the same conclusions as the WIS
est-as where In cases OF larceny or
burglary the stolen property Is found
upon the prisoner, or where a watch
is found gone from the room on the
departure Of the prisoner, no other hav-
ING access In the interval or In a case
OF homicide where stains Of blood,
marks OF conflict and deadly weapons
recently used are found upon the
prisoner. or where the prisoner, If he
denies being at the scene OF the crime
when II was committed, ought 10 be
able to prove that he was elsewhere,
bu. does not attempt to do so. In all
these cases the probability Of error may
Justly be deemed excluded but not with
absolute certainty. But the law, even
where human life is involved, does not
require absolute certainty
Jurles will sometimes convict upon a
collection Of trivial facts, and some
times acauit in the face Of very con-
yincing proof Warren the author OF
"Ten Thousand Year" gives the MS
tory OF q trial for murder where the
accused was last seen with the missing
man at night armed and going to q
wood. was found afterward with gold
and bank notes. having been mIserably
poor before and his victim having re-
ceived large sum Of money just be.
fore his disappearance; was found
wearing some Of the victims clothing;
gave contradictory accounts OF which
way the latter had gone after leaving
him, and was proved TO have said TO
party searching for the body. Hes far
more likely to be found in Stokesley
Beck" Eleven years afterward a
skeleton identified by mark as that Of
the missing man was discovered in
stokesley Beck The prisoner was ac-
quilted
On the other hand, the instances OF
mistaken convictions are numerous and
distressing. The same author cites
Lord Coke as instancing a case of a
gentleman accused Of numbering his
niece. She was heard to cry out.
"Uncle. do not kill me-" and soon after
disappeared. The uncle, being required
10 produce her and being unable 20 do
so, procured another girl 10 personate
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mere =, a't ,uSIclal proceedlnss-direcl
stt'd u ~ where witness to the
e p''iu ,,.oute testlaes to it from ms
f,'i 70 u,s .'',esee-and circumstan''al'
''r n ..oof Of collateral facts is ao-
vhefe ssosuse they afford presump-
Fitted .,S,eS tend to establish the fact
tons W." sersy. In criminal cases 'here
% '0lu', a. eve witness Of the crime
nay nav be clrcumstantiai WHICH
but 'n' .,,.,ned by the accused, the jury
4 uD'A ,nr his guilt, says the New YORK
by ,.a But the Jurors are are. ,ns ~ saeS
Wofa,s H.. clreumstantlai must pe su1 ~
that ins s,oauee moral certainty VI
a; 70 plV ~ exclude any other reason
guilt snl o,besis Circumstantlal esl-
able hypoOe'nasidered by some TO be the
a'.s satisfactory species a. canable
mos by Ms iron nature. II Is $50. sap"D az
Ssus, ,,,Snring the highest desIee VI
Of ptVu..aistv. Legal writer's give IN
moral y, v convincing circumstances
stances ~ ,here Is homicide by the PTS
e; Wa aa, me wadding used IN inc
lol my hing part Of letter addressed
charge o and found upon MN,
70 me p" man is found suddenly
lha Tn', room and another Is iouha
teal ~ avt m haste with a bloody
IlhnlH' No other person being IN the
'eolu' Instances Of insufficient cireum-
io'na evidence are given--as where
Hahua, ,hreatened another with death
ols u ,ss latter shortly after is found
ana ny hy violence Here is no proof
gag ,. IL conjecture and again where
bll Vn .,ss,dian OF a wealthy minor Is
lM U a. have risen from condition
igun o,s " 10 one Of affluence, the evil
q 9.. mot not excluding the Inference that
y GEM might have been enriched by proper
means ,ha. 10 tho testi-
10y ~ alleged eye Witnesses of a fact
n,"l ,.rsrally called the best evidence,
:. illnesses may be mistaken or may
y. IN the other hand, circumstances
a W lIe The only danger In that
ti,s \, proof is that the minds which
A..' csllsa 10 consider It may not al
~. az 'I NJ capable OF drawing the proper
, SIs and determining whether
s ,,ln reasonable doubt or contrary
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proofs in her case were submitted. She
mysteriously disappeared from home
for nearly a month and then returned
I'm rags. half naked and half dead with
hunger. and told a tale Of having been
kidnapped In Moorfelds and imprisoned
In a house on the Hertfordshlre road,
whence she escaped by a window She
described the contents OF her prison
and they tailed exactly with those in
the house Of q suspected person on the
Hertfordshire road. She Identified a
gypsy woman there as person who
robbed her when she was brought to
the house. The Gypsy was put on trial
and proved by three witnesses that she
was at Abbottsbury $50 miles away,
on the day OF the crime. one witness
swOre 20 the contrary She and an
other woman. who kept the house. were
convicted and sentenced-the Gypsy 10
be hanged and the other TO be branded
with a hot iron on the hand, This
brutal punishment was inflicted on the
latter. but before executing the Gypsy
the crown became convinced OF the
truth of her abb and she was par
doned. Elizabeth Canning was then in
dicted for perjury. On her trial thirty
six witnesses testified 70 the absence
Of the Gypsy from the vicinity Of the
alleged crime. while twenty-siX Wit
nesses swore they saw her there about
that time. The jury found Elizabeth
guilty of false swearing and she was
transported England was then, and
continued to be for many years. di-
vided in opinion on the case. as all
readers are TO this day.
John Paget, of the London bar, gives
the history OF an old-tlme trial in
Shakespeare's Cotswold Illustrating
the same theme-the unreliabllity
Of positive as wen as circum-
stantial evidence. The steward
Of Lady Campden went to Il
neigbborlng village TO receive some
rents. and on returning at night his
servant. John Perry, was sent after him.
This servant did not come back that
night, and his master having disap-
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peared and evidence pointing to foul
play having been discovered John was
arrested. After being In custody
week he confessed that his mother and
brother, who had often urged him to
rob his master, attacked the latter on
the night In question, killed him and
buried his body. No body was found,
but the evidence was deemed sufficient
and the two brothers and the mother
were executed. Some years afterwards
the supposed murdered man returned
with the story Of kidnapping into for
eign slavery. Here there was the best
evidence namely. the confession and
eelf-accusatlon Of the accused, lmpllcat-
ing those nearest and dearest TO him
turning out to be purely an insane in
ventlon.
The same author tells Of case where
a woman disappeared and a man found
lurking In the neighborlng wood and be-
traying fear, was arrested, confessed
the crime and was executed. In two
years the woman returned, The cases
Of the confessions OF alleged witches are
striking instances Of insane impulse TO
self-aceusation Of fancied crime, but the
following eases are perhaps without
pdi dlifls III .Ukldllus uNohN tlt Hl4u-
die Of the present century, a most SER
ious charge was brought against a ply
stefan by the husband OF one of his pa
tents. The accusation followed upon
the discovery Of a diary kept by the
lady, In which was entered with the
utmost mlnuteness the rise, progress
and entire history OF an overwhelming
and passionate attachment between her
self and the doctor" But there was
nothing to corroborate the astounding
disclosures and It was established be-
yond a doubt that the lady, although
otherwise conducting herself properly
was upon this subject wholly insane.
Here Il viii be observed that the alb
sence Of clrcumstantial evidence TO cor
roborate the confession saved the doc
tor. The other case occurred about the
same tine, also In England A divorce
action had been pending for several
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A RUNNING ITEM.

''Who defrays the expenses Of the
government Of the so-oalled Filipino
republic? asked the newly appointed
colonial commissioner.
There are none now" replied Gen.
eral Otis, except Aguinsldo's running
expenses. Golfers weekly.
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studysu
9th esuprem ecourto
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
F4FORS AT A CHRISTMAS DANCE.

Lady Curzon in her Christmas festivities OF last
year. invented figures in a cotiIlon that
may serve as hints to American hostesses. The
cotiIlon was a combination of business and pleas
ure, Lady Curzon wished to add to her fund for
the relief OF the famine sufferers but the money
part of it could be dropped unless the American
hostess also wished to serve a pet charity.
In the centre Of the ballroom hung huge bunch
of mistletOe and a solid money forfeit had 70 be
paid by any couple who unlucky TO be
forced by other couples under the fatal bough.
One couple appointed by the leader to dance
alone, then he called up ten couples to waltz about
and try force the first couple to pass under the
chandelier After this he called up more couples
defend the first couple from the strategy OF the
aggressive ten. a pretty game of waltz football
ensued under the rules that everybody must keep
dancing all the time. and that when the first zen.
after eight minutes failed to force the pursued
couple under the mistletoe. it their duty 70
collect the sum OF the whole forfeit among them
selves and put the amount in actual money or
promises to pay in the poorbOx at the door.
Is TO say. the couples when passing up the favor
table. were allowed TO choose from among the
a number was pasted from a penny to the amount
of pound. and that sum the person selecting was
obliged to put in the pOOrbOX. A tremendous
amount OF guessing and futter went at the
demanded only penny. While the uniGcky bis
number would be found attached TO a silly bow Os
The third and most brilliant figure was an auc-
ton sale OF charming giTs hidden wholly inside Or
would be called up and carried into adjoining
stockings made OF different goodsone six Stock
ing. another brilliant golf hose, another plain
stout yarn affair. a fourth an old style white
stocking with a pink top. fifth baby's sock.
a sixth showed wonderful clocks. a seventh
clowns stocking. eighth open work has
de sole. the ninth was blue stocking. and the
tenth was old stocking. patched and worn.
Every man at the ball was allowed freely to COM
ment on the appearance and possible usefulness Of
the ten BrObdingnag gan hose. while the auctiOnser
swung his hammer and highly recommended the
contents OF these strange Christmas stockings.
Cheerful giggles and pleased comments iudg-
nant protests issued from the tops of the stockings
as the crowd criticised. laughed. peered guessed
az the identity OF the persons inside, and finally
when the bidding was over the cOlOrsd bags
were opened Tremendous surprise enSued. and the
men who had bid highest waltzed of with their
purchases. who were pleased TeprOachful. IN ac-
eordance with the good prices they had brought.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

not hear of it. She bitterly repented OF neL idS S9
stinacy. however, when they reached the i1ldofe
of the bay and heard through the gloom sharp re-
ports like pistol shots. -,
cit is the ice breaking up" shouted her NUS
band Skate for your lifel" -
How they got the remaining distance, sIie
said afterward, was miracle. Crack after eraSE tS,
opened before them. water rushed up ABOUT thflI
ankles as their weight sunk the great pieces down
for second. Only their heetness saved theIn
and the fact that the tide coming IN, JammiIs
up the ice the shore instead OF leaving an I'M
passable distance of water along the edge -.,a
ut seemed like a horrible nightmare IasHns Itis
through endless night" she said in recountiils
her Experiences later "and I can feel 1t all when
ever / think of it, The wild night. with the nor
rible, soft sOutherly wind blowing in fron @ @the
sea, the black stretch of land that seemed 90 IdI
away, the strange, uncanny twilight IhaI COiIS ~
when the full is covered with clouds ana t Tne
cracking and shaking ice beneath our skates W
knew that a single stumble would nave eI. eIlueu
matters for both of u.s. and that the icy Watei
would rush up and engulf us if we rested sec
ond on the rotten salt ice. 1t was literally rae
with death, and when finally reached the WEI
come shore threw ourselves down on the 1roISn t
ground too exhausted even tic speak or 70 take
off our skates. My husbands shouts brought II.e
servants to our aid, and were soon IN JACK
cosey 'den comforted with hot drinks ana oid~-
ing fire. But what an experienced!