Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-08-29
MlspEEps AND PENALTIES.


ii. III. Packer of the North Pownal
hotel, formerly proprietor of the Amer
can House in Bennington. has just
been fined with costs, Sl30. for keep
ing and selling liquor.
II. b. Smiths barber shop at Chester
was broken into last week and all Of
Mr.. Smiths bench tools were stolen.
Don Lowell was arrested next day on
suspicion, and later in the day a grip
owned by him was found containing
the missing property.
Heman Peryea, who resisted the at
tempts of the Rutland health officer to
fumigate his house after ii had been
released from a smallpox quarantine,
paid S13.44 alter a brief stay in Jail
for his attempt to stop the wheels of
modern ways Of doing things.
A son ofM. j. Leach OF Essex Center,
who has been fined twice Tor working
horses with CALLED shoulders and in
structed TO get pads for them, drove to
Burlington with the same horses with
out pads last week. After hot pur-
suit he was arrested by Humane Officer
AAANA anu HIS tSdii tohNh AAOiAi MN ApA
the present
A young man, giving his name as
Mark sherman. in Marshfield, recently
called at Bernis Cameron's in search of
work and was engaged by him for a
month in having. Last week he engag-
ed team Of Il. j. O'Neil, the local liv-
eryman, 10 90 to Barre. IL has been
ascertained that instead of going to
Barre he visited Montpelier, but fur
ther than that nothing has been heard
from him. He wore Mr.. Cameron's
best black suit, kindly loaned.
Some score or more of people, most
| " women from Barre and the neigh
boring towns, have been cleverly
duped BY what appears to be one OF the
meanest swindlers who ever did bust
ness in that part Of the state. The
swindler himself has departed and the
case is in the hands Of the states attor-
ney. '.Prof. Waldo, the greatest living
clairvoyant, = to read the future sue
lcessfully, required a piece of gold-the
larger the better-to be Worn by the
customer several DAYS. He pretended
to place It before their eyes in cham
DIS bag which he sewed up. They
were told not 10 open the bag until
certain day in his presence, and in the
meantime he skipped with about $500.
There was hearing before Gov. W.
W Stickney last week on the applica-
ton for a pardon from state prison in
the case ofRose Fourier OF Burlington.
Mrs. FOurnier was sentenced for
twenty years for manslaughter in De
cember. 1896. having been found
guilty of killing her husband in the
case against her with Mrs. Nhalen,
who is now dead Mrs. Fourier is
suffering from partial paralysis and It
is claimed is unable TO walk or stand
alone. Her case was presented by
Henry Ballard. A petition signed by
the members OF the court and officers
connected with the trial was present
ed. Ii pardoned it is expected that
Mrs. Fourier would be cared for by
her relatives, although their support
of her was not guaranteed.
William Walsh of Rutland, who was
arrested last week, was given hearing
before City Judge Howe at the house
of correction Friday on a charge OF as
sault. with intent to kill, Tor shooting
at his sister. Several witnesses were
examined and young Walsh was bound
over to await the action OF the grand
Jury at the September term OF Rutland
county court. Bail was fixed at 5000,
which he was unable to furnish and
was committed to tie county jail Tor
safe-keeping. Walsh testified that ne
shot at the cat. which was under the
stove. and not at his sister. tie said
the cat had been killing chickens and
the neighbors had been making com
plants. The cat was so Wild that ne
could not catch her and he consequent
" shot her while she was in the house.
lie was sharply eross-examined, but
stuck TO his story.