Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-11
OPEN SEASON BEGINS
FOR PROHIBITORY PIGEONS.
OFFICERS GORDON AND MCCLURE
COME IN WITH FULL Rags.

Will Offer "a Rich Rspast for Judge
stafford Mt Newfane-How They Crept
Up Close 20 the Game Unawares-The
First Real Hunt of the Kind for 30 Years
Several OF the Captures Shaken Out
of Their Home Nesls-What Was Done
J i'm County Court Yesterday and Today
and the Connecting Story Here.
States Attorney Weston fled intor.
nation Wednesday against G g Miller
Luther Wilbur, Tam Ferriter and p
Cotton of BrattleborO for selling. furn.
isbing and giving away intoxicating liq-
uor. The first three appeared yesterday
and plead not guilty through their coun-
sci, Haskins & Schwenk. Miller was
admitted to bail in $500 and Wilbur in
$1,000, George A Boyden going on their
bonds. The trial of these cases is ex-
pocted to begin this, Friday, morning.
1t has been been some 20 years now
since there have been any local liquor
prosecutions originating in county court
and in that time a feeling of security
has grown up among both vendors and
vendees so that lately there have been no
signs Of the old time annual exodus just
before Grand jury term, and when the
last grand jury met and adjourned, fur
Their action was not dreamed of. So when
Sheriff Gordon proceeded to Hotel Brat
tleboro Wednesday evening, Tam Ferri-
ter, the bartender, walked down street
behind him in cherubic innocence, and
reached the house just in season TO have
the Sheriff tap him on the shoulder and
invite him to Newfane. At the American
House LandlordWilbur was also taken by
surprise, while C Miller. ex-landlord,
was take n on his farm at Williamsville,
to which he has recently moved. Land
lord C Z Cotton, the manager of the
Melrose at the West Village also got
his invitation, but his health is so poor
that he was unable to respond yesterday.
Landlord Turner of Hotel Brattleboro
left last week for an extended trip deer
hunting in the environs Of Northamp'
ton or some here--and ir is safe to ex-
pect that those feet and sleek animals
will occupy his unvided attention as
long as this hunting trip OF the oheriif'
continues. 1t so happened yesterday
morning that C c Turner had to leave
town to see man and hasn't found him
vet. Yesterday afternoon Officers
Gordon, and Mcclure. aud Thayer
shouldered their subphoena' mnskets
and started out again. 1t open season
for the game that some ornitholiglsts
call witnesses in liquor cases" This
morning, also, they have been beating
the bush carefully and even in bedrooms
have secured some good citizens that
faithfully chirp andvote for prohibition
and swallow its liquors. The action OF
Judge Stafford in ordering these prose
cutions and exercising the power he has
by means of the control of the states
attorneys salary, is ominous for the
brethren who sustain prohibition
as a farce. It is said on
on how good authority, We wot not
that if this procedure is not sutii Gent to
stop the traffic, the next will be against
the owners of the real estate in which
liquor is sold. The law is sufficient
with the ruinous fines it contains, to
make very serious business along this
line; but there have been hardly a doz-
en- cases in Vermont where it mas been
enforced.