Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-18
REIGN OF TERROR
AMONG THE RUMSELLERS.
PROHIBITION NOT SD FUNNY
FARCE AS 1T "UsED TO WAS.''

FARCE AS 1T "USED TO WAS"
Many Hotel Keepers seeking Healthier
CIimes-BrattisbOrO House Changes
Hands - Newfane and TOwnshend
Landlords Take a Dose-Threc Arrests
on Account OF the Prisoner Drunk in
jail ALLEGED Pocket Peddlcr Gets
Additional Dose for Perjury, as We'll as
His Two NVitnesses-&IIO Fine for Sell
ing Rice Be.r:-A Rather Exciting Story
This comes the rearest to perpet-
ual motion that science has yet at
taned. " observer Lawyer and Report
or Chas s Chase the other day, re-
ferring to the county court and the
liquor prosecutions. RobesI ierIe' 8
reign Of terror sas not 50 SUDDEN or
perhaps so coEplete rs among these
aristncrats Of prohibition, who have so
Suugly held tie idea tdat it was a
funny farce for themselves bat be
nefic.nt thing FIR the community at
large. 1t is even said to be getting
Impossible TO get lawyer to defend
anybody charged with liquor selling,
and if 81 it is most di creditable to
our bar and illustrates again how the
law, in the extremes to which II has
been carried in order to make 1t work,
tends t, subvert the principles that
are at the base OF our institutions: for
if there is any principle fundamental
to our jurisprudetcs and necessary 10
the preservation of liberty it is that
every man accused Of crime is entitled
to a full and fair defense in court.
| The story of this motion at Newfar e
has been told in chapters q these col
umns, how Leon Car edy was convict
ed of pocket peddling IN Brattleboro
and two witnesses who testified 10 be-
| half of him we're at once snapped UP
for perjury. and row Canedy himself
has been prosecuted for perjury as
we'll as for the original offenss and an
extended residence in public institu-
tions is in prospect for him, unless he
can bs saved on lega POINTS or claim ID
defects in the Information for which
hard fight is threatened bow the
landlord and ex-lsndlord of the Amer
| lean house and TIE bartender of the
Brattlsboro house at Brsttleboro were
put through the mill Win fines and
sentences to the House II Correction,
: how the landlord of the Melrose al
West Village was included III the pro
| cptlllDR. Dul nos ~
him to emigrats-and how the land
lord of the Brattleboro house hap
pared to he engaged % huntlng trlI
at Just that time. and LoR the hnteI
has passed toto the hands OF Cha
Hsnkel and 0 II Ellis, who had beer
assisting Mr. Turner IN business nnc
how the the very acme of the tblnl
was reached Monday when Henry
Eddy when wanted to testify IN one
of the perjury cases that dag, WAS
Ifou1d belplt Ssly drunk 10 Jail. H'
nov claims. though doctor so pro
nounced it. that he was not drunk bu1
suffering from nervous collapse. ant
has not drank drop for sever
months. The court and officials ART
deeply stirred up. Hs well they may nt
over such an affair, and JAS Austin
an employee of the Brattleboro house
ls under arrest for SEEDING hia. tht
LIQUOR, Frank Melendy. the exrr- 81
messenger on the Narrow Gauge, fol
Transporting it, in q package Ct laun
dry as claimed, and Tam Ferriter. the
bartender at the Brattleboro house
in jsil under an u TO IL moou 5
sentence. for passing it to him, sur
possedly. The further story abou
tueir bail, etc, is told in our court re
port below. as also tHe prosecutions o
Landlords Burke u Newfane and Davis
of Townshend. formerly of the Jal
house. In the latter case, as we Shoult
Judge from the report. the crime wa
selling rice beer Dame Rumor has /
that one or two other hotel keepers IL
the county are seeking health and rec
reation over in New Hampshire. Bu
at Bellows Falls all seems serene.
The authorities at Brattleboro go