Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-04
NUMBER 20.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONTENTION
FOR CANEDY.
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL
BASED ON 1T


Motion Also to Set Aside Verdict In stod =
dard viii Case on Ground of Improper
Talk by JurOrs-Juuge STAFFORD Brings
! Up More Divorce Cases with Sharp
Turn-Jury for the Criminal Cases.
Before the adjournment for week
Tuesday of the county court, the fol-
lowing jury was drawn for the trial of
the criminal cases when tie court re-
convenes:
Athens. Walter NJ MaXfield
BroOkline, Albert A Austin
Dover, Lorenzo l. Howe
Dummerston, Myron Il Evans, John +
Guilford. George w Prouty
Halifax. o f Thurber Chas II Phelps
Jamaica. Edgar M Butler
Londonderry, Ora S Abbott, Albert f Full
Ter
Marlboro. Henry f Whitney
| Newfane. W P Eames
Putney, Chas Brown, Mark Ward
Rockingham, Geo p Stickney, John II Gate
ley, Clark Chase
Townshend, Hugh II Holbrook, George y
Vernon, Philip Franklin
Wardsboro, John GiIfeather
Westminster, Chas G Miller, Gorham c
| Braley
whtingham, A d Wheeler. E A Temple
| Wilmington, Arthur ID Howe, Edmund NJ
| Boyd.
Henry L Richardson of Jamaica.
charged with liquor selling, out on bail
after plea OF not guilty, appeared
Tuesday, retracted his former plea ard
plead guilty of two second oHenses.
The &C urt fined him sl00 and costs
and sentenced him to not less than
five or more than six months in the
house OF correction, but the imprison-
ment part of the sentence was suspend
ed aDd the after left in the charge
of the proabtion officer The leniercy
was on the ground of poor health,
which Lawyers Martin and ard Gie son
plead for him.
The Powers divorce case from Brat
tleboro, on the ground of adultery, was
on for hearing Tuesday. But after
the applicant ana one witness had
heen on the stand Judge Stat
ford ordered a stoppage because the
reporter was not present, saying it was
evidently cas-, where the exact testi-
mony should be on record for use in
further proceedings fer perjury or
such other criminal procedure as
might be warranted. The judge is evil
IDENTIFY resolved to tolerate no fooling
in the divorce business. In the Harris
case from West Brattleboro. alleging
desertior. he told counsel after the
testimony was in that he should grart
no divocre on the showing maue, or
until the libelee had been brought
ITO court to tell her story. An objec-
tion being suggested because of ex-
pense, he repliet that he diGn't care
WHO bore it but he was going to bear
her de before granting the divorce.
:. Motions have been filed to set asice
verdict and for rev trials in two eases.
Oue is in the Stoddard will case from
Westminster on five affidavits to the
effect that jurors were heard to ir
properly discuss it. The other is in
the Canedy liquor selling case from
Brattlsboro and based on the ground
that his conviction and sentence for
thrse first ofrenses where in the justice
court it was only one, amounts to
conviction of what he WIS acquitted
of in the lower court and so is a vic
lstion of the constitutional guaranty
that no man s,all he placed in jeop-
ardy Of life or liberty twice for tie
same crime.
Fits and Bacon and Hooker have
been assigned to the defense of Go1ser
and Orcutt whose trial begins We'd
nesday.