Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-07-19
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
WEST DUMMERsToN.
Two Men Under Arrest.

Tuesday night about II o'clock Con-
stable Rogers took possession of four
men on the railroad bridge near the
village. Two of the men succeeded
in escaping and the other two, An
thony King and William Richardson,
were placed in the Brattleboro lookup.
King was brought before Justice
Knight Wednesday charged with dis
turbing the peace. He was given a
jury trial which occupied the time until
o'clock Thursday morning. That this
was an interesting case was shown
by the large number of people who at
tended during the entire session. The
town employed Lawyer Bacon as coun-
sci, and the defendant Lawyer Barber
The evidence for the town was intend
ed to show that King was in a state
of intoxication during the evening un-
til he was found with the other men
singing and yelling on the bridge.
The evidence of the defendant was in
tended to show that until about 10
O'Clock King drank nothing but beer
secured from Mr.. Mccarthy.
The jury managed to bring in a ver-
dict of not guilty. The case of Rich
ardson was continued one week. We
feel in duty bound to state that King
and Richardson were by far the most
respectable of the four men involved.
The case is an example of too fire.
quent occurrence when the worse men
manage to escape and leave the better
men to take the consequences alone.
King has made arrangements to con-
tinue in the employ of the granite COM
pany. Five other warrants were made
out against Augustus Fredette, Charles
Bradley, Thomas Keefe, Thomas Sulli-
van, and another charge against King.
June Butterfield is i'll with tonsilitis.
F. ]. White is suffering from dog
wood poisoning.
The condition of Myron Evans re-
mains about the same.
Several of the village children are
having whooping cough in mild form.
Mary Connarn gave a party to a
number of her friends last Monday
evening, the occasion being her 18th
birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Arthur Bunker of Maine is
visiting her husband at R. A. knights.
Nelson Bunker is also entertaining his
wife at Patrick Connarn's.
Joe LeMonte has bought the pool
room of Patrick Mccarthy. Mr.. Nc
Carthy has finished working here and
expects to go to Portsmouth, N. H.
The air brakes on the passenger
train failed to work last Saturday
morning, and the train very narrowly
escaped running into the freight train.
There was a space of only a few rods
between the trains, and the engineer
and brakeman acted with remarkable
alertness. The passenger engineer
whistled for down brakes, while Bert
Gates, the freight engineer called for
OF brakes and backed down.
Last Monday was the regular pay
day of the Granite company, but
owing to the failure of debtors of the
company to forward checks in time,
the payment of the help was delayed
"a hours. On The morning of the 18th
nearly all of the quarrymen and labor
ers struck, but the stone cutters went
to work as usual. After considering
the matter at a meeting in the stone
sheds, it was decided better to wait
ii hours than to lose that amount of
time, and all went to work. 1t ap-
pears that this move was begun by
employees who are not inhabitants of
this town, and many of our townsmen
would have nothing to do with the af-
fair.