Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-07-03
Windsor County Court.
June Term, 1902.

WedlOck DIV the reverend JUSTICE w. u.
Whitaker at Bethel in December last.
The state claimed and introduced evidence
to show that Milo was a much married
man. His first wife obtained a divorce
| from him in Rutland county court in
| 1898, and by the decree he was prohibited
| from marrying for three years. Never
theless Milo went to Whitehall, \. y, on
March 1899, and married Leonora Wet
more. He left her the next December,
and December following, having mourneo
his second wife the conventional twelve
months, he married Isabel as aforesaid,
and so the state said that having a wife
| living his intercourse with Isabel was
adulterous. In defence Lawyer John
Wilson urged first that the Whitehall
wedding was n. g. on account of the laws
of New York prohibiting divorced party
from re-marrying But be this as it may
John urged there could be no such thing
as tinvoluntary adultery" He established
the fact that Isabel had no reason to sup
pose Milo was not eligible for marriage,
and claimed that having entered the mar
ried relation in good faith could not have
been guilty of knowingly, Willingly and
willingly committing adultery. The jury
thought so too, and Isabel was acquitted
The companion case followed and Milo
stepped up to the bar to have his case
tried. The charge against him was bigamy
The Whitehall wedding was shown by the
minister who performed the ceremony and
the Bethel business by Justice Whitaker.
The only defence was that the marriage to
Leonora Wetmore was invalid. But the
court held it a valid marriage and there
fore there was no getting out OF it. As the
tailender of the jury made his exit through
one door the foreman was making an en-
trance with a verdict, and Milo was
promptly convicted. John j. Wilson will
test the question in the supreme court
An elopement case figured in court the
first Of last week. The parties were VIII
fred Hassam and Mrs. Lutte L. Rice, both
of Gaysville. They had deserted their
families, gone to Woodstock and made
themselves comforta bic at the New Park
hotel for week Then they hired a team
OF w. III. Billings to go tC Barnard. They
didn't come back and as they had failed to
settle their hotel bill officers were put on
their track. After much search on the
night Of the Goth, the couple were located
by Officers Paul Tinkham OF Rochester,
f. p. Wheeler Of West Hartford and B. c.
Rogers Of Bethel, in an unoccupied house,
in the village of Gaysville.
The team was in the barn at the same
place, and the house was within a very
short distance OF both the families OF the
fugitives. In the dark and rain both es-
capped by the back way. Tinkham traced
Hassam up the railroad and into the high.
way on Stony Brook, where all trace of
him was lost. A bundle of clothing was
found near the Gaysville railroad trestle.
The woman went toward Randolph,
through pastures, woods, hills, ravines
and on the railroad track, and was follow
ed a long distance by Wheeler, who finally
lost the trail. Finally she was traced to
Randolph, distance of IS miles, and the
officers, with A. L. Rogers as assistant,
rounded her up at Emery Steeles stable in
Randolph, where it was suspected she
might go because she had worked in
Steeles family. Mrs. Rice, who had
crawled under the hay quite a distance.
was forced TO come out for air, and ran in
to furnished room on the second floor Of
the barn, and was found there under the
bed. She was in a miserable condition,
soaked with rain, weary from her long
tramp, her clothing disordered, hands !
black with pitch from the trees through |
which she had struggled in the night, and |
her wet hair and garments matted with |
hayseed. The woman and team were |
brought to Woodstock Monday afternoon. |
The officers aver that she is the slipperiest |
fugitive they have followed in long time. |
Mrs. Rice is young woman of attractive |
appearance. Tuesday afternoon OF last |
week. Mrs. Rice was arraigned before |
Justice G. o. Thompson on a charge of /
adultery with Wilfred Hassam OF GAYS
Vile. Later she went into county court |
and pleaded guilty and was sentenced to |
the house Of correction for not less than
two years nor more than two and a half
The next case was State VS.. Hugh A. |
Barton, breach of the peace. The facts
were about in this wise: In June, 1900, at /
Ludlow one night the house Of David +.
Doyle was made the object Of visit by
crowd of young men and boys bent on a
iarring and feathering expedition. The
subject OF the proposed operation was
nunfa1fG IphV, h1,vI, /
brutal towards his young wife. AT the
June term of court, 1900, half a dozen or
SO of the crowd were brought into court. /
pleaded guilty, and were fined each as
and costs. A year ago the present states
attorney learned the names OF some other
men who were of the party and promptly
investigated their cases and filed informa-
tons. The present case was one Of those.
The respondent denied that he was one of
the crowd, though Doyle and his family
Of three children all swore that respond |
emit was one OF the party. Some Of the
men who had pleaded guilty and been
lined, swore that respondent was not with |
them on the night in question. The jury
about noon OF Saturday returned verdict
Of acquitted.
Frank A. Walker and Joseph C. Enright
States Attorney, assisted BY A. |
6. Whitman, prosecuted.
A recess was then had until Monday at
p. m.
State vs.. A. Burt Warren; breach Of the
peace at Sharon in February last. Re-
spondent pleaded guilty. and the case was
continued for sentence, which will be sus-
dended as long as respondent behaves
himself. ID. c. Hyde appeared for respond
ent.
The White River junction gambling
cases were all disposed OF by a fine Of IS
and costs, in each case. the whole amount
ing to about 81 in each instance.
State VS.. Alden Allen, dog chasing a
deer, was nolle pressed. VIM. E. johnson
for respondent
State VS.. Louis Duclaw. This case was
very similar in its facts to that OF State vs.,
Isabel Palmer. Duclaw was released on
his own recognizance and the case entered
mot to be brought forward Chas.
Batchelder for respondent.
State vs.. Edmund and Sherman BarrelI;
burglary. These cases were continued
and bail was fixed at 800. Gilbert A.
Davis for respondent.
EAST RoXBURY.
Several from this town attended COM
mencement exercises at Mortified last
week.