Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-05
MIspEEps AND PENALTIES.

with Private j. +. Haynes and turned
over to the military authorities, for de-
sertion, has been sentenced to one
year on Governors Island, n. Y, to be
dishonorably discharged and forfeit
pay and allowances. Private Happner
was sentenced to eighteen months but
1t was reduced by order of the depart
ment commander.
In Barre city court Jan. 20, Tim
Holland, whose place was raided about
two weeks ago and eighteen bottles OF
liquor seized. pleaded guilty to sec
ond offense OF keeping with intent to
sell, and TO the charge of keeping
nuisance. He was fined, with costs,
the sum of S2l2.30 and sentenced to
thirty days in the house of correction
at Rutland. The liquor seized was
condemned. The case against Hol-
land for selling was mol pressed.
Raymond Tatro, ten-year-old lad,
was granted $50 damages in Rutland
city court Jan. q in a suit brought
against Edward r. Eggleston OF Men
don. The plaintiff claimed that the
defendant struck him on the head with
the butt of whip and in support of
his testimony showed a cash through
his scalp several inches long. Eggle-
ston's only defence was that the boy
was violating one of the city ordinan-
ces by stealing the ride on his (Eggle-
ston's) sleigh. Eggleston will appeal
/ from the decision of the court.
Bellows Falls sometimes has high
way robbery equal to the wild West.
John Robertson, formerly employed
by the Vermont Farm Machine COM
pany, met Fred Raynard OF Lebanon,
N. H., Monday evening. Jan. 26, and
after they had lunched together they
went over TO North Walpole to get
| something to drink. On the bridge
coming home Robertson assaulted
Raynard and robbed him OF his watch
and IS. The next day Robertson was
arrested and the stolen property re-
covered and he was taken to Rutland
to serve three months.
Bert Egan, for many years employed
as bookkeeper and clerk by the Elias
Lyman Coal Co., OF Burlington has
been admitted to bail in city court in
the sum of 81 900. which was furnish
ed by two OF his friends. Egan is
charged with embezzling $4,000 from
his employers, the populations cover
/ ing a period of several years. lie was
trusted by the company implicitly and
has been genial and popular clerk,
with many friends. In fact, it is said
| that he was too much of ''good fell
| low in that he spent money freely and
lived far beyond his means.
The annual report of +. F. Brown
ell, chief OF police in Burlington, was
completed Wednesday of last week.
The most conspicuous announcement
is that the crimes of burglary and lar
ceny are on the increase and that the
offenders are largely boys under q
years of age. In regard TO vice among
young girls the chief remarks that
sentencing them to the house OF cor
rection Is of little value in a reforma-
tory way. He suggests as an aid in
the matter the establishment of a cur
| few law. During the year 1902 there
were 269 arrests made in Burlington
by the police department.
Four Montpelier boys between the
ages OF 10 and II years were arrested
late Saturday night by Chief OF Police
Reagan, charged with the larceny Of
S45 IRON the creamery of l.. NJ. Gamer
on. The boys had been in the habit of
going to this creamery. which is situ-
ated at the rear of Blanchard's block,
to buy milk to drink and had thus be-
come acquainted with the locality OF
the cash drawer which they success
fully rifled Saturday night. Chief
Reagan was put on their track and
soon had them all corralled. Their
names are John Newman, Henry But
terfly, Fred Provost and Winnie Pro-
vost.
Louis Trudeau of Swanton recently
took Mike Butler. an eight -year-old
boy from the Boston home for little
wanderers, and at once set about to
make drudge OF him and abuse him.
He made him carry great pals of wa
ter and do work unfit for child. He
not only made him sleep in the barn
through all the cold nights but beat
him numerically with an iron at
times. and sometimes with a strap.
Monday, Jan. 20, he threatened to
burn him on hot stove, and at this
the little fellow took fright and ran
away. His body presents a horrid
spectacle. where he has been beaten.
A warrant for the arrest of Trudeau on
the charge of extreme cruelty was is
sued but he escaped TO Canada before
it could be served.
Daniel Noe, a wandering French
man, small in size, but with a large
capacity for excitement, tried to break
up the household with a few heads in
cluded in the family of Fred Shepard
of East Georgia Jan. %. Noe arrived
from Essex Junction with a full cargo
OF whiskey and started for Shepard's,
where he was boarding while chopping
cordwood on the mountain south OF
there. He arrived at the house little
the worse for wear and went to his
room. The rest of the family were at
dinner when Noe suddenly appeared
from upstairs and trouble began at
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