Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-11-05

Vermont Marble company at Center
Rutland in the evening Oct. % but
were frightened away before they
could blow open the safe although
they had everything in readiness. In
their flying departure they gathered
up 10 or II watches valued at 500
and this seems to be the principal item
stolen, as far as could be ascertained
that night. The approach of Neal
Foster, a young man who sleeps in the
store, is supposed to have scared them
away.
An attempt was made the night OF
Oct 20 to break into the store OF w. G.
Marsh in Sheldon. The burglars first
tried to pry the front door open with a
bar. Failing in this, they bored a
hole in the side door large enough to
allow the insertion of mans hand to
uniasten the latch. When the piece
cut out fell on the floor, it aroused the
clerk, Cephas Fairbanks, who asked
what was wanted. This frightened
the miscreants away. Both doors
were fastened with wooden bars.
Daniel Butler, who was recently dis
honorably discharged from the army
at Fort Ethan Allen, was arrested Oct.
q by the police on a charge of bur-
glary. He is accused of entering Miss
Maggie O'Mara's sleeping apartments
and stealing about $40 worth of cloth
ing and trinkets. Butler claims that
young man named Haley, who has al
so been arrested, committed the bur-
glary and disposed OF the goods to
him. AT the hearing Butler, whose
story was not verified, was held for
county court in the sum of $500, while
Haley was discharged.
Bartholomew Croto, who is under
Indictment for the murder of Peter
Vorron at East Montpelier September
s last, has been acting strangely at the
jail of late, and it is intimated by some
that he is feigning insanity in order
that he may be sent to the state hospi- !
tai for the insane at Waterbury for OBJ !
servation, thus postponing until the
March term of Washington county
court his trial, which is scheduled |
when court convenes November IL. !
The state will keep a close watch OF
NlN NdcA anu II &AObV 10 pay chdll
game will insist upon a trial at this
term of court. If necessary, experts
will be employed TO watch Croto in
jail
The discovery was made last week /
that every cook shack on the state
near Essex junction has
been broken into since muster and
amount Of property stol-
en- or destroyed. The swinging doors +
covering the openings at the end Of
each shack have been torn off, the reg
ular entrance doors battered and every
knob broken off. Not content with
this, the marauders have used the
doors as targets for leaden bullets. In
several of the shacks a variety of emp
ty whiskey and beer bottles were
found. The lavatory was also broken
into and the iron root damaged. The
large storehouse where much valuable
is stored was also entered.
James McAusland from Orfordville
was nearly stripped by buncoers who
had enticed him into a South Boston
resort Oct. ~ under the guise of
friends. He was a stranger in Boston
but had letter OF introduction from
neighbor at home TO his sister residing
in Cambridge and another to her SON
in-law, who was to guide him to the
lady's home. When Mr.. McAusland
got off the train he met young man
who offered to guide him to the young
nan he was seeking. They went into
South Boston and met another young
nan who was introduced as the desir-
I'd son-in-law. The party then began
% visit different resorts in that section
md finally went to bed in an alleged
lotel. When McAusland awoke he
ound that 1925 in cash which he had
placed under his pillow was gone.
The thieves had taken his watch, new
shoes, suspenders, in fact nearly ey-
,rything but his shirt and trousers.