Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-08-13
mlspEEDs AND PENALTIES.

county Jail was asked to make a state.
ment relative TO a remark made in
Rutland by Attorney T. w. Moloney
OF Rutland TO the effect that the
charges of misentries made by How
ard j. Hill. teller in the Vergennes
National bank, were in reality made
| by Mr.. Ketchum Mr.. Ketchum said
"All the charges made against Hill
were for entries solely in the hand
writing of Hill and after / LETT the
bank on September 20, 1907
| Christ church rectory at Island Pond
was broken into Aug. 4 during the
absence of the rector and his family at
a picnic. Two watches, two chains.
one long old-fashioned silver chain,
very valuable. and several dollars in
money were stolen. 1t is thought to
be the work OF tramp, as one was
seen in that vicinity. He went to the
pantry where he secured a loaf of
bread and some butter, and finding no
one at home stole the property above
mentioned, and thinking he had
booty enough he considerably left the
bread and butter in the coal bin.
P. H. Barrett and James Kenny
were arrested by Deputy Sheriff E. c..
Fish at West Rutland Aug. s, and a
large quantity OF intoxicating liquor
and beer found in their possession was
seized by the officer and placed in the
custody of the license commissioners
of West Rutland. At the time of the
arrests Mr.. Barrett was driving the
team of /. NJ. Nancy & Co., proprie-
tors of the Rutland bottling works.
The wagon was loaded with beer kegs,
beer in cases and liquor in small
packages and the two men were de-
livering these goods to persons in
West Rutland.
A. B. Yandow's grocery store at Es-
sex junction was broken into again
the night OF Aug. g. Entrance was
made through a cellar window the
same as before and the door at the top
OF the stairs was pried open. Several
boxes OF cigars, tobacco and pipes were
taken, also a few pennies. There was
some money in the store but it was not
found The visitors helped themselves
to a lunch, ransacked coats which were
hanging in the toilet room and stirred
things up considerably. Five freight
cars standing near the freight house
were also broken into but it appears
that nothing was taken. Entrance was
made by breaking the seals. David
| Teachout, night switchman, saw two
men near the cars about II o'clock and
gave chase but they got away from
him. He was not near enough to iden-
tify the men.
| Mark II. Daniels OF Goshen. y. H.,
and Martin II. Barrett OF Claremont,
who are charged with obtaining sew
eral horses under false pretences in
Windsor and Sullivan, n. H., counties
and giving bogus checks were arrested
early last Thursday morning near
North Montpelier by Deputy Sheriff
iKiniry OF Windsor, assisted by Deputy
Sheriff Charles A. Smith and Martin
Fitzgerald of Montpelier. The horses
were also taken 10 Montpelier. Sheriff
Kiniry went TO Montpelier the night
before and taking the two Montpelier
deputies started in pursuit OF his men.
The officers drove all night and finally
came across the men and horses short
ly after daylight. Barrett claims TO
have recently entered the employ OF
Daniels. The parties were given a
hearing at Claremont, n. H., and were
held for trial at the November term OF
court, at Newport, n. H., bail in each
case being fixed at $1,000.
Some days ago a man signing his
name as Z. Wilson called upon D..
Frank Ladd of Stowe and after con-
siderable smooth talk drew up al con-
tract to put lightning rods on Mr..
lLadd's house. Wilson said the rods
would not cost more than 50 or 50 in
view of the fact that he and some Of
his men would probably board there.
The next day man named W. Bent
cliff called. Both men acted as agents
for Cole Bros. The rods were put up
and when the work was done Bent
cliff gave receipt for a S300-note given
| by Mr.. Ladd. which he claimed was the
cost of the work. Later Mr.. Ladd
met w. f. Harris of Stowe who had
lightning rods placed on his barn by
the same men. When they had finish
ed their work $500 was demanded as
the price. Mr.. Harris not having
signed a note, objected to paying such
a sum and finally settled the bill for
$50. All this Mr.. Ladd learned after
the lightning rod men had gone away.
He is now trying to make connections
with his note and the smooth takers.
An unusual act of depreciation was
committed by persons who entered the
wholesale liquor store of Chas. Zanle-
oni at Barre the night of Aug. 4.where,
in addition to thieving, the miscreants
added destruction of property and an
attempt at incendiarism to their OF.
ense. Once inside the men pulled
down all the window shades and light
ed the gas. Then they proceeded to
make themselves at home. As fast as
they drank up the bottles of liquor they
broke the bottles over the fixtures.
When the work OF cleaning up the ref
use was completed by Mr.. Lanieoni,
he had collected a barrel Of broken
bottles. Warming to the work the
burglars tore out the gas jets and
broke the lamps and lighted the gas as
| it poured from the broken pipes. Then
they tipped the kerosene from. Ian