Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-05-07
MlspEEps AND PENALTIES.

George May, the thirteen-year-old
son of Harmon May. who was arrested
on the charge of shooting deer, was
tried at the office of G. A. Pease in
| West Bolton last Thursday before a
justice and discharged. The trial of
his brother, Fred, who is seventeen
years old, was adjourned until May 20.
The postotfice at Wilder was entered
by forcing window at midnight April
20 and the door Of the safe was blown
of. A quantity OF postage stamps and
money to pay money orders and cash
were distracted, including S75. which
was the property of j. Nj. Quimby,
postmaster. There is no clue to the
burglars.
Seven plain DRINKS and one breach
OF the peace case were before Rutland
city court May / as a result of one
nights drinking. A strange feature
of the cases was the fact that every
man paid his fine. All pleaded guilty.
The total amount received was $685..
It was the biggest day in city court in
many years.
John Christolet, a Hungarian of
North Walpole, n. H., was picked up
late at night April % In the Rutland
railroad yards at Bellows Falls. He
was covered with cuts and bruises,
his skull was fractured, and he was
unconscious, the result OF fight with
a companion. Both men were intoxi-
Gated and the assailant escaped arrest.
While John Brennan, station agent
of the Delaware x Hudson railroad at
Hydeville, was at dinner May l, an
unknown man pried up the depot win
dow, entered the building. and ritied
the money drawer, taking S28. A man
was afterward arrested at Castleton on
suspicion OF being the thief but there
was no positive evidence and he was
allowed TO 90.
George Bennett, the young Barre
forger, who raised a check from 1885
to S10.s5, has been sentenced to the
Vermont industrial school for the re-
mainder of his minority, which will ex-
pire in September, 1906. If his be-
havior in that institution is not good,
he will have a further sentence of
three years and six months in the
house of correction and will be fined
81.
Trouble occurred at the home of Mr..
Littleield in Greensboro May ] in
which il is alleged Mrs Littlefeld was
driven from her home by Harvey Par
ker, former husband, and he took |
possession of the house. He claims |
the property is his and he holds a deed |
TO the place Mr. Littlefield and wife |
are stopping at n. A. Ross. Monday |
Parker was arrested by l.. A. Jackson |
and put under $500 bonds to appear at
the hearing Thursday. He secured
bail.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
in Chittenden county court April 20 by |
the Jury in the case of the state against
w. ID. Kendrew, who was tried on |
charge of burglary. The respondent |
was accused of burglarizing the store
OF A. +. Page at Williston and stealing |
$500. An information was also filed |
charging him with arson, but as the |
evidence was the same as that intro
duced in the burglary trial the case
was mol pressed by States Attorney |
Leary.
An investigation OF tue 1re whlcn |
burned large part of Cuttingsvllie
causing damage of $50, 900, shows that
the blaze was caused by an intoxicated
man setting fire to a woodshed in the
rear of the Union hotel. 1t is said that
since the inception of the liquor re-
gime at Cuttingsville, liquor has been
sold with great freedom, and many
persons have become intoxicated. The
prohibition element in the town attri-
butes the damaging fire to the intro
duction of the liquor system.
The two cases brought by the Union
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Montpel-
Ter. against A. h. Dugar of Worcester,
which have been on the docket for sew
eral years. were settled April q by
Dugar confessing judgment in both
cases and refunding $3.50 TO the insur-
ance companies, $500 for insurance
money paid him en- a barn burned in
Worcester in October, 1896, and $50
paid him for the loss of two cows
which were alleged to have been killed
by lightning in September, 1899.
In answer to a complaint to the
Mortified local agent OF the S. p. Z.
A.. J. A. Hutchinson inspected the |
stock of Mr.. Rock of Roxbury ana