Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-04-14
MIspEEos AND Pc NALTiEs.


sale liquor raid late April s. seizing
barrels of wine at the Montpelier
freight Office of the Montpelier & Well
River railroad. The wine was sent from
California and was to be shipped e
various sections, including Hardwick
this state. and Redstone. y. II.
Houghton & Simonds' dry goods
store on Main street in BrattleborC
was burglarized during Friday night
April 8. The thief pried open a small
window in the rear, entered the base
ment and then went to the main store,
where the money drawer was rifIed OF
| between Sll and Sl2. There is no
clue to the perpetrator.
There was hearing in Chittenden
county court April s in the divorce
case of j w. ketchum VS.. Maud
Ketchum for alleged intimacy with
Bert j. Holmes of Boston. The court
reserved its decision. ketchum is
now serving a seven years sentence in
the county Jail for defalcation in the
Yergennes National bank.
VIM. +. Sayner Of New York was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Whitaker
on a charge OF embeZZlement at Rut-
land April Z. He was employed by
Fred NJ. Sheldon of Burlington, to get
subscriptions through Vermont for his
magazine, Expansion He was EN-
ployed in January and had been get
ting subscriptions ever since but never
turned in a cent.
George Moves, who was arrested
last week in Rutland, when discovered
was being dragged by horse, the
reins being tangled about the mans
body so thoroughly that the policeman
at first supposed il to be blanket or
bundle. Investigation showed that
Moves was unconscious and he was
taken to the lookup Later he was
taken to the hospital, where he was
found to be badly hurt.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
April 4 10 burglarize the safe in the
Office of the Vermont Shade Roller Co.
OF Vergennes by working the combi-
nation, which failed TO succeed and
force was resorted to, as the dial bore
marks OF being hammered with an
iron instrument. The attempt was
not discovered until superintendent
Graves entered the office in the morn |
inc. Blood on the floor and doors |
evidenced that the person who made |
the attempt received a severe cut, pro-
baby in breaking the glass in the
window
John Lewis, who is charged with the |
larceny of a horse, wagon, blanket, |
harness, robe. whip and halter, valued |
at S240 from Lunnie Bros. In Barre, |
was brought from Plymouth, n H., by |
Deputy Sheriff Geo Laekey Apr. 9. 1t |
Is reported that when first arrested in
Plymouth, Lewis denied his identity |
and claimed that he had never been in
Vermont. But he afterwards, so 1t is
said. weakened and claimed that he
was drunk when he lett the team. At
Ter leaving the team at Levi Hirred's |
farm in Orange. Lewis says he pro-
ceeded on foot until he struck the rail-
oad He then boarded a train and |
rode to Plymouth, where he was after
wards arrested.
The case of State VS.. Bartholomew
Troto on the charge OF having murder
ed Peter Vorron at East Montpelier,
September 8, 1908, which was to have
,ome up for trial Apr. 4 in Washing
on county court, will not be tried at
hat time. and it is doubtful IL the case
,ver comes 10 trial A hearing as to
Jroto's sanity was held in county court
ind DR.. Marcello Hutchinson, super
of the state hospital for the
insane at Waterbury. testified that the
nan was insane. He explained that
While Croto was capable OF understand
no what the trial meant. he was not
capable of making rational defence.
lie was subject TO delusion, imagining
hat he was being prosecuted and that
was trying to poison him.
Doctor WATSON under whose care
'roto has been while at Waterbury,
the testimony of DIR.
At the annual meeting OF the stock '
olders of the Brattleboro Creamery
ssociation Apr. it was shown that I
wo patrons of the creamery, both liv- !
NO in different towns, had been over !
aid for their cream to the amount OF
bout 81, 200 through trickery on their I
art. The patrons are paid according /
o the test of their cream as made by I
be cream gatherers. It appeared that !
he two patrons in question substituted G
amples of high test cream for the I
amples taken by the gatherers when
he gatherers were not watching. This J
vent on in one case for several q
lonths, until finally suspicious were 4
reused and the gatherer took two '
amples from the same cream, putting c
ne in his pocket. On returning TO G
he creamery he tested the samples. 1
me tested three times as valuable as /
he other. One OF the patrons t
as settled. The other will /
ettle or be prosecuted. !
Clothing Caught from Bonfire G
Mrs. Grace Carpenter Mclaughlin.