The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-06-16
ORANGE UNITY URT.

| NThnBe COUNTY court DeBhH lVs JUNE
term on Tuesday, June Z, with Hon.
John W. Rowell, chief judge, presid-
ing. Hon. Charles o. Bigelow,
Brookfield, and william Paul of West
Fsiflee, assistant judges; O. s. Emery,
clerk; Frank l.. Whitney, sheriff;
Stephen B. Darling, high bailiff;
David S. Conant of Bradford, States
attorney; Mrs f. l.. Laird of Mont
pelier, reporter. The grand jurors
summoned to attend were: Bradford,
Henry A. Winship, Braintree, H. j.
Farnsworth, Brookfield, William O.
CLARK, Chelsea, Benson Sanborn,
Leslie H. Bohonon, Corinth, John S.
Chapman, Fairlee, william o. CAT
field, Newbury, David s, Fulton,
Orange, r. Edison Beard. Randolph,
II. P. Sanford, STAFFORD, Samuel B.
Bull, Thetford, H. f Wilcox, Tops
ham, James r. Nolan, Tupbridge,
Charles B. Smith, Vershire, Leon O.
Allis, Washington, Chester Dickey,
West Fairlee, John N. Kimball, Will
| lldnSJOWu, OJius " hhthlops lhi'
Garfield of Fairfield having been ex-
cused because of sickness, William H.
Sprague served as talesman in his
place Rev. Herbert j. Wyckoff,
church. made the opening prayer and
Sheriff Whitney formally proclaimed
the opening of county court and
uttered proclamation for the attend
snce of grand and petit jurors. To
the former, Judge Rowell delivered a
written charge, carefully tracing the
origin of the system and it's functions,
enforcing and explaining the several
ing in detail the various matters
| which might come before them. Ex-
assistant Judge James r Nolan Of
Topsham, was appointed foreman and
the grand jurors retired to their room,
where they elected William a..
Sprague clerk
The patti jurors who were sum-
moned were:' Henry j. Kilbourn,
I1tuly W. LDMu oCOi &c
G. Flint, Edward H. Nichols; Brook
field, Charles Powers. Frank H. Will
COX; Chelsea, Fred @. Waldo, Joshua
M. Grout; Corinth, j. Fellows Mer.
rill, Wilbur f. Harding; Fairlee, e.
B. Rugg, A. L. Warren; Newbury, j.
Elwell Cox, David Taisey; Orange,
Frank Haynes. Herbert S. Clark
Randolph, Dana H. Morse, Dan D.
Howe; STAFFORD, H. b. Cummings
Dana K. White; Thetford. r. S.
Howard, George W. Knight; Tops
ham, Lester f. Sanhorn, Alonzo D.
|, Hood; Tunbridge, Wallace W. Swan,
Walter X. Howe; Vershire, Evartl
P. Brown, John G.. Clough; Wash.
ington, Dan l.. Stanley, B. f. Smith
West Fsirlee, Roy A. Southworth.
Charles B Whitcoub; Williamstown
. Frank H. Martin, AFRO A. Reed. Blu
twenty EIGHT of the thirty four sum
moned came to court the others bein(
excused.
Upon call of the jury calendar no
one of the eleven cases set was ready
to be tried, some being settled, other
continued or set to court for hearing
On Wednesday afternoon the CRANE
= juror reported four true bills and on
not found and were discharged TIN
. session being the shortest on record il
, this county within the memory o.
man. Thursday began the orimina
=. trials. The first case was State v
Arthur Adshed. an information o
June term, 1904 charging responder
' with having committed rape upol
Edna King Of Randolph, fifteen
year-old girl. A single witness testi
fed to catching them in the crimina
act. After forty-four hours consid
;, Grafton the jury, Saturday forenoon
= rendered verdict of guilty. State
= Attorney Conant for prosecution, M
y NJ. Wilson for respondent
The next trial was State v. Henri.
M. White, an information filed a
June term, 1903, charging responder
with larceny of horse, wagon an,
harness, belonging to Morris A
10 Gale, proprietor of the hotel ant
y livery stable at Fairlee. Respond en-
: hired the team June 10, 1908, to us
it in canvassing for patent fire
lighter in the four nearby New
Hampshire towns of Haverhill, Pier
mont, Oxford and Lyme, to drive no
y more than 10 or 10 miles day. TIL
. prosecution claimed that he was nc
: to travel out of Grafton county bu
.. that he straightway drove beyon
y limit hired for and reached Franklin
N. H., nearly hundred miles ava
with horse quite played out, an
that these with other circumstance
y showed respondents intent to stea
:, the team when he pretended to hir
" it, Respondents counsel elaine
= that the testimony showed at mos
y only a conversion for which an aotio