Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-24
A Week Of Criminal Business.
STEADY WORK IN THAT LINE IN THE
SUPREME COURT.

nal business has been put in 0y the 81
preme Judicial Court. As the gran
jury had the longest session on recOl
with one exception, so the business r
sulting from it has been more than ev'
before. From the time when the gran
jury came in last Monday afternoon, an
work on the criminal docket was begun
business has been kept very lively.
: addition to the minor matters, thel
have been two trials on some days, an
the cases which have come on durin
the week have included trials for asSau
with intent to kill, manslaughter, an
arson.
County Attorney Barnes, following
long week with the grand jury, has ha
la hard week of trials, keeping him col
tinuously at work. He has been zealOu
in his prosecution of the matters in hi
charge, and has had many compliment
on his thorough preparation on all cases
and the skill and readiness which b
shows in the trials.
Judge Powers has with one exception
included a term in jail in all sentence
imposed by him in liquor cases, whethe
it was first offence or otherwise. 1t
understood that there was quite a
exodus from Rumford Fails to Ne,
Hampshire just before the grand jur
finished its work, and some of those in
dicted have not yet appeared in court.
The grand jury reported Monday after
noon, bringing in twenty-six indictments
as follows:
| Amos A. Buck. Assault with intent to kill.
Adam Miller. alias A. n. Miller, alias Ad
Miller. Cheating by false pretences.
| James DeCoster, alias James Russell. break
| ing and entering and larceny.
Sullivan +. Bickford. Illegal sale Of NOR,
gagged property.
Lois NJ. bay. Albert L. Day and Clarence W
| Day. Arson.
Richard Pye. Common seller. and single sale
Ira ID. Shaw. Forgery.
| Eustace +. Bennett. Common seller, an
| single sale.
Frank Knox. Nuisance, and single sale.
Prentiss Fogg and Fred Flagg. Two singh
Edward Siddall. alias Ed siddall Nuisance
and single sale.
James Poland. alias Jim Poland. Single sale
Gideon r. Ferland Single sale.
Fred Z. Tucker. Single sale
Alden Farnham. Nuisance.
Camille Fountaine. Nuisance
Louis Cohen. Nuisance.
Ralph L. Young. Manslaughter.
John Russell. Common seller.
Philip West Perjury.
Frank Cloutier. Illegal transportation o
| liquor.
THE BUCK CASE.
immediately after the arraignment o.
prisoners, trial was begun in the case o.
State VS.. Amos A. Buck of Paris. Bucl
was indicted for assault with intent tt
kill upon his wife, Mary Eta Buck
County Attorney Barnes for the state
Wright & Wheeler for Buck. Mrs
Buck, by the way, is the daughter Of
Bucks sister, and the parties are there
fore within the degree of relationship in
which the law prohibits marriage.
Nevertheless they were married, AND
have lived together for number OF
years, having two children, girl of Il
years and boy of 6.
The witnesses for the state were Mary
Eta Buck, wife of the respondent
Solomon c. Buck, his brother, George
II. Proctor, who lives in the house next
to that at which the assault was COM
mitted, and Will Yates, who was with
Proctor at the time. The testimony
given does not differ in any material
circumstance from that given at the
hearing in the Norway Municipal Court,
which was reported at the time, and a
brief summary of it, without specifying
the testimony of the separate witnesses,
will tell the story of the affair.
During the winter of 19O4-5 Mr.. and
Mrs. Buck had lived on the farm of
Orange Small, about two miles north
east of Paris Hill. On the 23d of May,
1905, Mrs. Buck decided to leave her
husband, and taking the boy with her
1.-THE girl being at that time with rela-
tives elsewhere), she went to the home
of Mrs. Mary G. Buck, mother of Amos
A. Buck and grandmother of Mary Eta
Buck, on fremont Street in Paris Hill
village.
To this house on the afternoon of the
18th of May came Amos A. Buck. When
he entered the house the women Of the
household were in the stable, but they
soon came in, and he asked his wife if she
was going home with him. She said
she was net, and soon went out and sat
down on the front steps. He went out
and sat down pear her, and their CONVEX
sation was continued. After few
minutes she got up and walked toward
the village, and he followed. They
went out nearly to Main Street, and
then turned and came back, sitting down
in the open door of the stable at the
Buck place.
In the stable door their conversation
was continued for some time, until,
after they had been called to supper, he
demanded finally to know if she was
going back with him. She said she was
not. He said, "Then that means that
you're never going back" She said it
did. He said, II shall know what to do
then" and picking up an axe which
stood near the door, brought it down
upon her head.
Mrs. Buck screamed and graSped the
handle of the axe. The rest of the
family were brought from the house by
the scream, and Solomon Buck took the
axe from Amos, Mrs. Buck meanwhile
going into the house. Amos attempted
to follow the family in, but was prevent
ed, whereupon he picked up stick OF
wood and hurled it against the house,
breaking a window. He then went of
across the fields, but later returned and
spent the night at the house, and was
arrested the next forenoon.
DR.. Woodbury. was summoned from
South Paris, and dressed the wound or
Mrs. Bucks head. This wound was an
inch and half or two inches in length,
| in the hair toward the left side of the
head, and a short distance back of the
forehead. 1t was evidently made will
the poll of the axe. Mrs. Buck was
confined to the bed the day following
but on the second day was up, anC
suffered no permanent i'll effects.
| Such was in substance the testimony
of the states witnesses, most of then
members of Mr.. Bucks family, and i
was apparently very fair and honest
No evidence was put in for the defence
and the attorneys devoted the argument
principally to considering whether thu
assault was made with intent to Kill
and murder" as charged in the indict
ment.
| Judge Powers in charging the jury in
structed them regarding the lesser de
grees of assault than that named in tn
indictment of which they might find tin
respondent guilty under the indictment
The jury retired about IL 80 Tuesda,,
forenoon, and some less than an hOu
afterward returned verdict of guilty o
assault and battery. Buck, who ha
been in Jail about five months, wa
sentenced on Wednesday to seven month
in Jail.
OTHER CRIMINAL BUSINESS.
Following the Buck case, other crimi
nal matters were disposed of as rapid