Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-02
Entire Glass Passed State Bar
Observation-Disclosures Ad.
mitted-Three Wait.
SUPREME COURT BUSINESS
windsor County CRses Renched-Hnrd.
wick Conspiracy SUIT bids Fair 20
necOnc Famous - Arguments
COuplctcd-COurt Took TIE.
cess until Tuesday a. m.

Montpclicr, Oct. 27.-Nhcn supreme
court convened this morning seven young
men, who have been taking examinations
this week for admission to the bar, were
on the recommendation of +. 3. PIatt of
Poultney, chairman of the examining
board. admitted tn the bar of
and the oath of office was administered
to them by Clerk NJ. T.. Smile. The class
admitted is composed of Ernest Der. Bar
Dor of Bennington, j. Ward Carver or
Barre, Charles a. Earle of Middlebury.
+. l.. S. Hartman of Rutland. j. &.
Jones Of Richford, Il. ID. Mcguire OF
| West Rutland and George II. thompson
of Brattleboro. The entire class passed
the rigid examination. but three of them.
| John S. Battles of Brandon. George II.
Lawrence of Manchester and Abncr W..
Smith Of st. Johnsbury. have not com
pleted the required time fU study. The
last three mentioned will be admitted at
the January term of supreme court.
AN EXTENSION ASKED.
The motion for an extension of time to
take testimony in the Washington county
case of state of Vermont. cX re Charles
A. Phelps VS.. S. Hollistcr jackson. to de-
termine the question, whether States At
torney jackson of Washington county is
a citizen of the United States. was ar
yued this morning by Elisha May and r.
la. Uoar for the plaintiff and John w.
Gordon for the defendant. This case Is
set for hearing Mt the present term OF
s,uremc court. The court took the mat
ter under advisemcnt.
Arguments were completed to-day in
, aro from ClleIDnll
county. state VS.. james Duncan ct al.
The respondent in this case Is the nation
nj secretary of the frantic Cutters
union and was indicted with several
others for conspiracy at Iardwick.
WINDSOR COUNTY CASES.
Windsor county cases were reached
this afternoon. The first argued was j.
f.. Colston VS.. w. w. Bean. fraud ana
trover. j. c. i;nright appeared for the
plaintiff and j. ID. Dennison for the de-
PENDANT. The last case taken up was IN
re. the estate of Whitcomb II. Church'
" illiam L. BrostOn, executor of ). Is.
Churrh's estate. apt. villa"
Batchclder and Charles Batchc'i Ter f"r
the prOponcnt. Pingree n Pingrec 1or inc
appellant. This case comes to supreme
court on an appeal from IN" cot''r'sS'"h-
crs on Mr.. Church's estate.
The other Windsor county cases heard
to-day was Frank L. Russ VS.. the Cen
trail Vermont Railway company. negIi-
gcrce. William Batchclder appeared for
the plaintiff and w. Is. c. Stickney for
the defendant.
The court took a recess this after
noon until next Tuesday morning at nine
O'Clock.
ABOUT HARDWCK AFFAIR.
The Hardwick conspiracy case bids
fair 10 become rs famous in Vermont
as was the case from RntlaEd county o.
Patch W.. Profession Lodge 1t al. In
the Hardwick case it Is alleged that Dun
can, the national secretary, used his Of
fetal position to threaten certain Hard
wick dealers if they employed any cN.
oept union men. The State alleges CON
spiracy on the part of Duncan and ter
others. Duncan refused to come to Yer
mont last June and appear before tho
grand Jury of Caledonia county. The ter
others who were indicted refused ~
testify before that lody on the grOund
that their testimony might incrimil.att
, themselves.