Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-21
State of Vermont.
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derwear. The defense rested on expert
g yidence to prove that the Lasher ma
chine contained several improvements on
the Cooper one.
| William Quinn was held in $500 bonds
| Nov. II on the charge of the grand lar
ceny of ten Central Vermont mileage
b ,oks Oct. IL at the Townshend railroad
station. The case will come up at the
next term of Windham county court in
| April. Bail was placed at nominal fig
| ure Mr.. Quinn, through his counsel,
| pleaded not guilty and said that he
| bought the mileage books of Ernest
| Hutchinson of Brattleboro Nov. s. Mr..
| Hutchinson was held in $50 bonds and
| allowed to go on his own recognlZance.
| Mr.. Quinn was arrested Nov. at White
River Junction in the attempt to dispose
| of a mileage book bearing the same num-
| Der as one of those stolen from Towns
bend. He was searched and ten mileage
books were found on his person. Hutch
inson was arrested, but on account of the
insufficiency of evidence against him he
was held only as witness.
The American Fidelity company of
Montpelier may suffer heavily as the result
of drastic action taken Nov. Ia by Secre-
tary of the Navy Metcalf. He declared
forfeited the contract of George B. Spear
in of New York, who Feb. :, 1905, agreed
to construct a concrete dry dock (No. A.
at Brooklyn for s757, 500. Mr.. Spearin
furnished a bond of S151, $50 by the
Montpelier concern. He completed only
a small portion of the dry dock when he
stopped work. Judge Charles II. Darling
of Burlington appeared Nov. IS before the
secretary, urging that the Montpelier
company be not held for the completion
of the work. Bids for the completion of
the dry dock will be readvertised. The
American Fidelity company has been no.
titled that it will be held responsible for
any losses that may be sustained by the
government. There is remote possible
ty that the work may be completed with
in the contract price.
Fred c. Gale, who conducted a liquor
bu mess on the island in the Connecticut
river opposite BrattlebOro for the past 10
years, was fined $1,000 by Judge Seneca
Haselton in county court at Newfane
Nov. 9, Gale having pleaded guilty to
an indictment issued by the grand jury
charging him with selling liquor in Brat
lebOro April !, 1905. Gale also pleaded
guilty to one offence on each of three
counts of an information filed against
him charging him with furnishing liquor
in Rra5tIeboro April /, ? and 3, 1905.
This action was continued for sentence
and Gale was placed under bonds OF
900. The effect of this is to keep the
action under information hanging over
him. Gale paid his fine and costs,
amounting to S1.051.16. This is one of
the results of Gales 100000 libel suits
against Gen. John Il. Albin OF Concord,
y. II. the evidence of the offence being
brought out in taking dispositions in that
case, which was finally withdrawn.
The end of a boy and girl runaway
match came at Albany, n. Y, Nov. y
when an introductory decree of divorce
was granted Irene Graves Jepson from her
nus band, Forrest 1. J. Jepson, of Schen-
ectady, y. Y, on statutory grounds.
She is also given the custody of an infant
daughter and both are permitted to re-
sumo the name of Graves. The husband
did not appear in court and the suit was
not contested. The marriage of the cou-
pie in August, 1905, was the Sensation OF
the summer in Bennington. The girl
was only Il years old and was still in
short dresses and Jepson had just passed
his nineteenth birthday anniversary.
His suit was naturally opposed by Miss
Graves parents but the young people ran
away in an automobile to White Creek.
n. Y, where they were married by JUS
tice of the peace. They did not live to-
gether long and when the girl wife re-
turned to her parents with her baby
daughter the husband threatened an
alienation suit for $4,000.