Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-02-25


and expenses for IS days when he was
W orking for himself and not for the state,
and charged the state for telephoning on /
his own private business amounting to /
Eli 80, team hire amounting to sl41, and /
other expenses amounting to S12S. The |
case is set for trial in March before the |
Orleans county court.
Forged Name and Drew Money.
During the absence at Barton of Mr.. and |
Mrs. I. A. Adams of Derby Thursday
night, Robert Norris, young man about
Is years old, went to stay over night with
the two young sons left at home. Friday
morning the cream gatherer left Mr.. Adams
check for the previous months cream and
1t was placed in q bureau drawer for safe
keeping. During the forenoon Charlie
Adams went to Newport and Robert Nor
ris accompanied him out did not retuCn.
s BON after Charles return home he went
to the bureau and discovered the loss of
the check. Suspecttng young Norris he
Immediately started for Newport, where
he found that Nerris had forged Mr..
Adams name ON the check, indorsed 1t,
giving his name as John Niles, tken in
vested in new clothes and an overcoat ct
tn American Clothing store, bought part
of a mileage, and engaged room at the
Raymond. He lett his old clothes at the
store. When he called tor them he was
arrested and taken before Judge Gus shman
where he pied guilty and was sentenced to
Rutland for two months and 20 days.
Orleans County Boys Success.
B. F. Spaulding of North Dakota has
recently been appointed to the supreme
court bench of that state by Governor
John Burke. Mr.. Spaulding had been a
congressman from North Dakota and is
leading member of the state bar. Mr..
| Spaulding was a former resident of
Glover and is known in this county The
following ie taken frona an editorial in the
Grand Forks (N.D.) Daily Herald.
| The Herald tenders it's hearty congratu-
lations to Governor Burke on his appoint
.ment of Hon. b. F. Spauiding as member
of the supreme court. Ia its opinion, un-
der all the circumstances, this was the
| Wisest selection that he could have made.
Other men had been mentioned tor the
place, some of them excellent, both IN
point of equipment and in point OF charac-
ter. But there is every reason to feel that
the appointment of no other man would
have been received with such general
favor as will that of Mr. Spaulding. OF
his personality and qualifications there is
little need TO speak. Few men in the
state are better known than he, and there
are few men who have occupied so
prominent place in the public thought
VINO would have been able to hold popular
respect and esteem as he has done. He
has been actively Engaged in political
| work, and he has passed through some
stormy experiences, but he has carried
himself with unruffled demeanor, and
with dignity which has won respect
from those who have been most
active in their opposition to him
He has had long and honora BILE career
with at the bar, and lawyers who know
him best are convinced of his ability
while of his fairness there has never been
question.
In making this appointment Governor
Burke has exhibited the broadness anc
sanity which his friends have felt conf
dent he possessed. In his work thus fa
. he has given a good account of himself
and there is every reason to bslieve tina
n | he will keep 1t up.
= Suicide on Midnight Express.
r The midnight air line express between
: Montreal and Boston was held at Barton
}. about 80 minutes Thursday morning t
leave the body of man who had com
mitted suicide on that train between
Coventry and Barton. The man was frs
discovered in the smoking apartment G
the car by fellow passengers. AS tn
Y, brakeman, John Wilson, entered. he aske
why the man was bleeding and was tol
he had cut his throat. Wilson summone
Conductor w. j. Goss but before interfel
eDce was made the man had slashed b
ID throat three times with a jackknife an
7. tore open the wound with his fingers, an
= before the train reached Barton he We
/ dead from loss of blood. Authorities
OF Barton were summoned, who took tt
l. body to the undertaking rooms of c. ]
Z. Jenness, and the following morri lg
D. hearing was held by E. A. Cook of New
n, port, states attorney, before II. P. Cool
FL. justice, at which the brakeman, job
be Wilson, and DR.. P. w. Templeton of Ira
sr. burg. who was on the train, testifie,
st Their testimony showed that the act was
ay deliberate suicide. search of the bod
revealed ticket made out to D. A. Nj
Donald, from Spokane, Wash, to Bosto
Other papers showed a certificate of depos
ng OF 1851 30 In the same name In Spoka al
at bank, and an accident ticket made out
d. Montreal the day previous, good for $50
e. in case of death by accident. 9th
ng papers were found, also $40 So and watc
st. The body was dressed in a new suit
,e- clothes and new overcoat and pair of shoe
'n' Papers upon the body indicated that rel
Is' tiyes were in Boston. Through the Bost,
~, papers a brother. K. d. Mcdonald, learn
~ OF the suicide and came to Barton Saturd
"o evening. He identified the body as that
his brother by means of certain scars, t
n fact that the man came from the pIs
oe where he supposed mis- brother was, a
et- the name being that of his brother D
Mcdonald ran away from homs when
- was II years old, 1Syears ago, has been hes
from bot few times since, tue last time bel
weave uun The fat har nd mot har