Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-21

were closed about one month ago, was ar
rested IN Chicago Nov. IS by an officer,
who had been on his trail for the past |
two weeks. Campbell was under bonds
of S., 900 to appear at the present term OF |
Washington county court and skipped |
out He was charged with fraud in con-
nection with the sale of stock. When |
Campbell disappeared, his bondsman of
South Barre put an officer on the mans |
track. |
John Skehan of Bennington has |
brought suit against the Rutland Rail /
road company, claiming $4,000 damages
for injuries received in an accident on
the Chatham division Dec. %, 1905, when
a regular southbound freight collided at
Stephentown, n. Y, with snowplow.
Skehan a member of the snowplow
crew and sustained broken collar bone,
fractured ribs and dislocated elbow.
He asserts that the accident was due to
negligence on the part of the freight
crew. The case is to be brought up at
the December term of county court.
Gustavus Olsen, the big Swede who
was arrested in Barre saloon Nov. aft
err hard struggle, was brought into
court Nov. II, pleaded guilty to charge
of intoxication and was fined 20, with
breach of the peace in assaulting an Off
Ger, Deputy Sheriff III. G. Lawson of
Montpelier having received a blow of
such severity that one shoulder blade was
broken. Olsen pleaded guilty to this
charge and City Judge II. w. Scott i'm
posed sentence of not less than fifteen
months or more than four years in the
house of correction at Rutland.
Israel Lassor, an elevator conductor at
the Mead building in Rutland, was seri-
ously injured Nov. 10. He had just ad-
mitted woman at the main floor and
had stepped one foot over the sill when
the car started upward of its own accord.
LassOr has but one arm and was unable
to pull himself into the moving elevator.
His body was drawn upward and one leg
was crushed between the floor of the car
and a door frame. The jar threw the ele-
vator four inches from its shafting and
Mr.. Lassor was released, falling to the
cellar floor II feet below. He struck on
his head and may have fracture of the
skull.
Carroll. the five-year-old son of George
c. Harris of BrattleborO, has just been
operated upon at the Massachusetts Gen
eral hospital, Boston, and is comfortable,
although in a critical condition. Two
years ago, while the family was moving,
the child got hold of a bottle which CON
tanned potash and drank some of the con-
tents. He has been in a pitiable condi-
ton since. The physicians found stric-
ture at the mouth Of the stomach and an
other in the throat. The stomach has
been opened and glass tube inserted
J through which nourishment is given,
and if the child RECEIVERS, it will be ne
CeGgaFV n Oppratp unOn his throat.
Joseph D. Hayes, employed as a boxer
at f. c. Glysson's shed in Barre, had &
narrow escape from death Nov. Is by be
l ing whirled around shafting in the pol
. ishing mill until his clothing was tori
= from his body. He was at work boxing
, up some granite when he got too near
: rapidly whirIing shafting and his cloth
! ing was wound around the shaft. HI
5 was unable to break away and wa:
: whirled around until his clothes wer
; torn off. The doctor found that n,
e bones had been broken, but the cartilag
had been broken away from two ribs OF
Y his right side and he was bruised all owe
f his body. 1t is not now thought tina
Y he has been injured internally.
= Chief of Police Evans, George Willcut
! and Henry Ryan of Brattleboro went I
/ Greenfield, Mass, Nov. 10 to recove
e money stolen from Willcutt and Ryan i
D the morning by Earl Witcher, formerl
Y of Brattleboro, but now living IN ConneC
= ticut. Witcher had been hangin
around Browns livery stable severS
Y days. Willcutt and Ryan came IN from
o long trip and went to sleep in the harnes
}, room. A little later they awoke an
n found that their pockets had been riheC
: Willcutt missed s. and Ryan 80. Wi
10 !
Is railroad station and found that he ha
l. departed on a train which had just lef
II Wltcher paid back the money, but as
n was in another state no effort mad
to prosecute him.
t. Patrick Moran, one of the mill-wright
is employed at the mill of the Rutland-FIo
1t ence Marble company at Fowler, had h
,r right arm severely injured while at wor
/ Nov. y and narrowly escaped a muc
n more serious injury. A gang had bee
a loaded with an extra high block OF ma
d BILE and the saws set when it was discol
l. cred that two bolts were loose. Mr.. NJ
l. ran climbed up to tighten the bolts an
lie while thus engaged the sleeve of his frCC
caught in the small gears overhead, draw
m ing his arm in. By main strength /
+ drew his arm from the cogs, leaving tt
,e sleeve of his frock and a large piece
T. flesh fully six by four inches in siz
is which was torn from the inside of Il
- forearm. No bones wers broken but II
, muscles of the arm are badly manglc
,r and it will probably be two months befol
h. he can resume work.
tie After a legal contest waged relentless
s. for four years, Bradford * Lasher of Bel
nIngton have received a decision in II
l. United States court for the second di
At trict of Massachusetts affirming the vali
I'd Ity of their patent for a knitting II
I'd chine. The suit was brought for an a
a legged infringement of patent rights
n Charles Cooper of Bennington vs.. Il
W Otis company of Ware, Mass, but the d
n cslon of Judge Colt dismisses the cor
ed plant with costs. The defense was a
#. sumed by the Bradford Knitting cor
st pany of Bennington, manufacturers
the machine involved. The Fcontrover
originally related to a circular knittir
~ machine to knit stockings, which h
' I since been adapted to the making of u