Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14

this failure William Alexander of
Barre, representing firms that are hit,
was in GAINESVILLE last week and after fig
uring for several days on the books of the
concern found that the Indebtedness eX-
ceeded what is due the company by sever
al thousand dollars. The firm has recent
Iy changed hands, but the new proprie-
tors, of whom l. A. Wilfore of Barre is
one, do not assume any of the indebted
ness of the former ones.
Deputy Sheriff Noble Sanford went to
Rridport Nov. 6 and there arrested Hen
ry Crow, aged IS years, on charge of
breaking and entering the house of Jacob
Delano in that town Nov. and stealing
articles therefrom. A hearing was held
Nov. and the respondent was held for
the Addison county grand jury, being
sent to the state industrial school at Yer
gennes pending action by that body. 1t
is alleged that Crow saw the Delano fam
ily leave home and shortly after their de-
parture effected an entrance through a
window He ate some jelly and drank
quantity of intoxicating liquor, as a re-
suit of which he became abnOrmally hila-
rious, his Joy finding expression in demol-
ishing the furniture. He was detected
through attempting to pass at village
Judge a. A. Hall in Rutland county
court Nov, 6, granted the plaintiffs petit
tion that close Jail certificate be issued
in the case of Joseph Gagne of Fair Haven
VS. w. H. Maynard of the same town.
This is an automobile case tried early
in the term in which the plaintiff was
given verdict allowing him to recover
$3.50 damages. The decision now given
means that the damages must be paid or
the defendant go to Jail. The declaration
alleged that while Gagne was driving
pair of horses hitched to a truck wagon
in Fair Haven last March, Maynard, al
though previously signaled to use eau
ton, passed by him in an automobile,
running very near the wagon, at rapid
pace. The horses bolted from the road
and ran over some rubbish. One of them
was killed and the other injured and the
wagon was damaged. Gagne sued for
$1,000.
Manufacturers who were depending on
getting electrical power by January l
from the new power plant located at Cav
endish gorge were greatly disappointed
when il was learned that the water in
Black river had swooped down on the
works and carried away the Cofferdam,
pumps and apparatus and had destroyed
all the work that it took months to &C
complish. The current was 50 strong in
its mad rush that boulders as big a.
houses were whirled along with the hur-
rying water. The wooden sluiceway was
splintered like kindling wood and the
damage will reach many thousand dollars,
as the concrete work put in was des-
troyed, beside the expensive delay that it
will cause in the work. 1T may be impos-
al h 10 IN do mo on 10 In 81
til the spring freshets, the outlook for
further work this fall being dubious, the
water is so high. The work will contin-
ne on the monster power house and the
steel penstock, which IS over six feet in
diameter, will be joined together and the
work on the tunnel through TIE ledge
will he completed.
In Orleans county court at Newport
Nov. J, Judge w. ". Miles sentenced
Dwight A. Niles 10 life imprisonment in
the state prison at Windsor. He was
charged with the murder OF his wife.
Contrary to all expectations, Niles en-
tered plea of guilty of murder in the
second degree. which the state accepted.
This was the first murder case which had
been heard in Orleans county court for
many years and it was the saddest. II i
said that Niles knows things about the
case which he will not disclose, prefer
ring to take a life sentence. The crime
to which Niles pleaded guilty was com
mitted last spring at Newport Center,
where be shot and instantly killed his
young wife, no had refused to live with
him. He shot her down at the gate OF
her parents home. Fleeing, he hid in
swamps but was recognized when on
train near Richford. Arrested and con
fined in the Jail there, he attempted to
kill himself by cutting his throat while
the jailer was lighting a fire. Niles was
a railway brakeman and an eX-member of
the Vermont National Guard.