Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-07-08
STATE NEWS.
Balloon Shooter Sentenced to Two Years.

Balloon Shooter Sentenced to Two Years.
Vim. Murphy of Brattleboro vas
sentenced to two years at hard labor
at the house of correction, Rutland,
for shooting at a balloon while passing
over Brattleboro. Murphy, who is a
farm hand, claims he thought it a toy
affair and wanted to see how it was
made, and shot thinking to pierce it
and bring it down.
Sutton Girl Drops Dead.
During a dance at Sutton Corner
Wednesday night. July /. Miss Winona
Batchelder, a handsome and popular
young woman, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Amos Batchelder, dropped
dead of heart failure, throwing the
scene of merriment into a place Of
sorrow. The girl. who was a great
lover of dancing, had been enjoying
herself all the evening, and toward
midnight she started to dance a waltz
when she collapsed in her partners
arms, dying almost instantly. She
was Is years old and a favorite among
the younger people. Her death has
cast a shadow On the little community.
Boy Kicked His Teacher.
The last case taken up in Caledonia
county court was that Of State VS.. Ar
thur Duclos. The offense charged was
breach Of the peace. The respondent
is a young boy IA years old, who has
been causing trouble in school at Dan
vile and the particular. offense charged
was that he kicked and struck the
teacher. He pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to the state industrial,school
at Vergennes until he arrives at the
age Of 81 years, which swas found by
the court to be May 80, 1915. Sentence
was suspended and the respondent was
placed in the hands of tthe probation
officer upon condition that he break
no laws Of this state.
North Troy Couple Arrested for Larceny.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Luther Wade, who
were arrested and brought from North
Troy to Randolph Monday. June %,
the charge against them being steal
ing sac from Frank Trask. while they
were being entertained by his family,
taking the money from a purse while
Mrs. Trask was out Of the room,
pleaded guilty to petty larceny and
were sentenced to three months in the
house of correction, Rutland. Two
children, the youngest being five
months and the other about two years
old, must first be provided for and an
appeal was made to the town which
was refused because of the parents
not being residents Of the town, and
all were placed in confinement till the
mother was taken to Rutland the
next night. Wednesday it became
known that the children were in jail
with the father, and the Rev. Fraser
Metzger Interested himself in the mat
ter, and provided a place temporarily
for the children and the authorities
liberated the father on probation, that
he might earn sufficient to provide fol
the children. The case is a pitiful
one. 1t is expected that Mr.. Wade
will return to North Troy.
The Black Hand in Vermont.
Threatening letters were received
by officers of the Rutland railroad re
Gently in which they were told to leave
a sum of money at a certain place
along the track at a certain time OF
Sunday afternoon, June %. The frs
letter, which was mailed at Middle
bury June Is to General Manage
George T. Jarvis, demanded that
sum of $500, in S. and $40 notes, b
thrown off between Brandon and Al
{ burgh. The letter designated the plac
t where the money was to be throw
t off by stating that a white flag woul
: be placed there beside the track.
3 demanded that the engineer should b
: running wild in passing, and that tn
E money, in a package, should be throw
off without stopping, because, it said
t the man who stopped would be she
dead. On Sunday the trip was take