Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-23


when Otis Dumas, last man up, struck
out. OF the four games, three went to
IL innings. The two teams are as closely
matched as could be. Barton, by win
ming this series, may fairly claim the
state championship.
A Lively Trio.
Three thieves, giving their names as
Charles Jackson of Attleboro, Mass, Lee
Martin of Reading, Mass, and Joseph
Wood of Hartford, Conn.,, were brought
into town last Thursday night by Chief
of Police F. H. Ketchum and lodged in
the lookup.
They seemed to be touring Vermont for
pleasure and profit and at Roxbury,
Wednesday, the 18th, stole gold watch
from Wilson Averill Of that place. Com
ing to Randolph, they wandered down to
the White Cross Milk plant about
O'Clock in the morning and, rs the force
happened to be all upstairs at that time,
they found the engine room empty. In
the course of their inspection they discov-
cred the vest of Engineer Isaac Sawyer
hanging up there and removed from it a
silver watch and about $3.50 in money.
No one saw them except Mrs. c. p.
plant and noticed the trio passing by on
the track. 1t appeared probable that
they would follow the rails southwark
without loss of time, and Officer E. s.
Putnam was telephoned at Bethel to be
on the lookout for them. The officer
lives not far from the track and when he
went home to dinner he came across the
whole covey conveniently assembled right
back of his house.
He made himself known to them and,
having revealed the unpleasant reports in
circulation concerning their visits to
Rox bury and Randolph, invited them to
go up to the house for little examine
ton that mig bit establish their innocence
and only detsin them a few minutes.
They cordially assented to his proposal
but just before they reached the house,
they bolted in three different directions.
One made a dash for the river and, not
having time to unite boat he saw, threw
out the oars SO the officer couldn't get
them and plunged in. Mr.. Putnam in
the meantime had grabbed another Of the
runaways and, having secured him,
called to some men to unite the boat, into
which he jumped and had himself pushed
out as far as possible into the river. He
managed to catch one floating oar and
padded about until he could reach the
other. Then he chased and overlook the
swimmer, whom he had to leave the boat
to capture and drag out OF the water on
the opposite bank.
AS luck would have it, the third man
was in the woods waiting for his friend,
the swimmer, when the officer landed
that dripping party but, in spite of Mr..
Putnam's good advice to give himself up
peacefully, he declined to surrender and
set of alone to make good his escape,
since all the officers helpers were on the
other side of the river.
The boat having been overhauled again
by his assistants, Mr.. Putnam transport
ed his prisoner across the river to Bethel
village, from whence Officer Whitney at
South Royalton was telephoned to start
out in pursuit of the third member of the
gang. This he cid and finally brought
him into custody a mile below South
Royalton.
Chief Ketchum took them all into safe
keeping, and Friday they were arraigned
before Justice H. w. Mcintyre on the
charge of petit larceny, to which they
pleaded guilty. They were given three
months in the house of correction at Rut-
land and escorted there Saturday by the
chief and F. W. Wood, who had the des-
peradoes securely handcuffed. One OF the
thieves was 10 years old and the other
two IS.
Neither watches nor money were recov-