St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-01-08
County Court.
Its Adjournment Monday after Most
of the State Cases Had Been NOlle
Pressed or Continued.

The case of State V. Dennis Tanner was
the only state case tried by jury and this
case was finished last Wednesday even
ing when the jury brought in a verdict of
not guilty. The state claimed that Tan
ner had in his possession parts of wild
deer unlawfully killed, while Tanner
claimed that he shot it in the open season.
The state was represented by States At
torney Hill and Elisha May and Simonds
and Searles defended. The jury were
George Darling, Henry l. Bailey, Lucius
S. Brock, Robert c. Darling, Herbert
Stanton, Z. H. Hallett, Fred Z. Chap
man, Ala E. Hall, Ira J. Albee, Hiram
Rowe, Luther Ingerson and John d. VIII
liams.
The following state cases, not previous
ly reported, have been disposed of: State
v. Guy Webber, larceny, continued; State
V. Earl Warren and Joseph Smith, lar
ceny, continued; State v. Theodore La
liberte, refusal TO support wife and minor
children, nolle pressed; Statev. Matthew
tinued; State V. Albert Smith, larceny
continued; State V. Lewis Tashro, lar
ceny, continued; State V. Laura Farr,
adultery, nolle pressed; State V. James
Glynn, intoxication nolle pressed; State
V. Wiley o. Greeley adultery, nolle pros
sed; State V. H. !. IshSm, liquor. not to
be brought forward; State V. Gilman NJ.
LaClair uttering forged instrument,
nolle pressed; State V. Walter 2, Carr,
burglary, continued; Stale v. Adna Bug
bee, breach of the peace, continued; State
V. Harold Chappell, lewdness, continued;
State V, Z. A. Carpenter, uttering forged
instrument, continued; State V. N. L.
Dow apt, failure to report communica-
BILE disease, nolle pressed; State v Homer
Calkins, liquor, nolle prossed State v.
Ivers H. Drown, statutory rape, con-
tinued; State V. Arsene Laliberte, bur
glary, nolle pressed State V, Napoleon
Laliberte burglary, nolle pressed; State
V. Sam Wah liquor, continued; State V.
Charles Ranney, liquor, nolle prossed
State V. William Gabree, liquor, nolle
pressed; State Y. Roy Wilkins, statutory
rape, continued; State V. Albert Goss,
statutory rape continued, and State v
James OConnell, adultery, continued,
bail fixed at $500 and O'Connell fur
nishes his own bail.
On Friday Afternoon the two Lalberte
bows were brought up from jail to be ar
raigned and receive their sentence. These
were the two little fellows who broke in
to A. l.. Bragg's office last fall and then
after getting bail broke into Frank A.
SCOTS grocery store Nov. 6, 1907.
Napoleon, aged 13, pleaded guilty to
taking $110 from the money drawer of
the cash register and Arsine, aged 10,
pleaded guilty to taking 81 from the
same place. The states attorney in re-
viewing the case recommended to the
court that they be sentenced to the In
dustrial School at Vergennes for the re-
mainder of their minority. The court
said it was a sad and pitiful sight to see
two small boys at the bar of justice and
questioned them briefly. He asked them if
they had been induced to steal by read
ing any books or by the suggestion of
older boys and they answered both ques-
tions in the negative. He then sentenced
both to the Industrial School for the rest
of their minority, in the case of Arsene
Laliberte to May 10, 1913, and in the
case of Napoleon to Nov. %, 1915. In
case they failed to obey the rules of the
institution the alternative sentence was
a fern of not less than one and oneh half
years nor more than two years in the
House of Correction at Rutland at hard
labor. In pronouncing the sentence the
court reminded them that they were
going to school where they could learn
much and that they would find them
selves in an excellent institution.
These divorce cases were heard and
granted: Arthur c. Pearce v. Margaret
|. Pearce, granted for wilful desertion;
Mena H. Odekirk V. Edgar Odekirk,
granted for intolerable severity Emma
A. Perley V. Frank c. Perley, granted for
wilful desertion; Gertrude M. Kriplin V.
William G. Kriplin, grantee for intoler-
able severity; Edna E. Smith v. Elmer E.
Smith, granted for intolerable severity;
Mae B. Sleeper v Clarence M. Sleeper,
granted for intolerable severity; William
Walter Devenger' V. Ella May Devenger,
granted for adultery; Ida May Bennett
V. Fred A. Bennett, granted for intoler-
able severity; Josephine M. Gilbert V.
George ]. Gilbert, granted for refusal to
support, and Cornelius harrington v.