Oxford Democrat., 1908-10-27
Ten Years for Assault on JalGT
Big Batch of Criminal Business
in Supreme Court.
Regular Work of Term Closed, and
Recess Taken to Nov. 5th.

Regular Work of Term Closed, and
Recess Taken to Nov. 5th.
The Supreme Judicial Court for Ok
ford County, in the second week OF its
October term, had about as busy six
days as the court house ever saw. Busi-
ness was humming from nine o'clock in
the morning until adjournment at night,
and there was only one short day, when
the court inadvertently got out OF busi-
| ness about 4 o'clock. The larger part OF
the time was devoted to criminal busi-
ness, and that was run off the reel rapid
ly.
The case of Paris vs. Woodstock, for
paper supplies furnished Annie Mcleod,
which was on trial last Monday, went to
| the Jury the last of the afternoon, and
after being out about an hour, they re-
turned verdict for the defendant town,
Woodstock. This would indicate that
in the Judgment of the jury Donald b.
Mcleod had pauper settlement in the
city of Lewiston at the time he married
Annie Bryant.
BRADFORD VS.. INGLIs.
The case following was that of Ed
ward A. Bradford va George r. Inglis
Bradford, the plaintiff, is farmer living
in Hebron; the defendant, Iuglis, is a
veterinary surgeon of Auburn. This
action was brought to recover for the
value of a colt belonging to Bradford,
which was gelded by Inglis in May
1907. The colt died the next morning
after the operation. The argument of
the plaintiff is that the death of the colt
was due to the manner in which the de-
fendant performed the operation. 1t is
undisputed that in the course Of the
operation portion OF the intestine pro-
truded from the colt and had to be re-
placed, and it is argued by the plaintiff
that this was caused by the unnecessari-
ly long cut made by the surgeons knife.
The defence contends that the colt had a
hernia which was not known until it was
revealed by the use of the knife, and
that the long cut was made for the pur-
pose of reducing this. The details Of
veterinary surgery seemed to be OF in
terest to quite number OF spectators,
including several women.
Hon. Jesse NJ. Libby of Mechanic
Falls was attorney for Bradford, and
George G.. Wing, Jr., OF Auburn, for
Inglis. There was quite lot of expert
testimony introduced, the witnesses put
on for this purpose by the plaintiff being
DR.. Judkins of Mechanic Falls and DR..
Walker of South Paris, and for the de-
fence DR.. Bracket of Lewiston and DR..
Ness of Auburn.
The case occupied quite part of the
day Tuesday, going to the jury about
O'Clock. A verdict of S75 for the plain
tiff was returned.
The next case on the list was Herbert
NJ. Tucker, formerly of Paris, VS.. Elias
:. Clifford of Boston, proprietor OF the
Emwood Farm in Poland. Wright d
Wheeler appeared for the plaintiff, and
John A. Morrill, of Auburn for the de-
fendant. The parties put themselves in
position for the trial, and the jury was
pronounced satisfactory. As it was so
late in the afternoon it was decided that
the case should not be opened until
morning. Wednesday morning the case
was settled out of court, and was not
opened.
One more case remained on the civil
trial list, F. A Heidner VS.. Mrs. Lila 5.
Woodbury., both parties of South Paris.
Barnes for Hedner, Wright d Wheeler
for Mrs. Woodbury.. None of the par
ties were in court at the time the case
was reached, but time was given to send
for them. After they arrived in court, a
consultation between counsel resulted in
L. fr,0
The end of the trial docket was thus
reached rather suddenly in the middle OF
the forenoon Wednesday.
During some of the waiting time We'd
| nesday morning, Judge Bird began dig
ging over the oldest of the cases on the
docket, and when he found one that
looked rs if it might be disposed of in
some way, he called up one or both OF
the attorneys, to see If some action
might be taken, so as to clear the docket
of the lumber. In this way he succeed
ed in taking several cases off the docket.
So industrious was he in this line OF
! work that one of the attorneys was
heard to remark, 1--WE shan't have any
docket left if he keeps on"
| CRIMINAL BUSINESS.
| Work on the criminal docket began
Monday, and was carried along as op-
portunity afforded in the intervals OF
other business, until the civil docket
had been got out of the way. In this
manner number of small matters were
got out of the way before the trials were
in order.
Joseph Dougay pleaded guilty to an
indictment for nuisance found this
term. This case was continued, and on
an appealed case for depositing liquors
intended for illegal sale he was given a
fine of 500 and costs of Sl4,05, and in
addition sixty days in Jail.
Thomas Williams of Norway pleaded
guilty to single sale, and took sentence
of $50 and costs and thirty days.
In the case of Willard G.. Pratt, the
tine of $40 and costs imposed by the
Rumford Falls Municipal Court fol
assault and battery was paid.
Charles Bartlett of South Paris plead.
ed guilty to the larceny of mileage
book from N. d. Bolster Of the same
town. NJ. L. Kimball appeared in his
behalf, and stated the circumstances.
In view of the fact that Bartlett had al
ready been in Jail for number of weeks,
County Attorney Barnes suggested that
he should be satisfied If sentence OF
one day in Jail was imposed, and Judge
Bird made that the penalty.
Fred A. Russell of Andover pleaded
guilty to charges of nuisance and com,
mon seller. NJ. l.. Kimball appeared
for him. On the nuisance indictment
Russell was given fine of $3.50 and
costs of S15 IS, which he paid. The
other matter was continued.
Harry Marx of Rumford pleaded
guilty to two indictments for illegal use
of the union label. Hon. George D.
Bisbee appeared in his behalf In one
case fine of s5 and costs of S33 81 wal
imposed, which was paid, and the othel
case was continued.
Albert Paradis of Rumford pleaded
guilty to nuisance and single sale. Mr.
Blanchard appeared for him. Count!
Attorney Barnes stated that to the bes
of his belief Paradis was not now in th'
| in the respondents family he was will
ing to have both cases continued on pay
ment of costs, which was done.
, Albert Martin of Rumford pleade'
guilty to a nuisance indictment, ant
, there was also against him an appeale'
case for search and seizure in which tn
plea was guilty. Mr.. Bisbee appeare,
for Martin, and after some discussion
regarding the case Martin was fined S5
and costs of S14 80 on the nuisance case
: and the other was continued.
a As the last act of the day Tuesda