Oxford Democrat., 1908-10-27
Irish for violation of tho game laws was
continued on payment OF costs.

Irish for violation of the game laws was
continued on payment OF costs.
WHITE AND FINNEN GET TEN YEARS
FOR THE ASSAULT ON JAILER FARRAR
The four men concerned In the at
tempted jail break and the assault on
Jailer Farrar on the 10th Of May were
brought in severally on Tuesday to plead
to the indictments against them. Part
of them had two indictments against
them for different offences, and part OF
them three. All pleaded guilty to all
the charges, except that White and Plant
pleaded not guilty to the assault. Sub
sequently White retracted his plea and
pleaded guilty, and mol pros was enter
ed by County Attorney Barnes as to
Plant.
Wednesday afternoon the men were
brought in for sentence. White and
Finnen, who made the attack on Jailer
| Farrar, and who have since been kept in
pretty close confinement, are pretty we'll
whitened out, and each has grown more
or less beard in the past few months.
These conditions have changed the ap.
pearance of White considerably. He
really looks better then he did in May,
though he has the appearance OF being,
according to the colloquial form of ex-
preston, pretty we'll "supled." he
showed this as we'll by what little he had
to say as by his expression. Finnen, on
the other hand, appeared entirely indif-
ferent, and showed no form of emotion
either in the preliminaries or when he
heard sentences pronounced which sent
him to state prison for total OF fifteen
years.
In the forgery case against Edward A.
Finnen, in which he is charged with the
| forgery of an endorsement on check
cashed at the Bethel National Bank, and
in which he had pleaded guilty, he was
sentenced to five years in state prison.
Fred w. White, for larceny from a
dwelling house at Rumford in tho day
time, was sentenced to three years in
state prison. These are the offences for
which these men were in jail at the time
they made the assault upon Jailer
Farrar.
Eddie Z. Martin, Albert Plant and
Fred Ducas, for burglary in Gonya Bros.
Co. g store at Rumford, were next SEN
fenced. Martin and Plant were given
each four years in state prison. They
were concerned in the Jail break. Fred
Ducas was given six months in Jail at
auburn, and Judge Bird stated that the
sentence was lighter than the others, be-
cause there was no previous record
against Ducas, and he had refused to
take any part in the attempted jail
break.
The assault case was then taken up,
iu which Edward A. Finnen, Fred w.
White and Albert Plant were indicted
for assault with intent to kill upon Jailer
Wilbur L. Farrar. County Attorney
Barnes mol pressed the charge as 10
Plant, and briefly stated the facts OF the
assault made upon Jailer Farrar on the
evening of the Goth of May-how the
men sawed through the bars of the cage,
concealed themselves in the woman's
cell in the guard room, armed with clubs
of chair arms, and from that place sprang
upon Mr.. Farrar and felled him to the
floor.
Fred r. Dyer, Esq, who had been as
signed by the court to defend White
when he pleaded not guilty, spoke briefly
in his behalf, saying that White declared
he had no intention of killing Mr.. Farrar,
and that he had no club.
White himself, when given an oppor-
tunity to say something for himself,
made substantially the same statement.
He said they had planned to 60 out when
the boy had the door open to bring in
the wood and coal.
Mr.. Barnes briefly stated that the
evidence showed that White was the man
who struck Mr.. Farrar the first blow on
the head.
Finuen did not care to say anything
when given an opportunity, but in reply
to Judge Birds inquiry as to who
planned the affair, said, MARTIN and /. y"
Judge Bird before passing the indct-
ment back to the clerk spoke two or
three sentences, saying that there is no
more serious offence than an attack upon
the person of an officer of the law in the
performance of his duty, and that he
had taken that fact into consideration in
fixing the sentence. Finnen and White
were then sentenced to ten years each in
state prison.
STATE vs.. oCILLETTE.
The trial of Wilfred Ouillette, indicted
as an accessory to the attack upon Jailer
Farrar, then proceeded. Mr.. Wright de-
Tended Ouillette. Ouillette is boy who
was serving sentence in the Jail at the
time of the assault, and was at that time
the "trusty'' who was kept in the guard
room. On the part of the state it was
shown that he had knowledge of the
prisoners saving through the bars, that
he was in the guard room when they
came down the stairs armed with clubs,
and concealed themselves in the cell
opening from the guard room, and that
though he knew the men were lying In
wait there, he gave Mr.. Farrar no
word of warning. There was also testi.
mony tending to show that he had an
opportunity to furnish the men the cor
set springs from which they made saws
to cut the bars, that he gave them plan
of the Jail Office, and that he might have
carried up stairs to them some OF the
chair arms with which they assaulted
the jailer.
For the defence it was asserted th at
Ouillette, as soon as the jailer was as.
saulted, gave the alarm to Mrs. Farrar
by rapping on the door of the "grub.
hole" and telling her what was going on,
and that he helped Kennedy put Finner
into the cell at the end of the scrim
mage. That he had knowledge OF the
INTENDED break was not denied, bnt II
was denied that he had any part or gave
any aid in any violence, during or before
the act. Ouillette went on the stand and
told his story, and was the only witness
for the defence. He is bright looking
boy claiming to be less than seventeen
years old, though he admitted having
been in court before on three different
charges.
Nearly day was occupied by this CASE
which went to the jury Thursday after
noon. In abont half an hour verdict
of not guilty was returned.
STATE VS.. YELBMERT.
Immediately after the Ouillette case
George Yelbmert was placed on trial OF
an indictment charging him with aiding
in the Jail break by carrying file in ant
giving it to the prisoners contemplating
the break. Yelbmert had no counsel
and MIR. Wheeler was assigned by th'
Icourt to defend him. The evidence wal
that on the first of the week in which
the assault on Jailer Farrar was made
last May, a cement floor was being pu
: in at the cellar of the court house, and
number of the prisoners were taken ou
to assist in the work, Yelbmert anon,
them. A file which was in the base
ment was discovered after the break in
tub in the corridor where the breaking
, party had been quartered, and Eddi
!, Martin, one of the party which attempt
ed escape, testified that Yelbmer