Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-01-23
WINDSOR COUNTY COURT.
State Cases Continue to Occupy Il,
Attention.

WINOSOn OOONbu OOOoI.
State Cases Continue to Occupy lts
Attention.
| The trial of state cases is still in prog
ress, and will occupy the attention of
court during the present week. The
following have been tried
State VS.. Francisco Demarco. There
were twocases against this respondent,
who lived at Hartford, little above the
Junction. The first case was charge of
breach of the peace and assaulting one
Lajoie, and cutting him on the hand and
neck with butcher knife. It occurred
on the Sunday before Christmas, in the
evening. Lajoie went to the residence
of respondent, intent on obtaining whis-
key or alcohol. Apparently there was
some unpleasant incident between them
preceding this occasion, for, according to
the story of the states witness, az be
stood at the door, at him came Demarco
with the knife and making pass at him,
cut him, as above indicated. Demarco
said that Lajoie was drunk when he came
to the house and made distur bance, and
insisted on pushing his way in, or trying
SO to do; that Demarco only punched the
intruder, and used no weapon at all. 1t
was argued the finger nails of respondent
may have scratched Lajoie's neck, and
hence the blood on it seen by another
witness. The jury said guilty, and later
Demarco was given not less than two nor
more than three years in the house Of Ger
rection.
The second case was on charge of lille
gal liquor selling to the same Lajoie, and
some of his companions. Testimony was
introduced tending to show several sales
of beer, whiskey and alcohol. The state
also introduced a fellow workman with
Demarco in the mill. Respondent had
said to this man, "Me work-a no more-a,
here. Me make-a more sell-a the BOOZE"
The jury fixed the number OF offences at
seven, and on this charge Demarco was
given 81 months more, in the same insti-
ution. r. Trainor defended.
State VS.. Harry Werner; horsestealing.
The respondent is young man OF rs,
bright and intelligent looking. He halls
from the north of Ireland, and is a con-
nection of Irish peerage. He has only
been in this country few months. He
obtained work on the farm of Fenno B.
Cummings of Cornish, who sent his new
hired man to the grist mill with one
horse hitched to an express wagon. Com
ing back from the mill with the empty
wagon and horse, respondent sold the
outfit to a farmer on the road for $40,
only one dollar of which was to be paid
down. At the time of the sale Werner
had been drinking heavily and this
seems to be his "out." The jury found
Werner guilty and he was sentenced to
three years Imprisonment in states pris-
on. II. III. Blanchard defended re-
spondent.
State VS.. Elfred Russell This was a
prosecution for illegal liquor selling. Re-
spondent lives at Windsor, and has a
young wife and small child, to offset the
offence alleged. Two witnesses on the
part of the state swore positively to hav-
ing been furnished with whiskey and al
cohol, respectively, by respondent, for
W hich they paid him. The defence was
an alibi. Respondent introduced evidence
that tended to show, and evidently did
show, that on the occasions referred to by
the states witnesses, respondent was else
where. The jury said, "Not guilty"
The respondent was then arrested on
a charge of contempt of court for talking
about his case to juror engaged on the
panel trying the case. Apparently no
harm was done, and it was not deemed of
sufficient seriousness to excuse the juror
and start over. Respondent testified in
the matter that he did not know the man
was juror, but met him in the toilet
room, and conceiving him to be a man he
had met about home, casually mentioned
to him that he-respondent-was ''tried
to be made the victim of put-up job"
The juror at once made known to the re-
spondent that be must not talk about il
and left him. The court has the matter
under advisement. Respondent was sent
home, subject to call. Davis & Davis de-
Tended. Edward r. Buck, states attor-
ney, prosecuted.
Monday afternoon 10 case was ready
and the jurors were excused until Tues
day morning, at which time taken
up the case of State VS.. Audette. Re-
spondent is straight, six-foot msri he
in the service of Uncle Sam. Respondent
is charged with bigamy, and, like the
Saxon in Longfellow's poem, had "as
many maidens as fingers on this hand.'
In the Howe-Howard case, reported last
week, the verdict was for Howe to recov-
er 1896 and costs, instead of S347.