Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-21

years and not less than one wear and six
months at hard labor in the house of cor.
rection at Rutland. She appealed her
case to county court and furnished bail
II the sum Of $500.
The Pease hotel at Hartford village has
neen sold to Addison Ely of Rutherford.
n j., for the reported sum of SO. 600
This hotel was built about 20 years ago al
an expense of $40, 600 and was one of the
best equipped in that section of the coun-
try For the greater part of the time i,
has not been q financial success and for
the last two years has been closed. 1t is
expected that it will be completely re-
furnished and opened for summer patron
age at an early date and that under prop
er management it will be success.
Luther Cook, who lives south of the vii
lage OF Benson, was awakened Monday
night, May IL, between IL and / O'Clock
by the bowling of his dog. On getting
up to investigate. he found the woodshed
afire. The door from the shed into the
kitchen fell in as he went toward it and
the flames swept across the kitchen. Mr.
Cook aroused his wife and they made
their way out through the kitchen. being
scorched by the fire and having no time
TO save any of their property. The house
belonged to Henry Strong and his loss is
partly covered by insurance. Mr.. Cooks
loss is total.
Humane Agent E. Z. Coon of BurIing-
ton recently caused the arrest of Thomas
Mollison of Charlotte on the charge OF
cruelty to animals, the claim being that
he was not properly caring for some
twenty cows. A jury was empaneled and
the case was tried. The jury went to
Mollison's place and saw the cattle in the
pasture and the barn. They found Molli-
son guilty after celebrating twelve min
utes, and he was fined $50 and costs OF
S14.69, with an alternate sentence of III
days in the house of correction, Rutland.
lie appealed to county court and fur
nished bail in the sum of 800.
Warner Guild, George Treaudeau, Lew
is Douglass and Ernest Batchelder were
arraigned in municipal court at Newport
recently on the charge of fishing with a
seine. Guild was fined 500 and costs
and appealed to county court. The other
cases were continued until that of Guild
is passed upon as a test case. The de-
Tense is based on the fact that the re-
spondents were fishing in waters back OF
the river but not in the river proper, thus
claiming that they were not in state wa
tiers. The men admitted that they we're
fishing with seine intending to catch
suckers, but thought they were within
the law.
Luther H. Barber and Ira F. Burnett of
Brattleboro were injured in an automobile
accident near Meriden, Conn.,, May IL.
The men were having a pleasure ride
with James H. White, president of the
Wilcox & White Organ Co., in Mr..
Whites auto, when something happened
to the steering gear. The machine
crashed through fence and was over
turned. Mr.. Burnett received COM
pound fracture of the right ankle, and
two of Mr.. Barber's ribs were broken, in
juring one lung and causing a hemor-
rhage Mr. Burnett is in the Meriden
hospital. Mr.. Barber is cared for at a
DOCTORS home in Berlin, where the acct
dent happened.
Fred Martin of Richford was severely,
but not dangerously, burned, May IL. He
was returning from the Canadian border
with a bottle of alcohol in hip pocket,
the cork of which had been loosened.
Martin did not know that his clothing
was saturated with the alcohol and when
he was near the Canadian Pacific station
he scratched match to light his pipe.
Instantly his clothing was ignited and
his right hip and thigh and his right
hand were badly burned. Had bystand-
ers not assisted in putting out the fire, his
burns would have been much more seri-
Gus. It is expected that it will be several
weeks before he RECEIVERS fully from the
effects of the burns.
Leroy Hazen of Swanton Center COM
mitted suicide by hanging last Thursday
morning. He had been acting somewhat
strangely all winter and mis- mental trou-
BILE of late had become more marked.
Certain business matters had weighed on
his mind and he had been watched close
ly for several months. That morning
he went out to his work as usual, and not
returning at the accustomed time, Mrs.
Hazen went to look for him and found
that he had hanged himself with a rope
in the barn. A peculiar circumstance,
showing the condition of Mr.. Hazen's
mind was the fact that he killed bis COW,
and the body of the animal was found
dead in the barn with him.
Fred Sears of Middlebury. aged II
wears, was found in an unconscious con-
dition Friday, having been shot through
the abdomen with ball from 22-callber
rifle. The ball took an upward course
and the lad is IN very SERIOUS coHuilioH'
Little can be learned of the details, as the
| bow was alone when the accident oo-
| Cured. He was practising in front OF
the house before noon when member OF
the family asked him to go to the rear OF
the house. He complied with the re-
Quest. Not appearing at the noon hour,
search was made and he was found
wounded and unconscious. He was tax
en- to the Mary Fletcher hospital, Bur-
lington. The boy had been employed as
pressman at the Green Mountain Pulp
| Co. g mill at Middlebury.
| Anna and Helen Collamer residing
with their widowed mother at North Ben
nington, were probably fatally injured
Saturday night while returning home
from theatre on the last car over the Ben
nineton & Hoosic Valley electric road
While the car was coming down East
Main street at high rate OF speed, the
controller blew out. Frightened by the
flame. the young women, who were con-
versing with the motorman in the vesti
Ible, plunged headlong through the doors
on each side of the car into the street