Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-23

bauil, ana was sentenced to serve 6l1
months in jail.
Jesse o. Olmstead of Richmond, aged
80 years, well-known railroad man, com
mitted suicide Thursday morning nj his
home BY shooting himself in the head.
He had been respondent and feared be
was going to be blind. He had lost one
eye in an accident two years ago. lie lefl
note saying be thought be would be q
burden II blind. Mr. Olmstead was Of
one time superintendent Of bridges and
buildings OF the Central Vermont rail.
road.
Mrs. Julia SuIham and Henry Pick
ford were arrested at the Green Mountain
Inn in Waterbury last week. They are
charged With adultery and we're bound over
to county court and taken to the county
jail. The woman is employed at the
wrapper factory in Waterbury, and the
man is an acrobat, who does a sliding wire
stunt. They were caught occupying a
room at the hotel by the woman's hus-
band, who had been tipped of by Water
bury friends.
Sheriff Frank II. Tracy has settled his
account with the Washington county
prison board for the year ending Dec. 1,
and has paid into the states treasury
81 ,00S.31 as net income for prison labor
during the year. The prisoners under
his care earned during the year 81, 89S.73.
II Is asserted that the 81 ,00S.3l paid by
Sheriff Tracy for this prison labor Is more
than will be turned into the state treas
ury for like service by the thirteen other
sheriifs of the state combined.
The Burlington board Of aldermen has
called for an investigation of the alleged
violation OF the child labor law in the
mills OF taat city and Winooski. The
secretary OF the national child labor COM
mittee stated that the child labor law is
being violated in Vermont. The secre-
tary recently visited Burlington and re-
ported that he saw 10 children leave the
Chace mill, near Winooski, all apparently
under 16 years old. He also saw lesser
number leave the Queen City mill.
Robbed of about 5000, the savings with
which he left Proctor to go to his former
home in Germany, Joseph Crobeck, form
erly q marble cutter ut Proctor, shot him
self in the head at the home OF friends in
New York city with whom be was stay
Ing and his recovery is said to be doubt
full. One OF CFobeck's friends, a cutter
at Proctor, received card from the man
telling how he had been robbed and de-
claring that he contemplated suicide.
Word Of his act was received later.
In Bennington county court the Jury
last week in the case of Antoine Jerome
Fisher VS.. the Bennington Wax Paper
Co. returned q verdict for the plaintiff
to recover $3.50 and the costs of the suit,
which was brought to recover damages
for the loss OF an eye while the plaintiff
WAS at work in the factory of the
The company claimed that
the sight OF the eye was destroyed by a
fash from under the firebox of the boiler
being fired by waste parahned paper.
Peter Lawyea OF Alburg, for whom the
federal officers in Vermont have been
searching since be was indicted at the Oc-
tober, 1908, term of United States court
in Rutland for smuggling Cinnamon, was
recently arrested at Chateaugay, N. Y,
and was taken to Rutland county Jail |
" here he will be held until his case
comes up in court, probably at the Febru-
lry term. Lawyea is supposed to have
aided and abetted Bark Coon, q Celestial,
who has since jumped his bail, in getting |
into this country from Canada unlaw-
lully.
Because be had broken his parole, Dick
cilley of Montpelier will have to go back |
10 the state prison at Windsor to serve
nut his maximum sentence. Governor
Prouty sent word to Montpelier from |
Newport to have Cilley taken back to
Windsor, where he was serving q SEN
ence OF not less than six, and not more
ban eight, years for larceny and break
ng Jail Cilley had already served five
Tears and two months of his sentence and
will, therefore, have two years and ten
months more to stay. Cilley forfeited
his parole by becoming intoxicated.
DIR. ID. u. Grout, superintendent OF the
tate hospital for the insane at Water
Jury, and Judge +. e. Alfred OF New
,ort, secretary Of the State Association OF
'robate Judges, met in Montpelier
for the purpose OF formulating
uniform blank to be used by the pro-
,ate judges OF the state for the recommit
nent Of insane paupers under a recent de-
isicn of the supreme court Ia such cases.
these blanks as prepared will conform
o the supreme court decision. The pro-
ate judges are now using uniform
tanks but had none that would meet the
equirements OF the new order Of things.
Paul Plaisted, 14-year-old pupil Of the
istrict school in East Barre, secured q
iottle OF skunk scent, which he sprinkled
n the sill of the inner door of the school
ouse. II became necessary to adjourn
be session and thoroughly disinfect the
lace. The school has the reputation OF
eing a tough one and il seems that
lot had been formed to forcibly eject the
iale teacher. The tables were turned,
owever, and the teacher gave young
'laisted good fogging subsequent to
be skunk smell incident. Plaisted was
tier arrested and sentenced to year at
be Industrial school, the sentence being
during his improved behavior.
An injunction secured by the state !
GARD Of health, restraining NJ. e.
heller, Aaron Sheldon, Mark Tenney, )
!. W. Sawyer, Michael Rooney and Rsu-
en- Ranger, al Of Mendon, from further
olluting the Mendon branch of the East
reek, used in supplying water for Rut-
md city, has been served on the parties.
is claimed that the farm houses and
remises owned by these parties dis.
barge sewage and barnyard drainage
ito the stream that supplies the city res
,voir lower down. The state board Of
salth last October issued orders restrain