The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-04
Making a Busy day in the
Barre City Court
ON VARIOUS ACCUSATIONS
Two Larceny Cases, Two Keeping with
Intent to Sell, One for Breach Of
the Peace, and One for In
toxicaticn.

Two larceny cases one breach Of the
peace, two keeping with the instnt to
sell and an intoxication case was the
city court docket for today. Charles
Greed, jr., and Frank George both pleaded
guilty to an attempt to steal chickens
from John Cleary's hcnhouse on North
Main street Saturday night. That il
was only an attempt to steal was be-
cause special officer j A. Denno had
been posted on watch beside the hen-coor
doc. and apprehended the two men as
they went into the henhouse at e:30
o'clock.
In pronouncing sentence in their cnse
Judge Scott said that he had been in
formed that Mr.. Cleary had lost about
30 chickens in the past week, ard in
order to put stop To this kind Of thiev-
ing the Judge concluded that a severe
sentence was needed, and he sentenced
each to pay fine Of S25 with costs Of
S7.99. Neither of them could pay and
took the alternative sentence Of los days
in the county Jail.
The place where the hens were kept
was underneath the barn and two doors
had to be opened to get to the hens.
Officer Denno had been waiting about
two hours whe he saw the two men enter
the first door and 20 straight through
into the hen-coop and from the fact that
they had no difficulty in finding their
way in the dark, the officer is Of the
opinion that they had been there be-
fore. On the night before, the coop was
robbed Of eight hens When the officer
spoke to the men they tried to hide in
the dark and the officer had to hunt
them up with lighted matches After
be got his hands onto them, George, the
officer says, attempted to get away and
it kept him busy for a while holding onto
both Of them.
AT 1880 o'clock Sunday forenoon,
Chief Faulkner and Officer Carle made
raid at the house occupied by Emery
Cleveland at River street and seized
two bottles of cream ale, one Of which
they found in bag in the house and the
other in the pockets Of Ernest Parkhurst,
"a young fellow whom they found in the
house. Cleveland was arrested and
locked up IN the police station for safe
keeping until this morning, when he was
arraigned in court on the charge Of keep
ing with the intent to sell He pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to the county
jail for not less than four or more than
~ months
Martha Noble, who is said to reside
also at Q River street. was arrested
Just before noon to-day on the charge OF
keeping with intent to sell When ar
raigned she pleaded not guilty and was
held iii $500 bail for hearing tomorrow
morning Bail was not furnished and
she was returned to custody
Arthur Parkhurst pleaded guilty to
the charge Of breach Of the peace for
quarfeling with bis family last night
and he paid a fine of SIS with costs Of
$500. He was arrested about midnight
last night by Officer Hamel who was
called to his house BIZ telephone. The
respondents son, Ernest Parkhurst. was
put onto the witness stand and he told
the court that his father was drunk and
that he struck him when be was trying
to quiet him
Giovanni Balduzzi WAS found sleeping
off his jag on the ground on North
Main street hv Officer Gamble at 1880
o'clock last night and this morning he
pleaded guilty to first offense Of intoxi-
cation and paid fine with costs amount
ing to $ll94
Louis Fillipini and John Cslevro. the
two boys who were arrested Saturday
charged with cruelty to horse in set
ting fire to its tall plsaded not guilty
to the charge in city court Saturday
afternoon and their cases were set for y
hearing on October 30.