Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-08

hardwick was the scene satprasv
morning OF wholesale liquor raid sin,;-
Ut IN many respects to the one last faII
" sheriu and e deputies left St. Johns
oery " special train reaching Hard
WICK 81 o;SO O'Clock and arrested Ia ner-
SOUS lhe raid was wholly unexrecfed
Two wagon loads OF liquor were seized
and taken to st. Johnsburv. whers
hearing was held. Several OF tbosa az
les,ea we're involved in the raid Last fail
STATES Attorney X. W. Simonds had be,.n
preparing for the raid for some timeA
James Quinn OF West Rutland. emploved
IN the vermont Marble company's quarry
~ Danoy, is being sought by the officers
to answer to a charge OF striking a
Foianuer across the face with an iron bar
while working in the quarry last week
Monday. The Polander's nose was
crushed fat by the blow and he will he
dtshgured for life although he was moi
iatally injured. The quarrel resulted
over some little disagreement about some
work in the quarry, Quinn striking his
victim with heavy iron bar aud then
running before he could be captured.
Hardy Madison, who, June 30. finished
serving nine months sentence at the
house OF correction on the charge OF lar
ceny at Holland, was rearrestod on
charges OF smuggling maple sugar and re-
ceiving stolen postage stamps. He
I pleaded guilty to smuggling and was
bound over to the next term OF federal
court. He pleaded not guilty to the 9th
er charge and bail was fixed at $4,000
which was not furnished. Madison. IL il
alleged, was implicated with portland
Fatty in the burglary OF the Morgan
/ postofiice.
For extreme cruelty to animals, Albert
French, manager Of the Retreat dairy
farm at the Brattleboro retreat, was fined
1923 in the BraJtleboro municipal court
last week. French was engaged in TAX
ing two cows to the retreat through the
main streets Of the town. One COW re-
fused to be led or to go so, tying a rope
around its neck, French dragged the ami
NAL through the streets until il fell ex-
hausted across the electric car track. The
COW was revived and several men made a
complaint against French for cruelty.
He pleaded guilty.
An automobile owned by II. J. Good
rich and driven by his son, Claude Good
rich, and q motor cycle ridden by Law
renee Watson collided near the Paddock
Village bridge in st. Johnsbury Saturday
afternoon, June 20. TIE automobile and
occupants were uniniured but the motor
cycle was demolished and Mr.. Watson
sustained broken leg and slight bruises.
He was taken to Brightlook hospital.
Mr.. Watson is foreman of the linemen
for the Passumpsic Telephone Co. Mr.
Goodrich was driving very slowly at the
time the accident occurred and il seeml
to have been due to a Misunderstanding
as to the direction each was to take.
Stanley Gobble. aged % years, an EN-
ploye OF the Continental mill OF the Yer
mont Marble company at Center Rutland
was struck by a Delaware & Hudson
train near the mill as he was returning
from dinner last Thursday and was BADLY
hurt, being hurled down q bank ten feet
No one witnessed the accident, but as tn,
Rutland and d. & II. tracks are parable
it Is supposed thst he stepped aside I,
avoid the Rutland milk train and steppe,
in front Of the other. Gobble was takel
TO the Proctor hospital. His injuries in
= clude a compound fracture OF one leg,
! bad scalp wound and several bruises. H
: may recover. He Is a Pole and has beei
: in this country FIVE years.
As John j. Thompson OF st. Alban
} was leaving his home last Thursda,
} morning, he noticed a large pasteboarI
box on the piazza, which, on beinl
! opened, was found to contain chill
, about three days old. There was abso
lutety nothing that the child could b
traced by, as be was entirely naked, IN
. less il be by the shawl in which he wa
wrapped. From the baby's appearance
he had evidently been drugged to proven
making any cutlery, for the little felio'
! was very sleepy for several hours after be
, ing found and didn't appear to he YER
hungry. The baby is handsome littl
= fellow with very fair skin and dark hair
z He was taken to the st. Adams hospital
r Chief-of-P Police David Faulkner has re
9 turned from Wells River and in his Gus
tody is Ralph Bennett, a sixteen-year-ol
I boy, who, it is alleged, forged his moth
e er's name to a note and obtained Well
1 River mileage and $40 in money. Th
4 boy went to dealer in mileages and reT
e resented to him that his mother wa
I about to take trip and wanted the mil
cage and he presented the check. Abou
! two hours later the boys mother was see
a on the streets and denied any knowledg
Q OF the transaction. The police was IN
/. formed OF the affair and Immediately &c
Z into communication with the Wells Rive
= officers. with the result that the boy wa
: taken from the train and held until th
!. arrival OF Chief Faulkner.
a Matthew Witherill, an aged farmer lV
z ing on the Pow nal road, narrowly 81
o capped being killed in front Of the posi-
Office at Bennington last week Tuesday
9 when he was struck by three -passenge
a automobile driven by Leonard Cultivate
4 the stepson of P. B. Jennings OF Me-
r York. The car was being driven at hig
!. speed. witherill was taken to a. phys
: cian,s office. where q dislocated shoulde
d was reduced. stTed' Stevens, OF YonL
a ers. N. ", who was in the car with Outf
I waite, has figured in two automobile an
t carriage collisions at Bennington durin
4 the past two years, in which suits wei wei
brought against his father, wealth
o uhysician OF Yonkers, who has summ'
v place just east of Bennington.
I Mrs. Darrah of Newport attempte
a suicide Friday, June 20, by cutting ht
a throat with a razor. The cause Is attrii
q uted to i'll health. She left the dinnt
!. t.hla a,,d want Tn her room and q memOt