The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-04

SANDY WAS INDICATED
Proved to Judge Phelps That He Was
An Honest Man

An honest Man
Why didn't you give this woman
her property when she came up to
Bennington and asked you for it?"
asked Judge C. T. Phelps of Sandy
Miller in the district court at North
Adams Friday morning.
why, Judge" replied Sandy, she
came up there and carried on like a
wild woman, waving her arms and
shoutin' at me in the street. 1t gave
me the blood chills, Judge, and could
MT stand ii. | didn' get no chance TO
talk to her up dar. When Chief came
up fob me, | came right along and
didn' make no trouble. An | brought
along all the stuff to give back to her;
| didn' steal it Judge"
This. delivered with all the smiling
willingness of the man who wants 10
avoid trouble but can't, was the de-
Tense of cOlored man in answer to
| the charge of stealing clothing and
| jewelry TO the value of sos, the prop
erty OF Carrie Neal, says the North
Adams Transcript. While Sandy was
telling his story, Carrie sat in a chair
nearby shaking her head until the
feathers nearly fell of her hat, and
screwing her face into expressions of
intense scorn.
Sandy was in some way to blame
| for the arrest of Carrie Neal last sum
mer, and Carrie has been at Pittsfield
J from that time until the middle of De
| cember. Previous to her arrest, San
| dy had been boarding at her house.
Sandy claimed that she told him to
| take care of her property until she
should return and make it right with
him. She denied this emphatically.
Anyway, Sandy had the stuff with him
in court. He brought it down when
he came from Bennington with Chief
Dinneen. There was a cloak, a suit,
some iewelry and a deed. Whatever
Sandy's previous attitude may have
been, he certainly had no desire to
keep the goods and the court contin-
ued the case for an hour for him to
make restitution Carrie at first re-
4 fused to look over the boxes to see If
her goods were all there, but walled
and cried from contralto to mezzo so
prano, saying that she knew there
was lot more that Sandy had made
way with. She finally quieted down
and was induced to take her goods and
leave. From her actions, it appeared
that she cared not so much about the
recovery of her property as that San
dy should get sentence.
| Sandy produced letter which she
wrote him from Pittsfeld in which he
said he was given orders about look
| ing after her goods. This he present.
ed to the court After reading ii
Judge Phelps said that it was evident
that Carrie had given him the permits,
sion he claimed and that the relations
between the two as shown in the let
ter were such that he might have ex
pected to take such charge of the
goods. Carrie then claimed that she
never wrote the letter and in the tone
of a dying gladiator asked for hand
writing test, but the court did not
consider it necessary. Carrie said the
letter was written by another girl in
Pittsfield JAIL who had told Carrie
that she intended to write Sandy g
love letter.
Carrie was prone TO stage effects
while on the stand. Her statements
lwere given with great preciseness, hel
gestures were vigorous and her tone
vehement
| Carrie went to Bennington Wednes
day TO get her goods, or rather, as Il
appeared, to start something" She
found Sandy in drug store and sail
ed into Sandy like a wild west lndiaI
cavalry charge. According to reports
the proprietor of the store told Sand,
to get her out, and Sandy said tina
he would leave and probably sht
would follow. She did. Sandy &C
complished his purpose OF getting he
out of the store, but it's question
how much he reioiced over his success
for she followed him through The
street, denouncing him as black spo
on the Bennington boulevard. Sand.
is black, there's no doubt about that
he's about the blacklist Ethiopian tina
ever wore a white collar, but Sand,
said he didn't like to be made tn,
laughing stock of the town, "by won
an carryin on like mad and calm
me a thief and all that kind of names.
So Sandy took his bag and departed
for Bennington after being discharge,
by the court leaving Carrie in tn
police station, lingering over her clotl
ing and jewelry and recounting for tn
thousandth time the story of he
, wrongs
When Sandy was found by Chic
Dinneen yesterday he made no objeC
ton at all to being taken out of tn
state of Vermont. He asked permiS
sion to get some of the goods whicI
Chief Dinneen granted, and again Sc
, cured a few minutes leave to see
friend, returning true to his promis
in time 10 take the car.
SARAH EIJEABRTH:
Those mullins you liked so well wen
| - &c., Gala AGadaI Uiour TfwI