Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-26

4 Gates prosecuted and will ask for an or
der from Judge E. L. Waterman, presid-
ing judge Of the next term OF county
court, that the man be sent to the state
hospital at Waterbury for observation as
to his sanity. He will remain in Barre
city hospital until that order arrives.
Mikales few days ago underwent an OPP
GRAFTON removing the remainder OF the
eye injured by the bullet he shot into his
own head and there is still danger Of
blood poisoning.
! Through reading an Associated Press
dispatch in Boston paper, William A.
/ Pomfrey of Brattleboro is firmly con-
WINGED that he is one of the eight heirs
to an estate of S13,O00,O00 in England.
/ While Mr.. Pomfrey is not building any
! great hopes on the newspaper story, it
comedies completely with the history Of
bis own family, and from what he knows
Of his own family history be is an heir to
a fortune Of some size. Whether or not
it will be the eighth part of s13, 200, 600
remains to be seen. By the terms Of the
I will of their father, the sons have been
cut of from the estate altogether, which
is left in its entirety to the grandcL IL
dren, who are the Rev. George Pomfrey
of Vergennes, VT, Herbert FomfTey OF
i -AANtC AAoG&f W. NJ EOuAECt VI DEhAl1C-
boro, Edward Pomfrey, Misses Lillian
James Pomfrey, all Of Saratoga.
Christoper Moran of Proctor, aged IS
years, was bound over to the county
grand jury in Rutland Friday on the
charge of aiding Thomas Exware to es-
cape from the honse of correction Aug.
IL. He waived examination, pleaded not
] av,A ~
\ lives on a little farm south OF the village
OF Proctor and it was at his farm that Ex-
ware found himself when he emerged
from the woods into which he plunged
Immediately after breaking jail. When
4 reoaptured at Fowler six hours later, be
wore civilians clothes and had lost CO.
pious growth of side whiskers. He told
the prison officials that Moran began
chatting with him and offered, after
learning his identity, to loan him some
clothing in exchange for his prison garb.
He accepted and succeeded in effecting so
good disguise that the officers had hard
work recognizing him. He never saw
Moran before.
Through the carelessness Of some rail-
road employee who had left switch on
the main line OF the Central Vermont
railway open, a head-on collision, oc-
Cured in the Brattleboro freight yard last
week Tuesday, when the New london
passenger train crashed into a Boston 4
Maine through freight. One car was
smashed but fortunately it was unoccu-
pied. In the rear coaches OF the passen-
ger train the lamps and several windows
were broken, but no one was injured by
the flying glass. Frank W. MeIlendy
baggage master in the employ of the
Central Vermont railway and who lives
in South Londonderry, was badly bruised
by being hurled against a trunk and
Engineer Andrews OF the freight received
several minor burns by being thrown
against the boiler of his engine. He was
alone in the cab al the time of the acct
dent. A brakeman on the freight whose
name is unknown, was also badly in
iured.
The St. Adams Granite company, a
firm to manufacture granite. will come to
that city a. soon as q building can be
erected, machines installed and the plant
be put in proper shape. The company
will come under q guarantee to employ
forty men, and the plant will be large
enough to accommodate several times
that number. II is expected that the
business will develop enough to require
the added number. The corporation is
capitalized at s25, 900. The plant v ill be
326 feet long and so wide and will be
modernly equipped. This concern was
secured through the st. Adams board of
trade, working under its paid secretary,
Fuller c. Smith. The St. Adams Granite
company is given q free location, side
tracking and $500 in cash TO cover incl
dental expenses of moving. The COM
pany was furthermore assured that it is
the policy OF St. Adams to exempt these
new industries from taxation for period
Of ten years.
: George Alafat and Reginald McWil-
, liams, each six years of age, and James
Shepard, ten years old, appeared before
Judge Mower in Burlington city court
} last week to answer to q charge of petit
! larceny. Oficer Brothers discovered the
: trio Juggling boxes Of gum, caramels and
. candy through the street and brought
: them before the magistrate. In the tes-
I timony it appeared that they had stolen
the candy from the store room of the
. Crystal Confectionery company and hid
den it in the lumber yards until suspicion
might blow over. Both six-year-oldi
, told q fictitious story that was remarka-
bly, well conceived for such young lads
They stuck to the story that they wers
I brothers and each gave the same fake ad
dress, but the arrival OF the father Of one
of the kids disproved them. Shepard
/ was sentenced to the industrial school fol
! the remainder of his minority but sen
: tence " as suspended in the cases Of the
> six-year-old lads. who were released aftel
bit of good sdvice on the part OF thu
, judges.
Z Cured HaV Fever and Summer Cold
II A. s. Nusbaum, Bstesville, Indiana
writes: "Last year suffered for thre'
< months with q summer Guild so distress
: ing that it interfered with my business,
had many of the symptoms of hay fever
] and q doctors prescription did not reacl
$ my case. and / took several medicines
= which seemed only to aggravate it. For
e tunatsly insisted upon having Foley
r Honey and Tar. 1t quickly cured me
/ Nv wife has since used Foley's Honel