St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-01-27
A Wholesale Raid.
A Posse of Officers Descended on Hard
wick Last Week.

WIN A0ob WIN
The personally conducted tourist
under the direction of Sheriff Wincl
were made to feel very much at home by
. the Hardwick people, whom they Sc
: etfectually surprised last Wednesday
+ morning The IA passports issued by
r States Attorney Simonds and bearing
| the seal of the commonwealth gained
them admission to IS places. the other
party not being 'at home" on their
arrival, Twelve of the places visited
contributed to the cause of temperance
and sobriety and the first inkling some
OF the natives got of the meaning of this
impromptu visit of the "county's finest"
was their view of A. H. Moves on his
way to the station with a two horse
load of the contributions, of which
barrels, jugs and suspicious looking
cases, marked "Glass, with care" made
up a major part.
This raid, the most successful ever
carried out in the state, was the result
Of many sleepless nights and several
weeks of the hardest kind of work on
the part Of Mr.. Simonds, who had all
the plans laid out, and the working out
of those plans timed to nicely several
days before the event was pulled off.
On Saturday he acquainted Sheriff
Winch with the affair and Mr.. Winch in
turn summoned his deputies, but kept
them in ignorance of the work in hand
until 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, pre-
ceding the trip. The small army bvouac-
ed that night in the Court House and
on the morning train for the
scene OF action. On arrival at Hardwick
the telephone at the station was placed
under the censorship of Deputy Sheriff
Hartman, the forces divided into SQUADS
and the work of the day began at once.
Every man knew where to begin, the
work was carried out without a hitch or
a halt, and before long the officers were
Vieing with each other in their desire
to do their duty by the state and rid an l.
otherwise beautiful hamlet Off burden
IF rum.
That every man did the former we are
assured by both Mr. Simonds and Mr..
Winch, and that they were equally
in their latter ambition, can
'e proven by visit to the local police
tation. AS a result of this wholesale
aid IL prisoners and approximately
900 gallons of liquor were secured on
4 search warrants and nine bodv write
nd brought here. Fl
Those arrested and brought here were
i'm Carrerria, George Daniels, Mrs. NJ.
mbrosinni, alias Mrs. M. Angrosinni,
francesca Vovala, Rosa Bardelli. Eliza.
eth Rossi, Wilson Hopkins, W. E. Hop
ms. Elizabeth Wheeler, Charles Croce.
dido Barr and Charles Bianchi. Those
no made up Sheriff Winch's party we're |
oseph Chesley of Sheffield N. ! Wash
urn and E. B. Smith of West Burke
avid Smith of Stannard c. h. Whitney
Barnet, Fred Hartman, Bert Liv-
gston, Harry Marden. A. H. Moves,
u. Rolfe. l.. w. Stafford, Ralph SuIlo.
ay and Horace Goss of this place, l..
i. Gray OF Lyndon, Herman Chapman
Sutton. Charles Stanford and Herbert
overs of Hardwick.
lhlrty-hve witnesses were subpenaed :
the Monday session of court and
cir statements were taken by the
ate's attorney. In view of the success
TINS grand cleanup, together with the
veral other convictions obtained since
accession to the office of pros, cutting
torney, on the first of December, we
! JUSTIFIED in assuming that before
'oert W. Simonds' tenure of office has ;
pired II crime is not lessened it will at
st have become more expensive in
.orney's fees, and that open violations
the law will have become a less
pular pastime.