The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-11-06
In InStructing Jurymen in
County Court
FOLLOWING AN ACQUITTAL
Said That They Must Consider Only
The Evidence in The Case and Not
Be Swayed BY Sympathy
For Respondent.

After the jury in Washington county
court had brought in verdict Of not
guilty in the case OF State vs.. Angelo
Lamperti, charged with illegal liquor
selling, to-day and States Attorney
Gates had mol pressed similar Ease
against Joseph Rizzi, also Of Mont
pelier Judge Il. L. Waterman, who Is
presiding over this term of court, took
the occasion to give some pointed In
structions to the iurymen-the same
men who on Thursday afternoon had
presented him gold-mounted fountain
pen aud thermos set. The Judge spoke
with considerable earnestness and 1t was
generally considered about the court
house that his remarks were called forth
BY the verdict in the Lamperti case, on
which the jury had been out since last
evening.
Judge Waterman remarked that
States Attorney Gates had been bring
ing large number OF liquor prosecu
tions and that majority Of the respon-
dents happened to be Italian people. He
referred to the fact that the respor-
WtHI5 ttllIt tAtO tOAIJ Win thffI 0ANNo
and children and that their attorneys
used this as effective testimony IN the
defense Of their clients. Judge Water
man said that the presumption Of inno
cence Of crime was to be given all re
spondents. no matter of what national
ity, and that, at the same time, there
should be the same method of procedure
in the trial Of the cases. The jurymen
should not let the matter of attendance
Of wives or children Of the respondents
weigh in the consideration Of the cases
and that the verdicts should be rem
dered simply on the testimony produced
in the regular manner. He also said
that the respondents had some excuse
to offer, that they kept boarders, that
they were only treating themselves.
During the trial Of Lamperi yester-
day afternoon the officers testified to
finding nineteen men in the house Of
Lamperti on Barre street when they
made the raid. Lamperti, when he went
on the stand, said that only one Of the
barrels belonged to him and that the
other two belonged to his hoarders.
Angelo HToggi Of Northfeld, who
pleaded guilty to selling yesterday. was
brought into court to-day and was SEN
fenced to not less than six months and
not more than eight in the county jail.
Another liquor case that Of State Va.
William Mclean Of Waterbury. charged
with pocket peddling, was up to-day,
the respondent, on plea Of guilty, be-
ing sentenced to the house of correction
for not less than IA months and not
more than 4 months
This afternoon private hearing was
held in the divorce case Of r. Blanche
Whitcomb Of Montpelier against Frank
Z. Whitcomb the ground being alleged
to be intolerable severity.
Joseph Bianchi Of Barre, who was
ordered committed to the insane asv-
lub at Waterbury, having been found
not guilty Of assauIting strustyD AZ
the county jail because Of sanity. was
taken to Waterbury this afternoon. FL
roy Kent, sentenced by supreme court to
be hanged on january l3, 1910, for the
murder Of Della Congdon, was taken TO
the state prison at Windsor this after
noon to await his sentence.