Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-04-01

was trucking quantity of piping from
one OF the freight cars when q piece of
IRON pipe weighing between 500 and 500
pounds Slipped from the truck and seIl on
MS right foot, crushing the member and
breaking two or three OF the smaller
bones. He was taken to the Memorial
hospital and the first two toes on his
right foot we're amputated.
Francisco Caraoia. aged % years, an
employee at the new dam of the Con-
necticut River Power Co., was accident
ally killed last week Monday at the
works at Vernon. He was last seen at
O'Clock working near the Vermont
end of the power house as brakeman on
a cement train. He was missed at supper
time and search being instituted about
O'Clock, his body was found in the
river at point near where he was last
seen. II is thought that he fell from the
power house to the ice, breaking through
and drowning. His body was removed
to Hinsdale, N. H., to await claim OF
relatives.
Mcdonald & Buchan, one of the oldest
granite manufacturing firms in Barre, has
sold out its entire plant, situated in the
=. south end of the city, to Eugene c.
Glysson. who will take possession May /.
The purchaser is well-known mauufac-
turer, having been in business for the
past fifteen years. The good will of the
business goes with the sale of the plant.
For twenty-five years Mcdonald & Buchan
have been in business at this same plant.
The conditions of the sale are private, but
il involves about $40. 600. There are few,
II any, granite firms in the city which
hdrra
as theirs, it having been started when the
granite industry was just beginning to
boom.
Levi Partridge Of Newport. against
whom the grand jury recently returned
an indictment for murder in the first de-
gree, for killing Roy Co0mer at Glover
Dec. 5, 1908. was arrsigned in Orleans
county court last Thursday and pleaded
guilty to nanslaughter and the plea was
accepted by the state. lie was sentenced
to not less than two or more than three
= years in state prison at Windsor. Mrs.
Partridge, who left recently for parts IN
known, returned last week Tuesday. She
appeared in court, pleaded guilty to a
charge of adultery and was sentenced to
not less than two or more than three
years in the state prison. Ii will be re-
membered that it was alleged that improp-
er relations between Mrs. Partridge and
/ Coomer led to the killing of the latter by
! Partridge.
A fire which was discovered last week
Wednesday morning destroyed the fac
tory Of the Pollard Manufacturing Co. in
Chester. The loss is estimated ct $50, 00C
, and il believed to be well covered by in
! surance. The cause OF the ire is un.
known. The prospects for rebuilding are
! considered good. The blaze was dis.
I covered by man who lives near the
, factory, and the alarm was given but tbs
flames had gained such Roadway wher
the firemen arrived that nothing could be
saved from the building. The loss in
4 cluded a large quantity of print cloth, 1OC
$ sewing machines and other valuable ma
I chinery and fixtures. The factory was {
) wooden structure, 100 feet long and two
I stories high. Wrappers and underwear
5 were manufactured there. Fifty girls
I mostly from Chester, and ten men were
a. employed.
e The trial Of Elroy Kent for the murde
e4 OF Miss Della Is. Congdon of East Wal
5 ingford last June was started in RUTLAND
2 county court Monday. Kent, it will b
remembered, escaped from the Waterbury
! asylum two weeks before the Congdol
1 murder and gave the officers Of southern
7 Vermont long chase, being finally cap
Z tured at Pittsdeld, Mass, for small
e theft Oct. 81. He was returned to Water
e bury and is still at the state institution
I The authorities at Rutland decline to dis
I cuss the reports received OF Kent from
e the asylum, but the fact that preparation
/. have been made for the trial leads to tn
0 belief that the Waterbury experts do no
e consider Kent very insane. States At
i torney j. G. Jones will be assisted in tn
+ prosecution by Attorney-General John g
Sargent OF Ludlow. Kent " i'll be defend
= ed bv Ernest II. O'Brien of Rutland.
Il Alexander Wagner was captured at hi
i home in Worcester last week Wednesday
a after two years OF liberty and will be tax
a en- to Rutland to serve a sentence of sixt
c DAYS at the house of correction for sellin
II intoxicating liquor. Wagner pleadei
4 guilty to this charge in Woodbury. j
a MAY, 1907, but escaped from Constabl
K John Morse at Essex Junction while be
/ ing taken to Rutland. Wagner was SUI
II prised at the arrival of the officers and dc
It manded a hearing. He said he did nc
d think they would ever come after him,
having been so long since his escape an
= the ofiense so small. His wife went int
/, Mysteries, pleading with the officers, VIII
i, had considerable trouble getting the ma
: away, although Wagner made no resist
4 ance. The claim of Wagner is that b
= did not run away from the officer bu