Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-01-01
AD6sON COUNTY Co0RT.

cess since Thursday, Dec. 3. There was
large attendance of attorneys from
abroad ON the opening day.
Matters were in somewhat chaotic
condition when the court started in but
States Attorney Tuttle came to the res
cue and relieved the situation by filing a
batch of information, and the resulting
trials have kept the court in work all the
week. The usual order of things was
reversed and the criminal cases were
brought on for trial first, as none of the
dozen or more civic jury cases were
ready to be brought on at this time.
After a continuance had been entered
in the case of Joseph w. Trudo VS.. W. II.
Cardell, the case of the State VS.. Charles
Hart was begun. In this case the re-
spondent, who is set up as of Vergennes
but is a stranger in these parts, was
charged on information with having
committed burglary by breaking into the
station of the Rutland Railroad company
at Vergennes on the night of October 81
On the morning of the 22d the south de-
window at the end was open half way
up. Two mileage books of 800 miles each,
70 cents in money and a dilapidated re-
volver were found to be missing. Hart
sold the mileage books and the revolver
in Brandon on October %, the former for
SO and the latter for 35 cents, and his
arrest followed. When arrested he had
in his possession raincoat and one of
pair of gloves which had been stolen
from the Eerrisburgh station on the same
night with the burglary at Vergennes
This case lasted up to noon on Tuesday
and the prisoner who has been in jail
here since his arrest for lack of bail.
stoutly maintained his innocence. The
jury, however, after a very brief absence,
came in with a verdict of guilty. Sen
tence has not yet been pronounced.
States Attorney Tuttle had charge of
the prosecution and w. H. Davis of
Middebury was counsel for the respond
ent. A second information has been
| filed against Hart charging him with the
burglary at the Ferrisburg depot.
The second criminal trial was got start
ed in the middle of the afternoon Tues
day, when John Mack, Salisbury young
man. pleaded not guilty to an informa-
tion charging him with having in his
possession at East Middlebury in October
| last seine with which he intended to
| fish in the Middebury river, "a stream
inhabited by trout" Mack maintained
that he had had no such intention what
ever. The prosecution was instituted
through the efforts of County Fish and
Game Warden VIM. A. Taft of Waltham
and Town Fish and Game Warden Guy
Damon of Middlebury. Mr.. Tuttle APP
peared for the State and Mr.. Davis for
| tlo nd lnn r,,,,
the jury at noon Wednesday. The Jury
wrestled with the case all Wednesday af-
ternoon and part of Wednesday night,
but were hopelessly divided.
Wednesday afternoon on the recon-
mendation of States Attorney Tuttle, the
case of State vs. Peter Manning of RIpton
was mol pressed. In this case the re-
spondent WAS charged with rape upon
one Nellie Goodell at Salisbury Plains
last October. Mr.. Tuttle stated that he
had no evidence against the respondent
except the word of the Goodell girl, who
was only half-witted and unreliable, and
so the case was thrown out of court
Trial No. 3 was begun and ended We'd
nesday afternoon. In this case Ralph
Douglas of East Middlebury was charged
on information with having given Mich
ael Calvin, also of East Middlebury, two
drinks of whiskey while the two were
riding home together from this village in
June of this year Calvin testified that
Douglas treated him to two drinks, as
charged. Douglas denied point blank
that he had ever N Calvin any liquor
on the occasion ir question or at any
time. That was practically all of the
testimony. Ira H. LaFleur of Middle
bury appeared for Douglas and Mr.. futile
again conducted the prosecution. The
trial lasted but little over an hour and
the jury got the case at 80 o'clock.
The jury were out about five minutes,
when they returned into court with a
verdict of not guilty, and Respondent
Douglas was thereupon discharged.
Thursday morning Frank Trudo and
Mrs. Carrie Rogers, both of Whiting,
were arraigned in court and pleaded not
guilty to separate information charging
them with adultery with each other. The
case against Mrs. Rogers was at once
: called for trial and, for a wonder, 12 out
of the first 13 men drawn into the box
were accepted as jurors in the case. The
persons involved in these cases are well
known people in their part of the county
and the case from the start has excited
much interest over a pretty wide area
The jurymen not drawn on the Rogers
panel were excluded from the court
room during this trial, which will prob
ably last to the end of the week.
States Attorney Tuttle is assisted in
the prosecution by Former States Attor
ney L. G. Russell of Middlebury, and
Lawyer LaFleur is taking care of the de