The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-02-11

ltr employed IL repair the same an
y" thereby ct great gains aud huy aulom,
a. hiles, acceptance, beel FUN the hratll'
he hoto butchers, and other expensive iuN
4 urrs Of like n1lur which wew total
~ hryond the purses at the defendants an
~ the subjects nf Emperor Daniels
2 Respondent Portland wa lint a.
&c nigled, appearing without counsel Al
:" ter demanding stfrnuously ia h. assigne,
i Mr. Hooker aud hcng told los the cnui,
10 HAT the would I've impossible. Mr., peni
It land decided io Plead guilty rather thar
: TO have anyone else Tie was fined 500,
p 0anm1 and oplrted committed Ia IN,
Lookup until the sentence Was eompnri
with, Respondent Calvin wa brought
4 nn next aud asked 10 he allowed Ia de-
9 lcnd hi own ease, but this aroused great
protest among the lawyers present an,l
the court ruled that such course would
hc taking from the LAWYERS their consti.
iuiional right 10 earn livelihood: there.
iole Judge Gibson was assigned
Then began the selection OF a Jury,
which was finally made 1T Georg. Nell
man, DR. g. +, Barber, T.. a. Barrows,
T.. j, Fenton, {, \, Boyden and Martin
Austin, l., T.. Holden was objected 10
lg prosecuting attorneys on the ground
th'i he aud Mr. Fits had been raised IN
the same town on Giltrther's turnips. u
q. Taylor was fined so for contempt for
I appearing with his hat on and Frank Il
| Putnam was excused on the ground Of
physical disability. ". \. Shumway was
allowed To go because he was not familiar
with the case and G. l.. Durham was
excused upon admitting that he had
agreed 10 pay part Of Respondent Elem.
| ing's fine ii he was proven guilty. The
ease against Mr. Calvin then began with
| Bill Young ~. l.. Stewart as the first
witness. He testified in effect that he
was a plumber employed bv MIR Calvin, I
who could manufacture water pressure |
regulators at a cost Of about seven cents !
apiece and could secure from fifty To one
hundred dollar for each one installed. de.
pending upon the money the customer
had. At the close OF loung's testimony
Mr.. Schwenk appeared with a pail con
tanning what he supposed was evidence ia
support OF hs injunction petition bat the
Judges called his attention TO the fact that
the receptacle was filled with beer and
he left hurriedly claiming that a mistake
had been made. Mr.. Calvin then testified
in his own behalf Cross examination by |
Judge Gibson brought ont the fact that |
Mr.. Calvin had installed a pressure regu-
lator on West river TO protect the bridges =,
from ice. On the redirect examination
Mr. Bacon asked the witness who he in. :,
tended to vote for for lieutenant govern
/
tween the witness and his counsel. Mr..
Calvin finally refusing to answer, by adj !,
vice OF his lawyer. AT this iuncture Al.
torney Schwenk reappeared with pail y
Of mud which seemed to the court suff y
rient evidence to warrant issuing an in u
junction giving the right TO blow up the !,
lam at Vernon. The paper was given to r
he sheriff who served ii so quickly that !
IN explosion, followed by total darkness, "
ook place forthwith. Disorder reigned ', "
or a time, but Frank Carpenter Pleas y
mt Valley power was turned on and l.,
,eace restored. ~
In spite of the strenuous objections o,
# Chief Prosecutor Bacon. his asso OF
late, Frank +. Barber was put on .,
he stand to testify in regard to a pres H.,
ure regulator which Mr.. Calvin had in u,
his testimony. Judge Gibson asked that ~
lr. BARRIERS name be added to the list r.
respondents, claiming that he had con La L'
pred with Mr.. Calvin. This concluded n. M
he testimony in the Calvin ease and Re. VI
Dondent Fleming was next led in and .a
ssigned Judge Whitney as counsel Mr.. ~, pr
leming pleaded not guilty and the first eu
illness called was Miss Blanche +. Mar /.
n. head nurse at the Memorial hospital "a "a
Iought to the institution in dazed con ~ ~
tion and that Doctors OConnor and "
nderson operated upon him for append 81 ~
It's. not because he was thought to have r.
lie disease but because they liked the i ne
'actice. While at the hospital she found D ;s
his clothing letters from George +, VI,
'owel to Mr., Fleming and from Mr.. h,.
eming to Mr.. Crowell. These letters IpEy
W g. ,,i ,,'' ,aJ7J oJ aI a., the
r. Barber after some controversy regard oS'
9 their admissbility. One letter was ~ IL
ritten by Mr. Crowell to Mr.. Fleming slll
st before village meeting which result Nv,
in the high pressure water system. An IT,
her written after the meeting congratu- wy
ed Mr.. Fleming on the way it had gone. e ea.
he third was letter from Mr.. Fleming a i
Mr., Crowell, thanking him for his kind Jaw,
rds and expressing the opinion that ~ ~
here is going to be wad of money for m 1ice
in this all right ~,
The next witness called was Mr.. Elem 'pull
himself and his testimony proved the +, NJ
of the evening. He stated that the I ,oo
,ed condition which brought him to APO a."
Memorial hospital was due to several . ihe
nks from bottle which he took from ~ ne
B. Emerson's cellar when he went on, on
re to fix some water pipes. He said ioio
remembered giving Fred kuech a cou- pass
of drinks and that after that his mem III
was rather hazy. Asked in regard to s t
profit on pressure reducers, Mr. Elem .he
stated that there would be IA good lts
lg in manufacturing them if he did not Rl e,
e to divide with so many people, as I've"
ing that he had to give rake-of to was, was
water board, the newspapers, select po,q
!. to Scion Richmond for delivering e GO
Esteyville vote and to Jim Allen for lor
ng as publicity agent. When Mr.. "a
Der attempted to cross-eXamine the 10y y,
ness, he Immediately became violently u % VI
ted and free fight was narrowly VI
tied on the question of whether MIR. t pon''
ming had ever been to the hospital at .ne
espondent Cox &c. H. Crane) was lea
ID next. He entered attired in a Due pna.
i-me-down coat protesting violently i D,ai
he was not Cox. His counsel Mr.. anu. anu
:, ~ IT. ent an n,traaaon. Good
nf ,,,;.tai,on ;Jont;t,, ..XVa SbaII fathe
, ;, al NJ E;tt ON. +b;s MON l. heavy
han' +L w., ~ ot al '"a stotnsan and holdi
or. John Joseph Eckes The first props
80 Co.. tho ,,rosoout;on IN nj. oaSa avenl
Mrs. Fremont Hamilton. She testi lailll
that she hardly ever went downtown . VA /;
was utterly unused to business mat T Hi
but that upon reading in The Re ooiid'
er that high pressure water service euls, ~
going to be installed she went to IN !,
store of Mr.. Cox to engage a plumber a, -
=" I'D ba was Mr. Gov an,eared At burial
house a little later in the day very
" dressed but instead of looking
the plumbing sat down in the parlor Jerl
produced box of Huyler's choco home
Very reluctantly and in the face chitis
iolent protest from the defendants 1856
eel, Mrs. Hamilton testified in re- was b