The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-05-12
PIED NOT GUILTY
TO MURDER CHARGE
Caspar Smiths Trial Will Take
Place This Month
WIFE NOW IN JAIL AT NEwrANE
And Must Answer TO Statutory Charge
She Is the Woman Who Eloped Last
Summer With Hired Man-other
Criminal Cases Disposed Of.

The criminal docket OF Windham county
court has been cleaned up this week with
the exception of the two murder trials
which viii probably be disposed OF during
the month. The grand jury returned -four
true bills Friday, one OF which was against
Caspar NJ. Smith for murder in the first de-
gree in the killing OF Clark c. Niundell at
Smiths home in West Wardsboro early
the morning Of April ~. Smith pleaded
not guilty before Judge L. l.. Waterman
Tuesday afternoon and was returned to jail
TO await trial which has been set for May
20, A. V. ID. Piper OF Jamaica has been AS
signed as counsel for Smith, The case of
State vs.. Frank j. Boyd OF Wilmington,
charged with the murder OF John Potter IN
Boyd's sugar orchard the afternoon OF April
IA will be called for trial Tuesday. Charles
:. Chase Of Brattleboro will defend Boyd.
States Attorney Frank L. Barber viii rep.
resent the state in both cases.
During the week the several Putney il
quor cases have been disposed Of as told in
another column. The Bellows Falls liquor
case against Andy Breen was disposed OF
by the respondent pleading guilty to two
counts, one for illegal selling and one for
keeping with intent TO sell. On the first
count he was fined $500 and costs and on
the second given jail sentence of not less
than 10 nor more than II months. The jail
sentence was suspended and Breen will re-
port 10 the probation officer, +. ID. 4.
Stowe. regularly for year.
Dennis Jones OF Townshend pleaded
guilty to an assault upon Merton Adams in
the latters home in that town March 20.
He was fined Sl2J and costs amounting to
about $40, A jail sentence was also inn
posed OF not less than 10 nor more than IL
months. This was suspended and the re.
spondent placed in the hands OF the proba-
tion officer. Joseph Butts. tramp who
walked away from his job OF handy man
about the Jail at Newfane while serving a
Today sentence for vagrancy and was cap
tured in Dummerston, was fined SD and
costs. He took the alternative sentence of
three days in Jail for each dollar OF his fine
and costs and will assist Jailor Benson un.
til late in August.
Upon an information charging her with
a statutory offense with Clark c. Mundell,
Mrs. Caspar NJ. Smith of West Wardsboro
was taken last week TO Newfane jail. Her
case will not be brought on for trial until
the case against her husband for the muir.
der OF Mundel is finished Mrs. Smith has
been in the public eye before On Aug. IL.
1910, she eloped with her husbands hired
man, Ernest Leno, and was arrested with
her lover in Granville, \. Y. Aug. 10, after
unsuccessfully trying TO dispose OF her hus- |
bands horse. Deputy Sheriff +. NJ. Fits |
OF Wardsboro brought Leno 10 Brattleboro |
where he was held in $500 bonds for at
tempting to steal horse airs. Smith re- |
manned in New York state for time Dep |
uty Sheriff Fits told newspaper reporters |
that Mrs. Smith had enjoyed a good repu. !
tation mp to that time.