Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-03-19

Emile Perry. Common seller.
Harry Siddall Common seller.
4 A. J. Pine aud Hugh McCafersy. Keeping
Clyde 5: walker. Larceny.
selden n. Daley. Neglect to support wife.
Willis 3. Ladd. Common seller. and three TO
P. Libby, Fred Weeks and J. j. Gregory
4. p. Libby. Common seller.
Georre Dolton. Keeping and depositing.
Mary Gehagan. Nuiaance, and keeping ant
's GSays h.iues. Polysamy.
James Caliendo. Keeping and dspositing.
Simon Rinkeyitch. Nuisance.
Harry Siddall and George Curtis. Assault.
The next two half days following the
report Of the grand jury-the sessions
Of Thursday afternoon and Friday fore
noon-were times of ''little doing" 81
far a. appearances went, nevertheless
the business was being arranged with
good rspidity, and the possibility ,ol
trials to take up the time Of the court
was continually growing less.
Such prisoners a. were In jail were
brought In to be arraiCDe d Immediately
after the noon recess Thursday, and al
IL generally the case, most of them
pleaded not guilty. Also az is generally
the case, most Of them afterward re.
tracted their pleas, and pleaded guilty.
Friday morning another batch Of the
indicted appeared in court, and mainly
on the advice of counsel, pleaded guilty.
The cases of Fred Bernier, who was
indicted for . number of violations oil
the liquor law, individually or in con.
junction with others, are continued to
the May term. This was done because
Bernier's wife is in the hospital for treat.
ment, and he Is with her.
Jay j. Gregory OF Rumford pleaded
guilty in number of liquor cases. In
the nuisance case he paid fine and
costs amounting to $500, and one of the
other cases, In which he had pleaded
guilty, was continued for sentence.
The other cases were mol pressed, and
he was allowed to go.
| Friday afternoon most OF the sentences
of the term were imposed, there being
little other business at the session.
Harry Siddall and Emile Perry of Rum
ford received sentence of four months
in Jail on q nuisance indictment. Other
cases against them were continued for
sentence. NJ. T. O'Brien of Portland
addressed the court briefly In their be.
half, and County Attorney Parker also
spoke briefly, assuring the court that the
men, though young, were old offenders.
| Mr.. O'Brien also appeared for George
Curtis, who had pleaded guilty in several
cases. On the common seller indictment
Curtis was given fine of 500 and thirty
days In jail, or sixty days additional II
fine is not paid.
Alfred P. Libby of Rumford, who had
pleaded guilty to an indictment for keep.
ing and depositing, was said by Mr..
O'Brien to be unable to pay fine, and
was given a sentence of sixty days In
Jail.
Clyde S. Walker had pleaded guilty to
larceny. 1t was stated by his attorney,
Hon. d. q. Hastings, that the stolen
property, watch, bad been returned.
A fine OF fifty dollars was imposed,
which was paid.
Norfia Varano of Rumford pleaded
guilty to assault upon Fred LeClair. 1t
did not appear in the proceedings in the
court room, but it is understood that
Varano slashed LeClair across the back
quite severely with razor. As drawn
the indictment was for assault with in.
tent to kill, but County Attorney Parker
mol pressed as to the intent. The re-
spondent is an Italian, and it was neces.
sary to have the indictment and sentence
translated to him, James Caliendo acting
as interpreter. Judge Haley imposed a
sentence OF two years In state prison.
| The next respondent to appear in the
dock was the interpreter In the VaranO
case, James Caliendo of Rumford, who
answered to an indictment for keeping
and depositing. he pleaded not guilty,
and Judge AZ E. Stearns appeared as his
counsel, and trial began, which lasted
but a very few minutes.
The only witness was Deputy Sheriff
l.. L. Niles of Rumford, who testified
that on the evening of Dec. Z last, he
intercepted Caliendo and another man,
who was boarder at Caliendo's, as they
were carrying two boxes up over the
bank from the freight station at Rum
ford toward the house where Caliendo
lives. He asked Caliendo what they had,
and Caliendo said they had little wine
and little whiskey. At the police station
one of the boxes was found to contain a
five-gallon jug of wine, and the other
twenty quart bottles Of whiskey. One OF
the boxes was addressed to Caliendo at
his barber shop address, and the tag bad
been torn of the other one.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Niles testi-
mony, Judge Haley ordered the jury to
return verdict of not guilty.
A number of appealed cases from the
Rumford Falls Municipal Court, for the
sale of impure milk, we're settled, some
of them being mol pressed, but most of
them disposed of by the payment Of a
fine OF FIVE dollars and costs.
remarks in his behalf by Judge Stearns,
received q sentence Of 800 fine and
thirty days in Jail, on common seller
charge. Three single sale cases against
him were placed on file. He is unable
to pay any fine. and went to Jail.
Joseph Ayotte, young Rumford man,
had pleaded guilty to larceny. It was
stated by his attorney, Mr.. Blanchard,
that the money stolen bad been returned,
and with the consent Of the county
attorney he was released on probation.
| Fred Weeks of Rumford was dis.
charged, the indictment against him and
others for nuisance having been mol
pressed.
The only woman to appear in court as
q respondent was Gladys Haines OF Rum
ford, who pleaded guilty to bigamy, she
having about two months since gone
through "a marriage ceremony with an
Italian named Rosario Rondinelli, though
she was then and had been for some
years the wife Of John E. Haines Of Dix
field. Hon. James s. Wright was coun.
sci for her, and stated that she had
already been in jail two months. County
Attorney Parker moved for sentence,
but Judge Haley disliked to impose 1t,
and he called the attorneys In the case
into consultation with him. Then II
was stated by Mr.. Wright that the
woman's husband, Mr.. Haines, was In
the court room, and was willing to take
her back homo With him. Mr.. Haines
was called into the consultation briefly,
and the woman was then allowed to 60
under suspended sentence, and left the
court room with her husband.
There was remaining for Saturday
morning tho trial of James Carney oil
Rumford, who had pleaded not guilty to
an indictment found at q previous term
for forgery. The alleged forgery CON
sisted In the raising of check drawn to
Bert q. McKinuon from FIVE dollars Ia
fifty. The trial dropped out in peculiar
way. McKinuon was In town, having
come from Massachusetts, with the under
standing that his liberty should not b.
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