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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-03-21
WILL APPEAL CASE
TAKEN FROM JURY
Title to Land in Shrewsbury Not
Proved, Decides judge Stan
ton at Rutland.

Rutland, March 1.-THE first jury trial
Of the March term of Rutland county
court was taken up to-day but Judge
Xed $. Stanton directed verdict for the
defendant before much time had been
consumed. The case was that Of John
Wilmoth OF Ludlow vs. Wallace Brown
OF Shrewsbury, an action for ejectment
involving the ownership of 4 tract of
timber land in Shrewsbury. There was
also claim for $500 damages connec bed
with the case. The verdict was directed
on the motion OF {. V. Poulin and c. L.
Howe of this city. counsel for the de-
PENDANT, that the Plaintiff had failed to
establish proper title to tho land f. H.
Sticltney. who is counsel for the plaintiff
announced that he would appeal the case
TO the Vermont supreme court
\ jury was drawn at the afternoon ses-
sion to try the g., 900 assault case, Charles
O. Sumner of Rutland VS.. Oscar Potter
of Clarendon. The plaintiff claims that
while he was asleep AT the defendants
house Potter poured Kerosene on his feet
and set fire to his stockings The case
was fried last fall. the Jury disagreeing.
G. y. Poul!n and T.. IL. OBren represent
Sumner and T. w Moloney and G. w.
Plat of Rutland appear for Potter.
Ten Of the jurors drawn for the term
have been excused permanently and five
temporari'v because Of illness.
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POURED KEROSENE ON FOOT
Witness Says Mr.. Potter Then Set MIR.
sumner on Fire.

Rutland, March 15.-That Oscar Potter
of Clarendon told him that he had poured
kerosene over the foot of Charles q.
Sumner Of this city. and then set it on
fire in order to arouse sumner out OF
drunken sleep was the evidence given In
county court to-day by Henry Merlin of
thi7 city in the trial of the Sumner-Potter
assault case. The affair took place in
January. 1911, at Potter's house where
sumner declares he was kept prisoner for
a month. Potter refusing to call II physi-
clan or take him to Rutland
The evidence of the plaintiff was con-
cluded ana the defense made good pro
eress in his case To-day one OF the de-
iendant's witnesses testified that sumner
offered him 500 il he would go into court
and swear that he took a letter from
Sumner to man In this city while the
plaintiff was at Potters house. Sumner
was unable to walk without the aid OF
.rutches for many months after the burn
ing.
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FUSILLADE BEGAN WITH THE
PRONOUNCING OF SENTENCE
Large Crowd Drawn to Quaint Courthouse by
Case of Mountaineer-His Brothers Led Band
of 20 to the Scene and Escape into the Blue
Ridge Mountains while Posse Pursues.

Of tho State of Virginia has also been
ordered TO Hillsvile He and Judge
Staples will met at Pulaski tomorrow
and proceed together.
The place is awkwardly situated for such
an emergency as this. 1t is the seat of
Carroll county, but lies in the Beaver
dam valley four miles from the top of
the Blue Ridge mountains. The country
is rough and the roads at this time of
year are nearly impossible. Illicit stills
are said to be many
ALIENS STERN CHARACTERS.
All the men in the Allen family have
been known as stern characters and have
been feared by many in the county. The
deputy sheriff who would serve a sum
mons on ore OF them was accounted a
brave man.
Floyd Aliens familiar boast was that
he had 10 bullet holes in his body and
that five of them had been put there by
his brother
sidney Allen, who took part in the
shooting to-day, Is under sentence of two
and half years in the federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta for perjury In a counter
feiting case, and was out on an appeal.
His trial was to come up in April
The Aliens We're regarded as well-to-do,
Some We're farmers and some merchants.
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FREE SUGAR BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
Vote of 1913 to 103 with "a Repub-
Gcans on Side of Demo
cratic Majority.

WASHINGTON. March 1s.-The democra-
tic free sugar bill passed the House to-
day, ,9S to l0. It's passage was helped
by a republican votes, although this was
offset by the detection Of seven demo-
cratic votes against the bill by members
from Louisiana and Colorado. At the last
moment Representative Martin OF Colo
RADIO, one OF the Colorado members.
blocked an attempt to H.: plans for con-
sideration OF tho excise tax BILL which
through taxation Of incomes is expected
to make up the roYene lost by the free
sugar measure.
Leader Underwood was at no time en-
barrassed by the tactics of the opposi-
ton. Tho hill went through as originally
framed. A score Of amendments were
voted down
The debate was marked BY occasional
flashes of extreme bitterness on both
sides. Democratic members from sugar
producing States accused their colleagues
of working ruin to the sugar indus Try.
while republican progressives seized the
opportunity to give their tariff views.
The republicans who supported the bin
were Representatives Anderson. Davis,
IAndbergh. Miller, Nyc, Stevenson and
Volstead OF Minnesota Good, Kendall and
Woods OF Iowa; Murdoch and Young Of
Kansas; Hanna and Hegeson of North
Dakota: La Toilette and Warburton of
Washington; Mckenzie and Prince OF
Illinois; Cary of Wisconsin, Dyer of Mis-
souri,; Rowland OF Ohio: Kent OF Califor-
mia: Rafferty, of Oregon; Norris of Ne
braska, and Sells OF Tennessee
The Louisiana and Colorado mem
bers. all democrats. voted against tho
measure.
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TEN in use Is years and now useless. Tie
Ball dynamo for are lighting adopted,
and said to have been the best at that
time, is not manufactured to-day and
for several years the village has been
unable to get machine parts in case of
trcakIge.
In the equipment a machine called a
regulator governing the electricity loads
will be installed at the power station. also
an automatic arrangement for adjusting
the hours of lighting. Tho new system.
which will be installed as soon as the
now poles can he set. will cost about 81 500.
Swanton was the first place in Vermont
to install municipal electric lighting and
the rate adopted at that time was the
lowest IN this country ana was copied
from rates In use in a fcr water7ower
places in Switzerland. OF the eleven
Swenton mon who a"ted officially In snmc
manner in Installing tho system Is years
ago, only three are alive now, T. H..
1.apelle u. G.. Furman and George Squire
now of South Hero.
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lily, but I tell them of my good friend,
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and that there will be no back
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ever without it in the house.
81 will say also that | think there is
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pound for painful periods and irregular
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contains no narcotics or harmful dl7,r-
and today holds the record of being :;
most successful remedy for woman.
known.
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ELECTRIC POWER
REPLACES STEAM
Boston & Maine Serves Notices on
Auditing Land Owners
in PoWnal.

Bennington. March 17.--Further en-
coura cement has been added to the
hopes of the residents of this section
that they may eventually have a di-
rect train service connection with the
Boston q Maine by the way of the
trolley track of the Bennington q
North Adams Street Railway line
through the serving of notices upon
the AUDITING landowners in the town
Of Pownal to the effect that the Bos-
ton a Maine. as lessee of the Fitch
burg, propose to eleotrify that por-
tion Of its road within the boundaries
Of Vermont.
The notices which were served by
Robert f.. Healy Of the law firm of
Holden d Hcaly OF this village state
that the company proposes to substi-
tutc electricity for steam power on
that section of the road between the
north line OF Williamstown Mass, and
the east line OF the town of Peters
burg. =. Y, n distance Of about nine
miles. and comprising all of the
Fi.chburg division of tho Boston 4
Maine system within the State Of YER
| mont.
1t Is further provided by the notices
| that the Boston & Maine proposes to
| permit THE Vermont company" which
operates that portion of the Berkshire
Street railway system inside of the
borders Of Vermont and extending
| from Williamstown, Mass, through the
town of Pownal and bennington &c
the east line of the town of Hoosick
| y. y, to connect the trolley line with
| the line Of the steam road in the towr
of PoWnal and to operate its cars anc
trains by electricity over the portion
of the steam road from Pownal to the
Williamstown line. The connection
| between the 'tolley line and the steam
road Is to be made near the Soutl
PoWnal station,
/ At the 1910 session of the Legisla-
| turc Il special act was enacted permit
ting the operating OF steam trains
over the trolley line of the Benning
ton e. North Adams Street railway tc
| a point inside the limits of Benning'
ton village. At the time the bill was
before the Legislature II was general
| ly predicted that 1t would be tmpos
sible to operate "A steam train over the
line because of the severe grade. The
| serving Of the notices would seem Il
Indicate that future developments ir
this direction. II they arc ever made
viii he through the use OF electric en-
sines as motive power.
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VIRGINIA MILITIA
MUST LAY SIEGE
Otherwise the Outlaws Who
Wiped Out Court May Never
Be Captured.
THEY HIDE IN HIGH UP CAVES
Camping Site Selected for Troops
and It May Be Necessary to
Dynamite Mountain
Citadels.
THEY HIDE IN HIGH UP CAVES

Hillsvillc. Va. March 1.-Two thousand
ana caves of the Blue Ridge mountains,
the Allen gang. who demonstrated their
contempt Of constituted iaw by IL mas
sacre of the judge. the prosecutor and
the sheriff of the Carroll county court
last Thursday, continued to-day to defy
capture.
The days search by posse of 80 de-
tectives and citizen volunteers demon
rated that unless the militia is sent
acrc to begin systematic siege of the
hiding places Of the outlaws they may
never be brought to answer to the in
dictments for murder returned here yes
tcfday. For such plan "A camping site
was selected to-day by representatives Of
Governor Mann The county authorities
are WORKING in harmony with the state
and orders may soon be issued for com
paui"s Of militia, if not for the search
cor tainlv for the formal arraignment of
tho prisoners. which Is Sch duod her
for March &c. The arraienment is likely
10 he postponed.
Those who know the paths and passes
ul the highland. ana the points OF Want
age from which tho outlaws could ware
an attacking force with least hurt
to themselves. say that the Aliens IN
0ucs tlorably are concealed behind the
oNorhanaing precipices of Devils Den
haif way between here and Mount Airy.
\. g. There. with provisions and am
munition of which It Is said they have
plenty. an attacking force would find
he aim of the Aliens deadly Some
think 1t may be necessary to dynamite
The mountain citades.
CLERK Rr3IIEARsEs TRAGEDY.
Quite prevailed in IIillsvine to-day. The
village pastor preached In favor of capt.
tai punishn ont at all times, and there
rs no n taking whom he meant From
q country sid came the curious on
! rsebacf mule back, by OK carts and
rs , ery scription fori'ng the
nigh water of the creek and elm. Jng the
steep HILL to the summit where repOses
the hamlet of Hillsvile.
Dexter Dad, clerk of the court, with
bullet in his left check and bandage
across his face showed the folks to-day
how 1t happened. He rehears the scene
with vivid detail even to placing the
bullet SCARED chairs which were occupied
W Judge Massie, Sheriff Webb and Com
onwealth's Att rney Foster A row OF
bullet hos. low IN the right hand wall.
ere added cvid.nce of the tragedy
A shattered rail in front of the Judges
bench also showed the effect of the fusil-
lade ana upon the floor was the discOlo-
ration of blood. Clerk Goad showed how
Attorney Foster after being fatally shot.
staggered and dropped his head upon a
sheeDSkin volume of the law. 4 dark
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they would got fair trial In Carroll
county. My brother. Sidra. was wounded
when he passed my home Thursday nighr
and was alone. do not know wherq
he has gone and have received no word
from him since. shall not try 10 az.
wise them about giving themselves up.
hey must do as they think best"
TRAILFD WOUNDED OUTLAW.
Tonight part Of the posse came , ,
% Billsvlle and part remained In "a
louiY N bush pursuing slHa Edwards,
a nephew Of Floyd Allen Edwards was
last reported climbing higher and higher
through O. laurels Of the Blue Ridea
eth IT,, posse about two hours behind
According 10 the detectives who returned
o-night the man IS fleeing with an m
Jured foot. BY railing Edwards I'VE posse
hopes to locate Tho rest Of the band
At Edwards's home the police located
whiskey stills At Floyd Aliens tho
osse found another still Both "
onfiscated.
While Floyd Allen vas wounded
prisoner in the Jail tonight, the posse
unting W relatives were CUES at -
r,Dle. Alec Wiz ana hi ms Sife .ra-
par a meal for the prosecutors OF their
husbands and the % men IN the party
who returned tonight declared they had
been treated right sharp royal"
PRISONERS ARE AT ROANOKE.
Roanoke. Va, March 17.-Floyd Allen,
his son. Victor. and Byrd Marion vera
brought here from Pulaski early to-day
and put In Jail The authorities thought
ne feeling against the courthouse nssas-
MS IS runni : too hirh at Pulaski for
..leir safety
Alien was brought on a cot, with ona
leg broken. in q cast. He Is wounded IN
he other. The prisoners We're widely
rparate9 in the Jail and all outsiders
.ept ont. This order even extended II
the religious workers and there We're a
services in the jail to-day
Young Allen and Marion. both under
Indictment for murder, protested to n II
guards that they took no part in the
-hooting.
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coat Of blood on the book was mute EVIL
dence.
Andrew Howlet and Stuart Worrel,
both bystanders. wounded at Thursdays
assas sination, to-day rested easily. One
las a bullet in the lung and t. other
vas shot in his L. Juror Columbus
Kane. who was shot in the abdomen ane
IS the most seriously injured of all. may
die, which would bring the death list to
six.
POSSE SKULLS TO NO PURPOSE.
over the rain-channeled mountain
side. the posse skulked to-day to no
avail. They conducted their move
ments in the broad glare Of a hot sun,
which however. helped to dry the
muddy roads maxi g prospects for to-
morrow more encouraging.
Contrary to earlier reports the tele-
phone wires throughout this district
b We not been cut by the Aliens or
any one else. Communication from
the outside world has been difficult
In tho i4st two days principally be-
cause of the heavy outflow of pr"ss
spa hes which sre to.na npl l.
ed from here to Barren Springs and
being telegraphed from there.
Jasper Allen, known a s Jack, who
Is brother Of Sidna and Floyd. but
who Is said not to have been involved
in the tragedy. made a statement to-
.ght on behalf of the Aliens. At his
home. seven miles from Hillsvlle, he
said
II am greatly surprised and shocked
Il what has happened. do rot think
ny brothers had made any plot or
u.an. When l saw Sidna the night
~ the shooting he told me he knew
nothing of any trouble beforehand.
and was surprised himself when the
shooting began In the court room.
81 do not believe my relatives Will give
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JUDGE FISH MAY HEAR
FIRST CASE AT CAPITAL

Montpelier. March l6.--Present indi-
cations are that Judge Frank L. Fish
will hear his FIRST case in this city IN
Washington county court Judge Il. L.
Waterman beinG disqualified TO hear
three cases.
Judge Fish Is assigned to Addison
county court April and all other SUI
perior Judges are engaged with spring
terms. Unless So other Judge has
a short term and then comes here,
Judge Fish will probably hear the
cases of Harriet Bailey, Ella NJ.
Bailey and Clara Il. Lowe against the
Vermont Savings bank, The cases are
In general assumpsit and were dock
eted In 1903 Il, II. Deavitt and the
Plumleys appear for the plaintiff In
each case. while the bank Is represent =
ed by Clarke C. Fits and Il. W, Glib
son of Brattleboro.
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c. 4. Glossner. "a Ontario St. Ro-
chester. n. Y, has recovered from 10 Z
and severe attack of kidney trouble, is
cure being due 10 Foley Kidney Pills.
After detailing his case, he says: Il
am only sorry ! did not learn sooner OF
Foley kidney Pills In few days time
my backa ne competely left me and
folt greatly improved. My kidneys be-
camc stronger, dizzy spells left me and
was no longer annoyed at night. 1
feel 100 per cent. better since using Foley
Kidney pills" ]. w. O'Sullivan. "a Church
rect
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MEETING OF YALE ALUMNI

Montpelier, March l5.-A large number
of Yale alumni attended the annual meet
ing and banquet Of the Vermont Yale AL
umni association at the Country club to-
night. Professor Crawford represented
the faculty. The officers elected are:
President, j. A. Merrill. So, Rutland;
vice-president, Fred T.. Gleason. '05 Mont
pelier: secretary and treasurer. Phillip Il.
Leavenworth. 81, Castleton; executive
committee. Hugh H. Henry. 20, Chester
DR.. Il. D. Collins, 81. Middlebury; II. II.
Jackson. 90. Barre. A COMMITTEES OF three
members to serve one, two and three
years was elected in accord with the plan
of the Yale faculty to have an advisory
committee from each State association
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MASONIC DISTRICT MEETING.

White River Junction. March IA
Masonic district meeting of the Royal
Arch Chapters of Windsor. Woodstock.
Bradford and White River Junction was
held here to-day. At six o'clock a BAN
Guot was served in tho Gates Memorial
library by the ladies Of the Universalist
Church society About 100 We're in at
tendance, among them being George Mas
of Woodstock. district deputy, and
George I. Whitney of Bellows Falls.
grand lecturer.
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MASONIC MEETING AT BARRE.

i'arre, March 1.-THE third district of
Royal Arch Masons met TO-DAY with
Granite Chapter, No. 26, Il. A. NJ, near
~ 100 delegates being present from the
following chapters, Whitney of Randolph.
King Solomon of Montpelier. Waterbury
oi Waterbury, and Granite Of this city.
Prominent Masons attending were Grand
High Priest Samuel r. Braley OF Rut-
land. Grand Secretary Henry H. Ross of
burlington. Grand Lecturer George L.
V hitney OF Bellows Falls. The ladies'
served supper and this evening the
grand officers gave a reception
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A COLD, IA GRIPPE. THEN PNEU-
MONIA

Is too often the fatal sequence. ana
coughs that hang on weaken the system
and lower the vital resistance. Foleys
Honey and Tar Compound Is a reliable
medicine that stops the cough promptly
by healing the cause: soothes the in
famed air passages. and checks the
cold. Keep always on hand, Refuse sub
stitutss. j. w. OSullivau. "a Church St.
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pidge maintains TODAY and ND TO the
f,or,.ou coun+v courtbouso horo and
o.s,ss,-o,oa tho 5,dyo unon thn bench.
.io nrosoc,to, bnfo,a tho liar and the
.,.ioc 80 aoor ~ .ho count roam
,rho tr,,-od,. u,,s o,oc,od while sen
$50 ,,,e ,oiror ,ro,ou,cod unon
r,,o,.,, ,1,n, - a., o,,,,.us
v,,.o 49,, .,. - .,a rinos diod
o,,o,. nn,,, ono r,or,tcr or tho human
r,...,. raa tIo
,,or,, wa. aii,.o a1 ro INA heor
.,..,,aoa I,,.. o,,a sroc,o,ors
atso ,roro s,,,,ai, ,. +ho c,s,1i,do hut
'''' "'ie ,'
,ro-rigb+ enc outlaws wifi, , good
days start. are ND in the mountain
bush with a citizen posse making a
snn,blanco of n pursuit ShcriNs and
deputies from ncichboring counties
cannot reach Ilnlevillc before early
morning. 4 enccial train from Rom
ol.a to-richt brou-n. On dotoc+ivo, to
Calax. the nearest railway station
which IS nine miles away II will he
midnirbt hororo those cop rot oyo-
tho mountain roods bub-deen &, snr,r o.
mud and nrohabl,. dov,is,h, veil, boyo
arrivod hoforo t,.,.,.o, co,, ha ,,.,.,,,,,,,,
ro,.a., =, o'o ~.
,o,d ,noao 80 da,. H.. C,a.'1.. 80,
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9h'' lN'' fANAl-n H'-P TOWN.
lie shooting terrorzed fiusNille to the
point of paralysis. There was not a man
t. give an order. or organize a pursuit
Citizens fed to places of safety. and
mothers gathered up their children while
the assassns rode out If town.
Judge Thornton I. Massie rose from his
chair as the bullets struck him and fell,
across his desk. commonwealth Attorney
William Foster. with half a dozen bullets
IN his brain crumplcd on tho floor. Sheriff
Lewis Webb. WAS shot and killed as he
reached for his revolver. Bullets grazod
t.'rk Goad and in the confusion he was
reported to have boon killed Jurors who
he'd been only slightly wounded were re-
ported dead ana reports of wholesale
slaughter went out to the countryside.
Floyd Allen WAS before the bar this
morning, convicted Of taking prisoner
from q deputy sheriff. Allen had strucI,
"'N' 'i' ''V"" WIN 81 liHe
p'i''''' .''' escaped 7heilil
S"'.' up ''to 'ie mountains
'N''n uoSP''' uire warnings
"'n prosecutor MN >ld
" -.'o Di''''''ei jury i"u convicted NM
az" '""'h'AE' ms sentence attracted
80, "''N'u"HN large crowd 10 the quaint
VIZ. mouse
""S' ~ Aiieh was anout to be called
W s'"'ohcc' ms hrothers' sidney
aHo JACK NJ the mead OF 20 other
= 'oue UP 10 the court
'''""e' ihe'r ponies splashed with
.'."" NSN''ed 10 a long Tde through
'ie n'i'S'
BANDITS FILL THE COURTHOUSE
The two brothers and THAR cor-
yanions. some carving rir,os ard oth-
ers revolvers crowded into TIM s,,a,,
court room and stood hoh,rd 49, 80,
and about the door rlovd Al, "a
years old and tan ,r1 ,-o,,,+ $780,, =.
the dock.
Judge Massia uour+oa -, .
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MOTHER OF
LARGE FAMILY
Tells How She Keeps Her
Health 49, Happiness For
Those Who Take
Her Advice.
Scottvile, Mich. az want to tell you
how much good Lydia E. Pinkham Veg

etableCompound and
Sanative Wash have
done me. ] live on a
farm andhaveworked
very h ard. l am
forty five years old,
and am the mother
of thirteen children.
Many people think
it strange that / am
not broken dow
with hard work and
the care of nv fam