Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-11-28
LIFE TERM FOR mrs. CARTER
Sentence Given Woman Who
Killed Pearl Hooper.
Venus VurvciI sent to Jni1 for Lightly
Stnbbing Ida Itoincs-iOng So
iouru nj windsor for Forrest
Robinson, Burglar.

Sentence of life Imprisonment at hard
lshor was imposed Monday upon Mar
garct Carter. colored, who fatally shot
Pcarl Hooper, also colored. at the Frank
In resort in colchester on the night OF
Monday. September .. considera BILE
part Of the afternoon in Chittenden coun-
~ court was taken up with the state
ments of the prosecution and the defense
md 1t was 5:l5 when Judge Taylor CON
Guided his remarks to the defendant
whose sentence was the last of several
hat were given
TIL" story of Il life was brought ont in
'he review of the case by the attorneys
1ud the sordd conditions existing in tn.
rcghborhcod of Fort Ethan Allen were
graphically touched upon by the counsel
for both the State and the defendant. in
The one case to show that the case called
Tor the maximum penalty of the law, and
II the other, to establish a plea for len
icncy, upon the grounds that Margaret
Garter was the victim of heWdity. enri-
ronmcnt and misfortune.
Her plea, guilty of murder in the Sec
tnd degree. was entered in court last
wocK Wednesday. Monday, States AT
torncy Henry Il Shaw in opening the
penalty for this crime life Imprisonment
and reminded the court that since tn,
courcd troops have been stationed a,
Fort Ethan Allen, there have been halt
dozen homcdos. not all of them, how
EVER, coming before this court for trial
PLEA FOR l.EN1ENCY.
John j. Enright appearing for the de-
PENDANT called attention to the action OF
the legislature in 1870 making murder il
the second degree virtually manslaugh.
ter. and asked for sentence of but i:
few years.
In some cases" said he. "a respond
cnt should not suffer the life penalty
Mrs. Carter was justified in killing Pear
Hooper if any one ever was justified il
taking such a life" He then took up con.
sidcratiun of the life and character OF
the defendant.
MarGalct Carter. he said, WAS born Jun,
j.. l>>I i'm Wilmington. y. C.. and wa.
All ilcgitimat" child. At the age of hv,
years she was the victim of a crmina
assault. She went under the name %
HrcWington. ana was married at the ag,
OF IT to Isaiah Stokes, coiorcd. After liz.
ing in Wilmington for "a time she wen
10 New York. and first came to thi.
section in the fall of 1909
All through her childhood. it appeared
from dispositions obtained by Mr. f;nright
during "trip 10 North Carolina, taker
Tor the purpose Of looking into the recor,
of his client, Margaret Carter had beel
eXcitahle an subject to fits and spells
Of violence. when it took several to holt
her. At one time, as she lay asleep OF
s: couch, concentrated lye was poured int,
one of her ears the results of this lastn.
20 years. and causing deafness on tina
side of her head at the present time Tn,
statements of public school teacher il
Wilmington, a Mrs story. and of person.
IN New York We're included in thi!
evidence
She met Carter, it appeared. IN January
1910, at a dance. and married him in 1911
She had been at one time an employe o
The liiawatha club, which was burned
some months ago In Wnooski, and Will,
there was irritable and eXcitable.
"Of Pearl Hooper" said Mr. Enrlsht
"all we know is that she came to Yer
mont and lived at different places II
Wlnoosk and around the post She wa
n desperate character. and carried Il raHo
in her handbag or stocking She had sew
cral times tried to use it on Mrs Carter
and had threatened to cut her to death
If she spoke to Carter
At one time Dolly Kirkpatrick was Gu
in irving to save Mrs Carter from In
jury at Franklin's, counsel continued. an
the Hooper woman had slashed a
Sergeant Davis with razor because h
wouldn't buy her a drink, Davis there
upon leaving the house.