The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-22

the negro that if he did not come out
and clear himself OF taking the dinner
pail he (McCabe) ''would break his d--il
black head" The next time Guyette
saw Rounds, Sweeney and Goodrich We're
chasing him through the field near the
saw mill. Later, the witness said, he
saw Sweeney and Goodrich leading the
negro down the track. Each had hold
of an arm, he said, and McCabe was
with them.
Guyette identified a brass tag marked
us. & NJ. c. Co., which Rounds had on
/ his coat. The witness said that the
| soles Of the shoes worn by Rounds were
missing.
Frank Morrill, 10 years old who was
living in Bolton the day Rounds was
killed, testified that he saw the negro
running along the road with Sweeney
and Goodrich after him. He said he
saw stick fly through the air and
saw Sweeney grab the negro. He saw
Sweeney hit the negro, he said. and then
Sweeney and McCabe took the negro
and walked him down the track towards
heard the negro say he was cold and
hungry and that he had not taken the
dinner pail The witness said he and
some other boys followed them down
the track towards the section gangs
shanty. He saw the negro 70 into the
: anty with McCabe Sweeney and
Goodrich Morrill, said he heard loud
talking in the shanty. He could hear
McCabe talking, he said, but did not
know what they were doing in the
shanty. Max l.. Powell conducted the
cross examination of Morrill,.
The next witness was Howard Cab
oree of Bolton, l3 years old. He said |
he saw the negro near the station at |
Bolton when Goodrich and Sweeney had I
him between them. McCabe was there, |
too The witness said he saw the ne |
gro break away and run up on the bank. /
He saw the negro later, he said, when
they were taking him up the track. He
heard the negro say he hadn't had any
thing to eat for three DAYS. The ne
gro was pleading with Sweeney and
ioodrich to let him 90. The witness
said he heard one Of the men tell the
negro that if he had knife he would
mt his heart out. Under cross -examina
ion by Mr.. Powell, young Gaboree said
le did not hear Goodrich say anything
rhe witness said Sweeney did most of
he talking.
Harley Gaboree was called next. He
aid he saw Goodrich throw stick and I,
lit the negro. He also testified that he
aw Sweeney knock The negro down
vice Goodrich had hold Of the negro's
rm. he said, and they led him down the !
rack. II
Martin Whalen Of Bolton, laborer
ii the state road. said he saw Rounds
I Jonesville about II 80 o'clock on the
ay of the drowning. Later, he said he
aw McCabe and Sweeney go up the
rack with the negro, He did not see
ne negro again, he said, until he saw
ne body taken out of the river. The {
ody had a number OF marks on the t
lee and was doubled up. II
Walter Stevens of Bolton told Of see s
z the negro 20 into the boiler room c
the mill The witness said he was t
it'll the boys who followed the negro 1
,wn the track when he was being tax a
to the section shanty and that they b
aged on some rocks near the shanty. i
he witness said Goodrich and Sweeney a
ID hold OF the negro all the way 10
e shanty. Tie said the negro was cold 81
i'd wet and seemed frightened. He h
ard the negro pleading with the men Il
the shanty to let him 60. The cloth cl
z worn by Rounds was produced but q,
e witness could not positively identify r,
Stevens said that later he saw three O
the men coming along the lane lead IL
2 from the river towards the shanty. hi
Mrs. Eta Huntley of Bolton was al
He'd by the state late in the afternoon al
e said she saw Sweeney catch the a
gro, The latter got away, she said, is
a ran into her ward and fell across GO
r flower bed The negro ran on TO co
r porch and knocked at her door He
He'd 'Missey, Alissey" to her, she said
leeney came mp and knocked the negro
wn and Goodrich caught him around B,
2 neck. The negro was very much
ghtened, and Sweeney and Goodrich
1ll him away.
The station agent at Bolton, Charles st
an, told story similar TO that relat La
by the other witnesses. mi
an