St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-01-08
COURT TAKES RECESS
Coming Back Next Week to Hear
Hardwick Riot Cases. Grim
inals Sentenced.

The judges presiding at the Dec
ember term of county court had ex-
pected to close business yesterday
but the respondents in the cases of
State VS.. R. Mastini and State VS..
p. Maldre, two Italians involved in
the riot of last Labor day in Hard
wick insisted on a hearing at this
term. The jurymen had been dis
charged last Saturday but now it
will be necessary TO call a new pan
ell of jurymen to hear this case
which will be taken up at ten
O'Clock next Tuesday morning. The
court took a recess yesterday fore
noon until that time and Judge Wat
erman left for his home in Brattle-
boro.
A large amount of court business
has been heard during the last week
much of it being divorce cases but
no decisions will be announced un-
til court resumes it's sessions. There
was a hearing yesterday forenoon
on a demurrer in the case of Wheel
er Brothers VS.. the town of St.
Johnsbury in which land damages
for road are involved.
Cleaning of Criminals
On Thursday seven respondents
were taken into court and all plead
guilty to the charges against them
John Brown, alias Frank Mckay
alias BILLY The 4Aid'', and Albert
Colby of Lyndon, were charged with
breaking into the house of Frank
Brown in Ryegate on the night of
October IL last and both pleaded
guilty. The states attorney said that
Mckay was a desperate character
and Colby had become a real hobo.
They planned to go to the railroad
station in Plainfeld the same night
and rob that and then escape to
New York. They were each sentenc
ed to from one to two years in pris-
on.
William bruce, Antoine Sullivan
and Joseph Jennings, charged with
robbing the pool rooms of Robert
Cobb in this village the night of
Nov. rs, all pleaded guilty. bruce
and Sullivan were given from two
to three years in prison and Jen-
nings who was only II years old
was sentenced to the industrial
school for the rest of his minority.
George L. Granger of this viii
lage plead guilty to the charge of
statutory rape, his victim being his
5 year old step daughter, and he
was sentenced to from four to five
years in states prison.
Mary Irons, who stole several ar
ticles of clothing and jewelry in
| Lyndon and escaped to Montpelier,
pl> AIDED guilty and was sentenced tC
from nine to IL months in state priS-
on. May Irons seems to have been
one of the worlds unfortunates
Both her parents died while she was
very young and she lived with her
grandparents until she was IA years
old. She married a man in Massa-
chusetts then and gave birth to two
children. Then her husband deserted
her and the children were taken in
charge by the Board of Charities of
Massachusetts and she came to Lyn-'
donville where she did the stealing.
George Woodman of ST. Johns
bury Center was charged with steal
ing old brass and plead guilty. He
was fined 500 for his offence.
The case of Martin H. Gibson VS..
Fred Fuller ct al has been referred
and will not be heard this term. In
the case of Whitefield Savings Bank
and Trust Co., VS.. the Willoughby
Wood and Lumber Co., stipulation
of settlement has been filed, and the
case of J. c. Litt1efield VS.. Willough-
by Wood and Lumber Co., has been
continued. The case of 1. A. Nor
cross VS.. Jennie A. Pearsons and
Harley Pearsons has been discon-
tinued.