The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-22
TWO PLEAD GUILTY,
THIRD BEING TRIED
Mccabe and Sweeney Are Charged With
Manslaughter at Bolton--H Henry
Goodrich Stands Trial on
Similar Charge.

Burlington, May % Henry McCabe
boss of section gang at Bolton, and
James Sweeney, a member of the section
gang who have been held in Jail here
charged with manslaughter in connection
/ with the death of Sam Rounds, negro
at Bolton, on April ~, pleaded guilty in
lcountv court yesterday afternoon after
withdrawing their pleas of not guilty,
which they had entered previously. Join
J. Enright appeared for Sweeney and V.
A. Bullard for McCabe The men were
| remanded to Jail to await sentence. 1t
! is understood that they will be used a.
witnesses for the state in the case of
the State VS.. Henry Goodrich who is
standing trial on similar charge.
Owing to the delay in arranging to
accept the pleas of guilty by McCabe
and Sweeney. the Goodrich trial was
not begun until 2:30 in the afternoon
A large number of witnesses were called
by the state and it is probable that the
case will not require many days to com
plete. States Attorney Hopkins and
Attorney General Brown are conducting
the prosecution. The respondent is rep
resented by Max /. Powell, Guy VI.
Page and J. II. Page
The testimony yesterday was mainly
concerning the events that led mp To
the drowning of the negro. The latter
was accused of stealing dinner pail
from the section camp near Bolton and
was thrown into the river and drowned
before he could be pulled out. IL is
claimed that Goodrich was one OF the
men who "twitched" the negro into the
water.
Witnesses yesterday told Of seeing
Sweeney and Goodrich chasing Rounds
through field and of seeing the negro
knocked down twice by Sweeney and
hearing the latter tell the negro that
if he had knife he would cut out his
heart.
The testimony developed that the ne
gro had pleaded with his sccusers to let |
him go. as he was cold and hungry and |
had had nothing to eat for three days.
Death Was BY Drowning.
The first witness for the state was DR.. /
b. H. Stone of the state laboratory. who 1
testified concerning the autopsy be per +
formed on the negro after the bod was
Dr. Stone said there was 10
doubt that Rounds met death by drown
ing as the lung cells were filed with
froth. This condition results. said lr.
Stone, when person tries desperately /
to breathe under water
DIR. Stone said that there were marks
If bruises on the negro's body which
we're made while the man was still L
live. These marks could have been
made. he said, while the negro was swim
ring in the water. DIR. Stone said he
,ould not tell whether the negro had suf
cred cramps while in the water. as the
,ody was stiff when he arrived to per- 1
orm the autopsy. Ia
The second witness for the state was !
'red Guyette OF Bolton, who was en- !
loved in a saw mill on April 10. the !
ay the negro was drowned. The wit J
ess testified that he saw Rounds in the
oiier room OF the saw mill about ll.3B Z
iclock on the day Of the drowning. +,
,uy cite said James McCabe. TIE boss OF :
he section gang. and Sweeney and g
GOODRICH were also in the boiler roola {
usrreling with the negro about the stoi- .
n dinner pail "
The witness said that MeCabe tod :