The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-28
Attorney General Shows the
Cost in This County i'm
Seventeen Months
MAKES REPLY TO
SOME CRITICISM
For Outside Detective Service S2O9.10
On Cases Yielding $1,000 in Fines
For Home Crown Service $685.. 48
in Homicide Cases.

foT Home GROWN SERVICE 99of.4o
in Homicide Gases.
Replying to the criticism made
made throughout the state when Ger
tain state expenses We're made public,
showing large increase in the. eX
penses for detective service, Attorney
General r. L. Brown has been sending
to the state papers a detailed state
ment of the detective expenses b.
Counties. The statement for Windham
county was received this morning. II
is as follows:
In Windham county from December
/, 1912, to May l, 1914, the Wood
Morgan detective agency received for
services one hundred and twelve dollars
and for expenses thiTty-tiVe dollars and
twenty one cents. The above amount
was paid for the investigation of the
illegal sale of intoxicating liquors in
the town Of Wilmington. The investi-
cation resulted in the following prose
cutionS;
State VS.. Henry Ducette-The re
spondent pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to the house OF correction for
not less than five months nor more
than six months.
State VS.. Sandy Thurner-The re-
spondent pleaded guilty and was sen
| fenced to the house OF correction for
not less than five months nor more
| than six months.
| State vs.. William Wheeler-This re
| spondent was placed on probation and
| finally committed to the state hospital
at Waterbury and died there.
/ State vs.. William Paddock-This re-
| spondent pleaded guilty and paid fine
OF three hundred dollars and costs.
State VS.. Thomas Toomey-This re
spondent pleaded guilty and paid a
fine of three hundred dollars and costs
State vs.. Amasa Grout-This re
spondent was prosecuted for operating
| two gambling machines and paid a fine
of one hundred dollars and costs
During the same time the Sherman
detective agency of Boston was pale
| for services and expenses sixty
dollars and eighty-nine cents. This
service was in the investigation of the
illegal sale of Intoxicating liquors ii
the village of Brattleboro. This in
Vestigation resulted in the following
prosecutions:
State VS., Ida Falchi-This respond
ent pleaded guilty and paid fine o
three hundred dollars and costs.
State vs., Tony Ceitarino-This re
, spondent pleaded guilty and paid
.ne of three hundred dollars and cost
State vs.. G. Vona-This responder
pleaded guilty and was sentenced t.
, the house of correction for not les
T than four months nor more than tiv,
months.
State VS. Piporochi-This responder
pleaded guilty and was sentenced t.
the house of correction for not les
than six months nor more than seVel
months.
The above covers all Of the detcctiv
service rendered in Windham county
= In all, two hundred nine dollars am
ten cents was expended for outsid
| detective service. Result, thrice
g, hundred dollars in fines collected, fou
a respondents sentenced to the house @
= correction.
p During the same period of tim
, there was paid to "home grown" dc
tectives the sum of niue hundred THU
ty-seven dollars and forty-eight cent.
. This expense was practically all il
cured in the investigation of five he
micide cases which occurred in Wine
ham county.
The first of these was the shootin
affair at South Vernon which cam
near resulting in u prosecution fc
murder instead of a prosecution fc
assault with intent to kill. In TIL
case the respondent pleaded guilty an
is serving sentence. .......
Another of these cases was til
double murder of one Nichols and h
wife in August, 1918. In this case ii
murderer committed suicide.
T Another of these Investigations W;
in the case of State vs.. Richars
: charged with the crime of murde
y This respondent was tried at the Sc
4 TENDER term, 1913, Windham count
3 court, and acquitted.
III Another of these Investigations w;
in the case of State VS.. Lou A. TO
. ter, charged with the murder of Oss
Prouty in the town of Halifax. TIL
respondent was also tried at the Sc
tember term, 1918, Windham count
4 court, and convicted of the crime
e manslaughter and is now serving Sc
tence in the state prison.
Several other Investigations we
z conducted with very satisfactory +
E suits.
z If the question of detective seryi
is to be treated purely from a col
y mercial standpoint, the net result
: Windham county is: Fines colleete
= thirteen hundred dollars; paid fer d
3 tective service eleven hundred fort
4 six dollars and fifty eight cents; BIZ
4 ance in favor of the state, one hu
I dred ffty-three dollars and forty tv
& cents.
Il Did the officials try honestly to
4 their plain duty or did they spend t
Y people s money like drunken sa