Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-26
BELFAST.
Grand Jury Rises and Reports
Is Indictments Six of Which
Are Made Public-The
Civil Docket
YOUNG FELLOW GETS S26
FOR $50 DIAMOND

Belfast, Me-, Sept. 25.-(Speciai).-|
| The grand jury arose this forenoon
reporting Is indictments of which the
| following are made public; Lewis
! Burgess of Burnham, murder; Lewis
| Trundy of Belfast, larceny; Louis Pei
ton, cheating by false pretenses; Ed
mund j. Webb, selling mortgaged
| property; William Gordon alias Will
liam Howard, abduction; William
| Gordon, alias William Howard. statu-
| tory offense.
Civil Docket
| Although there has been but three
civil cases tried by jury, up to noon
| on Friday, it is expected that the term
| is about over so far as civil cases go.
| The assigned list is pretty well
cleaned up.
The following cases have been dis
posed Of
| International Harvester Co., VS.. Ira
! G. White. Defaulted by agreement.
| Thos. z. and Ralph Gushee, Exrs. VS..
H. F. Cummings. Pleadings entered
and filed.
Willis P. Harvey Petitioner for Par
ton VS.. Laura A. (Harvey) Nickerson.
| Motion to dismiss filed
| Wamesett National Bank VS.. Rose
Merriam, by agreement of parties re-
ported to Law Court upon the writ,
! pleadings and notes.
Wamesett National Bank VS.. Delilah
Ripley. Same as above
Eben Holmes appeal from decree of
Probate court allowing will of Frank
M. Patterson. Motion to dismiss ap-
peal filed.
! Belfast Water Co. vs. Inhabitants
of Belfast This is an account an
nexed fire rental of hydrants in the
city for term covering Oct. 1, 1907 to
Apr. l, 1914. The city claims that it
is not liable as the plaintiff has not
fulfilled it's contract and for other rea-
sons. The amount of the bill is $4,-
06039. The case has been continued.
H. E. Robbins & Son VS.. Willard
Berry, continued; Herbert F. Hunt VS..
| Phillip r. Porter, defaulted; Waldo
Trust Co. VS.. Louis and Minnie Gold
berg, continued; Charles S. Mason VS.,
| Harry H. Cundy, defaulted; Frank w.
/ Winter VS.. John r. Bradstreet, de-
! faulted. Default off Continued
William o. Stoutenbrough VS.. Emma
| d. Elmes, nonsuit
The jury was excused until 10 A. NJ
! Tuesday, when Attorney General Scott
Wilson will be present to open the
criminal docket.
$50 for $50 Diamond
Nelson Rackliffe of Worcester,
Mass, who passed his vacation with
relatives in Northport Campground,
and who let one of the fair summer
girls wear his $50 diamond ring one
evening while holding hands on the
park bench recovered by $26 on the
! suit he brought yesterday against
pretty little Marjorie Cowan of
Orange, n. j., to recover the ring she
/ claims she lost.
Rackciffe let her wear the ring and
when he asked for it she claimed she
! had lost it. The jury rendered a YER
dict for the plaintiff but evidently a
/ diamond not worth its face value in
t their minds for he recovered by IA
/ fourth of its cost, for although he paid
1 $50 for it, he stated that it was a 500
! ring.
Inevitable "Hoss" Case
The inevitable boss" case was
opened yesterday afternoon when ex-
warden Bernes o. Norton of Belfast
/ sued John w. Hobbs of Brooks for
payment of a horse sold him last May
for 500. Norton claims that he told
Hobbs the horse was sore foreward"
| II he hadn't been he would never have
sold him for 500 and as it was he
considered him worth what he asked
/ for him in the first place, $125. Hobbs
/ begged for him at 500 and so Norton
| says he let him go at that, Hobbs to
! send a check for 500 when he got
! back to Brooks. He didn't do it and
| later complained that the horse was
worthless and wanted Norton to go
/ to Brooks and get him as the horse
| was down and out and living in a
pasture, Hobbs stating that he could
! get him neither one way nor another
Norton said he refused to take the
! horse back. stating that he told Hobbs
| he should have notified him at once.
not a week later that the horse fell
! down and could not get up, while on
the way home the day he was pur-
chased. Il told Hobbs that if | had
been trying to work off an old horse
that was worthless on him, I'd have
demanded cash payment, but that |
considered the horse all right except
being sore forard' when | sold him"
said Norton.
| Hobbs told an amusing story or
how the horse fell or laid down on the
way to Brooks and of how he had to
! get men to get him home. Then he
| laid down in the stall and witness was
obliged to use a tackle and regular
wrecking crew to get him up and then
had to put rope under the animal to
keep him from falling down again in
| the stall. He told and so did his wit
nesses of starting a few days latter
to bring the horse back to Belfast. on
Monday morning at $50 and of how
the horse laid down and as it was i'm
possible to get him up, Hobbs got a
drag and with several men and horses
hauled the animal into a pasture He
! couldn't get up and Hobbs went to
| Belfast by train where he notified