The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-06
WOMAN AND CHILD
TO NEWFANE JAIL
Judge O'Brien Changed House of Cor
rection Sentence of Subscription
Solicitor-Gets 80 Days.
Special to The Reformer.)
BELLOWS FALLS. April

BELLOWS FALLS, April 6.
Alice Gilman, %, the woman who gave
her address as Brattleboro, who was sen
fenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs in
the police court last week and who had
been waiting the arrival of the money,
which her husband promised to send, APP
peared yesterday afternoon before Judge
I. E. O'Brien and was given straight
jail sentence of not more than 45 days
nor less than 80 in the county jail at New
fame. The change in sentence was made
because of the woman's child, who has
been with her since she has been in Gus
tody.
When the woamn was arrested on
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses, having secured money on fake
magazine subscription game, her husband
was with her. As soon as the fine was
imposed. with an alternative sentence of
9G days in the house of correction at Rut-
land he left town and promised to tele-
graph the money Saturday. He went to
Boston and telegraphed the woman that
the money was in sight and that he had
gotten back his former job, which he had
told the police he lost through drink.
| Since then nothing has been heard from
| him. AS the local police station has no
| suitable room for the detention of women.
| Mrs. Gilman was kept IN custody IN the
| Hotel Rockingham at the expense Of the
| village, while the town will have TO pay
| for the board of the two-year-old daugh-
| ter, who Is a prepossesslng child.
| When it became apparent to the police
| that the husband evidently was having
| some difficulty = ro;sing the money for
| the woman's fine the question of what
| should be done with the baby became
troublesome The local police did not
want to separate the mother and child
If the woman was sent to Rutland the
baby would have had to 90 somewhere
else and as the mother is IN delicate
health this was not thought best for her
or a wise move on the part of the town
Regard for the woman's rights was tax
en- into consideration and she was asked
| f a straight Jail sentence. with the privI
lege Of having her child with her, would
not appeal to her more than to go t.
Rutland and lose the child, there being Z
possibility that her husband would senC
the money for the fine and bring about hel
release within a few days. She consented
to come before the court for re-sentence
and Sheriff G. F. Mann of Brattlebor,
took her and the baby to Newfane jai
last evening.
The husband told the police he came Q
a good family and in court asked that il
be sentenced instead of the woman. II
was nervous and the nervous tensio
: caused him to shake in every part of hi
body He said that a series Of unfortr
nate occurrences had forced him to infl
! ence his wife to enter the fake subscriI
ton game.
Q The woman is Of a refined nature an
: claims to have come from Maine. Sh
I said that she had been a school teaclle
! six years previous to her marriage, ais
7 that she is stenographer She refuse
/ to tell the police anything about her rel
}. tives or those of her husband, or to sa
where she and her husband lived previol
+, to the loss Of his position. She appeare
! much cooler than her husband and Il
:. police here would not be surprised to leal
]. that the police Of other towns would lii
:. to interview them.