The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-16
Municipal Judge Barber in
Role of Pacifier Is
Successful
LOCAL SHERIFFS
WILL HAVE KEYS
Interested Parties Held Conference in
Municipal Court Room Last Evening
Each officer Will Clean Up After
His Own Prisoners

Zach officer Will Clean Up After
His Own Prisoners.
Calm and peaceful is the village
lookup situation. Keys are being made,
and they will be furnished to the sher-
| 1T and deputies as soon as possible.
| This outcome of the lookup cOntrover-
! sy was brought about by u little run
/ together last evening in the municipal /
court room with Municipal Judge |
Frank +. Barber in the role of coach |
and referee.
Present were Commissioners Solon |
a. Richmond and John T. Kaine. Sc |
lectmen A. +. Merrill and W. f. Stell- |
man, Police Chief George Wilson, Sher- |
liff G. E. Mann, Deputy Sheriffs c. l. |
Knapp and #. l.. Wellman and Court
lClerk c. NJ. Miller
1t developed that the situation which
has caused some hard feeling between
the village and county officials grew
out Of the sheriff hearing that the
lookup was to be for the local police
and for them alone This report was
augmented by the refusal of the per-
manent fremen to loan the use of the
; key, which had been placed in the fire
station for emergency purposes, to one
, OF the deputies TO get Il prisoner who
/ had been placed there by United
States Marshall 4. p. Carpenter The
firemen said that the key had been
iplaced there by the commissioners
with orders not to loan it to any per
son. The sheriff department took this
rs conirnatory of the earlier report
> Eventually the commissioners ex-
: planned that the key had been placed
there for use by the firemon in the
event of fire and that they believed,
and should insist, that this particular
key should be always in its place as
it would be up to the firemen to re
y lease any prisoners who might be con
} hned III the Icc,up building in the
event of fire there.
Commissioner kaine professed to
e know nothing of the alleged strife be
tween the village. and county officials
IeXcept what he had read in The Re
former. He said that he had not heard
of anyone in the sheriff : department
. asking for a key and being refused.
: Sheriff Mann said undoubtedly that
- was true, because after what he had
- heard he had no intention of going Ia
the commissioners and being turned
down Hat.
: 1t was explained by the commission
- ers that they had turned the Lookup
le with him to do all of the janitor work
= thus obviating the necessity of hiring
1 a janitor OF jailor, and that they un
fe derstOod that in the past it had not al
\ ways been customary for the sherilfs
~ to clean up after prisoners they haC
y placed in the old lookup. 1t was NJ
to the chief. said the commissioners.
ar s'That 5 Just where the matter
n stands,' commented the chief. ''NC
IT one has any objection to others who
at thaye authority using the lookup if the,
Ill clean up after them. They haven
Ee done so in the past.
e The sheriff 5 department promptly
6 admitted that this was fair and Chic
of Wilson then cited an instance one O
ed the very few, when 4 sheriff had plac
IT. ed a prisoner in the new lookup an,
er had failed to clean up after him.
'st Each man present gave his view o
It's the situation and the causes that ha,
led up to it and his part in it: Tn
selectmen said that they had no con
- cern in the matter Mt all and had n
" quarrel with anyone. They said tha
in the event of an overflow in the nev
M lookup the old one under the town hal
would be at the service of the officers
This brought up the question of us
le- ing the old lookup, so long condemne
ere as unfit for human occupancy. Chair
ion man Richmond of the commission sal
ice that the commissioners obiecte
os- strongly to having tramps housed j
bi- the new lookup of the village for TIL
ny reason that in short time it woul
ma become infested with vermin. 1t a,
ng veloped that the old bastile does ne
has become home for vermin because {
ion the fact that it is too cold for them I
ted consider it suitable for habitatiol
in They prefer the bodies of the men.
our Chief Wilson said that he had for
IN tramps locked up the night before, tn;
JUS two were in the old lookup at tn;
time and there might be more befol
. the night was over.
- Sheriff Mann said he heartily a
II proved of any plan that would keC
III the village lookup clean, for nine OF
of 10 prisoners who were taken
ii Newfane jail from the Bellows Fal
lookup had vermin and it was a 60
II stant battle in consequence to keep d
county Jail clean.>
ii With a plain understanding tn
II Chief Wilson would have sets of Ike
made at once for Sheriff Mann al
Deputies Knapp, II. i. Harris al
Wellman, the meeting broke up wi
III Ipeace established.