The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-12
YOUTHFUL TRADER
NOW ON PROBATION
Wilmington Boy Engineered Several
Exchanges of Property and Land
ed in Municipal Court.

James Quackenbush, 16, of Wilmington.
son of William Quackenbush of that town.
pleaded guilty before Justice Z. j. Wat
erman in the municipal court this morn
ing, presiding in the absence of Judge F.
E. Barber to the charge of the larceny of
an Iver johnson bicycle from II. X. Ham
ilton of West Brattleboro May 4. He was
lined $50 and costs and sentenced to one
month in the house of correction, but the
Jail sentence was suspended and he was
placed in the care of Probation Officer c.
NJ. Miller for year with the understand
ing that the fine imposed is to be paid
before Sept /.
Quackenbush, according to the stories
OF the officials, which are admitted to be
correct by the youthful respondent, has a
propensity for trading that in one or two
instances has stepped over the lines of
what is known generally as sharp practice
Last winter, with a brother. IA, he en-
glneered a mule trade that would have re-
suited to their advantage had a board of
arbitrators not decided against the youth
ful traders. John Bassett of Wilmington
had mule that the brothers preferred to
one they owned. They tried to make a
trade, but Bassett's opinions of the mules
We're exactly those held by the Youngsters
lie preferred his own to theirs and said
so
That night the boys engineered the trade
without consulting Mr. Bassett, leaving
their mule in his barn and taking away
Bassett's. The man who had traded
without knowing it kicked up a rumpus
ba
nitrate the matter Mr. Bassett picked
y Frank Kidder as his representative
Mr. Quackenbush selected Luther Bellows
and these two called in Deputy Sheriff
Walter L. Howe as the third.
The two boys stuck to their story. that
Mr. Bassett had traded with them even.
although the arbitration board decided
against them, they stuck to their story
until this morning, when James admitted
to States Attorney o. b. Hughes that
they had done all of the trading and Mr.
Bassett did not have a chance.
James Quackenbush owned goat and
he sent away short time ago to a SOAP
concern and obtained a cart, payment to
be made for the cart by selling the soan
sent with it. James started out selling
his soap and it was while engaged in this
that IN West Brattleboro, late in the af
ternoon Of May 4, he saw the track Of 4
bicycle turning into the yard of H. X.
Hamilton's home. He wHited until dusk
and then appropriated the bicycle.
Turning his goat loose, he rode the bi
cycle short distance and spent the night
under she'd, arising early in the morning
and riding home He told his father that
Frank LeRay had loaned him the wheel
to ride home on because his goat had got-
ten away. Later he got his goat. cart and
soap and decided to resume business. but
preferred a horse and wagon to the goat
and cart as the means of locomotion.
James owned sheep, and taking that
and his bicycle he ventured into Marlboro
and there swapped the bicycle and the
sheep for a horse. He borrowed an old
wagon and spent yesterday in the vicinity
| OF WIlliamsville and South Newfane. ped
ding soap.
Meanwhile Deputy Sheriff Howe had
been busy and last night he rounded M
the young man, the bicycle and the horse
and today there was general re-arrange-
ment of the ownership Of the various
| things, James being left with his goat.
cart, sheep and soap and fine of $50 to
be paid by Sept J.