The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-26
Dewey Newcomb of Guilford
Charged with Exceed
ing the Law
STATE CLAIMS HE
KILLED TWO DOES
Case Now in Progress in Municipal
Court-Contradictory Stories-Said to
Have Wounded Buck Before Killing
Doe

Dewey Newcomb, II, of Guilford, son
of Hollis Newcomb of that town, was
taken into custody at 10 o'clock Wed
nesday night by Game Warden George
p. Alexander of Saxtons River and
Deputy Wardens Frank L. Wellman and
Z. II. Metcalf of GuiIford. charged
with killing two deer. He was released
Yesterday on bail of 1925 furnished bv
his father and was given hearing to-
day AT the time of going to press the
hearing had not been concluded.
The state, through State 5 Attorney
.. b. Hughes, sought to show that Dew
ey Neweomb on Nov IS was hunting
for deer and that he first shot and bad
ly wounded buck, later shot and killed
doe and short time after that shot
and killed a second and smaller doe
and that he telephoned for his father.
who was working in a sawmilI near the
suspension bridge on the Putnev road,
TO come home at once and that his faith
er claimed to have fred the shot that
killed the second doe. The hucl, was
kllled the next morning by Attorney
John h. Gale, who was led to the nIace
where the shot had been fred by young
NeWcomb and found the buck a short
distance away with two legs broken.
Deputy Wardens Wellman and Met
car testified 10 two different stories
told by the respondent. He first claim.
Ell that both does had been killed about
y clock in the morning by himself and
his father. After his arrest he said
that his father killed the second one
about II 0 o'clock.
Allen Weatherhead testified 70 bav-
ghsafe
OF Nov. Is in the immediate vicinity
OF "here Neweomb killed the doo.and
shot and wounded the buck.
f. \. Dickinson testified tba+ Holrs
NeWeomb was working with him on the
morning of Nov. IS in n sawm;ll naa,.
the suspension bridge and that abou+ II
0 clock that morning he said that he
wanted to go home and left on foot
John E. Gale testified that on Tho
morning of the 18th sister of Dewe,,
Newcomb notified him of q doe ba,.;n9,
oeen killed by her brother. A few
minutes after ! clock he met HolIis
Neweomb wheeling on a wheelbarrow =
dead doe. Mr.. Newcomb had No r;fIa
re m reported the doe as having been
killed by him
Waiter Aeedham. an emnlove of Ar
tale, testified that he started hunting tba+
day about ! O'Clock and stopped al the
Ne"comb place, where he >talked with
Dewey about the doe he saw hanging in
lhe shed and which the boy said he had
shot that morning. just as the witness
was leaving the Newcomb place he saw
Hoiils Newcomb walking towards his home
from the direction of Brattleboro. Need.
nam nam then went into the pasture a short
Instance below the Newcomb place and
was there an hour looking for deer buf
saw none and heard no shots.
FRED Coombs, mail carrier testified at
the afternoon session of court to having
gwen Hollis Newcomb a ride from BrattIe.
boro as far as EAlgiers'' and to baviney
reached there about 1870 o'clock
1 ne last witness for the state was Game
Warden Alexander, who covered ground
gone over by his deputies concerning the
arrest He was cross examined at some
length by Attorney A F. Schwenk, who
appeared for the respondent.
lhe case was in progress at 8 O'Clock.