Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-10-19
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: ton, and therefore was as much disquali
] fed to serve as II he had been q residen
. Of the town. Under those circumstance
Judge Hanson assumed the role of peace
, maker, and advised the parties to &c
together, which they did, and agreed OF
division Of the expense, and the cas-
goes off the docket.
In the meantime tho woman fol
whom the bill was incurred, and whe
was then the wife of Robert Campbell
has procured divorce and married res
ident Of another town, so that neithe
Upton or Rumford is in danger of an,
future liability on account of her falling
into distress. This fact doubtless was
consideration in aiding the settlement
of the case. That the outcome Of th,
trial, or its lack of outcome, leaves th,
settlement of Robert Campbell still nm
determined, is minor matter.
The town case having dropped out
the next for trial was that of Theoplilu:
j. Judkins of Paris vs.. Charles r. Brack
EFT of Norway. This was for alleged
alienation of the affections of Judkins
wife, and was anticipated with some in
terest by the spectators. Frederick r
Dyer was attorney for Judkins, and A.
j. Stearns for Bracket. But the CASE
came to naught, as far as bearing was
concerned, for though the parties were
in court, 1t appeared after some wait
that it had been disposed of out oil
court.
| 1t had been expected that the two
cases named above would take up al
least all the time of the FIRST two days,
and their dropping out left the court
without much business at an early hour
Thursday. Judge Hanson raked the
trial list over in the endeavor to find
something that could be tried in the af.
ternoon, but discovered no case in which
the parties could be ready, so the juries
had no further work on Thursday, and
most of the court business for the day
was at tho grand jury room.
Friday morning the case OF Ellery G.
Frost vs.. James Il. Kerr was placed on
trial. A. E. Stearns for Frost; Ralph T.
Parker of Bisbee & Parker for Kerr.
This case grew out of the construction
of the sewer system by Norway Village
Corporation in the year 1918. Mr.. Kerr,
the defendant, contractor living 10
Rumford, had the contract to put in the
system, and employed Mr.. Frost, the
plaintiff, as superintendent on the job.
Mr.. Frost now lives in Gorham, n. a.,
but was at that time resident of Mex
leo.
The suit is for a balance of s199
claimed by the plaintiff for his services
as superintendent, this being the differ
ence between four dollars day, which
he had already been paid, and five dollars
and half day, which he declared to
be fair and reasonable rate for his SER
vices.
Without going into details of the evil
dence on that point, it appeared that
Frost was engaged on the job without
any positive contract as to bis compeu-
sation. 1t was understood that he was
to have what his services were worth,
and he was actually paid twenty-four
dollars per week. 1t is alleged by Mr..
Frost that he expected to receive more,
and that in the course of the work he
had spoken to Mr.. Kerr about the mat
ter; but on his part Mr.. Kerr says that
nothing was said TO him about any more
pay until some months after the job was
done, and it is claimed by the defence
that Frost bad accepted the twenty-four
dollars a week, by inference at least, as
satisfactory.
A considerable mass of testimony was
presented regarding Mr.. Frost's work on
the job, and as to whether or not it was
worth more than the four dollars per day
which had been paid; and as the case
went slowly, it took more than the day
Friday, and the charge Of Judge Hanson
to the jury was not given until Saturday
morning.
After being out an hour and half, the
jury returned verdict for the plaintiff,
in the sum of $40.
GRAND JURY's WORK.
The grand jury worked very busily un-
til Friday forenoon, and about II O'Clock
of that day they came in and reported
the following indictments:
Charles Seymour. Larceny.
Frank Sslivio and Ernest Lemay. Breaking
and entering and larceny. Two indictments.
Edwin E. Howe. Issuing check to defraud.
Two indictments.
Lawrence Lavorgna. Nuisance. Two indict.
ments.
Albert Paradis. Nuisance.
Joseph Paradis. Operating motor vehicle
while Intoxicated.
Frank Romano. Nuisance.
Albert st. Pierre. Breaking and entering and
larceny.
George Sparks. Forgery.
Jerry O'Connor, Nuisance.
Fred LeClair. Nuisance.
Peter Arden. Nuisance.
Alex Riel. Assault.
Pietro Arden. Keeping house Of Ill fame.
Casper Barnis. Nuisance.
Steve Moskus. Nuisance.
John Conrad. Nuisance.
Louis Cohen. Nuisance.
George W. Shattuck. Assault on officer
Eddie Casey. Nuisance.
Phillip Theriauh DESERVING wife.
Hector Fortier. Larceny from the person.
Ed II. Peters. Nuisance.
Joseph Brideau and Arthur Fisher. Larceny.
Charles Memont and Ernest Orino. Breaking
Chester Williams. Breaking and entering and
Benedicto Penezero. Nuisance.
Daniel McCafferty. Nuisance.
James Caliendo Nuisance.
Anton Maswk.. Pretending to be priest with
waslaw Loriniaitis. Assault.
Nose Lelamme. Single sale.
John Stanislaus Assault.
Lillian Ramsey and Joe Skerry. Adultery.
Besides the indictments, q large mum
Der of appealed cases have been entered
on the criminal docket. Most of them
are against the parties indicted. The
are against other parties:
John wiskont and Steve Moskus, applts.
Keeping and depositing.
Ernest Banker applt illegal transportation.
Frank Goodwin, applt. Illegal transportation.
Francis Tibbetts, appt. illegal transporta.
lion.
James Macarthur, applt. Illegal Transports
lion.
Amos Roberts. applt Illegal transportation.
Paul Procopio, applt Nuisance.
Willis Ladd, app!t. Keeping and depositing.
Eliza Newell, applt Assault.
Saturday morning, the civil cases as.
signed being out of the way, and no tr
al in any of them, work on the criminal
business was begun. Thirteen prisoners
were brought in by the officers to be ar
raigned.
Charles Seymour of Rumford was ar.
raigned for the larceny of watch and
forty dollars in money, on the 9th OF
March, 1915. He pleaded not guilty.
Frank Saivio of Boston and Ernest |
Lemay Of Manchester, N. H., were ar.
raigned on an indictment for breaking |
aud entering dwelling house at Gilead,
and larceny, on the Sd of July, 1915. |
Both pleaded guilty, and another indict
ment against the same parties was mol
pressed on motion of County Attorney
Beliveau.
Alhert 81 pierre nj Rumford. charged |