Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-01
ADDISON COUNTY COURT.

ing in the absence of chief Judge Will
lard w. Miles, who lost train at Bur-
lington and failed to connect for Middle
bury. Shortly after two O'Clock Judge |
Day declared a recess until 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning as nothing could be
done in the absence of Judge Miles.
The case standing for trial was one Of
the four indictments for manslaughter
against Don A. Bisbee of Bristol in the
alleged wholesale liquor poisoning cases
that occurred in Bristol about two
months ago, to be specific, on the 31st
day of October last and continuing into
November DR.. Bisbee was in the rear
of the court room in the custody of
Deputy Sheriff and Jailer Noble J.
Sanford, ready for his case to be called. |
A large number of witnesses were on
hand from Bristol and neighboring |
towns and they and all the jurymen
were excused until o'clock Tuesday
morning.
States Attorney Frank w. Tuttle |
of Vergennes said that he had received
advice from corsul Robb at Syracuse.
Sicily, that the two brothers Colombo
Giuseppe and Gioannai, who were under
arrest at Syracuse for the murder of
Henry Ward of New Haven in this
county two years ago this month are
going to be brought to immediate trial
and consul Robb thinks that there is no
i &c In+ l., % IL ho
will be.
The most important criminal case that
has been tried in Addison County court
for the past fifteen years was started
at 90 clock Tuesday morning when the
trial of the State of Vermont VS.. Don.
A.. Bisbee of Bristol, charged with man
slaughter was begun, DR.. Bisbee was
arranged in court at 9:15 and pleaded
not guilty to the indictment.
The court opened very promptly at 8
o clock and the work of getting a jury
was at once begun. Twenty eight men
on the regular panel were called upon
before the twelve satisfactory to the
different sides were accepted. In the
supposition that jury could not be got
from the regular panel a special panel
was ordered on Monday, but they were
not called upon, as twelve men were
got out of the original panel of 33. 1t
took until 10 30 clock in the forenoon
to fill the panel to try the case.
Six of the twenty-eight men called on
the panel were challenged and the rest
of them were excused for cause. Three
of them were excused OIL the ground of
i'll health and the jury as finally consti-
tuted is as follows: Levi Beech of Fer
risburg, NJ b. Ferson of Leicester,
John l.. Birchard of Shoreham, George
A. Barnard of Lincoln, Ward S. Bene-
dict of Cornwall, Frank A. Nisun of
Bridport, Joseph Bodett of Addison, r.
A. Durham of Hancock, George r.
Slack of Vergennes, F. A. Needham of
Whiting, Charles j. Devoid of Starks
boro, and Carl j. Bottum of New
Haven. In the afternoon the court
room was mo re than overcrowded with
spectators, including number of
ladies'. Attorney-General Herbert G.
Barber of Brattleboro and States At
torney Frank w. Tuttle of Vergennes
are conducting the case for the State and
former Attorney General Rufus E.
Brown of Burlington is assisting Jasper
G. Page OF Bristol in the defence. Miss
Ella M. Ballou of Rutland and Miss
Mary Austin of Brattleboro, who took
the notes before the grand jury, are at
tending to the stenographic work of the
court.
Mr. Bisbee, who is about 70 years of
age. is looking we'll and is in good
health. When called upon to plead to
the indictment charging him with kill
ing Cyrus Curry at Bristol on the 3lst
day of last October, running over to the
second day of November, when Mr..
Curry died; Bisbee pleaded not guilty.
The first witness in the case was DR..
9 H. P. Williamson of Bristol, who testi-
: fled that he had treated the deceased on
the first day of November and that he
understood at that time that he was
suffering from the effects of alcoholic
poisoning; but that he did not see him
8 again after November first until after
. he died on the second day of November.
9 The next witness was DR.. B. H.
. Stone, the pathologist of the medical
department of the University of Ver-
mont, who testified that he made an
autopsy upon the body of Cyrus Curry
. on the third day of November and dis
covered that he had died from poison
and that, in his opinion, the poison was
wood alcohol.
Mrs. Mary Curry, the mother of the
> dead man, testified that on the second
day of November at about two O'Clock