Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-03-21

probably will be by Tuesday morning
Present indications are that 1t will no
open until the last Of this week, possibi.
not until the first of next week.
Rev. q. L. Nichols of Norway offere,
prayer at the opening of the term Tues
day morning. The roll of the CRANE
jury which was empaneled in Octobe
was called, and the sixteen members al
answered to their names, and were sen
to their room to begin work.
The traverse jurors were called, an(
after A. v. Dow of Hiram and Herber
P. Lyon of Rumford had been excused
by Judge Haley, there were just twenty
four left for the two panels. They wer'
empaneled as follows:
FIRST JURY.
Oscar e. Turner, Hartford, Foreman.
Horace II. Annis, Bethel.
Fred A. Bickford, Brownfeld.
Guy r. Boothby, Canton.
George I. Conant, Hebron.
VIM. G. Cushman, Andover.
A. T. DeCoster, Sumner.
Herbert 8. Doe, Porter.
William j. Green, Waterford.
James n. McGregor, Rumford.
Bennett McDaniels, Lowell.
SECOND JURY.
E. Chandler Buzzell, Fry eburg, Foreman.
Frank Bean, Mexico.
Hanno Fl. Cushman, Woodstock.
C. N. Eastman, Albany.
John Eden, Oxford.
Harry +. Greenleaf, Norway.
VIM. II. Irish. Buckfeld.
IOvpi0y. NOrUay
George ID. Morrill,, Bethel.
Walter e. Penley, Greenwood.
Arthur U. Tyler, Paris.
John Q. Wyman, Perus
Deputy sheriffs in attendance are John
Briggs Of Canton, with the grand jury,
and E. G. Libby of Norway and George
s. Record of Buckfield.
"Six weeks court 10 March" was the
suggestion of one of the attorneys when
the trial list was being accumulated on
the call of the docket. 1t did look q
little formidable, with about forty cases,
but when 1t came to making assignments
for trial, it dwindled like q late snow
under the warm March sun, If there ia
any such animal.
There was time, and not so many
years ago either, when IL was proverbial
that TUESDAY of the second week" was
the day that was above all others most
to be desired for trial. That time has
gone by. Only rarely Is the second
week mentioned, and II IL is the presid-
ing justice will mildly remark that he
doesn't know as there Is to be any sec.
ond week, as far as the civil business is
,oncerned. At this term there was no
of the second week, but the as.
,ignments were made for the days up to
and including Saturday Of the first week.
Contrary to the usual condition, a case
at previous term for the first
lay of this term was tried, and on the
irst day of the term too. Work began
,n II at the opening of the afternoon
session.
WOODSTOCK vs.. LEWISTON.
One Annie Mcleod and her physical
to say nothing of mental
.wists, was the cause of this suit. On
her account already the state and Its va
-ious political subdivisions have been
put to large expense, courts and legisla-
lures have labored and wrestled, and
even the dome Of the state house has
felt tremor through it's base-because
Of her. Towns and cities have contend-
cd for the honor of not having been her
husbands home for five consecutive
years-and that 10 the question under
this case.
With this brief lot of verbisge, the
case may be more briefly explained. 1t
s suit brought by the town OF Wood
stock against the city of Lewiston for
pauper support furnished Annie Nc.
Leod in 1911 to the amount of seventy
dollars and ffty.seven cents. Annie No
Leod was before marriage Annie Bryant,
and her home was at one time In Wood
stock. In Lewiston, in 1893, she marri-
I'D Donald B. Mcleod. her pauper
as 1t is termed, and the term
is pretty commonly understood, then be-
came his, and the question was, did he
have pauper settlement In Lewiston.
Without going into the details of the
it. appears that Donald b.
Mcleod spent his early years In New
From there he came into
Aroostook County, and for some years
worked there as lumberjsck. In 1885
or 1886 he came to Lewiston, and for the
next few years was in the lumber woods
On Androscoggin waters winters. In the
spring he came back to Lewiston, and
when In Lewiston boarded for q time
with Mrs. Haskell on Lisbon Street,
and later with q Mrs. Cook on the same
street. In 1898 he married Annie Bry-
ant in Lewiston. For some years they
have not lived together, and no claim 10
made that he has established any pauper
anywhere since his marriage.
The nature of bis present attachment TO
any permanent abiding place is lndioat-
ed by little extract from bis testimony
in this trial:
"Where are you living uow?"
"Pm in South Paris now"
Eyes, you came out OF the woods to
attend this trial. But where have you
been livinga"
"Wsll, / don't know the name of the
but lee up in the Magallowsy
region somewhere"
IL ia the contention of the plaintiff
town of Woodstock that Donald No
Leod's residence In Lewiston, such a. II
vas. between 1885 or 1885 and the time
of his marriage in 1893, constituted q
choice of home. he was away tempo
rariiyl to work in the woods and on other
iobs. but he came to Lewiston, always
TO the same boarding house, and there
established an abiding place, making
Lewiston In fact his homo. In support
of that contention the testimony OF Mo
Leod himself, bis former boarding mis-
tresses, and others who had known him,
was introduced.
On the other hand, It 10 eontended BY
the defendant city OF Lewiston that Mo
I,eod aid not have q home anywhere
that he was . rowing lumberjack, bring
ing up In Lewiston In the spring because
that was the convenient point; working
here or there or not working according
to inclination; without possessions q
oept pack Of clothing on his back, ana
never 8 resident Of Lewiston or any
other place for long 1t . time.
This cass vent to the jury early Wed
pesdsy afternoon, and flfty-flve minutes
later verdict for the defendant was 70
Wright for tho plaintiff toxu 9
Woodstook; City Solicitor Vim. B
Clinord for the defendant city Of Lewis
ton.
A ssHoss" CASE.
The next trial grew out Of hors
trade between cousins. Edgar L. Gle
OF Kexar Falls 10 the plaintiff, and kaipl
W. Giles OF Brownfield tho defendant. Y
1914, Edgar L. Giles cold Ralph ". Gle
. team, horae, buggy. harness, whip, III