The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-03
Dummerston Deputy Sheriff
Testifies Against Frank
Mancini
JURY TRIAL BEFORE
MUNICIPAL COURT
Officer Says in Breach of Peace Case
That Respondent Tried to Get Him
by Neck After Witness Had Seized
Bottles

A jury trial of the case of the state
against Frank Mancini, charged wi h
breach of the peace at dance in
Dummerston two weeks ago, was be-
gun this morning in the office of the
county clerk, Judge Frank E. Barber
of the municipal court presiding. The
jury had been selected and Adm F.
Miller, deputy sheriff of Dummerston
the principal witness for the state,
had testified when the noon recess
was taken. The afternoon session wal
resumed at O'clock.
The following are the members of
the jury: Arthur P. Simonds, James
E. Helyar, Walter Prouty, George
Croll, E. L. Parker, Frank Kendall
and A. W. Rockwell of Brattleboro.
/ H. Tyler of Guilford, B. II. Newton
and Edward Stebbins of Vernon.
State s Attorney o. B. Hughes ard
/ A. f. Sehwenk, town counsel for
/ Dummerston, appeared for the sta e
and Gibson & Daley for the respon-
! dent
t Deputy Sheriff Miller testified that
he had been deputy sheriff over II
years. He received message ahout
II o clock the night of the dance to
go to the Grange hall He described
the interior of the building He tes
tilted that some time after he got there
he saw Mancini and two compani ms
entering the building with bottles
that looked like beer bottles. in theil
hands. He stepped up to Mancini, who
was in advance, and seized two OF
the bottles. Mancini and others Will
him wrenched the bottles from hi:
hands
/ He said that Mancini grabbed fol
his neck and the witness said: q Yor
are fighting an officer of the law
He testified that TO this Mancini re
piled: - / am glad TO know that = anC
kept up his efforts to clutch the Office
by the neck all the way to the doot
60 the lodge room in which Constable
William Iaughton was keeping thre,
men who had been arrested earlier il
the evening. Laughton came out ant
helped as the witness approached tn,
door with his prisoner
The cross examination conducted By
Attorney w. R. Daley brought out tn
fact that the witness did not know
Mancini and had never seen his com
panions before to his knowledge
There were no others in the room a
the time of the arrest
He admitted that Mancini would no
have interfered with him probabl,
had the witness not first grabbed tn,
bottles. He was positive that it wa
Mancini and not one of his compan
ions who assaulted him. E'When b
tried to get my throat I grabbed hir
and | did not let go of him until
put him in the lodge room, where tn
others were, so | am sure he was tn
man. said the officer.
He said he arrested Mancini 70
! breach of the peace in bringing bot
ties of "that stuff > into the build
ing. He did not say anything to Man
, eini when he grabbed the bottles Tn
! officer said he was dressed in his OF
: dinary working clothes and rubbe
boots.
In reply to other questions he sal
> that he had in mind that the respo1
{. dent was breaking law when he Ell
J tered a building with bottles of bee
! in his hands. He said the he ha
\ never arrested anyone in the buildin
before and had never been there b,
: fore when there was a dance.
s The noon recess was taken at tn
= time.