Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-07-07
ADDISON COUNTY COURT,
Fred Garvey Sentenced to Wind
sor Prison.

was hlhIlcu lhle lHuIauhy hllcIllooH
last week, after the jury in the War
ys Ward case had retired for consuIta
ton. The case was State VS. FIRE,
Garyey, and it took the rest of tn
afternoon to get jury,
State Attorney Allen h, Sturtevan
of Middlebury conducted the prosecu
ton, and Ira II, LaFleur Of Mddebur,
was the respondents counsel,
In this case Respondent Garyey wa
charged with having broken into tn,
house of Charles Peters Of Bridport il
the day time on the 10th day of Decem
ber last and with stealing therefrom $li
in money and number of small articles
all to the value Of $50, thus combining
the crimes of burglary and granC
larceny. Garvey is 30 years old, {
former resident of Middlebury, and hai
been married since he was 81. He anC
his wife have been living in and arounC
Bridport most of the time since their
marriage nine years ago and have
worked for several different parties
At the time of the burglary the pain
were living at Peter Lavalley's, a short
distance from the Peters house, at
which, for "A short time, the couple had
been staying up to week before.
Mr. Peters was living alone in his
house and on the morning Of December
10 started for the cheese factory with
his milk at about O'Clock, Upon his
return at about II o clock he discovered
that some one had entered the house
during his absence by pulling a staple
holding a paddock to one of the two
doors to the house; and upon investiga-
ton he found that tin box which he
had concealed in larger wooden box
up stairs was gone, together with its
contents. Besides the SIS the box con-
tained two deeds; several photographs
and tintypes, and bunch of keys.
Peters went to the Lavaley house
that day at noon, Just as Mr.. and Mrs.
Lavaley and the respondent and Mrs.
Garvey were finishing dinner, and made
announcement of the break and his loss.
Everybody there appeared to be aston.
ished at the news. and nothing further
of consequence happened until March S.
on which date Garvey was arrested,
since then he has been in the county
iall in Middebury for lack of $500 bail.
However, developments in the mean
while had come to the effect that the
bunch of keys had been found and
turned over to Mr. Lavalley, and that
the deeds, photographs, etc, had been
destroyed by fire. 1t was claimed by
the State that on the morning after the
robbery Garvey started for Nergennes
afoot and blew in the proceeds of the
robbery before he got back to Bridport
week later.
There were a large number of wit
nesses forlthe two sides and both GarVey
and his wife testified for the defense,
For the respondent there was set up an
alibi, showing that he was absolutely
somewhere else at the precise time that,
according to Mr., Peters, the robbery
had taken place, with a strong intima-
tion that one of the chief witnesses for
the State was himself, the guilty man,
Judge Miles gave the case to the jury a
little after six o'clock, appointing Mr.,
Russell of Monkton their foreman.
The jury was out on the case all
night and came into court at the open
ing Saturday morning, asking for fur
ther instructions. At II o'clock they
came back and the foreman announced
that they had been unable to agree.
The court sent them back to their con-
sutation room and in half an hour they
came in once more, this time to an
nounce that they had found the respond
ent guilty of grand larceny. instead of
burglary in the daytime.
The court retired for counsel and unon
returning hrief remarks were made for