The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-23
Putney Men Emulate Indi-
ans After Consuming
Quantity of Booze
TWO GO TO HOUSE
OF CORRECTION
Peter jeffrey and Albert Norrington
Sentenced to Serve Not Less than
-Four Nor More than Six Months by
Judge Barber.

Alcohol furnished the incentive for
Peter Jeffrey, 81, and Albert Norring-
ton, 80, both woodchoppers of Putney,
to engage in mutual demonstration
Saturday, Jan. 13, of the proper and
old-fashioned method of scalplng a foe.
Norrington escaped unscathed, but JEFF
frey carries long, ugly looking wound
on the left side of his meek which
physician said had missed large ar
tery by fraction of an inch.
Both men pleaded guilty in the mu,
nicipal court late yesterday afternoon,
Jeffrey to a charge Of furnishing liquor
and Norrington TO charge Of assault.
In pleading guilty to the charge JEFF.
frey casually informed the court that
while he was guilty he had done moth
ing more or less than two-thirds of Put
ney was doing every week. The men
were sentenced to serve not less than
four months nor more than six months
in the house of correction in Rutland.
According to information obtainabIs
/ by State s Attorney o. B. Hughes,
1 which was related to the court either
directly by that official or in the form
/ of answers by two respondents to aues-
tions asked by Mr.. Hughes, Jeffrey on
Saturday, Jan. 13, journeyed to Green
/ field, Mass. He purchased there four
quarts of assorted liquors, two of them
for himself and his immediate friends
and two for a brother-in-law of Nor
] rington, Ed. Phelps. He delivered
Phelps's supply and then proceeded
to attend to the disposition of his own.
Remembering that Norrington most
likely was thirsty, he put pint Of al.
cohol in his pocket and went to Nor
rington s shack. Soeiahility grew apace
and pretty soon, according to Morning
ton, Jeffrey picked up a knife from the
table and proceeded to illustrate on
Norrington the proper way to scalp a
victim
Norrington, finding that he escaped
unscathed, took up the job of demon
stration and won easily. Jeffrey showed
to the court long wound on the left
side Of his neck. Constable H. o. Cobb
of Putney. who with Deputy Sheriff
Frank L. Wellman of Guilford made the
arrests, informed the court that the
wound barely escaped large artery.
Both jeffrey and Norrlngton were in
eiincd to discuss the case and in the
course of his remarks Jeffrey informed
the court that he had found that he
was a very popular man when he had
! liquor with which to regale his friends,
but when he was destitute Of the bev.
erage he did not have a friend. Nor.
rington sighed and announced that
this is what YOU get for drinking
Norrington was asked if he had not
been concerned year ago in an assault
upon a man named Roberts, but he
; failed to remember anything about it.
; Jeffrey $ memory was better and he in
. formed the court that Roberts and Nor
rington were in the witness s shack one
day when they got into an alteration
, and jeffrey ordered them out. A mo-
ment later he heard Roberts cry out
!. and rushed out as Norrington was aim
{ ing another blow at Roberts with a
neckyoke. The blow fell on the wit
ness s arm as he shielded Roberts, he
said and famed him so that he could
not work for days.
! The men were kept in the village
: lookup last night and were taken to
, Rutland by Sheriff c. f. Mann on the
] 9 clock train this afternoon.