The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-30
MONTPELIER
William Wagner Pleads Not Guilty to
Two Charges of Hen Stealing.

William Wagner was brought into city
court Monday afternoon on the charge
of stealing 10 hens and three chickens
from Henry Borey in Duxbury Sept 30,
to which he pleaded not guilty and the
case was set for hearing Thursday morn
ing. He was then charged with stealing
four hens from Bert Boyce in Moretown
on Oct. s, to which he pleaded not guilty,
and that case was continued for trial on
Thursday. The jury will be drawn
Wednesday. Wagner is in jail awaiting
his hearing, no bail having been asked at
The time of his arraignment. Wagner
was originally caught on the charge of
larceny of goods from Henry Emmons'
camp in Mddlesex and that charge is
still pending.
Maxwell automobile over the bank
near Dr. l.. A. Newcombs house Monday
evening was the center of attraction, the
car having slid off the bank during the
early part of the evening 1t was owned
by man who gave his name as Sployd
of Mortified. 1t seems that he had been
to Montpelier and was on his way to his
home in Mortified alone when the car
slipped off the roadway into the brook
which runs along the side of the street at
that point. Sployd escaped injury and
the car was left there until this morn
ing.
A short meeting of the city council
took place Monday evening, with Presi-
dent j. p. Galleher presiding in the alb
sence of Mayor T. W. Mitchell, who is in
Boston. B. A. Sumner appeared. asking |
that a rebate be given in the sidewalk |
assessment made against the estate of
the late K. c. Holmes on State street. |
claiming for Mrs. Holmes that a practi- |
cally good sidewalk was removed in the |
construction OF the new one and object
ing to being asked to pay the total sum
assessed against the estate. The councill
did not see how it could make a conces-
sion in one place and not allow them in
others, so no action was taken in the
matter. H. c. Shurtleff, for A. A. Steb-'
bins, superintendent of the Montpelier &
Wells River railroad, stated that Mr..
Stebbins would come TO the city treas
urer's office in day or so to notify that
official the sum which the constructing
corporation, the Boston & Maine rail
road, wanted as a part payment on the
overpass job.
assistant in the restroom, two weeks
vacation with pay. An adjournment was
taken until Friday evening, when the
matter of the franchise between the city
and the street railway will be taken up.
The federal district board is still busy ,
on the appeals taken by the government ,
through the states attorneys from the !
ruling of the local exemption board, in !
which many of the cases were of persons +,
exempted for dependency or otherwise /;
1t is not uncommon for the board to send =
the registrant to another physician for {
examination, such having been the case :
Monday when a Windsor county man !,
while in Burlington was sent to a Bur :
Iington physician for examination. This :
board has but 81 cases in its files of per-
sons who have taken appeals from the !
local or district board to the president /
There are but a few from any county 8
Some of the state officials are making t
last work to get the certificates ready n
or the different state officials because n
he new mileage tax of per cent on each &
nile used goes into effect Nov. ?. The d
FEDERAL law provides that state officials Il
when on official business are exempt I'M fl
Ter the act, so that in order to provide Il
way in which the state official can v