The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-09-27
GRAND JURY RISES FROM DELIBERATIONS
RETURNING MANY INDICTMENTS
Manford Galway is Held on Three Counts while
His Brother is Under Indictment

! Porter; { a Whiting IS = Fred
erick; Clarence Z Hanson 81 II 4
Randall of Ripley; " Jackman v
Claudia Wilson The case Of Amos
Holt against Philip K Porter was dis
missed and that Of the Pitt5held Na
tional Bank y Cuy Wellington was
entered, neither party The Coe-
Mortimer Co. Is v II Towle and
Mary F. Towle was ordered entered
neither party, no further action and
that OF Swift & Co. Inc vs. Earl
Green, bankruptcy OF the defendant,
being previously suggested. was en-
tered neither party Entries Of Meth
er party, no further action, were made
in the cases Of John II Steward and
d F Smiley ys Leslie J Brown;
Henry D Lowell vs. Samuel Lowell,
Ralph Z Gould vs. Victor Peterson;
admir- George " Booth vs. Joseph
and Charles Punty In the case Of
Warren Durgin vs. Fred L Marshall
was also entered neither party The
cases OF John Cltz vs. Fred Dudley
and Helen Barney vs. Leander 5
Priest were both continued by agree
ment
ture were stricken from the docket.
all Of which goes to shorten greatly
the September term Of Somerset S. J.
Court
One of the interesting cases OF the
latter part OF last week was that OF
William Lttlefeld OF Skowhegan vs.
j. Orvlle Jeffery; attorneys, Judge
F. + Lawrence, Judge Augustine
Simmons A peculiar feature of the
case was the fact that the defendant
was not in the court room and didn't
! appear to testify The suit was
brought 10 recover for some hay
which had been sold by one Frank
Bean of Pleasant Ridge T. Jefery
Littlefeld claimed that the hay which
Bean sold belonged to him and he
sued for the price Of the hay The
defense argued that when Eean sold
the hay it was his he having purchas-
cd the farm upon which il Wa eat
and made his home on that farm dur
ing the having season The ulaintir
SAID that The farm VS. attached and
Dean didn't mah. it ii- h9me hlt Nv
cd in Pleasant Ri1se The Jary
found Tor the plaintiff however anl
RETURNED ycr3iaf ot s14f13
CALWAYs plead Not GUILTY"
"Wednesday afternoon the pri- asrs
indicted were arrazsel aui eHn-
siderable interest Nas ey!n-e5 r. tae
rtart roea ~ tAe appearance gt Aa.-
ford GALWAY and his brother. A.paaa-
so TIN iur4er has h.ou .eryla- O.
sentence fer breaking entering and
larceny and To The charge q. o-esp-
ing from l.il lie pleaded guilty To
the charge ot attempting Tn CIT short
the career Of sheriff Goodrich he
pleaded rot guilty Alphonso, charg-
ed with aiding and abetting in the
escape OF his brother. entered a plea
of not guilty Both boys We're fhen
arraigned on three arson indictments
for the alleged burning OF the houses
of Fannie a Cleveland Randall II
Nye and Clara Brown
Manford pleaded not guilty on all
the counts save one while his broth
er made the same plea on all the in
dictments They named l. l. Val
ton To defend them III the coming
trials julius Caftot pleaded guilty
to charge of breaking. entering and
larceny. as did George Watson. con
neeted with the same crime We'd
nesd day, Oct 5. has been sci for the
criminal trials il civil cases have
been tried at that time