The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-09
GUILTY IN RANDOLPH CASE.
Roland Day and Frank Anderson Pleaded
Guilty to Burglary.

Chelsea, Dec. 9--The December term
of Orange county court convened Tues
day, Dec. 3, Judge Zed S. Stanton of Rox-
bury presiding, and the following officials
were present; Clinton A. Adams OF Thet-
ford and Benjamin I'll. Adams Of Chelsea,
assistant judges Hale X Darling. clerk;
William II. Sprsgue, deputy clerk; AFRO
A. Reed, sheriff; John C. Sherburne of
Randolph, states attorney; Mabel L.
Spencer Of St. Johnsbury, reporter.
Members of the bar present at the
opening of court were; George L. Stow,
Millward G. Taft and Lyle r. Beckwith
of Chelsea; David S. Conant OF st.
Johnsbury; Frank s. Williams OF Brad
ford; r. ". Harvey of Montpelier; r. A.
Hoar, A. G. Fay and A. A. Sargent Of
Barre; NJ. NJ. Wilson of Randolph.
After the formal opening, the trial
calendars and general docket was read,
when recess was taken until 2 o'clock
p. m. On the opening Of the afternoon
session, the petit jury was called and
charged by the court and excused until
the following morning, as no case was
ready for trial.
In the case OF State VS.. Anna Feleh,
the state having requested that the re-
spondent be reeommitted to Jail on the
ground that she, being charged with
capital offense, was not entitled to bail,
her counsel msde several motions to the
end that she might be admitted TO bail.
all Of which were denied, and she was
committed 70 Jail again to await trial,
and Il is not probable that the case will
be tried before the following June term.
The first case tried by jury was that Of
D. II. Mason vs.. George Sault, which wal
an action of tort in which the plaintiff
claimed that the defendant has sold or
otherwise disposed of property on which
he held mortgage, At the conclusion of
the evidence, the court ordered a YER
diet for the plaintiff to recover the sum
of S105.07. -
There being no other civil cause ready
for trial, the case of State VS.. Walter NJ.
Bannister was taken up. The respondent
is a resident Of Braintree and charged
with grand larceny, it being the claim of
the state that he slaughtered COW lin
the pasturel owned by Emery Smith,
took the meat and hide to Barre and
sold them to some meat man. The case
was vigorously contested by A. A. Sar-
gent Of Barre and NJ. NJ. Wilson of Ran
dolph counsel for the respondent, and
States Attorney Sherburne had the evi-
dence for the state so well in hand that
the net was drawn very closely around
the respondent.
1t was case which was followed with
much interest by large number of spec.
tators, conspicuous among whom was no
lesser a parsonage than Watson w Ban
mister of Braintree, an uncle of the ac-
cused, who was heard to remark that in
all the history of the world that was the
first time that any person bearing that
name was ever called to answer to a
charge of that kind before, that he had
followed the evidence very closely and
that in all his knowledge of or experience
in court trials he had never heard Of a
trial before where the evidence was so
strong on both sides and that he could
not conceive Of any other outcome than
a disagreement by the jury. Contrary to
his expectations, however, the jury found
the respondent guilty and the court gave
the respondent sentence of not less
than three years nor more than four
years in state prison at Windsor
Another interesting feature in the case
was when Lewis Chadbourne, who was
charged as a correspondent in the case,
was called to the stand, and to a ques-
tion propounded by the states attorney
he announced that he refused to answer
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conviction of Bannister, Chadbomne
withdrew his former plea of not guilty
and entered plea of guilty and was
sentenced to the house of correction for
term of not more than Is months nor
less than one year; execution of sen
tence stayed, and he was placed on pro-
baton.
The case of State VS.. Roland Day and
Frank Anderson, who were charged with
the crime of burglary, was next taken
up. The respondents hail from Randolph
Center and pleaded guilty to the charge,
the substance of which was that they
broke into the store of the Half Century
Co. at Randolph in the night time and
took money and other things of value.
Each respondent entered plea of guilty
and Day, who is about l6 years old. was
sentenced to the reform school at Yer
gennes during the remainder of his mi
nority, and Anderson, who is 2l years
old and has a wife and two small chill.
dren, was sentenced to the house of cor
rection for term of not less than three
years nor more than four years; and on
account of his youth, his wife and chill
dren, the execution of his sentence was
stayed, and he was placed on probation
until further order OF the court,