The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-12
Counsel to Make Arguments
Monday Afternoon at
O'clock
COURT DECLINES
TO ORDER VERDICT
Mrs. Waldron, Wife of Respondent,
Not Allowed to Testify-Witnesse
Tell of Conduct of Pentecostal Meet
ings at Waldron's.

Attorneys in the case of the United
States against Rev. Clarence II. Wal
dron of Windsor, a Baptist minister
charged with sedition, viii begin their
arguments at / o'clock Monday, and
Judge Harland B. Howe viii deliver.
the charge and put the case in the
hands of the jury Tuesday forenoon.
Judge Howe made this announcement
at the close of the taking of testimony
this forenoon.
All the evidence was In at ll.25
clock and both sides rested.
This forenoon the most interesting,
if not the most important, witnesses
were Miss Hortense Pruden of Mel
rose, Mass, and Mrs Christine \. Glib
son of East Providence, R. l. In their
cross examination District Attorney
Bullard brought out the manner of con-
Quoting meetings of the Pentecostals,
sometimes called Holy Rollers.
Mrs Grace Waldron, wife of the ae-
cused, was called TO the stand by At
tornev r. c. Bacon and the oath was
administered, but the court declined to
allow her to testify, after waiting for
the district attorney to interpose an
objection. Attorney Bacon said he
i knew that the witness, being the wife
of the respondent, was disqualified, but
that in the state courts the practice
was to allow a respondent s wife to
testify if no objection was made. The
district attorney said he had no OBJ
lection. but Judge Howe stated that
there was no such rule in the United
States court and that he should not al
low her to testify even if no objection
was made. We don t want to sit here
and do illegal things he remarked.
Another important feature of the
proceedings was a motion by Attorney
Bacon that the court direct a verdict
of not guilty, but this motion was over
ruled.
Mrs. Moses Harrington of Windsor
was called first and told of attending
a service of the Pentecostals at Wal
dron S house when Austin W. Burr
came under the influence of the Holy
Spirit. Burr had testified that at this
meeting Waldron said that a young
man should suffer Imprisonment or any
other punishment the government saw
fit to infiict rather than fight, also that
Waldron made certain other statements
of similar trend. The witness said she
did not hear any of the remarks al
legged and that the subject of the wal
was not brought up at all so far as she
, knew. She said the Pentecostal serv
ice lasted from about 7.45 0 clock un
til between y and l clock.
Miss Hortense Pruden was ther
called. She said she was a Pentecosta
missionary worker and was in Windso
in the fall of 1917 holding meetings
and that Waldron s home had been he
stopping plae until within the pas
! week. She was at the meeting a
which Burr was present. No converse
: tion of the kind alleged was heard b,
her, she testified.
When a person is under the power
she said, he is God conscious instea
OF being conscious of his surrounding
Sometimes the person is prostrated an
s. rolls around. Burr, she said, was pros
trated on the floor quietly. while ott
/ ers were kneeling and praying.
o Mrs. Christine Gibson said she wa
0 an associate Penteeostal pastor an
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