The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-10
FRANK BoeLE BOUND OVER.
Is Charged with Assault with Intent t
Kill.

Brattleboro, Sept l0-Frank Boyle of
West Dover, charged with assaulting
Fred West, his brother-in law, with in
tent to kill, was bound over for county
court yesterday following a hearing be-
fore Judge A. L. Cudworth. Albert Ed
wards of Newfane offered bail of 1000.
Before the taking OF testimony was
begun the court, on motion of Attorney
Piper, excluded the state witness with
the exception of DIR. A. H. Wright of
Wilmington DR.. Wright was called first
and on examination by States Attorney
Daley said he was called to see West a
week ago Sunday by Mrs. Boyle, wife
of the respondent. He found cut two
inches long on top of the skull and an
other four inches long back of the right
ear West was little out of his head
and had since suffered much pain. Wit
ness said Vests mind began to clear up
Thursday and was entirely clear Friday,
when the physician last saw him. He
thought the skull was not fractured and
that there was no danger now OF the
wounds resulting fatally.
Cross examined by Mr.. Piper, DR..
Wright said that while the cuts were not
ragged they might have been made by
round instrument and that there was
discoloration all over the skull. Con.
cussion from the blows, he said, was
what caused West to be out of his head,
He saw blood on the kitchen floor and
in the front hall
Mrs. Boyle was next called. She said
she had not lived with Boyle for two
years, but that she owned the place and
the family consisted of herself and son
and daughters, Mildred and Rosaliud
Johnson, by her first husband, a daugh
ter, Alice Boyle, and her brother, Fred
West. On Sunday, Sept. l, Boyle came
there and on coming into the kitchen
first talked with his daughter. Alice,
about trouble with neighbours boy.
West was then upstairs. Boyle spoke
to his wife, she said, about some of her
friends coming there and then going to
the village and telling things. Mrs.
Boyle told her husband to get out and
stay away, and he replied that he would
come when he wanted to and would stay
as long as he liked.
West then appeared, coming down.
stairs into the front hall and into the
kitchen at the end of the hall, and want
ed to know what was going on. Boyle
wanted to know what West was hanging
around for and told him to get out, add
ing that he had come down for the pur
pose Of putting him out, the witness tes-
titled
At this point Mrs. Boyle said she had a
divorce petition pending and that Judge
Waterman issued an order in the divorce
case requiring Boyle to keep away from
her She said that on previous occasions
Boyle had come there and ordered her
brother out.
Mrs. Boyle couldn't state who struck
the first blow, as she was in the pantry
when the trouble started, but in the hall
she saw Boyle strike West on the head
with an old fashioned hand sewing ma
chine, which was used as a weight in the
hall to keep the front door open. The
first blow, she said, put West on his
knees and as he got up Boyle struck him
on the head again. Her son, Willard
Johnson, then seized chair and struck
Boyle with it and Boyle went out. She
then called Dr. Wright, The sewing ma
chine was produced by States Attorney
Daley and identified by Mrs. Boyle.