The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-02
THREE PRISONERS
TAKEN TO NEWFANE
Arrested in Bellows Falls on
Warrant Issued by
Daley
GIRL MAKES SCENE
IN POLICE STATION
tainted and Cried While Youth Arrest
ed with Her Soothes and Caresses Her
Man Charged with Stealing Traps
in Custody.

The population of Newfane jail was
increased by three this forenoon, when
Guy Hewett, John E. Haws and Mrs. |
Marion (Ingalls) Belknap, all of Bel
lows Falls, were taken to the county
bastile by Chief of Police w. S. Sever. |
lance and Deputy Sheriff Fred Rand of
the paper town. Another prisoner is
at the police station in Bellows Falls,
but it has not vet been decided whether
he viii complete the quartet at New
fame or take some other course The
disposition of his case for the present is
expected to be made in Judge I. f.
'Brien s court in Bellows Falls before
night.
| Mrs Belknap's husband, Philip o.
Belknap, is in jail in Waupun, Wis, and
she can now sympathize with him. She
is stenographer q years old and has
wandered considerably with Haws, who
is 20, and has represented to the public
that she was his wife and whose rela-
tions toward her indicated that such
was the fact until the truth recently
came out.
She and Haws were the central figures
in an amorous and dramatic scene in
the police station in Bellows Falls yes
tcrday, when State S Attorney w R.
Daley of Brattleboro was one of the au-
dlence. They were waiting for some ar
rangement to be made about bail so
that they would avoid being taken 10
Ijail, and the strain proved too much
for the young woman, who tainted
Haws up to that time had been reason
ably self-containcd, but when the girl
became unconscious he began to weep
and caressed and kissed her and put wa
ter on her face. Mrs. Belknap soon re-
viyed and she, too. began to weep. Mr.
Daley agrees that it was some scene. =
The couple formerly lived near st.
IJohnsbury. They drifted from place to
place and got into debt and finally land
ed in a fiat in Bellows Falls Haws got
a job as night man in the street railroad
! car barn and was i'll the habit of com
ing home early i'll the morning.
, Yesterday morning Chief Severance
t and another officer went TO the house to
arrest the couple on State s Attorney
Daley s complaint. Mrs. Belknap came
! TO the door in her nightdress and told
them that Haws had not arrived. They
r clothes and retired 10 do So. The off
GERS became suspicious after waiting a
while and made an investigation, learn,
ing that Haws was there when they
came, but went out through a window
A little later State S Attorney Daley
received telephone call from Haws
asking if he issued a warrant for the
7 arrest of Haws. Mr.. Daley replied in
the affirmative. 1t appeared that Haws
was not then under arrest, but soon aft
$ erwards Chief Severance called Mr.
: Daley and said Haws had given himself
t up.
= Mr.. Daley went to Bellows Falls anC
e the couple were taken before Judge T
Y f. 0 'Brien in the municipal court, At
/. torney Fred B. Pingree appeared for thu
d respondents and in their behalf waived
; examination. Judge 0 'Brien bound then
over to the county court in bonds o.
O $500 each, and they were taken to polio,
headquarters. This morning the girl !
= mother came from Passumpsic to fur
. nish bail. but she did not qualify. TIL,
}. couple came from Marshfeld.
r Guy Hewett was arraigned befor
! Judge o Brien on the charge of stealth,
~ 30 steel traps and a motorcycle from
;. Eugene LaClair. Attorney Pingree ap
peared for him and he waived examina
ton and was bound over to the count,
court under bonds of $500.
States ATTORNEY Daley was given t
understand that Romeo King, formerl,
u of Bellows Falls, was with Hewett a
the time of the alleged theft. King
a Boston & Maine brakeman living i
le Springfield, Mass. a warrant was issue
W for his arrest, and in the afternoon a
aS officer informed Mr.. Daley that Kin
had that day come to the home of rela
n tives and was under arrest. King er
IS gagged Judge W. A. Graham as counse
I'd and that ease has not yet been dispose
ne of.
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