The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-16
HEIFERs STOLEN.
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home of the knapps He learned from
Guy Grout about the middle of Noveln-
Der that she was not in the pasture and
spent two days looking for her.
Leslie f. Stratton of Williamsville, a
farmer, said he formerly was meatman
and occasionally bought hides now. On
Monday, Dec | the first day of the deer
hunting season, he said, Curtis Knapp
called TO him at his house a bouts o'clock
in the morning and asked if he bought
hides. He replied that he did, whereupon
Cyrus Knapp brought the hide to him
be did not know either of the men at tina.
time.
States Attorney Gibson had a black
and white hide brought into court and
marked as an exhibit 1t had a hole
through the neck, which the state claims
was made by bullet. Mr.. Stratton said
! it was the hide which he bought of the
Knapps as stated and had been sailed
down ever since. In reply to a question
by Attorney Martin the witness said
the knapps manifested no desire for Sc
crecy concerning the sale of the hide
He said it was from freshly killed ami
NAL.
Samuel Wiswall of Newfane said hs
gave his daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Tuttle,
black and white heifer about June l.
She was wild and he last saw her at the
time of the first snow storm Some of
the stock was taken up, but the heifer
in question, another owned by Moses
Trout and two owned by Guy Grout
were left. Later they We're tracked to
less than half mile from the home OF
the Knapps, the witness said, but when
the Tuttle heifer was last seen by him
she was two and half to three miles
from the Knapp place. AT that time she
was in the Tyler pasture. He said she
would have been two years old this win
ter.
/ Mr.. Wiswall identified the hide as hav.
| ing been taken from his daughters heif
! er. 1t had white markings on the legs
forehead and tail. He first saw the hide
the last of last week at Mr.. STATIONS.
| The next witness was County Fish
and Game Warden Metcalf, who said he
went with Sheriff Wellman last Friday
to the Knapp place where he found two
bags in the hay NOW, each containing h,
should say two large pieces of meat ant
saw the place where the creature wa,
| hHltus WHICH WAS dDUut 10 EUts
west of the house, where some small
spruees had been cut recently. Her,
the entrails and head of beef wefs
found near a wire fence. There was NJ
hide on Ahe head.
! Witness said he talked with Cyrus
and the latter said: "We killed hel
here" Cyrus told the witness that h,
and his father raised the heifer on tn,
nlOra nd that hn lal har hole
to the spot where she was killed and sho
her through the neck 1t did not appeal
why the animal was shot in the necl
rather than in the head Mr. Meteal
said lie asked why the heifer was takel
and was told by the knapps that it wa
buildings. Cyrus Knapp said he shot tn
heifer just before Thanksgiving and sol'
!. the hide to Mr.. Stratton the next Mon
day, which would be Dec l.
At this point the state rested, AM
after a conference with the responder
Attorney Martin announced that the de
Tense would put in no evidence. -
Judge Cudworth stated that the ques
ton was whether there was enough cyl
fdence to hold the respondent for trial il
county court. He held that the evidene
was sufficient, and at the suggestion 0
the states attorney he fixed bail at 5000
which he considered low enough.
Counsel for the respondents then sal
, that Curtis Knapp and Charles Brow
would waive examination and be boun
over, and Judge Cudworth then fixe
bail at $500 in each case, States AttoT
pfney Gibson calling the courts attentio
: to the fact that there was an entirel
different set of facts in the Brown eass