Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-06-18
JAIL OR FINES FOR ALL.
One Is Sentenced to Newport Jail for
Nine Months.

The parties implicated in the, snup-
Cling of opium that was seized bv
customs officers at North Troy March
9th, We're arraigned in United States
district court at Montpelier June 10
and pleaded guilty. Sentences were
imposed as follows: Henry Ponton
OF tarnham and E. Richard of Mont
real, to pay fine of S1OO each; Jos.
Guertln of Montreal, to serve one
year in Washington county Jail, and
+. M. Warren of Washington, D. c.,
to serve nine months in Orleans
county Jail.
The first case disposed of was that
against Edwin Warren, who has been
slave to opium for years. He went
to Canada and purchased what cost
him about 81 ZOO worth of dope. 1t
was this shipment of dope that got
three others into trouble. This opium
would probably have sold in this
country for several thousand dollars.
Warren has been in the Newport Jail
for three months, and w. A. Lord, his
attorney, gave a short statement of
his case, in which he told the court of
Mr.. Warren's effort for reformation
and that in the last three weeks in
the jail he has not used any opium at
all and the attorney asked that War
rem be recommitted to that institution
so that he might perhaps recover en-
tirely from the slavery of the dope
The court gave Warren nine months
in the Newport Jail.
Joseph Guertin of Montreal did not
fare as well. He claimed he had been
out of work and that he was to have
received $50 for taking a grip of
what he supposed was liquor to New
port; that on the train he gave this
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man in trouble He claimed it was
his first transportation, but the court
stated in sentencing the man that he
believed Guertin was in the business
for the profit. Guertin was arrested
near North Troy when the train was
searched. Judge Howe gave Guertin
the choice between Atlanta, Ga, and
Montpelier Jail. The respondent Sc
lected Montpelier and was given a
year.
Edward Richard said he received
the grip of what he supposed was
liquor from Guertin and that he did
not know that it contained opium. If
he had he would not have taken it.
He admitted that it had been a COM
mon practice for trainmen to carry
liquor across the line. He said he did
not think the crime of bringing liquor
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was fined S1OO.
Henry Ponten, who was the fire
man on the train whom Richard ask
ed to carry the grip by placing it on
the tender attached to the engine,
told a similar story to Richard, that
he did not know what was in the grip.
The court imposed S100 fine on him.
In the last two cases the court stated
that it was believed these men had
not been in opium transportation be
fore. Ponten had $311 in the bank,
while a Dr. Rosey paid Richards fine.
Albertus Schpitzer and Maxwell
Auerbach, of New York, charged with
smuggling about $4,000 worth of
dope from Canada to the United
States, entered pleas of guilty before
Judge Howe and each was fined $500
and sentenced to one year and day
in Atlanta penitentiary.
These men were captured by fede-
raj officers in Newport February 26
with several suitcases filled with NOR
phine and kindred drugs. The drugs
were estimated to be worth 100000
in Nau York