The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-12
MONTPELIER
Merton Martin Pleaded Guilty to Lar
ceny-Given Three Months in Jail.

! Merton Martin, who was employed this
morning on North street, shingling a
house, was somewhat surprised when
Chief Connolly arrived and asked him to
go to the city, court with him on the
charge of petit larceny. When he arrived
IN court, the evidence in the matter was
laid before him, and he pleaded guilty to
the charge, after which he was commit
ted to the county jail for three months.
Martin is alleged to have stolen from
the Cotton shop tw ocloeks, one filing
case, three pictures, a set of scales and
some brass Some of the stuff he sold to
hardware company, while other arti-
cles were sold to Junk dealers. Other
| pieces stolen were found at Mrs. Joseph
LeBrdque's, where Martin was rooming,
| it was claimed
Miss Linda Crane visited yesterday at
her home in Middlcsex
DIR. B. H. Stone and DR.. Whitney, his
assistant, of the state laboratory, were
in the city to-day while on their way
to Bloomfield, where they have been
called by the attorney general on an
other murder case. That is to say,
man was found dead in the woods, and
| it is believed that he had been killed.
The affair took place previous to Friday.
Attorney General Frank Archibald W. t
to Essex county Friday afternoon.
E. S. Newcomb, county game ward /,
was in the city to-day on his way TO
Barre.
The work of compiling the Senate and
House journals is being completed with
great deal more rapidity than in past
| years. Under the new laws, these are
| to be completed in month, while under
the old law the secretary and clerk used
to occupy as much time as they desired.
Judge Stanley C. Wilson of Chelsea
was in the city this morning on his way
to St. Adams, where he is presiding in
county court.
Miss Mary KERN went to her work in
Burlington this morning, after a visit
with her parents here.
DR. NJ. b. Hillegas went to johnson
and Hyde Park to-day on school mat
tiers.
Adjt. Gen. II II. Johnson, who has been
in st. Louis attending conference rel.
alive to the reorganization OF the ma
tional guards, arrived home Sunday. II
is expected that the national guards viii
be reorganized, but at the present time
the country is without funds upon which
to do the work; that is TO say, Con-
gress adjourned without acting upon the
appropriation which would take care OF
that matter. However, il was decided to
reorganize as far as possible with the
funds at hand. just how this bill viii
affect Vermont is not yet decided.
Dr. Charles Chandler, who was cap
tain in the medical corps and who re-
Gently returned from France, arrived
home Saturday night, having come to
Burlington and then coming home by
automobile. He brought with him many
trophies of his experiences, as well as
fund of information upon the conditions
| in Europe. He was a surgeon in the reg
ular army while in France. One of the
trophies he brought was belt. Orig
inally it was a white Italian belt. prob-
ably one of those used by the Italian
troops in the Alps, snow coIored. Upon
| the belt were some so emblems that had
| been taken from Germans, either prison
ers or dead soldiers. These include the
iron cross bar, which is worn when they
do not have on the iron cross, the com
bned bar and the wound stripe, two
small iron crosses, one of the 1914 mod
Ell, and many other insignia, some Of
which indicated they were taken from
officers of high rank. 1t was very
pretty belt.
Granite manufacturers are consider
ably worried relative to the shipments
of stocks, for there is a shortage of cars
upon which TO ship these. II has not
been felt much as yet in Montpelier, but
reports coming to this city from Barre
are that it is being felt there consider
ably. The shortage started about 10
days ago and has been growing worse.
One firm in the last two days received
less than one third of the cars it needed
to handle its output of stock The off
Gals of the Central Vermont railway
were here last week frequently on the
matter, but thus far the conditions have
not been relieved, according TO the best
information that could be obtained this
morning.