St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-06-30
FINED $1,000
FOR FORGING
CHECKS or $l7o
Samy Ealante of Troy, n.
Y, Found After 3 Years
Had Elapsed

The closing chapter in St. Johns
bu"y's unaolvcd forgery case, VIZ,
reached in Caledonia county court
" cdncSdav when S;tmy Nalcnte, at
Italian dealer Of Troy, N. Y, plead
cd utility to forgery and Wa face
81 900 which he promptly paid. Tho
Court also gave him day; TO make
u restitution Of $500 to the Amos
". Scott Company, which represent
cd their loss on the checks he cash
cd there, and also sentenced him tC
serve a term OF not less than three
years nor more than FIVE years at the
state prison ut Windsor. The prison
sentence was suspended and he VIZ
placed under the charge CT the de-
pa~tmcnt of Charities and Probation
for the next five years.
In the winter Of 1917 Nalcntc, q
native of Naples, Italy, was work
ing for II. J. Brock, Barnet lum-
Der dealer, and it was part Of his
duty to hire the help and make SOM
of the purchases. He came up to
St. Johnsbury on Jan. Is, 1917, and
presented to Fred j. Babcock, then
with the Amos W. Scott Company
three checks drawn on the Citizens
Savings Bank G. Trust Company
These checks bore the SIGNATURE OF
II. J. Brock and we're made payable
to Samy Valcnte. The latte" CIR
dor'ed the three checks and got the
money. Later the Amos w. Scott
Company received word from the
Citizens bank that Mr.. Brooks sigma
turc was forged and when they look
cd to the cndorscr for payment they
found he had departed for parts UNI
known.
N. A. Norton of Lvndonvillc wa
then states attorney and lie arrested
Frank Zulo, an Italian companion of
Nalcntc's as an accomplish in the
forgery. MI. Hulo Wa working fol
Nj. Brock at the time and brought
to the Caledonia county Jail where
he was kept until the next term OF
the June court. When the docket
Was called there being no evidence
against Xuio the case Wa, MOI pressed
and Zulo was released from custody.
In the meantime the St. Johns
bury officers began to make search
for Halcnte and he was recently To-
Gated at Troy, N. Y, where he was
running candy store. During the
war he enlisted in the United sta e4
army and served eight months oyer
sea-. Last week States Attorney
Campbell and Sheriff Worthcn wc:lt
to Albany to secure eXtra1ition
'Thn "a ,rpn rf1 nv, q nv
Smith and the St. Johnsbury Off
GERS had a hearing before Judge Ho-
ward at Troy and the Troy authori-
ties turned over to Mcssrs. Camp
bell and Worthcn, Valentc for lis
appearance before Judge Butler in
the Caledonia county court.
MI. Valcntc. was accompanied to
st. Johnsbury by his lawyer, John
Murray, also of Troy, who appeared
for his client in county court We'd
ncGday afternoon. Mr. Valcntc plead
cd guilty to the indictment Of utter
ing three checks of $40, $50 and $50
and also pleaded guilty for passing
the same. Lawyer Murray briefly
addressed The Court, saying that his
client did not appreciate the cnor-
nifty of his crrors and had never
been convicted of any crime. He
called attention to the Court that he
was supporting a wife and a six
months old child, and asked the
Court to give him what clcmcncy he
could
The Court said that in view of
the representations AMI the fact that
the case can be disposed of without
trial he was inclined to think that
the lesson ought to be effective to
prevent any further violations of
the criminal law. He then imposed
the sentence as "ivcn above.
The State Probation Officer wls
reached at Montpelier bv telephone
and gave his permission for Valentc
to leave the state and return to HI;
horne in Troy. MI. Valcntc left
carly Wednesday evening for that
city, accompanied b. Lawyer Muir