The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-07-01
FINES ADMINISTERED
For Breaking the immigration Laws
Many Respondents.


Burlington, July IA large number
OF cases for. violation of the immigra
tion laws were taken up in United
States court yesterday before Judge
Harland b. Howe. James Ford, inspect
or in charge of the immigration sta
tion at Newport, was present, and near
ly all the cases resulted from arrests
made in his jurisdiction and in nearly
every case pleas of guilty were entered
District Attorney v. A. BuIlard had
charge of the prosecution With the
exception Of one case, fines were admin
istered. Edward Corron, a Canadian
was sentenced to 30 days in Jail
The first cases which were taken ny
were those of Joseph Chamberlain and
his two sons Joseph, jr., and Archille
All three pleaded guilty to getting
aliens across the line at North Troy
Each of the sons was fined $3.50 and the
father $50. In October, Joseph, jr.
went to their old home in Canada and
got an uncde, Sigfroi Landry, who il
a cripple, and unable to read and would
therefore not be admitted by law. He
also brought in another man, Antoine
Landry.
The system used was to bring the
two men by rail to a point near the
border in Canada. There they alighted
and got across the line, where the two
brothers met them and took them to
tehir home Things went along nicely
until there was family alteration
and the cripple was kicked out, as well
as the other man. The immigration OF
ficers heard OF the case and began pro-
ceedings to deport them to Canada. The
Canadian officials would not allow the
cripple back into the country although
they accepted the able bodied man.
Since last April the contest has been
on as to who should have the crippled
uncle, and meanwhile he has been a
public charge. He has been taken care
of in the jail at Newport Within the
past few days the Canadian govern
ment has come to the conclusion that
Sigfroi Landry, the uncle, belongs to
them. and he will be sent back to his
old home in Canada. The trio knew the
law as they had previously endeasored
to get their relatives across the line by
lawful means and had failed They paid
the $3.50 fine exacted of them by the
court.
Jules Leblanc was in court and plead
ed guilty to endeayoring To get his son,
Joseph, and another alien, Joseph DUDE,
into the United States The two had
previously been rejected. His scheme
was to drive them nearly TO the line.
then they got out and under cover Of
darkness, succeeded in getting into this
country. Leblanc drove across the line
alone and was of course admitted with
out difficulty. Later on he met the 9TH
er pair and drove them the remainder
OF the way. Leblanc was fined 800 and
paid, but is out more than the 500 for
the reason that his horse, wagon and
some luggage were seized by the feder-
al officers when found with two aliens
The outfit was put up at public auc-
tion by the customs officials and Le-
blanc was obliged to bid his own prop
erty in and paid $3.50 for il.
William Bombardier was the next
man up. He pleaded guilty 10 endeayor-
ing TO get three aliens across the line
at North Troy by the favorite device
of letting them out Of his rig in Can
ada. near the line. They walked
across, then Bombardier met them and
as everything was going nicely, he was
seized by the immigration officers. The
aliens were deported and sBombardier
" no has been under bail since last fall,
was sentenced to fine OF $3.50 and q
day in jail
Godfrey Riox OF Becbe River, \. H.,
tried a different ruse He had with him
Lauzon, young man. He
TO the immigration officers
that the young man was his son and
was going to work for the Woodstock
Lumber company. This story was in
sisted on for half day in the inyesti-
CATION before the board of immigra
tion inspectors in Newport but the
officers finally learned that the story
was false and deported the young man
" hile Rioux was fined $50. Rioux' de-
fense was that he did not know the boy
" as to tell such story. but after he
had done so. RiouN did not want TO
put him in wrong by proving it false.
The immigration end of the busy day
in court closed with the srraignment Of
three Canadians. Edward Corron, J. la
plant and j. Narcotic. They all lived
in Canada and couldn't get into the
nited States legally, because they
couldn't read or write. In some un-
known manner Corron got into the
nited States several months ago and
while ago went back after his family.
There he persuaded his relatives. Mar
,otte and Laplant, to accompany him
back to the United States. They were
arrested and yesterday all pleaded
guilty. They were fine $50 each and
Narcotic and Laplant paid, but Corron
lad no money. He was sentenced to
20 DAYS in Jail
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