The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-12-07
PAID DEARLY FOR
TRIPINTO CANADA
Men Tried to Bring Back Little Liq.
uor for Their Own Use-One
Paid SIPS to Get Auto
mobile Back.

WlnlIre0 tOTllss, EuMdiu hNohcc'
han and Otis Hewitt of Newton, Mass,
appeared in United States court at
Montpelier to-day to answer to the
charges of transporting liquor from
Canada into the United States last
fall. They went to Canada for weeks
outing and were told they could get
back into the United States with a lit
tie liquor for their own use. They we're
caught trying TO do so.
When they had pleaded guilty to-day
to the charges, the court inquired into
the case and found that Corliss had
paid Sl25 to get his automobile back;
whereupon the court fined Corliss 81
with costs, saying that the man had
been penalized heavily in getting his
machine back Corliss has wife and
three children.
McSheehan and Hewitt were each
fined S25, with costs. The former has
wife and six children and the latter a
wife and one child. They are working
men.
C. w. Mcfarland of Rutland, who is
q conductor on freight train, pleaded
guilty to-day to bringing in small
quantity of liquor and was fined $50,
with costs, which he paid. j. A. Lecuy-
or of Montreal was fined like sum for
conspiracy to bring man into the
United States.
Nicholas Vaneti of Rutland pleaded
not guilty yesterday afternoon to sell
ing liquor, claiming that he did not
know the sale had taken place, that he
had been away to attend wedding
and that while he was away his place
was raided and his clerk arrested and
then after he returned he was arrested,
He will stand trial
Arthur Guelette of Island Pond
pleaded guilty TO bringing in nine gal
Ions of high wines. He is farmer and
has nine children, the oldest of which
il 10 years of age This was his first
offense and he was fined upon recon-
mendation of the district attorney S25
and costs. Arthur David of Montreal
confessed that he tried to bring a man
into this country contrary TO the laws.
He has a wife and four children and
has been under arrest for some time.
He was fined S25 and given a day in
Jail.
Joseph L. Norm of Nashua, n. H.,
who was very deaf, pleaded guilty to
conspiring TO bring Emma Biere into
this country, claiming that she was a
relative and had right to enter the
country. He was fined 500 and given a
day in jail.
Alien Smuggling Case on Trial.
When court opened this morning Dis
trict Attorney V. A. Bullard announced
that he was ready to commence the
trial of the two cases of the govern
ment against Albert. Wyshak and
Moses Makad, or Nakase, of Dorchester,
Mass, the former Of whom owns a
store in that city and the latter is a
tailor. They are charged with con
spring to smuggle three men into this
country. These are khalil Monakad,
George Kin and Toupie Wyskab, alias
Howayeke. all OF whom are Syrians.
1t Il alleged that they brought them
through Newport last October, the re-
spondents in one automobile and the
other three in a second car that, when
the trio reached Newport, the driver
of their car did not dare 90 farther
and dumped the men out. Then along
came Wyshak and Nakase, who took
the three in their machine and at Gov
entry placed them on a train. They
were stopped at Plymouth, y. H.,
where they were placed under arrest
The first four named are under 81 600
bail and the last has been in Jail at
Newport.
1t is further alleged that Monakad
and Wyskah could not come direct to
this country from Syria because the
American consul would not give them
credentials, having some reason for re-
fusing these and that they came
through France where they picked up
Kin and then they proceeded TO Quebec
City and they went TO Montreal but
later the consul there would not ad-
init them and they went back to Sher-
brooke and then entered this country,
as rehearsed above.