The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-31
PETE HOPKINS WRITES
UP GRAHAM TRIAL
Thinks the Issue Is Whether Graham
Can Be Convicted of Stealing
Something That Isn't Lost.

Montpeelyer Vamont
Pete hopkins
barbery Center, vt.
dere Pete?
As is bizzy kuttin ice and kant
attend the grayam tryal, i IN anserin ur
Request rite in full about the same.
Well, as Uncle Hod wood say, the case
move 2 sloe keep up much intrest in
it, but Charlie Heeton hez kindly ar.
rainjed hiz spair moments so as 9 keep
me posted. it seems funnie after adver
tizin this ease fur more n veer thet
no more is atendin the Honorabel wash
ing kounty kort So far one fack hez
ben agreed 2: Hennery lawson who is
the son Law of landlord Tracie cells
the State plenty of wood to keen the
kort house warm. know it takes
konsiderabel 2 heet up the black slate
thet Z. jones, assisted by mason stone
used = urge us not 9 burn 9 much off
Now about the Jurors; we know most
about thoz what got 'emselfs excused
So da aginst Jurors pay seemed q
koinside with granitcutters deefness.
Other bizzy men he'd red the moose
pers and formed an Opinyun. one ven
nerabel juriman from rocksberrv al
lowd he allus he'd ga Good opin.
yum of guverner grayam" This Juror
wuz excused About the twelv sittin
in the jury box, we don't know what
there going 2 do but they act Human
and go sleep as often as the rest of
us, then they wake up an 90 2 meals
So far none have ben sick of envthing
excep the time an their pay.
All last yweak kort wuz konducted
at the xpence of the State and the
prinsipel Witnes, mister b. gates, as
sisteded old aterny jenneral barber in
maxim an inventorie of all the bookes.
papers and akounts in the office of the
awditer of akounts ? show what a big
job it meens B awditer. So far the We
akounted fur each paper 3 times apiece
so as not miss eny.
The most strikin Evydense inter
duced by mister barber wuz the faek
thet once upon a time Uncle Hod over
drawd hiz check akount in the Knew
port bank to the xtent of 156e. This
tack In the opinyun of visitin mem
bers of the washing kounty Bar is
tablisht a konklusive motive fur steel.
in $40;000 if the Kashier d only
known about this trubel he kud of
paved the l56c hiz afseldn savd fhiz
carfare to montpeelyer as wittvaes.
may remember, Pete, thet the
moose papers last yeer printed the fack
thet the items now bein interducoh as
Eyydense prior 1913 hev out-lawd as
krlmes or dets, an besides bein dutlawd
Uncle Hod payed EN- all in full.
Of korse its late now > save the
State the Expense of this tryal, but sum
taxpayers may lik know tibet Uncle
Hod wuz never ast by aterny ienneral
barber explane hiz awditin nor wuz
he given an offer appear before the
grand Jurie what indyted him. Of
korse it wuznt good polyticlzs give
Hod danct explane. neether wuz
It good sence fur Hod . explane sum
thin in an Indytment he never seem un
til the Honorabel kort took charge of the
case in du form. So thet 5 why we re
here.
As a summery fur the first weak of
the tryal, mister barber hez proved
nearly half as much as the Defence
knoseeded when kurt opened
The Real aterny jenneral keeps bizzv
putin mister barber back on the rite
track. Brrun Scik is goin 9 B Hod s
lawyer when the proper time kums.
Taint in this tryal, but pwraps u we
herd about sum fellers who Tended Hod
sum money on sum timber property.
Well up day e nobody haint lost eny
muney on Hod S timber and we hope
Hod won't
Urz afexionatly,
Sister Mary.
p. S. The naebrs over here is wonderin
how the re going . knovik Hod of
steelin sunthin nobody hes lost