St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-07-07
FINED FOR
VIOLATING THE
IMMIGRATION LAWS
Judge Howe Imposes Sen.
tences in u. S. Court
at Burlington

| "A large number OF cases 10r VIOLA
ton of the immigration laws wer,
taken un in United States Cour
Wednesday before Judge Harland b
Howe, James Ford, inspector il
charge of the immigration station Il
! Newport, was present, and nearly al
the cases resulted from arrests mad,
in his jurisdiction and in nearly ever,
case pleas of guilty welc entered
District Attorney V. A. Bullard hat
charge OF the prosecution. With the
exception of one case, fines were nd
ministered. Edward Corron, a Ca
madam, was sentenced to 80 days ir
Jail.
The first cases which were takcr
un were those OF Joseph Chamber
land and his two sons, Joseph, Jr.
and Archillc. All three pleaded guilty
/ to getting aliens across the line al
North Troy. Each of the sons was
fined $3.50 and the father $50. 10.
Canada and got an uncle, Sigfro
Landry, who is crir"le, and unable
to read and would therefore not be
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admitted by law. He also brought in
another man, Antoine Landry.
The system used was to bring the
two men b. rail to point near the
border in Canada. There they alight-
ed and got across the line where the
two brothers met them and took
them to their home. Things went
along nicely until there was a family
alteration and the crinnle was kick
ed out, as well as the other man. The
immigration officers heard of the case
and began proceedings to deport
them to Canada. The Canadian Off
Gals would not allow the cripple back
into the countrv although they ac.
ceDted the able bodied man.
last April the contest has
to who should hal rpred
uncle, and meanwhil.1a mas been a
public charge. He has been taken
care of in the Jail at Newport. With
in the past few days the Canadian
government has come to the conclu-
sion 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 previ-
ously endeavored to get their relativ-
es across the line by lawful means
and had failed. Thew paid the $3.50
fine exacted of them by the court.
Jules Leblanc was in court and
pleaded guilty to endeavoring to get
his son, Joseph and another alien, Jo-
seph Dube, into the United States.
The two had previously been reject
ed. His scheme was to drive them
nearly to the line, then they got out
and under cover of darkness succeed
ed in getting into this country. Le-
blanc drove across the line alone and
was of course admitted without diff
Guilty. Later on he met the other pair
and drove them the remainder of the
wy. Leblanc was fined $100 and raid,
but is out more than 800 for the
reason that his horse, wagon and
some luggage were seized by the fed
eral officers when found with two
aliens. The outfit was put up at
public auction by the customs Off
cials, and Leblanc was obliged to bid
his own property in and paid $16O
for it.
William Bobfardier was the next
man up. He pleaded guilty to en-
deavoring to get three aliens across
the line at North Troy by the favo-
rite device of letting them out of his
rig in Canada, near the line. They
walked across, then Bombardier met
them and as everything was going
nicely he was seized by the immigra-
ton officers. The aliens were deport-
ed and Bombardier, who. has been
under bail since last fall, was sem
fenced to fine of $3.50 and day in
Jail.
Godfrey Rioux of Becbe River, N. |
H., tried a different ruse. He had
with him Theophile Lauzon, a
young man. He renresented to the
officers that the Young
man was his son and was going to
work for the Woodstock Lumber
company. This story was insisted on
for half a day in the investigation
before the board of immigration in
spectors in Newport, but the officers
finally learned that the story was
'alse and deported the young man
NIllc NlOux Was lIIlcu NDU. hlOuA , |
defence was that he did not know the
BOY was to tell such story, but
after he had done so, RiouX did not
want to put him in wrong by proving
t false.
The immigration end of the busy
lay in court closed with the arraign-
nent of three Canadians, Edward
Corron, J. Laplant and J. Narcotic.
They all lived in Canada and could
IT get into the United States legally,
because they couldn't read or write.
n some unknown manner Corron
,ot into the United States
months ago and a while ago went
,ack after his family. There he per-
'uaded his relatives Narcotic and
to accompany him back and
all pleaded guilty. They
we're fined $50 each and Narcotic
md Laplant paid, but Corron had no
money!. He was sentenced to 80 days
n Jail.
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