The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-12-02
TWO MOREADMIT
LAW VIOLATION
Liquor Cases Contir 81 to Pile,
Up in U. S. < 81 at
Montpe
ALBURG MEf SAD
SJCH LIQUOR
In Two Da. = le Court Has Re-
ceived $8,20l in
Fines.

Violations of the liquor law con-
tinued to be heard in U. s. district
court at Montpelier to-day when Jacob
Panquette and George Mott of Alburg
appeared and pleaded guilty to having
| liquor in their possession, the former
164 quarts and the latter 70 quarts.
| They were not sentenced as the attor
neys wanted to confer. Following these
cases, the first trial of the term started.
Without counting the amounts tina.
will be imposed in the two cases Of
| Pauquette and Mott, the court has re-
eeived Ss,20l in fines during two days
that amount being assessed against ~
! persons. Seven cases were mol pressed
and four are pending. 1t is the largest
amount of business of that sort the Il
| L. s. court has ever done in Montpelier
| in two days.
Probably the case of the government
against Harmon sSpooner of Swanton
| furnished as much interesting mate
rial as any case Wednesday afternoon
| for, according to the revenue officers
| he has had cheekered career in the|
smuggling game. Fred Webster oil
Swanton appeared for him, making al
strong plea for light penalty.
Revenue Officer Lockwood was called
inside the bar and Judge Howe asked
him many questions. Lockwood said
| that Spooner, who is well advanced in|
age. attended McGill college and it i'll
understood he had been a consulting|
chemist for Park & Dayisy druggists
1 bna ,,Ia in hnI
revenue office $50, as a part of an as
sessment of $500. which the govern
ment made against Spooner in connec-|
tion with the liquor traffic: that he|
went to Spooner's house and bought
two bottles OF gin. paying sl6 for the|
two, getting it through local 'intiu-
ence:" that it came from some place|
away from Spooner's house; tina.
Spooner had told him of smuggling liq-I
uor across, that at one time he did III
| by hanging bottle out the car win
| dow and at other times carrying it in|
bag on his back
| Spooner claimed he never saw Lock
wood until he was arrested. he haS|
three children, ages 2l, % and "a years
Lockwood thought he was worth S20.
600. Mr.. Webster did not agree With
him: but that Spooner's wife had mon
ey. The court asked many questions
| bearing on the case and then in the|
selling charge sentenced him to Jail for|
four months After he had left thc|
room review of the Indictment
showed that the man was also charged
with possession of liquor and the conr'
recalled the respondent and them
changed the penalty to three months|
in the county jail and to pay fine of|
$500 for possession. He could not bel
fined for selling.
n. f. Toof OF Sheldon attracted
quite little attention. He had Sold
| liouor to the revenue officers He has|
a wife and five children and, during|
the course of the discussion of his ease
his lack of attention to the affair wss|
such as to cause the court TO remark
that he appeared the least concerned oil
ANYBODY. He had been assessed $500
| but a compromise was made and part|
of the amount was paid the revenueI
! department The district attorney
thought three mouths in Jail was about
right. Mr.. Webster thought couple Q
months sufficient and the court asked
some questions and then gave the man
a month but told the revenue officers 60
give his home attention after he wa
released.
At this time the court directed ihcI
district attorney to get out an inlunt
ton against the house occupied byI
! Spooner on the grounds of a nuisance
stating that he would clean up thai
place.
Gardner NJ. Kimball. alias Caswell,
of Manchester, y. H., or Marblehead.
Mass. received the heaviest fine i'm
posed yesterday. namely Sl.500, for
| bringing $40 quarts into this country
His attorney. NJ. &. Leary, pleaded for
small sentence on the grounds that
the man did not have much money and
after the court had fined him the sum
protest was made. The court sug
gested that he could spend 30 days in
| iail and take the poor debtors oath
but he did not; he paid the 81 l.5OO be
fore he left the building. His com
panion was James Smith and the
charge against him was mol pressed by
request of the district attorney.
Howard DeGraif Of Amsterdam. \
Y was another man who comes Of
good family but did not have the mon
ey and il was his first offense. His at
torney, Mr.. Leary. wanted a light hne
He got 81 900, which. it was thought
he could not paw, but he did
Albert Billedeau OF Graniteville paid
slOO for bringing his brother into the
country. He claimed to the custom of
Gers that his brother had been here be
fore and. therefore. no head tax was
sssessable against him.
L. J. Vezina and Philip Billedesu Of
Burlington each paid Sl00 for bringing
in five quarts Of gin by train. John
Cover Of Lynn, Mass, paid $500 Ter
bringing in la quarts Of liquor, while
the case against John O.Neil, his psri
ner. was mol pressed, there being 70
evidence 70 substantiate the charges
George Heminway Of Middiehury
vas fired so for failure to stop when
seeoeted b. q custom ofhcer who had
reason to believe the man had liquor
in ~ team. The charge q the samr
oHeuss against John VI. Hiliiker ~
that town Wa mol pressed Apparent y
he had nothing 20 DO about the troti
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