Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-01-21
ALBANY POSTMISTRESS
TOOK u. S. FUNDS
Gets Year for Embezzling $500 of
Postoffice Money. Newport Man
Jailed

Mrs. Katherine 1. Dow, % years
old, and a former school teacher, was
sentenced in United States court in
Burlington, January Is, by Judge
Harland B. Howe to serve year and
a day for embeZzlement while post
mistress at Albany. Another case
was disposed of when William Fol-
som of Newport, conductor on the
Boston & Maine railroad, and two
Carter of Lyndonville, were sentenc-
ed to serve four months III the Wash
ington county jail for stealing a roll
of leather from freight car. All of
the respondents pleaded guilty.
In the case of Mrs. Dow, Judge
Howe stated in pronouncing sentence
that it was one of the saddest cases
with which he had come in contact.
Mrs. Dow came up to Albany num-
Der of years ago as a school teacher.
She married a man who has not
seemed to have the earning capacity
to take care of even himself. They
now have two young children, one
two and one five years of age. Mrs.
Dow has all along been the main sup
port of the family. In order to pay
debts, which were incurred through
| sickness and other causes, she eJnbeZ-
zled money from the postofice. This
money she intended to repay, but
continually got in deeper until she
had taken a total of about $780,
With a part of it she purchased an
automobile so that her husband could
earn something hacking This pla1
| Hid not work out we'll ard the money
stolen from the government was un-
paid until recently when Mrs. Dow
succee led In paying back about
/ $1700.
In sentencing Mrs Dow, Judge
Howe said that he realized the temp
tation under which she was, but that
she was trusted by the government
and by the public or she would not
have had such q position. She had
betrayed the trust. He realized that
if her husband had been of her equal
this condition would not have arisen
|. and she would not have yielded tc
temptation.
The case of the railroad men arise:
out of the stealing of a roll of leath
er near Morrisville last September
: Folsom, Stone and Carter compose,
the entire crew, with the exception o.
the engineer and fifeman Tney saw
the leather and threw it into one o.
their cars. 1t was harness leather
, consigned to Boston. They after
|, wards cut what they wanted up ant
sent the rest along. The amour
stolen, toy sether with the damage don
to the ge ods, was fixed at $123. In
men were discharged from the rail
, road as soon as they were discovers
to be the thieves. All had previous
ly borne excellent regulations.
: Judge Howe said that there was a.
together too much stealing on tn
: railroads and would not consent to
: fine in sentencing them. Attorne
! Leary, in pleading their case, told o
:, the standing of the men in the com
? munity previous to the theft, and sal
that they already had been punishe
severely. The court thought that
! jail sentence should be imposed wher
: an entire crew united to steal fror
! their employer. These men were er
trusted with goods of an immens
: value and instead of watching owe
them and guarding them, were stea
ing. The sentence of four month
was less than any other respondent
would receive in the future. He too
into consideration the circumstance
- in imposing a light sentence.