Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-02-17

george W. hlchards0n or Greenwood
E. P. Lyon of Bethel and Clarence A
Smith of Woodstock.
As the Grand Trunk train east wa
some over an hour late, with quite
number of lawyers and jurymen from tb
northern part of the county as passen
lgers, the calling of the traverse Jurors
was deferred until after the reading o
the docket.
Fifteen cases were assigned for Wed
nesday and Thursday to the trial list
Also four divorce hearings were assigned
After the arrival of the train the trav
erse jurors were empaneled as follows:
FIRST JURY.
Ira Hartman. Oxford. Chairman.
4 N. Adams, Brownfield.
Gilbert g. Barker. Hanover.
Sherman z. Dillon, Canton.
Fred A. Durham, Paris.
4 Howard K. Glover, Hebron.
William Z. Jordan, Waterford.
| Wilma B. Kidder, Peru.
/ Ceylon N. Kimball, Bethel.
| Carl Stanley, Porter.
j. n. Swan, Bethel.
3. G. Merrill, Mexico.
| SECOND JURY.
David A. Bradley, Fryeburg, Chairman
Charles G. Becker, Albany.
Moses Coolidge, Dixheld.
Daniel B. Cram, Hiram.
Frank z. Davis, Woodstock.
Francis j. Lord, Rumford.
Enfield s. Plummer, Sweden.
Perley q. Rankin, Denmark.
Herbert NJ. Sampson, Hartford.
w. b. Strickland, Paris.
w. l.. Vance, Lowell.
Raymond s. Weber, Greenwood.
George LaCour, jurymsn from Rum
ford, was unable to be present on account
of sickness.
Carl NJ. Abbott of Sumner, Jack A.
Chapman of Gilead and Earl Holmes of
Buckfield were excused from serving on
the jury.
w. G. Leavitt and j. N. Tubbs, both
of Norway, were made supernumeraries.
Charles W. Cummings of Hebron,
Leverna L. Niles of Rumford and Ernest
F. Shaw of South Paris were the deputy
sheriffs in attendance.
James Henry Carroll was admitted to
the bar at Tuesdays session. Mr.. Car.
roll was born at North Attleboro, Mass,
Feb. %, 1888. he graduated at the
North Attleboro High School in 1905.
he then engaged in newspaper work
two years, after which he entered Bates
College, graduating in 1911. he attend
ed Harvard Law School for the year 1911
II aud Boston University Law School in
1912 Is. He taught in the Medford High
School, st. Johns Preparatory School,
Danvers, Mass, and at the Brighton
High School, Boston. He worked for
two years as news editor in the Boston
Bureau of the Associated Press. In
1917 he entered the second Plattsburg
training camp. He was commissioned
first lieutenant of infantry and assigned
to Camp Devens with the 303d Infantry.
He served at Potsdam, N. Y, st. Paul,
Mimi, also as physical director Of Camp
Funston, Kansas. BE returned from the
army with the rank of captain. Captain
Carroll will practice in Lewiston. he
was admitted upon petition of Dana
Williams of Lewiston.
The following attorneys were present
at the opening session: Alton c. Wheel
or, Walter L. Gray, George NJ. Atwood
and Harry NJ. Shaw of Paris; z. F.
Smith, Norway; George Hazen, Oxford;
E. E Hastings, Fryeburg; Fred R. Dyer,
and 81. a. Hastings of Bethel; Ralph T.
Parker, James B. Stevenson, Aretas E.
Stearns, George A. Hutchins, Nathan G.
Foster, Albert Beliveau, Peter NJ. Nc
Donald, George R. Ashworth, of Rum
ford; John P. Swasey of Canton; Frank
o. Purington of Mechanic Falls; Dana
Williams of Lewiston; Walter P. Per.
kins of Cornish; Harry Virgin, Portland;
Hugh Hastings, Fryeburg; W. F. Jones,
W W Gallagher NORWAY
There were no jury trials Wednesday.
Such cases as had been assigned for that
day had been settled out of court or
marked continued; so both juries were
discharged until Thursday morning.
Four persons of foreign birth were
naturalizsd Wednesday as follows: A. N.
Cairns, T. NJ. Davis, William Poole,
Thomas Poole. They were all former
subjects of King George Y of England.
The grand jury finished its duties
Tuesday afternoon after one of the short
est sessions in the history of the county.
They found five indictments as follows:
State Of Maine vs.. Walter Heslop. Arson.
State Of Maine vs.. Eugene c. Dupont. Issuing
fraudulent checks.
State Of Maine VS.. Arthur whitman. Issuing
fraudulent checks.
State of Maine VS.. Chester Sharland. Larceny.
State of Maine VS.. Frank Frawley and Dan
Coyne. Larceny.
State of Maine VS.. Arthur Whitman. Larceny.
Walter Heslop came into court We'd
nesdsy morning and pleaded not guilty
to the indictment of arson and gave
bonds in the sum of S500-John B. Rob-
inson and c. q. Flood, both of Oxford,
giving sureties-for appearance from day
to day. Mr.. Heslop is charged with set
ting fire to little shop which he occu-
pies In Oxford, which Is owned by Mrs.
L. G. Stone.
Eugene G. Dupont came into court
Wednesday and pleaded guilty to the
indictment Of issuing fraudulent checks.
He was allowed to 90 on his own cogni-
zance to report to court from term to
term.
Arthur Whitman indicted for larceny
is sick az his home in Norway with the
flu.
Frank Frawley and Dan Coyne pleaded
guilty to the indictment of larceny Wed
nesday. They were sentenced to five
days in the county Jail. The shortness
of their sentence Is due to the fact that
both these young men have been incar-
cerated in the county Jail for more than
three months awaiting the converting
of the grand jury.
The civil cases were all disposed of In
some manner Thursday morning, and
after some divorce hearings the crimi-
nal docket was taken up. The first case
was begun about II o'clock and was that
OF
State of Maine vs.. George l.. Sanborn.
This was an appealed case from the
Norway Municipal Court for assault and
battery committed by the respondent
upon Leonard s. Sessions some weeks
ago. The assault was admitted, the
question involved was whether the re-
spondept acted in self defence. Mr..
Sessions claimed the assault was unpro-
voked, but Mr.. Sanborn claimed that
Sessions used vile language and other,
wise provoked the attack. The jury re-
turned q verdict Of not guilty. Col.