The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-19
TUFTS EASED PENALTIES.
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that there had been no opportunity to
prosecute
Mr.. Aliens allegation said that from
Improper motives the district attorney
refrained from bringing to the attention
of the courts the facts that certain cases
were punishable by imprisonment or by
both Imprisonment and fine and that as
a result the defendants were sentenced by
the court to the payment of fines only.
Arthur f. Heating of Somerville, a state
policeman. testified concerning the case
of Richard Neal of Wayland, who pleaded
guilty and was fined 500 in the superior
court for Illegal keeping of liquor in June,
1917. Neal had appealed a lower court
sentence of three months in the house OF
correction and 500 fine. Heating test
fed that the house in Wayland where he
procured evidence against Neal. was a
pretty gay place with young girls and
a jazz band.'' He said the offense was
Meals second.
A letter dated Feb. i. 1913. from
Heating to Tufts said Heating had
thought it funny" Tufts had disposed of
the case without hearing him.
Seven other eases in which Heating
was complainant then were discussed.
They were all for alleged practice by
women in Lowell of medicine without Ii
censes. The only case in which Heating
said he was consulted was by the presid
ing judge. ....
ON cross-examination Heating would
not say he had heard that the judge who
tried them had arranged that one should
be tried and the others disposed accord
ing to it.
District Attorney Nathan \. Tufts told
Mrs. Charles +. Stearns that he could
make a case for divorce against her hus-
band. former captain in the army. Mrs.
Annie Eastman Brown testified yesterday.
Mrs. Brown was the first witness in a
new line of evidence in connection with
Attorney General Aliens petition for re-
noval of the district attorney from office.
charging Mr.. Tufts with entering a con
spiracy to secure the commission of a
crime by Captain Stearns to enable Mrs.
StearnS to obtain a divorce. He is fur
Their charged with failure to prosecute
Stearns for the alleged crime.
Mrs. Brown testified that she and Mrs.
Stearns in 1918 called on the district at
| torney in his private Office at the East
| Cambridge court house. There Mr.. Tufts
told Mrs. Stearns that she had no case.
| but that one could be arranged. Mrs.
| Brown said.
| She testified that Mr. Tufts said he had
| in his employ or knew of persons who
could arrange to catch Captain Stearns.
| but that it would take lot of time and
money and that his name must not appear.
:
| that her husband was expected in Boston
| on furlough about Decoration day as he
! always came at that time to visit his
mothers grave, Mrs. Brown testified.
! The captain then was at Fort Monroe.
Va. When Mrs. Stearns said it would
! have to be an attractive woman to catch
! Captain Stearns, Mr. Tufts replied there
would be no trouble about that" Mrs.
| Brown said.
| Mrs. Brown said she later learned from
| Mrs Stearns that Daniel III. COakley had
| been retained as her counsel. Mr.. Coax
| ley has been named by the attorney gem
eral in connection with other charges
against Mr. Tufts. In response to q
question as to whether Mrs. StearnS told
| her Coakley was to get "one-third' Mrs
| Brown said: she told my husband
that"
| The deposition of Cantain Stearns
| taken at Grand Rapids, Mich, was read
| into the evidence. In it Captain Stearn>
| told of going to an apartment in Cam
bridge late in June, 1918, where he met