Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-04
FIREMEN PROFIT
BY MOCK TRIAL
Large Audience Contributed SI65
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While the jury may have given an
indefinite verdict in the Mock Trial Of
last Friday evening for the benefit of
the Middlebury Fire Department, the
audience that had very nearly filled
the Town Hall seemed unanimously in
favor of the conviction of the local Bar
Association. And all because they had
kept their promise of providing an
evening of entertainment But the
sentence they gave as they passed out
the door was that the lawyers do it
again The Trial was a success finan-
cially to the amount of $l65 with all
expenss paid. And everyone had a
good time, which experts say, cannot
be measured in mere dollars and cents.
The session of County Court was
held in all dignity There were two
assistant judges in full regalia John
Kenworthy and Alfred Bouvier, who
incidentally were as sober all through
the proceedings as their severest pro-
totypes could be. There was the Clerk,
Rufus Wainwright, stenographer Miss
Gladys Cartmell, the Sheriff, N. J.
Sanford, and the Bar, with Attorneys
Ira H. LaFleur, James B. Donoway,
Leroy c. Russell, and Allen R. Sturte-
want
The mockery of Friday evening was
not confined to the Sally Jones versus
Harry McCray suit. Quips were thrown
here and there, in the reading of a
court calendar previous to the trial,
that had all a pointed meaning OF
their own. No one was spared if a
rap at them would at all be apprecia-
ted by the ensemble. Even the Lieu
tenant-govrnor himself came in for a
little joke about a certain very stra-
tegic planting of farm loans that had
benefited him politically. Then the
Addison House proprietor was knocked
for "overheating" the guests rooms;
Gushing Hill was charged with breach
of peace in stirring up labor troubles
among his fellow workmen, and his at
torney declared that he would find no
difficulty in bringing into court every
one of them. Legrand Gorham was ac-
cused OF cruelty to his wife for ne
glecting to put baking powder in his
cake.
VIM. Farrell VS.. DR.. Thomas
Then William Farrell, Sr., agreed by
counsel to discontinue his suit against
John NJ Thomas to determine who is
the actual head of Middlebury College.
The rece,.l resignation of Mr. Thorn
as had settled it, the counsel said.
John Dyer was mentioned in a suit
against the Town Of Leicester to petit
tion its selectmen to widen its streets.
The town had filed a counter suit to
restrain Mr.. DYER from driving within
its limits at night
There were many other similar
cases on the court docket, of which
perhaps one of the best received was
The State VS.. Milo Cloyes and Denny
Moore, involving As bottles of intoxi-
cants. Another that pleased well was
The Overseer of the. Poor VS. Messrs.
Frost, Barron, Hammond and Dillon.
trustees, for commitment to the Insti-
tute for the Feeble Minded in as much
as they had not, complained their
wives taken advantage of their oppor-
tunity to make themselves independ-
emily wealthy during the summer
The Judge Gets His
His Honor himself, Wayne c. Bos-
worth, was the target for the humor of
his fellow barristers The fact that
the court long ago in his capacity as a
lay citizen had signified intentions of
marriage was the reason for a suit of
Frank c. Dyer of Salisbury VS. W. c.
Bosworth to recover a board bill. The
action was dismissed on a motion for
continuance in the assurance of the
defendants counsel that matters would
be amicably settled before long. That
J E. Weeks made no move in the di
rection of the governorship was asked
by A. W. Foote, until the latter could
get his Shoreham telephone wires in
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