The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05
DELIVERED OVER
ON REQU|SIT|ON
Three Young Men Brought
Here from Massachu-
sets Line
CHARGED WITH
IMPEDING OFFICER
Put Under Bail for Hearing Next Mon
day as Result of Affair i'm Dummers-
ton, When Attempt Was Made to
WreSt Prisoner from Sheriff.

That there is method by which Mas
sachusetts persons who are wanted on
criminal charges in Vermont can be
made to come here for trial was demon-
strated to three Greenfield youths this
morning, when they We're brought to the
Observation-Disclosures boundary line
at North Bernardston, Mass, and deliv-
cred into the custody of Sheriff Frank
l.. Wellman of Brattleboro. They were
John K. O'Brien, Murray Davis and
Reuben Barber, and they were brought
here on requisition papers granted by
Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachu-
setts. They are charged with impeding
an omcef, and as that officer happeus
to be Sheriff Wellman. who brought
them here, he must have experienced q
certain sense of satisfaction as he turned
the lock on them in police headuuarters
until arrangements could be made for
putting them under bail for a trial later.
Inc young men were arrested in
Greenfield last night by Deputy Sheriff
HaskinS OF that place on governors
warrant which directed that they be
taken to the boundary line and placed
IN the custody of Vermont authorities.
states Attorney Z. W. Gibson of this
place had been trying to get the Young
men ever since the Grange supper and
dance in Dummerston the night of Oct.
-, when bunch of Greenfield youths
undertook to take away from the sher-
III a young man whom the officer had
arrested because of his conduct at the
dance The states attorney and sher-
III went to Greenfield some time after
the Dummerston affair and after max
ing an investigation became satisfied
that lt would be useless TO expend fur
ther time or effort to secure them in the
position to place obstacles in the way
OF the Vermont officers
For that reason requisitiOn papers
We're obtained from Gov. p w. Clement
OF Vermont and were submitted to the
attorney general of Massachusetts, who
passed on them favorably States At
tofney Gibson and Sheriff Wellman
went TO Boston Monday and secured
from Governor Coolidge a warrant for
the arrest and delivery of the three re-
SpoRdents at the state line
On receipt of a telephone MESSAGE
Wellman left by automobile this morn
ing for North Bernardston. where he
took charge of the prisoners bringing
them here and placing them in the
lookup.
Attorney Frank j. Lawler of Green
held came here on the 11.06 train and
appeared for the respondents in the mu-
nlclpal court before Acting Judge Clar-
ence NJ Miller on the matter of fixing
baIl. The reading of the complaints
was waived and the respondents entered
pleas OF not guilty. Bail was fixed at
5000 in the case of O'Brien. whom the
local officers regarded as a sort of ring
leader in the Dummerston affair, and in
the cases of Davis and Barber bail was
hxed at $500 each. Bail was furnished
ana all three cases We're set for trial
at O'Clock next Monday morning.
At the time of the Dummerston dis
turbance Elmer f. Parker of Greenfield
was arrested, and in the municipal court
Oct, 80 he was fined by Judge A. E.
Cudworth 50 and costs for intoxication
and 800 and costs for disturbing the
peace. the fines and costs amounting TO
Sl32. 40. which were paid. Harry Sriy-
der of Greenfield also was arrested for
disturbance of the peace, but his case
was continued, Police Sergeant Burns of
Greenfield, who attended the Dummers-
ton dance, agreeing to have Snyder in
court when asked