The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-06-22
Allan Ra aft, 20 Months
James slley, IS Months,
RI Sex Moran II
LAB(a TROUBLES
c. HILL INVOLVEI
Young Men Stoned Hous}
of Thompson and Nor
gan Last Week

hard cider ana horse ana buggy wal
| a combination that produced result
which resulted yesterday in Allan Raw
craft, aged 20, James Kelley. aged I'd
and Patrick Moran. aged IL being sen
fenced TO serve 20. Is and IL month}
respectively, in the house Of correctioI
at Windsor. Each was sentenced fo|
| his part III the raid on Walter Mod
gans house in Barre Town and assault
! on his person last Friday night.
| The charge, to which the three en|
tered a plea Of guilty. was breach n
the peace, and the labor troubles 81
the hill entered into the assault 81
the Thompson and more especially 81
the Morgan house. AT the latter placj
Fit was claimed a son Of Walter Mod
gan, who had gone to work on thl
qnarries, was the person sought,
States Attorney C.tB. Adams, wh(
prosecuted the cases on behalf Of TIL
state, presented to Judge +. L. ScotI
the story Of the breaking of window
and throwing stones at the window
of Thompson on the way down to thI
Morgan home He described conditionN
at the Morgan home as he found then
He declared that five panes of glas
were broken from the two four -lighI
front windows and that hole wa
torn in the plaster on the oppositI
wall of the room where the stone
t.k - L. l.
The room was filled with glass, a
having passed directly over the head
of Mrs. Morgan and two children VIII
were sleeping near the window in TIL
room Windows in the dining room
the house were also broken by larg
stones.
In tracing the affair from the b
ginning. as he had gathered it from
talks with the boys. he said. voun
Moran had gone to Washington
visit his sister, employed in hona
there. She gave him and Kelley, whd
joined him, gallon of cider They
then went on a tour through Granite
Vile and. ..-bsterville, picking up RAY
craft about 9:30 in a barber shopfi il
Websteryille, After some talk near ths
Wells and Lamson quarry, they decid. II
ed to go on the stoning expeditionl
first visiting the house of Thompson1
as before mentioned. he having gone 7
work as strikebreaker, as the testiI
mony gave it.
After remaining only two minute
they proceeded to the house of Morga
on the East Barre road, where the
threw the stones with the results b.
fore mentioned. He also stated thai
Morgan said that stone hit the doc
of the .house as he came out to sto
the racket.
Morgan chased the boys, who ha
started to run. Kelley stumbled an
as Morgan came up 10 him, he h
Kelley and knocked him cold" Mo
gan was set upon by that young man
comrades. who proceeded TO beat hi
up and threatened to shoot hinb
Mr.. Adams told of the marks an
resslts of the fight The majority q
his statements we're based on the ad
Of Moran when he pleade<
guilty
Attorney J. w Gordon, who spok
in defence Of Moran. said that ther'
was no generalization 10 the offense
He claimed that the original idea 0
the BOYS before the cider began Z
work was merely to take a Joy ride
in the team He declared that the orig
inal idea OF the boys before the eide
began To work was merely TO take
ioy ride in the team. He declared tina
according to Morans statement they
had no intentions of hitting the win
lows, but merely wished TO get th(
elder Morgan boy out in order tha
hey might get even with him for as
.aults on previous dates on Raycraft
John G. Mcleod testified as to-the pre-
iious good characters Of the lad and
his family. as did Dennis Donahue. dep
ity sheriff on the ~hill
Kelley's story. the states attorneJ
'laimed. conceded with the other i
most respects except that he did no
,dmit the sfoning Of the Thompso1
iouse. Kelley admitted stumbling anS
hat cider affected him some. He think
le was knocked out. for when he wok
Ip the following morning his jaw wa
ore At the time he talked Wit
states Attorney Adams. he claimed h
Intended TO beat the -scab" up.
Ravcraft's story was essentially II
anne. according to the states attorney
'nlv he admitted wrong in stoning th
Thompson house. He ssil his objec
ras TO get the Morgan boy out 10 lie
i'm. while the Others prevented inte1
ention. He claimed Morgan ha
PLAYED him dirty before and he
famed him for offenses Of which \
"a not guilty and that Morgan ha
aid for him. He wished to give hin
omething to lay for him for
In defence Of Kelley and Raycraf
!. r. Davis made q plea for ieniencf F
! view Of their previous good conduf .
nd for the fnct that the cider ha
,ade them hot headed and irrespons
le. he claimed that the original
ression BY the bSvs was not on A.
suns Of labor trouhl-. but of the fen
sheriff Donahue told Of arresting -
ovs and their promptness IN plesdin
uiify He aid that he wa unic
an. but did not ut II interfere vit
utv. RaVcraft's father aTuse and q
lained the childhood feud between =
ov. and the continuous assaults 7
" Norcans
states Attorney Adams rcrumuiens
4 frn vears' -eTtenre fcr kaycra
"a kelley ard ls month- for Murs
a5re S-nft. after e1riainlrz the ru
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