The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-10
TO Be CONF F|NED
FOR POSSESSING
Charles Deyo Sentenced in
Municipal Court to
Six Months
GEORGE GIRARD is
PUT ON PROBATION

Both Pleaded UulIty E0H0Wlng hearing
in Lookup Over Disposition of Liquor
and Utensils Liquor Burns when
Match Is Applied.
After imposing a sentence of not less
than three months and 10 days and not
more than four months in the House of
Correction, which was suspended upon
the payment of costs of S21.35 and the
respondent placed on probation for Il
period of one year in the case of George
Girard, A., of 165 South Main street,
Judge Frank D. e. Stowe yesterday
afternoon imposed sentence of not less
than six months and not more than eight
| months in the House of Correction,
! which he refused to suspend, in the case
of Charles A. Deyo, Ga, of the same ad-
| dress, both men pleading guilty TO the
charge of possessing intoxicating liquor.
| The proceedings at which these sentences
were imposed followed hearing held in
| the lookup on Elliot street at which time
/ the court ordered mash, liquor and vari-
Gus distilling utensils seized in the raid
! late Sunday night, to be destroyed. The
/ liquor and apparatus having remained
unclaimed by either of the respondents.
| the court adjourned to the municipal
/
where the respondents were then ar
raigned on the charge of possessing in
! toxicating liquor.
At the hearing in the lookup, where
/ both respondents had been confined
since late Sunday night, they were given
an opportunity to claim the liquor and
/ apparatus. Deyo refused TO make any
| claim in connection with the display,
which included half a barrel of mash
/ consisting of wheat, prune juice and
| claimed bottle of moonshine which he
admitted he had acquired from Deye, as
he said ''he liked 10 take a drink once
| in a WHILE After the court had out
lined the possible consequences of claim
ing the liquor, Girard not being repre-
sented by counsel Girard refused to
| claim his bottle. 4 test made by States
Attorney Harold E. Whitney showed
that it was at least 40 per cent alcohol,
as it burned when a lighted match was
| applied. After disposing of these in
re- proceedings, the court then adj
| journed to the municipal court room.
| where the respondents, upon the advice
of their counsel, Charles S. Chase, en-
tered pleas of guilty.
During the hearing the details of the
raid were brought out and it was shown
| that the officers made sudden, unsus-
| pected swoop on Deyo's home at 10
o'clock Sunday night. When they en-
] tered Deyo's room they found an ingen-
]
| ing of the wall could be moved disclosing
a space concealed in the wall where the
| hoOch, mash and distilling apparatus
| were kept. Besides the half barrel of
mash and several bottles of wine and
! moonShine, which were taken to the
! lookup, there was a distilling apparatus
of the most primitive sort. BY means of
| a tea kettle into which a quantity of
mash was placed, and which was placed
over gas stove, the vapor passed
! through rubber tube TO copper trough
over which was another copper recep-
tace containing cold water. As soon
/ as the vapor touched this cold trough it
condensed the product being highly al
| coholic.
When the officers raided the Deyo
| home both Deyo and Girard were in the
| room where the contriyance was con<
cealed, and when the two men were
! surprised by the officers Girard was seen
to put one hand in his hip pocket and
| few seconds later he quietly dropped
! bottle of moonshine on the floor and
pushed it out of sight under a table with
his foot, but Sheriff Welman saw the
| act.
At the hearing. through his attorney,
Deyo said that the distilling apparatus
did not belong to him but was owned by
a man named John Bassett." who fed
to parts unknown when the officers
raided the home. Mr.. Chase also
brought out the statement that Mr.. Deyo
was not concerned IN the making OF the
liquor, his chief offense being that he
simply knew that the stuff was being
made in his house.
In view of the fact that both respond
ents were without available funds, At
torney Chase asked that a straight inn
prisonment sentence be imposed. because
if the minimum fine of $500 were inn
posed it would take the respondent three
years to work out the fine in prison at
the rate of 33 3 cents day. Girard
who has been boarding at Deyo's for
the past six or eight weeks, coming here
from Cohoes \. Y, has wife and three
children who are planning to come to
Brattleboro soon as conditions are
favorable and in view of the extenuat
ing circumstances in his case the court
imposed the shorter sentence, which was
suspended and the respondent placed on
probation for one year, with the admoni-
tion that if Girard had anything to do
with liquor again he would have to serve
the sentence in the House of Correction.
In Deyo'S case Judge Stowe said that
numerous complaints had been received
regarding the sale of liquor which for
some time had been pointing in Deyos
direction. In view of Deyo's i'll health
and his inability TO work, Attorney
Chase asked the coutr if the latter
would consider a suspension of sentence,
. but the court refused, saying nothing of
that nature could be done in Deyo's
, Base.
Deyo was then placed in charge of
Sheriff Frank l.. Wellman, who will take
him to Windsor.
+ Officials feel that altogether too much
rum selling is going on in the Fort Dunn
mer district, and unless it is stopped it
/ is apparent that stiff sentences will be
! handed out TO those who are caught.
This morning Deyo who has been
confined in the lookup all last night
I developed signs of illness and DIR.
> Thomas Rice was called. DIR. Rice found