The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-02-07
Fair Haven Man Loses Pc
tition to Vermont SUI
preme Court
IN SECOND DEGREE
MURDER VERDICT
Longe Was Convicted OF
Killing Owen Hays in
October 1920

reter Longe, serving life sentence ~
the state prison at Windsor, was to-
dav turned aside in his efforts to get
new trial on the charge OF Staying
owen Hays Of Fair Haven a year ago
last October. The Vermont supreme
court. in an opinion banded down at
the opening of the February term IN
Montpelier, decreed that there had
been no error in the trial of the case
in the lower court and that the petl-
TONER must take sentence Of the court,
which was LIE imprisonment for sec
ond degree murder.
Longe's case had come TO supreme
court on ten exceptions, on all OF
which the court, through Chief Justice
Watson, finds there was no error. The
body Of Hays was found in the rrer.
The state had held that robbery was
the motive for the crime.
In the Franklin county case Of State
vs. Herbert n. Montefiore, alleged abor-
tion, the verdict was reversed and the
cause remanded for new trial. DR..
Montefiore had been sentenced to not
less than three years and not more
than five years in the state prison.
In the Mindham county case Of Il.
w. Dant, administrators of the Fred
Fairbanks estate, VI. Bellows Eails
and Saxtons River Street Railway Cos
Judgment was affirmed. Fairbanks was
killed on bridge in Bellows Falls
over which the company operates its
line, and the lower court gave the adj
ninistrator $1,000
In the Rutland county case of Della
ware & Hudson railroad vs.. the Eut
land Railroad Co., decree was reversed,
the case IN the lower court having
been dismissed with costs to the pia'n
tiff. The case is remanded, with man
date to 90 to the referee to ascertain
if the plaintiff would gain unreason
able advantage over the Rutland rail-
road in the matter of track rights.
In the Chittenden county case Of
Frank II. Kimball W. New York Life
Insurance Co., which has twice been
in supreme court, the cause was re-
versed and remanded under a 1major-
ity opinion Of the court. The last trial
Of The case the plaintiff was given a
verdict OF 81 .s57 on an insurance pol
icy. which lapsed and was then rein
stated.
In the Rutland county ease Of y. +. |
Hendee IS. J. r. Churchill, acting SIS !
bondsman for j. l.. Grover, the bonds
man was released, having produces his !
man In court. Grover was ordered \
placed in charge Of the sheriff OF Rut |
land county for 20 days. during which /
time the plaintiff in the suit could T
take further action ii he desires. In 4
the original case Grover paid the costs 4
in the action.
On the calling Of the docket to-day
the following entries were made: Ben !
nington county, motion filed 70 affirm I
Judgment in the case Of State vs.. \
Ernest Carpenter, adultery; Chitten-
den county, motion filed to affirm judg-
ment in the case of Mongeur vs.. Row i
III. In the case Of State vs. Eycroy
Blair. exceptions were waived and SEN
tence in an automobile driving case
was ordered carried out The Wash
ngton county case Of Farrar ". ST
nonds was entered as settled and dis
The ease of Fl. j. NJ. Jones
It al ys. Montpelier & Barre Light &
Power company, appeal from the de-
.ision Of the public service commits
.ion refusing to the company the right
% raise rates, was brought forward
IN tho docket
In the Orleans county case of Dutton
Is. Bishop. nsotion was filed 10 dismiss
he exceptions. In the lower court the
defendant won the verdict In the Call
,donia county case OF Hattie f. Stet-
ion W. ParkerYoung Co, exceptions
we're waived and Judgment of s4,500
lilirmed