The Portland daily press., 1872-04-15
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THE CREAM-OF LIFE-PILL- STRIPPINGs-
AND-MoLAssEs DOCTOR MANN of Skowhe-
gan appears before the Somerset Supreme
Court in the no enviable position of State vs.
Mann on an Indictment as a common seller
This is Doctor Mann, worldwide known
inventor and founder of the ''strippings and
molasses system" of medical practice. The
doctor is celebrated also as the discoverer
that the murderer Coolidge of Waterville,
was alive and at large on this planet, when
judicial records and all veracious newspapers
pronounced him dead and buried. Doctor
Mann loves fame, loves excitement, loves no
toriety, and there is little doubt that he had
rather undergo incarceration that not to be
known, remembered and talked about. This
trial is the doctors opportunity. The doctor
employs no counsel and goes in for new sys-
TEN Of legal practice as well as medical.
After the indictment is read to him, he
commences a parley with the court as to
whether it will be proper, moral and lie 4
for him to plead ''not guilty." states case; ;
''all the doctors and apothecaries of Skowhe-
gan sell rum and alcohol combined with
opium and camphor, and if they are not
guilty then he is not" His Honor declines
to give him legal advice, but recommends
him to call upon some one Of the able bar
present to aid him in his defence. The doc
T.,
''he has no money for witnesses, none for
lawyers, he has wife and two children des-
titute, and without bread, not spoonful of
flour in the house, won't your Honor ap-
point me counsel?" The clerk calls him
again, "are you guilty or not guilty" "Of
course not" But" says the doctor, APP
pealing to his Honor, 81 have motion
which wish to read" The Judge decided
to hear it; but upon inspection of the docu-
ont 10, ho TO roc1
because there was no court and Norridge-
wock was the place where the court was held
and that court has closed"
Kent j. Have you not changed sides?
thought you wanted the court here. Mann.
think now would rather be tried in bet
ter place, among better people, and where
they have Sunday schools. KentJ. think
you must be tried here. While the clerk was
empanelling the jury, the doctor said he
thought he would like to select some of the
jurors on the other side of the house. They
appeared like honest looking men. The
County Attorney introduced Joaquin, Dulac,
Billetdoux, some of our foreign population,
to prove sales. The doctor was disguised
with the moral character of the witnesses
against him, pronounced them thieves, COM
mon liars, and utterly unworthy of belief,
prosecuting him from motives of malice and
revenge. True, he had let them have medi-
cine prepared with spirits on plea OF SICK
ness, and one of the witnesses snatched the
tumbler from him before he could put in his
molasses, saying that he preferred it clear.
After the testimony was all out, the Judge in
vited DIR. Mann to address the jury. DIR.
Mann said, May it please your Honor, 1 don't
know that 1 have anything to say further
than this, that during this session of court,
l have dealt out my medicines, "strippings
and molasses'' to the jurors and to the peo-
pie, with such other medicines as have al
ways administered, excepting cider. | should
have administered that but there was no CT
der in the market. / should give cider with
some pussey-willow bark and wild cherry bark
for the jaundice.
The jury took the case at P. NJ, and after
being out eighty minutes returned verdict
of 'guilty."