Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-10
SUPERIOR COURT.
G. T. STEVENS, Sheriff
L. I. CARLTON, County Attorney.
W. $. CHoArE, Clerk.
+. A. SMALL, Stenogrspher.

| TUESDAY April ,.
Sullivan vs.. Maine Central Railroad Co IN
pany' This case was given to the jury q
lo.45. AT 1880 they returned with yer
diet for the plaintiff for S2,llS.ls.
The criminal docket was taken up and tn,
following prisoners were arraigned;
Charles B. Bunker of Belgrade, indict
ments for keeping liquor nuisance and be
ing common seller in Belgrade. Plea
guilty.
Charles Low of waterville. perjury. Pies
not guilty.
James Fslkner of Augusta, polygamy
Plea not guilty.
Mary J. Irving of wa,erville. assault and
battery upon one Martin Burke. Plea no,
guilty.
Bur, Luce Of Gardiner, larceny of a team
belonging to Benjamin Johnson of Gardiner.
Plea not guilty.
Frank Neddo, alias David Wilson, of
Manchester, larceny of certain wearing ap-
psrel and money. Plea guilty.
Elbridge Yeaton of Belgrade. liquor uui-
sance. Plea not guilty.
o. Kicker of Randolph, liquor nuisance.
Plea not guilty.
Vede Libby of Waterville. liquor nuisance
and common seller, with allegation of for
mer conviction as common seller. Plea
not guilty.
VIM. IL. Merrill of Gardiner, liquor nui-
sance and common seller. Plea not guilty
j. c. Mosher of Belgrade, Illegal fishing.
Plea not guilty.
I. b. Jordan of Gardiner, aiding and as
sistirg as a clerk in maintaining liquor nui-
sance.
John X. Holt of Augusta, liquor nuisance
and common seller. Plea guilty. 1t ap-
pearing that Holt had gone out of the bust
ness, the cases against him were continued
for sentence until the September term, and
he was allowed to go on his own recogniz-
ance.
Leroy Fogg of Gardiner, common seller,
and as a clerk aiding and assisting VIM. IL.
Merrill in maintaining n liquor nuisance.
Plea not guilty.
In the afternoon eases for the Try were
taken up.
State VS. Vede Libby. Indictment for
keeping liquor nuisance in Waterville. [.
7. Carleton for State. The respondent had
no counsel and conducted his own case. The
fha thn n
of sales of liquor at the respondents dwell
ing house. The testimony on the part of
the respondent and witnesses was general
denial, and that the government witnesses
were actuated by a desire for revenge for
trouble with the respondent. Verdict guilty.
The respondent then retracted his plea of
not guilty of being common seller and
pleaded guilty. He WAS then remanded for
State VS.. o. Kicker. Indictment for kee p
ing liquor nuisance in Randolph. l.. T.
Carleton for State, Geo. W. Ileselton for
respondent The government in this case
relies upon testimony tending to show sales
by defendants clerk, and that the defendant
had paid the United States tax of retail
liquor dealer, though the stamp was in the
clerks same. The defendant claims tha, he
was dealer IN small beers and never sold
liquor, and did not authorize his clerk to do
so that the clerk had a tax stamp in his own
name when he came there but that no bust
ness was done under it to defendants knowl-
edge that he had had trouble with the clerk
who out of revenge was seeking his convie-
ton. The testimony was closed at the time
of the adjournment
In the superior court yesterday Judge
Hall of the COUNSEL for Charles l.. Beal,
filed an affidavit of W. c. Philbrook, which
affidavit alleges that McManIs, the govern
ment witness, has stated since the trial that
he was mistaken in his testimony about Beal
being at his drug store on a certain evening
inquiring for strychnine, as he had since met
the man he took for Beal. The affidavit was
admitted by Attorney General Littlefeld to
state what the affidavit would testify in case
a new trial is granted. 1t is probable that
Judge Whtehouse will render his decision on
the motion for new trial in this case at the
present term of court.