The Portland daily press., 1894-12-04
Q.-That is what we want to hear ahout7?
A.-They came down and ordered me

| down.
| Q.-By the Mayor-Who:
! 1.-THE policemen-I mean the rnm
| sheriffs; Plummer come down with this
whiskey in the half pint bottle from Henry
| Fullers room; they said they had case; l
| says, ''you amt got no case, what are you
talking about; that amt my whiskey. But
they took me down; Charles Hummer
wanted to get square with me.''
Owe want to know about Milesf
Ale took eleven dollars out of me that
time.
Q.-Who took eleven dollars.
A.-The bail commissioner bailed me from
Saturday night to Monday morning. And
Monday morning 1 was before the court ard
had Looney over here.
Q.-About the eleven dollars?
A.-Bail, from Saturday night to Monday
m orning; Johi. Proctor went bail. from
Saturday night to Monday morning; he had
| got eleven dollars out Of me, ilummer had.
| Well, Monday morning l come down before
| the court with Henry Fuller, the man the
whiskey belonged to, and my daughter and
two OF three others in the house there, and
Looney come Up to me and says, This
| lower COURT am going to give it just as
| he said ii, is damned farce, the whole
thing; they have got the papers all made
out and all liked; if you had forty witnesses
| it wouldn't amount to anything" He says,
II am satisfied they have got no case" l
told him to appeal and he did.
! Q.-You mean by "a farce that they
were going to convict you anyhow. whether
you had testimony or not?
A.-Yes, Looney said, ''If you had forty
witnesses it wouldn't make mite of odds,
they are going to convict you, the papers
are all made out" They put me under
ponds tnat day, of course, appealed and
they bound me over to the upper court.
didn't get bonds for two days; had money
| enough in the bank, but MY wife was away
and everything was in her name, and until
she got home they got me in Jail two days:
as quick as she came home she took seven
hundred dollars out of the bank and gave it
to John Best. and he went my bondsman. A
few days after that 1 met Officer Miles.
had seen him, previous TO this; he come to
the house several times; the first two or
three times l didn't know who he was.
Q.-What did he come there for?
A.-He had room there with women,
when he ought to be on his duty: had a
rubber coat on over his uniform.
Q.-By Mr.. Thompson-Did he bring
women there and have a room?
Ayes, he did.
Q.-Do you know who the party was that
he had there?
A.-Notat that time; didn't know either
one of them.
Q.-You recognized him as Officer Miless
A.-The same man that had been to my
house, yes; and was into Cloyes's the
next door, AID asked them, and they said it
was Dana.Miles. Was walking on the street
week or two afterwards, l was under
bonds to the Superior court, said to him,
II am satisfied they got no case On me, my
lawyer says they've got no case at all, but
rather than have my wife and daughter go
down to the court, would rather give fifty
dollars out of my own pockat than TO have
them go to court; they won't go to the
| court" Miles gave ne to understand that
| he
RUN THE WHOLE CITY HALL,
ana county Jail and everything else; he
was the great l am; they would all do just
as he said; he would go to Cram and fix that
| thing if I would give him fifty dollars; he
struck me for hundred first; l says 'sNo
sir;" he come up two or three times; says
mo sir" at last he got down to fifty dol
| lars; he was all right with two of the rum
sheriffs, knew he had two all right anyway, /,
and thought he had the other one: he would
see to fixing the whole thing, it would
never come to trial. But my lawyer, the
minute told him, says, don't
| you do any such thing; he has. got
| no more influence than my cat'' Before
had seen my lawyer l wrote an agreement,
tell you just how it reads. every word too,
1 know-To all whom it may concern
hereby agree TO give Dana Miles fifty
dollars, providing the case now pending
against me in the Superior court is settled
without my wife or daughters going before
any court and without any extra cost 10 me
whatever-underlined that-outside of my
| regulars fee, which would be ten dollars
before the Superior court-five in the lower
and ten in the Super ior, think may be
W ong. He took that agl cement; that was
all right. The very next day he went down
to John Bests and tried to get him to7give
him fifty dollars: he says "No, I have got
Johnson's money; won't give you cent?"
| he met John Best and brought him up there
| to the house; wanted me to agree to tell
| John Best to give him fifty dollars: / says
Don't you give this man cen. there is
| the agreeme mt, the court amt opened yet,
| it is two or three months ahead; what are
you talking about; will give you no fifty
dollars now; when court is closed and the
| thing is settled, then will tala with you. -
He wasn't satisfied with that; he come up
the next night, and was there three nights
that week for that fifty dollars. ] says mo
sir. the court is good ways ahead yet; the
superior court amt opened" And he
threatened me, and he done everything in
Gods world that he could possibly do, and
said everything, went TO my lawyer and
says, "What am going TO do with that
fellow?'' He says, Get your wife and
daughter to sit behind the swinging doors
between the dining room and the kitchen
and talk with tim;'' and they did. He said
everything he could think of: would have
me arrested for selling rum: drive me of. the
street; close me up; do anything and every
thing; he would take four times that out of
me before he got through with ne: follow
me as long as he lived. l says, Not cent
YOU can't takea can't out of me- Why
don't you arrest me? You go ahead; have
done nothing .are for any officers in this