Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-08
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There vas little mystery. and ! little
politics il the same neishborhood Tuesdsy
evening. s { !
To refer to the politics, first: Il i sid
By those Who are believed to have their in
formation adrst hand" that ZONE Of the
Democrat:c ward politicians Of waId 9 de-
cided to have : lore feast in that bAilivick,
call the brethren IN, infuse tpirit into the
laaSing on.s and the thirsty .ones. connt
noses and ;ses il IN tkole who voted for
Democracy and reform" last spring could
Be relied on to do 10 again It the coming
election. 81.
The meeting Wa held Tuesday evening,
and incidentally, Of course, the question Of
candidates was discussed. It il also said
that Herbert Erskine waxed clog lent in
telling what the Democratic party had done
for the French voters especially,
and praised Mr.. Michaud, the coun-
Gilman from that ward, telling
what he had Gone AMI what an i'm
provement he Is over his predecessor.
Some one in the audience-the meeting
vas held in the Mill block on Northern ave-
uue, and the room was full-wanted speci-
dcations. What had Councilman Michaud
done? Joseph Wedge wanted it distinctly
understood that the councilman had got a
cross walk on Warrington street and a
sidew ak on Laurel street. Then some
doubling Thomas remarked in an aloud
aside that the sidewalk on Laurel street
benefited Mr.. Michaud more. THAI anyone
else and the fellows who had been prom
ised work didn't get a chance to work in
building these walks, and that on the whole
neither Of these vast Improvements were Of
any particular benefit 70 the voters in
ward three. ! Robert Fisher, the en-
gineer at the public building, is said to
have oficiated zealously and efficiently At
the meeting. From the tenor of some of
the invitations the rumor got abro III that
rum played part in the meeting.
Now there was little latter in that vicin
ity an occurrence that appears to hive Dor
dered on the tragic. Just what ,hi' event
was is somewhat in doubt. A man hy The
name of Lezotte was arrested on Mill street
and brought into the station in the night
His face was terribly cut and he was cov.
cred with blood. A doctor was called about
o'clock and DIRE ssed the wounds. This lie
zotte stops near where the meeting wa,
held. 80
Perhaps this fact has nothing to do with
his drunken condition. He was drunk when
arrested, however, 90 drunk that when the
police, out of the kindness % Of thei,
hearts, sent him home Wednesday forenoon
without bringing him before Recorder
Whitehouse, who was acting a. municipal
Judge, he was too drunk to walk without
staggering. The. man also bears bad
reputation, has fought the police in the
past, and resisted them when they put him
in his cell.
To some, the police say he fell through q
window of the house where he stopped and
10 cut his face. If that was all why arrest
him? But one officer whose duty 1t was
to know Of the occurrence evaded a reply
when asked by JOURNAL reporter con-
corning it. Again, il he cut his face in the
manner described, why was the great pool
of blood where he bled found next morning
down in front Of Mrs. Wade's boarding
house some distance from where he
stopped?
But why of all these why's was this man
after bling arrested for falling through
window and taken with a struggle on the
part Of the police long distance to the
police station, why was he tendsrly ha lied
home the following morning without being
brought before the court, as it was the
officers duty to have done? Yes, why WIS
he hauled quietly home without trial ar d
not yet sober from the effects of the pre-
vious nights debauch? What was he ar
rested for? There are many reasons to
believe that the city marshal deems police
court as an interference with his methods.
erAYe Newe