Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-28
SUPERIOR COURT.
September Term, Hon. Oliver G. Nall
Presiding.

"A. "a.
GEO. W. HEsELToN, County Attorney.
+. A. SMALL, Stenographer.
Augusta, Sept. q.
State V. Oliver Horn. County attor,
ney for State, w. C. Philbrook for de-
PENDANT. This is an indictment fol
cheating by false pretences.
The claim Of the State is that on tEe
18th of Feb. last, one George Landry
had a number of teams on the road
hauling cord wood from Fairfield tc
Materville. BY the side of the roat
understood belonged to one John Ken
needy. with whom he was not ac-
qUainted.
But on the day in question seeing i
man coming from the wood road out
of which the wood had been hauled
with coat over his arm and a stick in
his hand, he took him to be the owner
of the wood and addressed him as Ken
nedy and began to talk about buying
the wood. The man rode to Watervil,a
with landry, and on The way Landry
Eargained for the woadtf0r $3.50 a cord.
agreeing to pay SIS that evening TO
bind the bargain. And accordingly
that evening he sent to the man at the
Bay View hotel, by ons,of his teamsters
who saw the man at the time of the
trade, s25. and receipt for the money
was taken, purporting to be signed by
T. J. Kennedy.
In the course of two weeks Landry
found that the man was not Kennedy
who owned the wood and that he had
lost his $25. He identified the defend-
ant as the man with whom he made
the trade and the teamster identified
him also as the man and the one to
whom he paid the S25 and of whom he
took the receipt which the government
produced in court. They also testified
that the man had a heavy moustache.
The defendant introduced testimony
by book entry to show that he left
his brothers numbering camp adjoining
the Kennedy numbering operation, on
Feb. -, and went to Athens in Somer-
set county, and that ne was at one
house there from the 18th until the 21st,
a man and his wife testifying that he
was boarding at their house during
that time, and fixing the date by an
entry in an almanac. The defendant
also testified that he wore no moustache
last winter and had not for several
years.
BY request of the county attorney the
defendant wrote copy of the receipt
taken by Landry at the Bay View.
The government in rebutting put upon
the stand experts in hand writing who
gave it as their opinion that the paper
..-r;+tar Inv tho racpop1ant in court was
written by the same hand that wrote
the receipt. The government had not
concluded it's rebutting testimony when
court adjourned at 6 o'clock
Loring Gorden pleaded guilty to an
indictment for cruelty beating horsein
Readfield ON the 18th of August last.
and was sentenced to pay fine of $25
and costs amounting to $32, and in de-
fault of payment four months in Jail.
Committed.
John F. Towle pleaded guilty to an
indictment for assault and battery and
was fined $50. Paid.
Fred Lashus and Phillip Shevanelle
of Waterville, boys Is years of age.
pleaded guilty to breaking and enter
ing a store in Waterville. Sentence
was suspended and they were allowed
to go on probation.
r. A. Packard pleaded guilty to an
indictment for the larceny of an OK in
Mt Vernon. This indictment was
found at the December term, 1895, but
before Packard was apprehended he
had gotten into trouble in Massachu
sets, where he received a sentence to
the Concord reformatory for a term
not exceeding fire years. His conduct
there was so exemplary that he was
released at the end of IS months. He
was then brought to Maine to answer
to this Indictment.
Packard belongs in Massachusetts,,
and in 1895 came to Mt. Vernon i'll
company with his father to dispose of
some property for a man who formerly
lived there, but was then a resident Of
Boston. Packard represented that the
OK was taken by him and his father
and sold to Harry Lee of this city, but
that he himself was told by his father
that the OK was a part of the property
they had authority to sell. The father
has never been apprehended. The
prisoner is "a years of age and promises
to make restitution to Lee as soon as
he is able.
He was sentenced to pay a fine Of
$50 and costs of prosecution, and in de-
fault of payment six months in jail
Committed.
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