Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-12
FINED SIS EACH.
Another Chapter in Washington
Avenue Sunday ARRAY.
Witnesses for Defence Settle Matter
for the Judge.
Iasc Of Assault on An Officer Will NJ Hc,,d
Case Of Assault on An Officer will sc Head
Today.


young man named Vcillcux with an af.
/ 10y oh washington street. Sunday af.
'efhoon. d. +. Maher, ESQ, appc,rec
~ 'ae ueleicc. The case was long
uia"h OUT ana rather tedious, anc
from the testimony of the government,
Witnesses the men could hardly hay,
peeh held, but the testimony of Tho
"itleSseS Tor the defence was sufIicicn;
To Snow that the alleged affray tool;
place. and that these men were tho
ones concerned,
! Inc nrst witness for the government
was Louis Shott. who said that he SAW
Two boys lighting. but as he was about
ioo ieet away he was unable to say
WAC they were. lie said that Il crowd
hau coIected and he saw them hold
ms eich other by the neck, and that
they icll over fence. Someone then
/ shouted police and they let 80 Of each
other. lie thought that it might have
been three minutes from the time
whcn he first saw them till they broke
apart. He pointed them out to Officer
Chase WHO came along just after the
hght. but when asked If the two before
MN Iii court were the ones he had seen
'ic WIS uIliDle 10 say.
officer Chase then took the stand
iic SAID that he WAS watering his horse
III the watering trough near the cor
Hc:' OF Washington street. when his
little boy who was in the carriage
with him, called his attention to a
crowd on Washington street. and
asked him what the matter was. He
started toward the crowd when Shot
pointed out Vcillcux and Audct as the
ones he wanted. He went after them
down York street. Mr.. Chase then gave
an account of his route from that point
to the time he captured Audct at his
home. He caught him once near the
Ice house. but his grip was not a good
one and Audct managed to break away
and run. when he followed him to his
home. When he was cross examined
by Nj. Maher there was quite a sharp
tilt. in which Mr.. Chase charged Mr..
Mahcr with trying to browbeat him
and Mr.. Maher claimed that Mr.. Chase
was trying TO evadc the questions put
TO him. ON an appeal to the judge.
Mr.. Chase was told to answer the
questions without any circumlocutiG1
or evasion. Mir. Chase told of one of
:hc men coming to the station and
cnnfeSsing to him ana to Officer White
that they had been in a fight and gave
the name of the other man.
Officer Miron was then called to the
stand. He made Il statement of what
NcillcuX had told him Fellcux had
told him that Aadet had struck him
and that he had only defended himself.
Ade.ITdc Cloutier then took the
stand. He testified that he was walk
ing on Washington street, just behind
the two men. He said that he saw no
blows struck, but that suddenly one of
the boys clenchcd the other and they
fell over the fence into yard. lie
wished to scare them and called Pc
lice They at once broke their hold
and each brushed the clothes of the
other and they started away walking
down York street. In answer to a
question as to whether the men were at
play or in earnest he said that he
thought that it was impossible that
the men had been merely in fun CUES
toned by Mr. Maher he said that the
streets had not been at all crowded UNI
til after the fast driving OF Officer
Chase. who he thought had caused
most of the excitement in his efforts
to arrest the two men. He thought
it was a matter of from to 10 min
utes after the mixup of the men before
he saw officer Chase at all. lie was
then cross-questioncd by Mr. Chase
and some points Strengthened out.
Joseph Thebarge testified that he
was about II feet from Audct and Veil
t,r,
place. He saw no blow before one Of
them grasped the other about the neck
and both men rolled over the fence IN
to his yard. Just as they struck the
ground in the yard one of them struck
the other on the head but he was IN
able 10 state which one. He Judged
that the whole thing lasted less than
q minute before the men were on Their
feet again. lie thought that it was
some five or six minutes after the boys
we're through with their little scrap be
fore Officer Chase passed his house 1t
was here shown by Mr.. Chase that nc
had been after the men on YORK
street. before ne had pa5Sed Mr.. The
bargc's place at all.
The witnesses for the defence were
then introduced. L"opole Boursquc
, was the first to take the stan J. All
three of the witnesses for the defence
REQUIRED an Interpreter, as they were
unable to speak English wei enough
to testify without. Mr.. Boursqu" said
that he was one of the three boys who
had been together. He was with Au-
DIET perhaps two hours that afternoon
before they met NcillcuN.
He said that he WIS present and
saw the whole thing between the two
men. He said it began by N"iilcuX
saving chat he could lick Audct, "h"
troueht that he could not, and very
| soon after that he say NciliouX kick
| Audct in tho stomach and strike him.
The bovs went few f"ct and then
! Audct suddenly Clirchcd Veillcuv, AMI
then he tcld Of the rolling over the
fence into the yard.
| He was very positive that hu@"t he'd
not raised n hand first to rtTik" Veil
1eux. though he admitted later that it
might possibly have been done though
bo had not seen it. Tic had been on
the outside and NcilleTX next to him,
so that Audet had landed on the bot
tom after the fall over the fence.
! Audet then took the stand and his
| testimony differed only in n few minor
points from that of BoursGue. He said
+hat he was struck by NeilleuE after