Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-06
POLICE COURT.
Five Victims Before Recorder God
dard, Thursday Morning.
Sentence Suspended for Two; Two
Fined; and One Sent to Jail.

Five victims strolled thoughtfulIy
into the court room, yesterday morning,
under police escort, and lined up in
front of Recorder Goddard, to receive
sentence for violating the ordinance
which provides for the disposal of
those who are found intoxicated upon
the city streets. With one exception
the qulntette was composed wholly of
old soldiers, men who had been heroes
on many CORY battlefield, where they
drove the enemy in confusion before
them, but who, sad though it be, had
captulated without a struggle to the
more deadly foe that turks in the
whiskey bottle.
AS they took their places behind the
rail near the judges desk, all seemed
alike imbued with modesty of bear
ing and meekness of disposition that
could not be passed unnoticed. There
is something peculiar about this
change of manner that takes place in a
man after a night in the police station
No matter in what shape he is brought
in, whether he be like a raging lion, or
making noise enough for dress re-
hearsal of wild west show, the night
in the station Gains him, and when he
10 IN ue,it llIto Noul tlc HtAt IlOI llilS,
the proverbial gentleness of the lamb
is not a touch to him. 1t may be the
calm that always follows the storm, or
it may be just a veneer which is put
on for the occasion, in order to WOO
the leniency of the court. If the lat
ter be true, then it is a self evident
fact that all who are actors are not to
be found on the stage
The first man in line was John
OHara. Mr.. O'Hara stood up when
his name was called, and when he had
pleaded guilty to the warrant against
him, he was fined SO, which he paid
and went out. Peter Grant went by
the same path, only his fine was 81.
Then came John McGovern. John was
the man who fell down the stone steps
at the railroad station, Wednesday af-
ternoOn, and bruised his face so badly
that when he came into the court room,
| the next morning, he looked as if he
might have been in collision with a
| rotary snow pillow. He claimed to have
| had nothing but beer, and in considera-
| ton of existing circumstances, the
| court suspended sentence. Sentence
| was also suspended in the case of Chas.
| b. Lcavitt.
Boutelle Shaw was the last on the
| list. and did not get off SO well. 1t was
| only two or three weeks ago that he
was before the court on a like charge,
and was fined the usual amount. He
| was allowed to go out and get the
| money, which he succeeded in doing,
but somehow he failed to come back to
make his promised deposit with the
| court When he was brought in, yes
| tcrday. on the second Offense, he was
| given 80 days on the hill, and the court
| also logged his memory regarding the
| delinquent fine. He could not seem to
give any tangible reason why the fine
had not been paid, and the court de-
cided that unless the money was forth
coming. his time in Jail would be eX-
| tended to 60 days. This arrangement
did not seem to suit him, and he Of
| fercd, for "a consideration, to impart to
| the court, the name of the party who
sold him the liquor. but as the court
would not grant him sufficient induce
ment. he Withdrew the proposition, and
| carried his secret with him, up on the
hill.