The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-01-28
COST OF CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
What Maine has Paid for Furnishing Crimes
in the Past two Years.

What Maine has Paid for Furnishing Crimes
in the Past two Years.
The Waterville Sentinel has published
tables showing the amounts paid out Dy
the various county treasurers OF Maine
for costs of prosecutions in the Su-
preme Judicial Court and in the Superb
or Courts; on bills of cost allowed by
the county commissioners for support
of prisoners in Jail; to grand jurors and
to traverse jurors at terms OF court
held for criminal business; for suppress
sion of the liquor traffic, per diem, and
also the amounts received from fines,
| costs and forfeitures in said courts,
from magistrates and other officers, for
each of the years ending November,
1902 and November 1, 1908. Following
Is the recapitulatiOn:
Costs of all kinds in whole State
for year 1902. .................. $173, l66. IL
Received from fines for year 1902
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10 ,olo.Zo
Net income to counties. ......... 4,452. 10
Costs of all kinds in whole State
for year 1903. ...... .......... 1bI ,2o0.6T
Received from fines for year 1903
acknowledgements. 1926 %
Net cost to counties. ............. 41,O64. ~
The figures for Waldo county in 1902
are: Costs of prosecution, sS72.23; paid
for support of prisoners, S52S.25; paid
grand jurors, $46S.44; paid traverse
jurors, 81, 396.74; received from fines,
etc, $5,67199.
1908: Costs of prosecution, 81, 10IS.;
paid for support of prisoners, s943.67;
paid grand jurors, $453.ss; paid traverse
jurors, 81 LAP 6S; received from fines,
1,22649; suppression of liquor traffic
per diem, $4S.04.
The Sentinel gives summary for
each county, and says of this county:
Waldo is another county where the
fines become so small as to be insult
| fcent to pay the criminal costs as was
done in 1902. The costs in 1902 amount
ed to $3,265.66, the fines to 1851. 80,
leaving a net gain to the county of
$2,4O6.33. In 1908, however, the order
OF things was changed. The costs for
this year amounted to 81, 296.0S, the
fines to S1,226.49, and the net cost to
| $3,06959 Instead of making profit
big loss was made, the difference be-
| tween the two years being S., 1852.
In Androscoggin county the costs
amounted to $15,6S6, and the fines
$685. In Aroostook county the net
cost to the county for criminal prosecu-
lions was $6,029, against 1904, an in
crease of 1925. In Cumberland county
the costs were $2S, 63S and the fines $1s,-
353, leaving the net cost $40, 2S4, or 50, 203
gained few hundred dollars in the net
costs over 1902.
In Hancock county the costs were
1881, the fines 1862, and the net ex-
pense 50, us, or S1.S57 more than the
year before.
kennebec makes the biggest drop of
any county in the State, the difference
in the net income of 1908 as compared
with 1902 being $34, 36S. In Knox coun-
ty the costs were 81, Sos and the fines
$500, leaving net profit of SaS94
Lincoln county prosecutions cost 81, 241
more than was taken in during the
year, showing an increase OF S4S4 over
1902. In Oxford county the net costs
were 81, 034 above those of 1902.
PenobscOt county made the greatest
gain. The sum of ,073 was collected
in fines, the costs being S13, PIG, leaving
net income OF $33, $50, a gain in net
income of S20,353 over the previous
year 1t costs the county of Piscata-
quiS S5,U49 more than was taken in,
against So, ops in 1902.
In Sagadahoc county the fines amount
ed to 1856 and the costs So, 9l3, the net
costs being S5,047, or So, 4S4 more than
in 1902. In Somerset county the costs
were SIS, $40, and the fines 81, 747, the net
! cost, S5992, or 5000 more than in 1902
In Washington county the costs were
SS,14 and the fines, 81, 705, leaving a
net cost of 81, 1870.
Next to Kennebec, York county shows
the greatest loss of any in the list. The
costs We're Sl5 743 and the fines S2.SlS,
while in 1902, the costs were practically
the same, but the fines reached 81. OBS.
showing loss to the county over 1902
of s9,1s6.