Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-24

large number Of men at work for hin
and his business would suffer from hl
enforced absence. Judge Powers i'm
posed fine of $500 and costs.
Richard Pye of Oxford pleaded mol
contendere to two indictments, one a
common seller and the other for singl
! sale. County Attorney Barnes asked t
! have sentence imposed on the commo
seller indictment, and the other cor
: tinued for sentence. Mr.. Hazen, 10 be
i half of Pye, addressed the court briefly
requesting that jail sentence shOul
not be given. Judge Powers remarke
!, briefly on his inability to see the pre-
, priety of extending leniency to com
mon seller, and imposed fine of $40
, and costs, and sixty days in Jail.
Philip Ash of RumfOrd Falls wa
tried on a case appealed from the Rum
ford Falls Municipal Court, IN which h
was charged with an assault upon W. n
Roach, Rumford Falls police officer
County Attorney Barnes for the state
Blanchard of Rumford Falls and Swase
for Ash. The alleged assault was com
mtited on Roach in Bernier's restaurant
while he was arresting Ash on warran
from the Municipal Court. The testi
mony regarding the circumstances of tn
affair was rather conflicting, and indi
Gated that there might have been som,
previous personal feeling between thu
two men. The jury after being out I
short time returned verdict of guilty
and Ash was later sentenced to pay ;
fine of $50 and costs.
Joe McMann of Mexico was tried on {
case appealed from the RumfOrd Fall.
Municipal Court for single sale of liquor
The complainant, and the only witness
for the state, was Deputy Sheriff Perkins
of Mexico. The sale is alleged 10 have
been made to an unknown Frenchman OF
the night of Saturday, June 18th. o.
that night there was dance in HOward''
Opera House in Mexico, in stable nea
which McMann at that time kept hi
team. On that night Sheriff Perkin'
concealed himself in the bushes neal
this stable. He saw McMann drive
toward Rumford Falls, and later return
Afterward he saw, as he testifies. by thu
light of the moon, McMann dealing Out
bottles to members of a crowd who haC
gathered, and heard conversation posi-
lively indicating sale. When Perkins
finally appeared from the bushes, num-
Der of pint bottles were dumped on
rock and broken. Defence was a denia
that Mr.. McMann ever sold liquor, and
evidence was introduced to show that
while there was drinking in the crowd
that night, there was no sale of liquor by
McMann. Much doubt was thrown by
the defence upon the Identification OF
McMann by Perkins in the moonlight.
Foster of Mexico appeared for McMann,
and Swasey defended him in the trial.
Verdict guilty. Sentence, $50 and thirty
days.
Prentiss Fogg and Fred Flagg were
arraigned on two indictments for single
sale at the North Waterford fair. Fagg
pleaded not guilty to both, and a mol
pros. was later entered as to him on both
indictments. Fogg pleaded guilty on
one indictment, and was sentenced to 500
and costs and thirty days in Jail.
! The indictment against Adam Miller
for cheating by false pretences was mol
/ pressed, and he was discharged. Miller
| is colored man from Rumford Falls,
who has done an extensive job of paint
ing in the court house during the several
months he has been in Jail.
Sullivan F. Bickford of Rumford Falls,
who had pleaded not guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with the sale of
mortgaged property, retracted his plea
and pleaded nolo contendere. Mr.. Swasey
| in Mr.. Bickford's behalf stated the ex-
tenuating circumstances, and the court
imposed sentence of one day in Jail.
Mr.. BickfOrd ia a man seventy-five years
of age, and has been in Jail several
months.
The appealed case against Albertus A.
Bean of Milton Plantation for assault
and battery was mol pressed.
THE MANsLAUGHTER CASE.
Probably the youngest respondent
who ever sat in the dock of this court
charged with homicide was Ralph L..
Young of Rumford, whose trial on an
indictment for manslaughter began We'd
I, nesday afternoon. He is fourteen years
aud few months of age. The occur
renee which gave rise to the indictment
was the fatal shooting of Dwight +.
Hillman of Rumford by gun in the
hands of Ralph Young on the 14th of
September of this year. 1t was report
ed in the papers at the time, but with
inaccuracies of detail. The trial was not
long, taking less than day, and the
two principal witnesses who were exam.
ined were boys, one of them the accused,
and the other brother of the boy who
was shot, IL years OF age.
Lewis j. Hillman, the father of the
boy who was shot, lives on the IsthmuS
, road in Rumford, few miles from Rum
ford Falls. The Young boy lives mile
and half or two miles distant. On the
l4th of September Mrs. Hillmau was
absent in another town, and Mr.. Hill
man had gone to the Andover fair, leav-
ing at home his two sons, Lewis NJ, II
years of age, and Dwight F., 10 years of
age. Ralph Young came there with his
shot gun, and the Hillman boys went
hunting with him, taking gun from
the house with them. Coming back
after while to the house, they sat
down on a sofa on the piazza for a
while, and it was there discovered that
there was some trouble with the lock of
Ralphs gun, so that it would not work
properly. The lock was partially taken
apart and afterwards replaced.
After the boys had sat awhile on the
piazza, and had gone into the house for
time to hear graphophone, Ralph
took his gun, put cartridge in it, and
started to go home AS he reached the
edge of the lawn, the Hillman boys hav-
ing followed him together short dis
lance from the house, Ralph turned, and
his gun was discharged. The charge OF
No. 6 shot struck Dwight Hillman in the
left side of the abdomen, and he fell TO
the ground. The other boys carried him
into the house and up stairs, and Ralph
went for assistance. DR.. McCarty oil
Rumford Falls was summoned, and
dressed the wounds, but considered it a
probably fatal injury, and in fact the boy
died on the sixth day afterward.
So much of the facts is undisputed.
There is no evidence even of any un.
pleasantness between the boys. The
theory of the defence is that the occur.
renee was purely accidental. The theory
of the prosecution is that the accident
was due to gross and criminal careless
ness on the part of the Young boy. Nc
deliberate shooting Is charged, nor any
intention to shoot, but Lewis Hillmau
testified that Ralph raised the gun and
pointed it at the Hillman boys and raised
the hammer. Ralph on the other hand
stated that he was carrying the gun or
his arm when he turned, and that it was
discharged without his knowing that he
touched it at all. Most of the contra
dictory testimony bore upon these points
and upon the statements which the boys
have since made about 1t. The gun was