Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-09
Given VIM. App|eyard on
Six Liquor Indictments.
Roy Banks Found Guilty at Dover
of Breaking and Entering.
Waga Davis Pleads Guilty 10 Same Charges
Beth Sent 10 Jail.

Dover, Me, March 2.-(SpeciaD.-The
crirnInal docket in the supreme judicial
court was cleaned UP today. One OF the
heaviest LIQUOR case sentences ever I'M
posed in this State was a part Of the
days proceedings.
The first and only criminal case 10
be given Il jury trial at this term was
that Of state VS.. Roy Banks, charged
with breaking ana entering and lar
ceny from the station Of the Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad at Boyd Lake or
the night Of Jan. 90. Banks entered a
plea Of not guilty and the court APP
pointed Vim. A. Johnson OF Milo "a
counsel. The ease for the state was
conducted by County Attorney NJ. l..
D,rgin 0i Milo. This case took UP
about an hrur II the courts time. The
witnesses fer the State were Thomas
r. Allen, State detective Of Bangor.
stephen Larkin, station agent at Boyd
Lake and Judge r.. G. Smith of the
Dover municipal court. The jury re-
turned Il verdict Of guilty after being
cut about five minutes.
The court then took up the scnteEc-
irfs, Of the several prisoners. Banks was
th,. first man to face the court for SEN
trnce w. a. Johnson made few re-
marks to the court asking that leniency
b. shown on account Of the prisoner
past record. Banks was sentenced to
serve Is months at hard labor in the
bangor Jail.
The next case was that of Mana
Davis. who had pleaded guilty to
breaking and entering the grocery store
Of John Levcnsellar at Henderson. w.
II. Monroe of Brownville addressed the
court in behalf of the prisoner and
urged that as light sentence as pos
sible be imposed. Judge Emery ordered
that Davis be confined in the Bangor
Jail for l. rnonths at hard labor.
Alexis Tearcott of Old Town pleaded
guilty to a charge of assault and bat
terry upon the 6-year-Old child of Hem
~ BARLEY of Greenville, the clause in
tie indie tment which made the charge
a serious one having been dropped.
The court sentenced Turcott to serve
three months in the Piscataquis county
Jail in Dover.
The only liquor case of the term, that
of state VS.. VIM. p Appeyard on six
counts was then taken up. John F.
Spraguc Cf Monsoon appeared in
behalf. of the respondent and
made strong plea that APP
PICARD be let off with light sem
tencn on account Of the fact that the
prisoner is man now nearly so years
Of ago. Judge Durgin for the State
ask "a that the respondent be given the
full penalty stating he has for years
been the most persistent violator of the
pr"hibitory law in the county.
on the six counts Judge Emery SEN
fenced Arpleyard to pay fines amount
ing in all to $1,000 with costs of prosecu-
ton and in default of payment of the
fines to serve one year and three
months in Dover Jail.
This completed tn" criminal business
and this aftsrnoo Judge Emery dIscharg-
ed the jurors from further duties. Their"
are several divorce cases to be considered
and il is expected that court will adjourn
Friday noon.
Charles W. Hayes of FoXcroft appeared
in court Wednesday and asked that the
case of State VS.. Chauncey G. Lee OF
Foxcroft, who is charged with fornica-
fion. be continued until the next term on
account of illness Of Col. Joseph 3. Peaks.
one of the counsel for the defendant. This
motion was strenuously opposed by Coun-
ty Attorney Martin l.. Durgin. who ar
gled that owing to public sentiment and
to certain conditions existing the case
should be tried Immediately. Mr.. Durgn
made n strong plea for a trial at this
time but Judge Emery ended the matter
by ordering the case continued until the
next term of court. The court also or
Il. h., ,ft- att n
witnesses in the case recognize for their
appearance at the next term. also that the
respondent Lee be put under heavier bail.
In the Townsend cEwen case the ar
grmnnts were completed and after being
out 20 minutes n verdict for the plaintiff
was returned awarding him so520.44.
The jury in the case of Littlefield vs..
Jackson returned n verdict awarding him
slGtI. The suit was brought for alleged
false Imprisonment.