Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-16
BULLDOG BOUND OVER
For Assault With Intent to Kill Upon
Edmund Cormier.

| hucustin Buldoc appeared before the
Aur,sta municipal court yesterday
morning. charged with assault with i'll
| tent to kill uron Edmund CORNER. Inc
herring was the outcome of the fracas
| on Laurel hill, Wednesday afternoon at
| 1890. The court fixed the amount or
| the bonds for appearance before the
| grand jury in September at $1,000, with
two good sureties, and the respondent
| went 10 Jail as he was unable to Sc
cure bondsmen.
The taking of the testimony was ac-
companied by many difficulties, and
three different interpreters were en-
plOyed, for various reasons before the
trial was concluded. J. n. Bison, JAM
| tor at the City building and special po-
| lice officer, who was on his way home
to dinner at the time of the trouble. and
who separated the two men once, and.
after Buldoc had chased Cormicr held
the hand in which was the knife, to
prevent Buldoc doing further damage,
| mace Il good witness. His story was a
straightforward story of the trouble
from the time when he noticed it,
Edward COrmicr. the complainant,
testified that he is 20 years of age He
narrated in detail the States side of
the case, admitting that he had carried
, q baseball bat into the street for self
protection against an expected assault
| from BULLDOG, the witness alleging that
Bullock had drawn a knife twice while
in the shed adjoining the kitchen where
the trouble started.
DIR. Gcsrge f. Washburn testified as
TO the condition of Cormicr. The wit
ness had found wound an inch and
quarter deep and half an inch wide
| IN 'he breast Just above the nipple. He
took ono stitch in closing the wound.
l''h"it Arscnault testified that Angus
I'm fuid"c and u truckman named
t'lph Turner had come into his sbon
ana I.kcd for liquor. He told tbom
'hl' ne mad none. Turner, the witness
'&u"' was pretty drunk while BULLDOG
|@d been drinking. but the witness
would not say that he was intoxicated
Attorney William G. Fisher. counsel
fer Euldoc. on DISCRIMINATION ,sL-
ed:
Was it because Turner was drunI.
that you wouldn't sell them anv
| liquor?"
Il refused him because 1 didn't have
any"
Officer Albert Ferran testified as to
hthc search for and the arrest of Ruldoc
and identified the knife which was in
evidence as one which he had taken
ton.
Isaac Keen of 6 Morton place was
the first witness called by the defence.
He said that as the men came out of
the Conner shed, Edmund Cormicr ap-
pearcd to be the aggressor, and after
EudOc had gone across the road and
was leaning against the fence Cormier
came out swinging a bat in Il threat
ening manner. The alleged stabbing did
not take place within the range OF
vision of the witness, they having turn
ed the corner of the house. Witness
did not leave the swing in which he
was sitting. Levi Clukey had been
summoned for the defence, and was
present at the opening of court. but
had SLIPPED out during the trial. coun-
sci not insisting upon his testimony.
Mr.. Fisher made a short argument,
claiming that the testimony showed
that Cormier was the aggressor and
that Buldoc had a right to defend him
self The court after reviewing the case
briefly, fixed the amount of the bonds,
at $1,000, and court was adjourned.