The Somerset reporter., 1907-10-03
Somerset S. ]. Court.
September Term 1907.

Skowhegan; Abel w. Roweli. Soion; J. ID Ring,
ambridge; E. l.. Perkins, Madison; L. Atwood.
New Portland
The business of the criminal docket,
entered upon Thursday morning of
last week, was continued through
Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Alphonsine
Dennis was tried Thursday forenoon
on charge of being common seller,
and aquitted.
Tuesday afternoon William How
ard, proprietor of the Howard House
in Anson, was placed on trial on a
search and seizure process. Horace
M. Weston of Skowhegan and Max
Beaulieu of lewiston, the two en-
forcement deputies who made the
search, testified to finding glasses,
bottles, quantity of whiskey, and
other evidence that liquof was being
sold. G. W. Cover, Esq, OF the firm
of Cover q Hight did not Introduce
any evidence, but asked that his
client be acquitted on account of an
error in the warrant. In this docu-
ment it was stated that the premises
searched were ION the northerly side
of the highway running from Anson
village to Industry" Mr.. Cover
contended that, as the road ran north
and south and the hotel kept by his
client faced the east, it could be seen
that its location was on the west side
and not the "northerly side" OF the
highway, and could not be the premi-
SOS described in the warrant. After
being out about 80 minutes, the jury
returned a verdict of guilty. Mr..
Cover made a motion for arrest OF
judgme Mt but this was over ruled
by The Court and the case goes to the
Supreme Bench on exceptions.
Cephas M. Hilton of Madison, pro-
prietor of the Hilton house, plead
guilty to the charge of single sale and
paid fine which, with the costs,
amounted to S61.54. The nuisance
indictment against him was mol
pressed. w. J. Bradbury of Fairfield,
proprietor OF the Gerald, retracted
his plea of not guilty, made at the
time of his arraignment, and plead
guilty to the charge of keeping a
liquor nuisance. The case was con-
.
Russell of Solon plead guilty to vio-
lation of the liquor law and paid a
fine of 300 and costs.
Friday morning court came in at 9
O'Clock and the criminal docket was
continued. The first offender up was
Leon M. Perkins of Embden. Two
indictments were found against him
by the grand present jury. One was
as acommon seller, the other, single
sale. He plead guilty to the first and
the court imposed fine of 500 and
costs of $40, which the respondent
paid. The indictment for a single
sale was non pressed.
Just before noon the case of state VS.
Manley Wing of Harmony was
reached, the respondent being charg-
ed with cruelty to the horse.
No cases were tried Saturday after
noon, the court adjourning at the
close of the morning session and
Judge Peabody passed Sunday with
his family in Portland.
Monday morning the case of Henry
S. Doyen vs. Robert Haley was taken
up. This was an action for alleged
deceit in the sale of band of hay
in the barn, on a farm in Cornville sold
by the defendant to the plaintiff in
the fall of 1908. The verdict was
brought in for the defendant on the
same day. Another case between the
same parties was opened to the jury
on Monday afternoon. This was an
action in trover to recover the value
of outside windows and farming tools,
alleged by the plaintiff to have been
purchased by him from the defendant
at the time of the purchase of the
farm in the case above mentioned,
and which plaintiff alleged that the
defendant afterward sold to other
parties or carried away. This went
to the jury about b o'clock, Tuesday
afternoon, and at about 7.30 verdict
for the defendant was returned.
On Tuesday morning the arguments
in the case of State VS. Manley Wing
of Harmony were made, the evidence
having been concluded the previous
Saturday, and the case was given to
the jury. A verdict of not guilty was
returned.
Following the case just mentioned
the criminal docket was resumed.
In the case of State VS. Tuttle Broth
ers, indictment for nuisance, Warren
Tuttle retracted the plea of not guilty
and entered a plea of guilty. He
further assured the court that he
would go out of the liquor business
and would not sell or allow to be sold
about his premises any alcoholic
liquors or Uno beer. The Judge i'm
imposed fine of $500 and costs of $15
and required him to recognize in the
sum of $500, with sureties, to observe
the law for period of two years, the
longest time for which declartion of
this kind can be made. This recog-
nizance is signed by Warren Tuttle as
principal and Frank Thompson and
Everett T. Goodrich as sureties. The
search and seizure case against Tuttle
Brothers was mol pressed.
In the matter of Chas. II. Tuttle, of
the firm of Tuttle Brothers, the nuis-
ance indictment was mol posed, the
respondent filing statement under
oath to observe the law for a period
of two years.
In the appealed case of State VS.
Ira w. Gushing, the plea of not guilty,
made in the lower court, was chang
ed to guilty, and the respondent paid
q fine of 460 and costa x75 He also