The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-02-13

spectors Shafier and Wilmot began d
systematic and 4 careful examination
Of the Sawyer Publishing COMPANY
which occupied them about five
months of and on.
In order TO get at the facts in this
case the post office inspectors hal
young Bosnian ordered TO Portland t.
assist the otiicial there, go he vas
told, in handling the rush Of mail
matter in the Portland Office The
idea was TO get him out of the Water
vile Office without creating any -us-
picion on his part or the part of the
publisher. Whether it did arouse
their suspicious or not is not known
but the Portland post Office officials
feel sure that young Bosnian knew
that his being sent to Portland was
ruse of some kind and that he was
not happy there and made several in :
eflectual efforts to be ordered back 10
Waterville.
In the course of this examination.
they gained enough information to
warrant their presenting the case to
the district attorney for further eX
animation, and the result was the in
dictments which were brought in By
the grand jury.
The grand jury has carefully gone
into this case and has had before it
many witnesses from Waterville and
other places. Many young women
who were heads of departments in the
Sawyer Publishing house, the mana
gers of the business or parts of it and
post Office clerks from Waterville be-
sides the government officials have
been the witnesses examined.
Terry, the respondent, has had a
somewhat Charles w. Morse like
career, in that his beginnings of fame
lme through an ice deal. He was a
son of Mr.. Terry, who had general
charge of the Maine Central roadway
from Wateryille and was himself sta
ton agent at Unity at the time of the
famous ice famine in New York some
Il years ago. When New York peo-
pie were securing the entire State
for ice young Terry heard about il,
and figured that he could make a
good thing in that line. He accord
ingly borrowed $4,000 from the New
York ice people and began to "cut
ice.' lie stacked 10000 tons, which
was forwarded to New York where It
sold at price that netted him dol
lar ton. He moved to Nateryllle
where he became interested in various
ventures, including the Fairfield Flo.
raj Co. AT the time he was i'll trouble
over that affair, his counsel, now
Judge Hale, came into court before
Judge Webb armed with certificate
from his physician i'll Wateryille stat
ing that Terry's eyesight was failing,
and that his general health was such
that imprisonment would probably
kill him in a short time. In conse-
quence of this and of the oft express
ed belief of Judge Webb that the real
head men in the affair were never
brought to justice al all, he imposed
a comparatively fine light upon Terry
and let him off with one day in Jail.
He soon afterward became interest
ed in the Sawyer Publishing Co, in
which some of the most prominent
men in Waterville were at one time
interested with him. But II has been
generally understood that he has
bought them out one by one, until
now he is practically the "whole
thing in the company, which has
been doing a wonderful business.
Mr.. Terry's publishing house had
three publications known as Sawyer's
Monthly with a circulation claimed to
erican Home with a circulation of
300, 900, and the Home Queen with a
circulation of 250, 0o0.
Certain statements have appeared
in print concerning this affair, IN
which il has been made 10 appear
that other publishing concerns, no
tably those at Augusta were also un-
der close surveillance and suspicion
OF wrong doing. But it is stated by
the officials who have been at work
on this case that there is nothing TO
the story except that they have look.
ed over all OF the publishing houses
in the way OF their regular inspee-
TONS, leaving the inference TO be
drawn that this is the only one where
they found anything that didn't look
right to them.
Within an hour after the intorma-
ton became public that the indict-
ment had been found, a stop order
was sent from the post office depart
ment denying the second class priv
ilege to the Sawyer Publishing Co.,
for its publications. This action, by
the way, did not depend upon the
finding OF the indictment for already
there has been several hearings be-
fore the third assistant postmaster
general on an order TO Terry 10 show
cause why the privilege should not bt
denied him.
Bail was fixed at $1,000 in both
cases and was furnished by &. Il
Robinson for both.