Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-22
HASKELL APPEALS
From Finding of Judge Larrabee In
....... Gardiner Police Court.

In the Gardiner police court Tuesday
afternoon Judge Larrabcc found Sam
ucl &. Haskell Gardiner cab driver,
guilty in two actions brought against
him by Agent Warren l.. Tozcr Of the
Augusta. Gardiner q Boothbay Steam
boat Co. one charging him with trrS-
pass and the other naming him as a
common railcr and brawlcr. In the
case of trcSpaSS he was fined the costs
and the sentences provided by statute
in the ease of IL common raiicr and
brawlcr, 80 days in Jail, was suspended
during good behavior. The respondent
took an appeal in both cases and fur
niShcd bonds for his appearance at the
September term of the superior court.
Mr.. Haskell was represented by
Frank l.. Dutton of Augusta as counsel
and Mayor Will G. Atkins appeared
for the Augusta, Gardiner & Boothbay
Steamboat CO. The court room was
crowded with spectators and even
standing room was at a premium dur
ing IL portion of the hearing. Both
lawyers were accompanied by Stcnog-
raphcrs as it was expected that further
legal complications might arise from
the matter 49,
1t was agreed by the counsel on both
sides as the witnesses were the same
in bothsraScS to allow testimony in re-
gard to the second charge to be brought
out while the hearing in regard to the
trcspaSs case was in progress. The
first witness was General Manager sW i.
b. Berry. of the Augusta. Gardiner IL
Roothbay Steamboat Co. who testified
in regard to his trouble with Mr.. Has
ke!l at Gray's wharf on the afternoon
of July II. According to his testimony
at the time of the arrival of the Is
lander a man was pursuing Mr.. Berry's
dog and annoying him. Mr.. Berry
ordered the man from the wharf and
Mr.. Haskell took the man in his team
remarkin@ in very emphatic language
that he would like to SOC anybody take
the man from his team. Mr.. Berry
testified that Mr. Haskell used further
abusivr and profanc language and that
he finally ordered him from the wharf
He also testified that Mr.. Haskell call
+ ed him Vile names when he drove up
INTO Depot square and threatened to
light him and that afterwards when
the two had driven down. TO kingsbury
street and Mr.. Berry was on his own
PiopcFtE incre lldt ne NIUE tiil\ III
regard to plugging him full Of lead.
Agent Tozicr. who is also police
officer, corroborated Mr. Berry's ,testi-
mony in regard to the trouble on the
wharf and also in regard to his placing
Mr.. Haskell under arrest Saturday
afternoon at the boat wharf. Cabmen
hlng and Shorey also testified as to
what happened at the boat wharf, their
testimony being similar to that of Mr..
Berry and Mr.. ToZier. Wallace L..
kimball. who is an expressman and
special officer. testified as to following
4 AIR. Haskell and Mr.. Berry down Water
street in the expectation that there
might be trouble between the two men.
George Paterson of Randolph, who is
employed by ToZier's express, testified
IN regard to the language used Friday
afternoon by Mr. Haskell at the boat
wharf and the subsequent ordering of
The cab driver from the boat wharf
by Mr.. Berry
The only witness offered in rebuttal
was Charles H. Gray of the firm of
Joshua Gray & Son, who testified in
regard to the verbal contract for the
tease of the wharf between his con-
Germ and General Manager Berry of the
augusta, Gardiner & Boothbay Steam