Oxford Democrat., 1908-10-20

had been begun without any form o
special contract. AS a result the &C
count is somewhat mixed and compli
Gated.
1t took all of busy session Wednes
day afternoon, and about an hour Thurs
day morning, to get through with MI
Russell, the first witness for his slde o
the case. At the conclusion OF hi
testimony Mr.. Wright moved to discon
tinue as to Mrs. Umbstaetter, and tn
motion was granted. He then reste'
his case. Judge Bird then suggested T.
the counsel that at the rate the case wa
going it was causing large expense TO
the court. It was, he suggested, an ap
Ipropriate case for the appointment OF al
auditor to consider the several items
rather than for the jury. 1t was eviden
that Judge Bird was strongly desirou
of having such disposition of the cas-
made, but counsel we're evidently desir
Gus OF putting the jury trial through
and the defence proceeded.
The rest of Thursday and a good par
of Friday drifted into the irrevocabl'
past before this case was finished. Ever!
detail of the repairs on the building
was hashed and rehashed, and th'
amount of pounding which the cemen
bottom of the manure pit got ought te
have broken it into smaller fragmenti
than those which Mr.. Umbstaette
brought in to show its faulty con
struction. The case went to the jury
about 80 p. NJ Friday.
The jury reached a verdict in abou'
two hours. AS court had adjourned
the verdict was sealed, and Saturday
morning the jury reported, returning
verdict for the plaintiff in the sum ol
$2S0.54, practically the amount claimed
by the plaintiff, with the amendment tc
his account made by his own testimony
on the stand.
PARIS VS.. WOODSTOCK.
The third case tried was Inhabitants
of Paris vs.. Inhabitants of Woodstock
This was "pauper case" brought fol
supplies to the amount of about Sl35
furnished by the town of Paris to one
Annie Mcleod during the latter part OF
1907 and the early part of 1908. There
is another case on the docket, brought
by Paris against the city of Lewiston,
for the same thing, and the question al
issue is really between Woodstock and
Lewiston, as it is agreed that the pau
per had no settlement in the town OF
Paris.
The action was brought for the town
of Paris by Mr.. Gray, and Mr.. Swasey
conducted the case for the plaintiff. t.
Wright & Wheeler were attorneys for
Woodstock, and W. II. Hines, city
solicitor of Lewiston, was present to
watch the case, as upon its decision
really depends Lewiston's liability.
Annie McLeod's maiden name was
Annie Bryant, and she was the daughter
of a resident of Woodstock. At 81
years of age she married Donald B. Nc
Leod. Mcleod was an alien, having
come into Maine from New Brunswick.
Under the law, if Mcleod had a pauper
settlement anywhere in the state, then
his wife had the same settlement by
marrying him. If, on the other hand,
Mcleod had no settlement in the state,
then his wife's pauper settlement would
still remain in the town of Woodstock.
The whole case hinged on the question
whether Mcleod had settlement in
Lewiston. He and Annie Bryant were
married there in July, 1898. If he had
an actual residence in Lewiston for five
years continuously previous to that
time, then he had pauper settlement
in Lewiston, otherwise he had none in
the state.
1t appeared from the testimony that
Mcleod first came to Lewiston some
where from 1888 to 1886; that he work
cd in the woods and on the drive
through the winter and spring, and on
other jobs more or less and spent some
portion of the remainder of each year,
first at the boarding house of Mrs.
Haskell, and later at the house OF a
Mrs. Cook, in Lewiston. Whether this
stay in Lewiston was such as to consti-
tute a residence, or whether he was a
rowing and unattached sort OF character,
without any place to call home, was
really the question between the parties.
1t appears that he came back to the
same place In Lewiston at each return,
but was not overburdened with posses
sions, portable or otherwise. In the dep
osition of Mrs. Haskell, one of the
boarding house keepers, she was asked !:
"What did Don Mcleod bring with
him when he came to your house first?"
"a bottle of whiskey, / suppose
that's what he always brought there"
This case was on trial when court ad-
journed for the week Saturday noon,
and was resumed at 10 o'clock Monday
morning, when the court again opened.
The trial list has rapidly dwindled
from day to day, until now there remain,
in addition to the pauper case on trial
and the companion case against the city
of Lewiston, only six cases, all of which
are assigned to Monday of this week. 1t
will probably take only small part Of
this week to dispose of the civil trials,
and the criminal business will then be in
order. How long that will last is only a
matter of conjecture, but it is likely to
keep the court busy during the rest OF
this week at least.
Only two or three divorce cases have
yet been heard.
Judge Bird, while showing the utmost
courtesy in all his relations with the
mem bers of the bar, has shown dispo-
sition to keep things moving, and lose as
little of the time of the court as possible.
Among the lawyers present during the
week from outside the county were +.
p. Perkins of Cornish, John A. Morrill,
of Auburn, R. W. Crockett, W. H. Hines
and Edw. r. Parent of Lewiston.
GRAND JURY's WORK.
The grand jury reported Friday night
just before the adjournment of the
court. Some over fifty indictments were
returned of which the following is COM
plete list:
Charles Bartlett. Larceny.
Eustace Bennett. Single sale.
Robert Chapman. Burglary.
Robert Chapman. Larceny.
Louis Cohen and Joseph Klain. Two indict.
ments, nuisance and common seller.
Albert A. Crosier. Cheating.
Henry Dargie, Frank Dougay, Dolby Gallant
and Aleck Gallant. Burglary.
Joseph Dougay. Nuisance.
Joseph DUDE and Simeon Laroche. Nuisance.
Edward A. Finnen. Forgery.
Edward A Finnen, Fred w. White and Albert
Plant Assault with intent to kill.
Edward A. Finnen, Fred W. White, Ed Mar.
tin and Albert Plant. Attempted prison break.
Charles Gowell. Two indictments, nuisance
and common seller.
Loren n. Gordon. Cruelty to animals.
Mike Gustitis. Assault and battery.
Dwinal Hodgdon and Harry Slater. Cruelty
to animals.
Charles Lovejoy. Two indictments, common
seller and single sale.
Harry Marx Use of union label. Two In
dictments.
Albert Martin. Nuieance.
Ed Martin, Albert Plant and Fred Ducos
Burglary.
Hugh McKinnon. Nuisance.
| Joseph G. Meserve. Assault and battery.
Albert Paradis. Nuisance.
Ed II. Peters. Nuisance.
Fred A. Russell. Common seller.
Frank Slegus Nuisance.
Cornelius Sullivan. Nuisance.
Fred w. White. Larceny.
Thomas Williams. Single sale.
George Yelbmert. Aiding prison break.
Iaadnre Drapnon Cruelty 10 animala