Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-28
SUPERIOR COURT,
Hannah Nolan Pays Fine
Of $500 and Costs.
Search and Seizure Case Held
Courts Attention Saturday.
Madison hayman Pleads ''NoIo
Contendere" In Liquor Case.

At the opening of the Kennebec
county superior court Saturday morn
ing the case of State versus Hannah
Nolan OF Chelsea, an appealed search
and seizure case from the Augusta mu-
niclpal court. was tried, County -ittor-
ney Fred Emery Beane of Ha,lowell
appearing for the prosecution and w
ii. Fisher of Augusta for the de-
PENDANT
The first witness called by the pros
ecution was Deputy Sheriff D. Frank
Moore, who testified as to the search
of the Nolan place July 10. 1908 The Of
ficers made the trip to Chelsea in an
automobile hired for the occasion. Two
bags of liquor We're found, one contain
ing II pint bottles and the other con-
tanning nine pint bottles of whi.key.
Special Officer George Boynton testi-
he'd to disorder at the Nolan house on
the Saturday evening previous 70 the
search. He was with the other ohic ers
at the time of the search
officer Albert II. Ferran gave further
testimony regarding the search He had
taken the two bags from Madison B.
Hayman in the she'd The Witness tes-
tilted that Mrs Nolan was very much
excited. I1ayman said that they did not
expect the officers to come in an ALL
tomobile, that they had been too quick
.or Them
The defendant, Hannah Nolan, went
onto the stand in her own defence. She
testified that she kept a store and sold
lunches to the veterans of the National
Home. The liquor did not belong to her
and she had no knowledge of it.
Madison IS. Hayman was the next
to take The stand Questioned by Attor-
ncy Fisher:
Did you have two bags of liquor
that were taken away from you by the
officers?
Il did,
What did they contain?'
Whiskey-supposed to be-"
Whose was it?''
Mine"
Where did you get it?'
I'm Boston,
"Of whom did you get it?"
"Of w. II. Jones & CO..
The witness identified the bill Cor the
liquor.
For what purpose did you have the
liquor?"
County Attorney Beane-'I object"
The court allowed the question.
Il had it for the Fourth of July. 1t
was to DE taken out to the lake to
Simms' camp"
Have you ever sold liquor"
Never"
Are you a drinking man."
Il am"
Witness asked Mrs Nolan if he could
take a package into the shed and re-
arrange it.. He had never roomed at
Mrs. Nolan's. Was roomng at Mrs
Walters, and roomed there yet.
The crOsS-eXamination by County At
torney Beane tangled the witness q bit
in a few details, but he stuck to his
main story. The liquor had remained
IN the woods from July to the morn
ing of July 10.
"Why did you have pints? Why
didn't you have quarts?"
Because it was handler in pints."
THAT was a result of your eXre
rence?"
Yes, sir"
Had you ever carried a gunny sack
of liquor before?"
mo, but I've logged cider and vine
gar, lots of it,
On redirect examination the witness
said that the reason why he did not
take the liquor to his room in the Wall
err house was because Mrs. Waller OBJ
jected.
Richard SimmS was put on the stand
by the defence to show that an ar
1angement for the Fourth of July eX-
listed between him and Hayman.
Charles Henry Marston had hauled a
box for Hayman on one occasion from
Windsor to Chelsea, but could not re-
member the exact date. 1t might have
been April. May or June. The witness
said that the liquor in evidence was not
the stuff he hauled.
Deputy Sheriff Orrin L. Choate and
officer Fcrran testified that MarstOn
VINO was sitting in the court room dur
ing Haymans testimony, remarked.
turning to Ferran, Il hauled that stuff
for him"
Court was then adjourned until 2
T. NJ.
The trial was continued at the a: err
noon session of the court, when Attol-
ney Fisher and County Attorney Beane
made their arguments. Considerably
more spirit was displayed than has
been shown in the argument of pre-
vious cases, and the court followers
were treated to a burst of oratory shat
was reminder of old time pleading.
The case went to the jury at 1925 P. M.
The verdict was brought in at p. NJ,