Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-17

mon nuisance found by the grand jury
at this term, was resumed. After the
closing arguments by Frank l.. Dutton
of Augusta, counsel for the respon-
dent, and By County Attorney Beane
for the State and. the charge by Judge
Hall, the case was given 10 the jury
al l1Io O'Clock.
At 3.55 O'Clock the jury in the De-
roun common nuisance case returned
a verdict Of not guilty and the respon-
dent was discharged.
Joseph Thibcaut and George PDuin
pleaded moo contenderc to an indict-
ment found by the grand jury at this
term for the larceny Of $50 from Au-
gustus ami Caroline Pnul1n OF Augusta
w. II. Fisher Of Augusta appeared as
counsel for the respondents
Sentences in the TWO cases We're
continued until the September term of
court.
Edward Luderick of Gardiner plead
ed nolo contendere to an indictment
for receiving stolen goods and was
represented by Will c. Atkins Of Gar
diner.
Luderick was sentenced to serve
three months in the county Jail.
The next case to be called was that
Of State versus Albert Carr. alias Allie
Carr. of Augusta, an indictment for
maintaining common nuisance at the
Rhoades place, so called, near the Ma
tional Home Reservation at Togus. =.
". Whitehouse of Augusta appeared
as counsel for the respondent
City Marshal George E. Fletcher
and Patrolman Albert H. Ferran of
Augusta testified to raiding this
Rhoades place in February last, seiz-
ing pint bottle of whiskey and find
ing the respondent in the place.
Mrs. Annie Smith testified that she
was at the Rhoades house on the day
of the raid and the respondent was
also there, as were several soldiers, in
mates of the Soldiers Home.
Albert Carr, the respondent took the
stand in his own behalf and testified
he never sold any liquor at the
Rhoades place and he never saw any
liquor sold in the place.
The evidence on both sides had been
adduced when court adjourned Thurs
day evening until $50 o'clock Friday
morning.
The jury in the case Of Walter Cor
mier, indicted for maintaining a COM
mon nuisance on the question Of a
misnomer, which went out at o'clock
and which had not reported at 6
o'clock, was ordered to return a seal
ed verdict at the opening of court Fri
day morning.
The next case to be taken up was
that of State versus Walter Cormier
of Augusta, an indictment found by
the grand jury at this term for main
tanning a common nuisance near the
National Home reservation at Togus.
Joseph Williamson of Augusta ap-
peared as counsel for the respondent.
The case was heard before a drawn
jury of which S. W. Clement of Rome
was appointed foreman by the court.
None of the jurors were challenged by
either the State or by counsel for the
respondent.
The jury was composed as follows
S. w. Clement (foreman) Rome: B. o.
Moody, Windsor; George p. Allen,
Chelsea; Edward p Libby. Winthrop;
G. c. Rundett, Mount Vernon; A. T.
Hathaway, Monmouth; James S.
Tenney. Chelsea; Edwin H. Gay,
Augusta; A. G. Wright, Readfield;
George w. Fish, HallowelI: Fred F.
Hall. Augusta; Frank w. Rackliff,
Gardiner.
Counsel for the respondent raised
the question Of mis-nomer, contending
that the respondents name was
wallace Cormier instead of
walter" Cormier as named in the in
dictment.
The first witness called on behalf of
the State was James NJ. Larrabee,
judge of the municipal court of Gardi-
ner. He testified that the respondent
answered to the name walter"
COrmier
Deputy Sheriffs Martin Burns of
Gardiner, James J. Donovan of
Hallowell, Frank H. Meady of
Randolph and Frank H. Marshall of
Farmingdale testified that the re-
spondent was known as Walter
Cormier.
-Four witnesses We're sworn in behalf
of the respondent on the question of
the name.
VIII L. Hilton OF Augusta testified
that he was the bookkeeper and clerk
at the office of the Kennebec Light
& Heat Company and that the
respondent worked for the company
and his first name on the payroll was
given as Wallace"
Attorney Williamson read the
records of ST Augustine's Church of
Augusta where Rev. Arthur A. Hamel,
former pastor of the church,
baptised Wallace Cormier on March
81. 1890. .....
Albert NJ. Pingree. bookkeeper in the
treasurers office at the Maine Insane
hospital, testified that the respondent
name was on the payroll at the
hospital under the name of Wallace
Norton.
A teacher at the Webster school on
Oxford street for eight years testi-
fed that one of her pupils was the
respondent who gave his name as
Wallace" Cormier. She knew him as
Wallace" Cormier and never as
Walter" Cormier.
Charles F. Bilodeau, an Augusta