Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-07
Sturcis Deputy
IDENTITIES. Shel'iffS

This table does not include seizures
made on warrants against unknown per-
sons nor does it take any account of in
stances of several persons ARE sted on the
same warrant. both Of which would be
very largely favor of the SturgiG depu-
ties. The deputies were confined to work
before the supreme court the greater part
of January and February.
This is a record for practically wear.
and the 25nno expense of maintaining the
Sturgis law in the state is the only item
Mr. NcGillicuddy has specified that he
would elirlinate from the State expendi-
lures Twenty-Five thousand dollars for
the state and this is ono of the four
items of extravagant increase that Mr.
Pattangal! specifies.
Why. at the same rate that tho county
paid the deputy she1iffs for securing the
Fl cases if would have cost so. 1856 30 to do
the work that the Stursis deputies, did in
An3roscogein county alone. 1t is no
wonder that MI McGillicuddy said con
dtians we're never so bad in Lewiston
as at the present time. 1t cost tho coun-
tv $50 in salaries alone to get that one
solitary. lonesome case that these depu-
ties of Sheriff Hastings found in the last
three and one-half months. How long is
the county of Androscoggin going to
stand such work as that? 1t is up to you
to say on the 14th of September
! have put these figures out before and
Mr.. Hastings has finally published his re-
ply to them, 1t appeared in the Lewist on
daily Sun of Sept. 1st. on page 5. and |
invite you all to read it carefully
His first answer i that some of the
cases which his deputies brought before
the municipal court We're found not gull
tv. and that should have followed them
mp to the supreme court. 7 counted all
cases brought before the lower court
Whether the respondents were held or not
SO that that does not alter the figures
He says that up to and including the
April term. 1908. his deputies got 60 indict
ments before the grand Jury. while the
Sturgis deputies got only ia This ought
to he bad enough but it does not include
the explanation that from Jan I. 1907
70 June "a the SturgS deputies were with
drawn to give the sheriff chance to per-
form his duties without forcing their re-
turn to the county
~ SI'tii'l IN ms statement
then proceeds to adduce the ar
gnmcnt which is apparently a clincb-
err Nv careful figuring he con
clI6es that the fines secured from tho
work of his deputies amounted to s695r
against $3.50 for the Sturcis deputies That
extra hundred dollars ought to foreve,
settle the matter and quiet the aching
cohsc1ences of his deputies for the sSiC
that this last case cost
Buf right here am tempted to ask one
question. The duties of either SET of dom
uties cease when they secure the cases
and place the evidence in the noesossior
of the prosecuting attorney. IF is bis
dutv, and his alone. to present then, IN
the court and to select those in which
ne VIII move for sentence. Both sets of
deputies had the same justices to impose
sentence on their cases Under those cir-
cumstanceS, If 60 indictments pettod sco-o
IN mes whose fault was it that a loco
amount vas realized from III indict
men's? If they pursue this line of aro-,,-
mont there will be trouble in the Dome
cratic household
Ihen as an anti-climax the sheriff ,avs
'hat II you examine the records of tho
Lewiston municipal court VOL, viii, fna
that my deputies have talen o,,+ 49,,
"eus Oh warrants" SO they have. There
'ie pages upon pages of them where the,,
''"k out the warrants and returned tbe,,
But all they got on them was their faes