Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-21
Hearing Will be Held on Haine's
Pardon Matter.
Doubt Expressed That Old Flags
Can Be Moved.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Tuesday, Feb. Is, at 10 A. M.

chamber Ill tIe SIdte t1OuSe next ueS-
day. Feb. %. commencing at 10 O'Clock
in the forenoon, and will perhaps be
Of more than ordinary interest The
usual amount Of routine business will
come up for transaction and in addi-
ton thereto there will be several other
matters which it is expected will claim
the attention Of the Council.
A feature of the meeting is expected
to be a hearing on petition asking for
the pardon of Samuel D. Haines, who
is serving Il life sentence in the State
prison at Thonaston for the murder of
Officer James Robbins of the Rock.and
police force in 1879. Haines is no new
seeker after executive clenency, and
this is the fourth time that he has
sought at the hands of the States
Chief Executive pardon for his crime
The last hearing on petition from this
man was held at the July meeting of
the Governor and Council in 1907, and
at the October meeting of the same
year the petitioners We're given leave to
withdraw.
The present petition was presented
at the January meeting of the Council
by Hon. Walter B. Clarke of Portland,
and was accompanied by statement
frnIa CYNTHIA Robbins OF Rockland,
Ia |;id1,v If IIaincs' victim. in which
she asks fSr Il pardon for the murder
or. saying that she thinks that h has
been punished enough: that ir her be-
lief Haines isl now a thoroughly re-
formed and good man and capable Of
becoming a good citizen; that in spite
of the great injury inflicted upon her
by him she Is now ready to forgive
him. 1t is understood that many re-
monstranceS have been received to the
granting of the pardon. and the out
come of the hearing will be awaited
with much interest
Another pardon matter will be pre-
sented to the Council in the shape Of
a petition from George Mcintosh of
Cary plantation, in Aroostook county,
who Is serving u three-year sentence
at ThomaSton for an assault on his
wife. Eunice Mcintosh, having received
sentence at the April term of the su-
preme judicial court, for Aroostook
county, Associate Justice Albert NJ
Spear presiding, in 1907. 1t is prob
able that the petition will be taken
up at the coming meeting and assigned
q hearing. The case for the petitioner
will be conducted by Hon. Ransford w
Shaw of Ho,Ilton, former county attor-
ney for AroOStoOk county. In his plea
for executive clemency Mcintosh
states that at the time Of the trial he
was unable to secure the evidence OF
his wife; that the witnesses for the
state gave hear-say evidence and We're
prejudced against him. and that the in
juries inflicted upon his wife We're
greatly exaggerated by those witnesses;
he also states that he is an ablc-bodied
man and willing to support his wife
and family, who need his help and are
dependent upon him for support.
II is also expected that the matter
Of the Legislative printing will be
taken up and passed upon. Included
also will be the confirmation by the
Council Of the nominations made by
the Governor last Tuesday
Ar examination of the battle flags
IN the two cases in the rotunda of the
STATE House gives rise to the doubt as
to whether or not they can be- removed
from their present positions without
resulting in still further destruction
than that with which some of them
are already affected. Some Of the
flags are practically all gone. 50 that
all which remains are 4 few Shreds
on the staff TO show that once there
was a flag attached to it. and while
it is expected that the fragments have
fallen down behind the other flags in
the cases an estimate of their condition
can hardly be formed at this time The
regimental headquarters flags. which
being larger. occupy the lower part of
the cases. are in the majority of cases.
in fairly good condition as they rest
In their places. although il cannot be
said what the result of moving them
will be, but the other flags, the smaller
ones which We're out on the firing line
ana were rent and torn by bullet ana
smell before they found a resting place
IN the States Capitol. are in hard
shape. and their future is a problem.
1t IS the hope of every man. woman
and child in the State of Maine that
these old flags may be preserved. in
memory of the cause for which they
We're carried and also in memory of the
men who carried them, for in their
faded and tattered condition they tell
a silent but more eloquent story of the
days of '61-'65 than was ever written
in history.
Hon. Joseph E. Peaks of Dover.
chairman Of the Board of Railroad
commissioners. was at the office Of the
board Thursday on matters of BUSH
ness.
The office of the commissioner OF az
rlculture was busy place yesterday.
Tor in addition TO the usual office force
there were present Commissioner Gill
man of Foxcroft. State Entomologist
hitchings of Waterville. Leon S Mer-
FIJI OF Scion, State dairy instructor,
and 5. c. Thompson of Winterport. as
SiStaHt 10 Mr.. Merrill
Inc following corporation has flied
IT'S certificate of organization at the
once of the secretary of State:
Penobscot Fish Co, organized at
hocklan1 for the purpose of conduct
ing 4 general fish and fisheries rus'-
ness with $4,000 capital stock. of which