Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-07
Gardiner Men Are AcQuh-
ted in Assault Case.
Another China Cider Case in
The Superior Court.
uanv Witness Examined..-Argu-
ments Thursday.

The entire time of the superior court
ea.sion Wednesday was taken up with
Two eases. the Thomas assault case
Co., m Gardiner, in which two men
ware accused of assault upon Alfred
Faulkner, a drunken man, who was put
n,, If their shop, and the Melvin case,
tho second Of the China hard cider
cages William Meader of Rome was
brought in for sentence upon the
ohoroo Of ron-support of his eight mi
nor children, but his counsel moved an
arrest Of Judgment, arguing defects IN
tho warrant and Meader was commit
tod To iail awaiting the decision of the
= court. The jury was out but 10 min
ntee in the Thomas case and brought
In q verdict of not guilty in the case of
both respondents.
THE first case to be considered upon
tho oneDing of the Superior court
wednesday morning was an appealed
assault case from the Gardiner
municipal court. The respondents.
George Thomas and William Thomas,
elected one Alfred Faulkner from their
Mace Of business on Water street,
Gardiner, Sunday morning, May 3.
1909. when the latter was in state OF
intoxicaton, and it is alleged by the
State that unnecessary violerltse was
used and the man seriously injured.
George w. Heselton of Gardiner, APP
peared for the respondents. -.T-
Adelbert j. Burns of Gardiner was
the first witness called. He was pass
ing the bootblacking establishment on
the opposite side of the street Sunday
morning Witness heard a crash of
glass and saw Faulkner come out head
first, striking upon the sidewalk. Wit
ness came across the street and
turned him over. Others picked him
up and took him to a doctor
County Attorney-"What was his
condition."
Witness-"I should say he was
drunk
Witness further testified that Faulk-
ner had cuts upon his face, head and
one hand.
Attorney Observation-Disclosures was
pretty drunk, wasn't he?"
WitneSS-"He was very drunk.
DIR. Ralph d. s;inons testified that
when he arrived at his office Sunday
May 8, between 10 and II o'clock in
the forenoon he found Faulkner in his
office. The man was apparently I'M
conscious from alcohol He had a cut
about quarter of an inch long over
the left, eye and minor cuts about tho
head and wrist
Attorney Heselton-"Could you tell
whether the man was unconscious
from liquor or his Wounds"
DR.. Simons-"I could not tell
Constable Martin Burns of Gardiner
testified that he was called to tho
Thomas place Sunday morning by re-
ports of disturbance. When he got
there two men were picking Faulkner
up. The man was bleeding about tht
head. The two men held Faulkner.
Attorney Heselton-''Have you no
frequently seen men hold Faulkner il
this way?'
Witness-"I have seen them"
Alfred Faulkner testified that he wa
in the shoe shining shop kept by tn
Thomds boys between 10 and /
o'clock Witness had been drinking
and was ordered out of the shop. Saw
no reason why he should so as he wa.
behaving himself. The two boys lie,
him towards the door and the las
thing he remembered he was goinl
through the door
Attorney HeseltonI"Don't YOU re
member striking the door and break
ing the glass;" an
Witness--"I don't remember ---.
Attorney Heselton-"Y didn'
make any complaint against TIL.
Thomas boys in the lower court, die
you?'
Witness-'T did not
Constable Frank f.. Locke of Gardi-
ner testified that he saw the de-
PENDANTS standing in the doorway an
the man lying on the sidewalk. H.
asked the defendants how the mar
came there and they told him he fel