Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-05

about quarter of an hour, returned
verdict of guilty. Fine and Jail SEN
tence was imposed.
| The first case to be taken up Mon
| day morning in the superior court was
| the appealed illegal keeping case
against Henry Barney of Watervillc,
which was continued from Saturday.
This case is intimately connected with
the Cote case, it being alleged by the
! officers that Barney was employed
about the bar in the Cote place
| Mr.. Barney was placed upon the
stand by the State. Respondent testi-
fled that he had been employed for 10
months at the Cote place He had
| never been in the back room when IL
ouor was sold there. Bottles seized
IRON basket by the deputy sheriff at
the Cote place We're shown him ard re-
| spondent stated that he had never seen
them before
Witness stated IN response to inquiry
by his counsel, Fred Emery Beane of
! HalloWell that he had lived for seven
years in the upper part of the building.
| Notice was served upon him to Quit.
| Deputy Sheriff George r. Vickery of
Hallowell testified that when he raided
the place in March he saw the respond
| ent standing behind a lar and in front
OF the cash register smoking a cigar
Deputy Sheriff John a. Dawson testi-
fed that he had made search in Oak
land Saturday night for one Clayton
| Ellis, an important witness of the case
| wanted by the State, and learned that
| the witness had taken the train for
Boston.
| John Friel of Waterville testified that
he had served noticesto quit upon both
| cote and Barney. Barney had secured
| Cote as a tenant for The lower part of
| the building and Cote had paid his rent
| to the witness. The case went to the
| jury at Ills and in less than quarter
| of an hour a verdict of guilty was re-
| turned. The court imposed q fine of
| $lGo and costs and 50 days in Jail and in
| default If payment Of fine and costs &C
| days additional in jail. Exceptions to
| testimony were filed by the rcspon-
dents counsel.
The next case to he tried was the
! mon-support case against William
Meader of Rome, appealed from the
| hanson and Walter NJ. Sanborn APP
peared for the respondent The case
| went on trial before the second Jury.
| AS it was being presented by the Sc
lcctnCn OF Rome inquiry was made by
Attorney Williamson if there was any
resident of Rome on the panel. No
Roman being found the panel re-
manned updisturber
Clyde Il. Tilson of Belgrade Lakes
was the first witness called Witness
testified that one day about the first of
April when he was working on a back
street in the vicinity of Long Pond.
Rome, one of the Mcadcr boys came to
him. Although the weather was cold
and there was ice and snow on the
ground the boy was barelegged wear
ms Slort knee trousers and a heavy
par of mems shoes. The boy complain
cd of being cold and hungry.
Witness visited the house the nnX,
day. Found eight children in a room in
the house with no fire in it. There was
no bed clothes and the floor was COW
cred with chip dirt. No wood was in
the room and the only food was two
quarts of flour. A baby about 10
months cid with only a shawl pinned
over it was crying in the middle of the
floor and child two years old was
in the same condition. Witness tcstl-
fed that a girl - or Is years old had or
a mans frock and an apron pinned
about her: In front Of the house was
an open Well with the ice slanting down
towards it,
Witness stated that he discovered
two oldish people about 60 years OF
age, in an adjoining room with the
door closed. There was a fire in this
room. Witness testified that he tcle-
phcnod Lemuel BlaiS1ell. sclectman of
Rome of the condition of the children.
Neither Mr. or Mrs Meadcr were in
the house.
The next day witness discovered the
roof of the house on fire and logged
water to put it out. He also got the
occupants out of the house and hauled
them to the house Of Charles Trask in
Rome. Witness testified that the only
change in the condition of the children
or the old folks was that some food had
been brought in.
ATTORNEY Williamson on crncc ayaui-