The independent-reporter., 1910-05-26
WOMEN FIGURE IN
MUNICIPAL COURT
Intention to sell Liquor
Not Proven
Evidence Shows They Drank COnsid-
cradle Whiskey

Four women figured in the Munich
pal Court here Saturday afternoon be-
fore Judge F. F. Lawrence, when Liz
zie Henderson of lockwood was given
a hearing on the charge of search and
seizure. Evidence showed that some
of these women were in the habit of
drinking considerable whiskey. One
woman testified that she had drunk
about a quart in one day and after
drinking nearly pint and making
herself sick by it, she drank more to
make herself feel better.
On Friday of last week Sheriff John
Mooers and three of his deputies, c. E.
Bigelow of Norridgewock, Augustus
Gilblair and Charles Chute Of Show
hegan, went to lockwood. There
they searched the cottage house in
which the Hendersons lived and main
tanned a boarding house. They found
seven bottles of whiskey and this led
to the arrest of Mrs. Henderson and
she was brought to Skowhegan. She
declared her innocence to the officers
and told them that the whiskey was
not hers, but belonged to her board
ers. There were six witnesses for
the State, among these being two
women who worked at the lockwood
hotel One woman testified that one
afternoon last week she went to Mrs.
Henderson's and Mrs. Henderson vol
UNFAIRLY gave her pint of whiskey.
She asked Mrs. Henderson if she
should want more If she could get it,
and, according to her testimony, Mrs.
Henderson told her she would let her
have it If she could. That same even
ing she went back after more whiskey
and Mrs. Henderson let her have an
other pint for the woman's friend
whom she claimed was sick at \the
hotel.
The woman testified that she drank
part of the whiskey and her friend
drank the rest. She testified that she
offered Mrs. Henderson a dollar for
the whiskey but Mrs. Henderson did
not want to take it but she made her.
She further testified that she bought
whiskey of Mrs. Henderson twice af-
terwards and that she and her friend
drank it.
Mrs. Henderson testified in her own
behalf. She said that the first time
last week she gave her some whiskey.
That same evening the woman came
back after more whiskey, saying that
she wanted some for her friend and
the woman offered her a dollar but
she would not take it and the woman
laid it on the stand beside the big
family Bible.
Two of Mrs. Henderson's boarders
testified for her, and they said that the
whiskey was theirs but they had told
Mrs. Henderson she could have some
If she wanted it. One of the boarders
testified that he drank some whiskey
occasionally and that only last Thurs
day he, in company with a friend,
went fishing. They took with them
six quarts of whiskey and as we'll as
he could remember, nobody but he and
his friend had drunk any of that
whiskey but it was all gone when they
started home that night and in proof
that he had drunk some whiskey, he
said he hired fellow to row him
across the pond because he was so
drunk he couldn't row.
Judge Lawrence had no doubt but
that whiskey had played considerable
part in the lives of the witnesses at
least; but he also found that there
was not evidence in the case to prove
that Mrs. Henderson had liquor for
sale or had intended to sell liquor and
he, therefore, found her not guilty.
Harold j. Phillips, Esq, appeared
for the State in the case and Hon. S. J.
Walton for the respondent.