Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-06
ROUSiNG RALLY AT SABATTUS.
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its full extent there might be meat in
the argument AS an interested Repub-
licar one who would like to aid in
the cure OF the diseased treasury, let
me say to the present county attorney
and sheriff, that an inspection of the
records discloses the remarkable fact
| that there are now either in the
| clerks office, but presumably in the
| skeriff's hand Sc mittimusses calling
! for the payment of Il total of $5650 in
! fines and ar estimated additional sum
of 1926 in costs. Only IS of these cali
for the additional Jail sentence SO that
fear of voluntary Imprisonment does
| not enter into at least As of them Why
! would it not be fair and busineSS-like
proposition to place these unserved
| mittimuSSeS in the hands of the over
! worked deputies. and give them a lit
| tie exercise in the collection business? ?
| Over $4,000 is. walking around the
| streets of the two cities to be had for
| the asking. and vet. of all this sum
of money but $110 has been gathered,
and that from a man who was so un-
1 fortunate as to be suspected as being
friendly to a candidate on the Repub-
llcan ticket. Either these mittimusses
should be served, these fines collected,
or some good reason be presented for
| not doing so.
An inspection of this list discloses
| the fact that there are no strangers
there Nor would some of the names
| indicate any immediate need to petition
the bankruptcy court to relieve them
| from financial distress. Fate, sometimes
plays havoc with the best laid plans
| of men. July Q last the Sturgis officers
| arrested a man charged with a VIOLA
ton of the prohibitory law. A prior
record was alleged. A search of the
| records disclosed the fact and the nit
tinus calling for his punishment was
| found peacefully resting in the arch
| ives of the Sheritf's office. Here. indeed.
was protection to the rumseller. Sem
fenced by the court, yet that sentence
as completely ignored as though it
was never imposed and the criminal
allowed by virtue of either the direct
permission of the sheriff or his Dermis-
sion implied by his failure or refusal
to honor the courts order. to continue
| his nefarious traffic. What means this
refusal to execute the orders of the
court: Is at possible that the sheriff's
office is playing politics? That they are
| willing to drag into disgrace and con-
| tempt our supreme court for no other
| p,rpcse than to use as a big stick over
| unwilling voter the mittimus issued
against him.
| | repeat $4,000 is today stalking
! through our streets with no apparent
| effort to collect it, Is there any other
| source of revenue that has been
| 1"archcd for ard if found neglected?
1t is sometimes, perhaps often, true
| that some men charged with crime are
| innocent. What a congregation of in
! nOcentS were represented by the firm
| to which the county attorney belongs
| at the term of court following his cleo
| ton in 1907-the records of the court
| disclose the fact that at that term the
| firm name appeared in &c cases, all
! for violation of the liquor law. A
| further inspection of the record dis
| closes the startling fact that not one
| days imprisonment nor one dollars
fine was imposed upon any one of the
| respondents, all of the cases being
either mol pressed or placed upon the
| special docket Here indeed is a
sample sof the highest loyalty to ones
client. but how about the relationship
! between the county attorney and the
State? Not even going through the
formality of withdrawing an appear
| ance, but brazenly proceeding and
| ueglecting his duty to the treasury
| about to he preyed upon, by turning
loose upon the community. these crimi-
l - II ind
or without effort of any kind to obtain
it, 1t cannot be said that this firm OF
McGillicuddy and Morey have mo-
| nopoly of all the drowntrodden and
! oppressed innOcents appearing IN
court-such a thing is inconceivable-
and in the light of later events when
some of the same names appear as al
legged violaters of the law, then it is
questionable whether this wholesale
discharge was ifiable-surely il
seems as though 36 cases should have
produced some revenue.
| One of the legaces left to County
Attorney Morey by his predecessor
were 56 scire facias cases brought up
on defaulted bonds-In the settlement
of these cases the law demands thai
sentence be passed upon the respond
ent before the case against his bonds
| men be settled. The costs of a single
| scire facias case are ordinarily be
tween s13 and S14. Brother Morey
with his accustomed generosit!
thought that the treasury could stanc
the loss better than the fellow in the
rum business so in q of these case:
| settled them without costs, small
matter of some $3.50 or $375 the coun'
ty treasury beng raided to pay thf
officers fees for service, etc. ANY
wonder the treasury is empty? k1rs
. they fail to collect and then they give
. away.
, But far and above the apparent dis
like to collect moneys which may falr
!, lv be called account due the county
il the unheard of action of the sheriff
| OF the county in persistently retainin,
in inactive service his squad of specia
/ liouor deputies. Just why this is dom
l ,,n- ,o, Sopal1fe perSOn can well eX