Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
STATE HOUSE.
Governor and Council to
Hold Pardon Hearings.
Kennebec County Teachers As
ISOLATION al HaIIoweII Friday.
Date Of State Road Hearing at
Lewiston Is Changed.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Friday, April 20, at 10 A. M.


ulcd for hearings at the regular month
ly meeting of the Governor and Coun-
Gil which will be held next Friday.
DIR" Ebert NJ. Bates of Richmond,
John ]. ellis and Hilaire MERCER. both
of Rumford Falls. Alexander Rector Of
Rockland and Thomas Forth of Lew
iston.
Pierce was sentenced in the supreme
| judicial court for Androscoggin county
| in 1899 by Justice Whitehousc to 3S
| years in the State prison at ThomaSton
| for attempted murder Pierce was
| convicted of attempting to Kill by pois-
oning Judge \. ID. Cornish OF the Lew
| iston municipal court and Ex-City
Marshal Herbert +. Teel of that city.
| l.. w. 'ales of Lewiston is the counsel
for the petitioners.
Ratcs was convicted of manslaugh
ter in the supreme judicial court for
| Sagadahoc county at Bath in causing
the death of IA Richmond girl by menas
| of an Illegal operation and was SEN
| fenced to serve five years at hard labor
| in the State prison at Thomdston.
| Prior to his commitment to prison he
served four months and u days in the
county jailS at Auburn and Augusta.
| In his petition Bates says that he be-
licves that he has been sufficiently pun
iSh"d on account of the crime. that in
| his case the ends of justice have been
served and that longer detention Of
him in the execution of the sentence
would answer no good purpose.
| MERCER was sentenced to serve one
| in he in =, i,,i.
court for oxford county at South Paris
| in October, 1909. for liquor selling. The
| petitioners for Meercier's pardon state
that they believe that the sentence was
out of proportion to the crime commit
| ted. that the offender, by reason Of
great mental affliction, impairment of
Health. loss of business and five
months Imprisonment has already
latoncd for tn" wrong done and that tn"
ends of Justice would be served by his
Immediate release from custody. Mat
thew Mccarthy of Rumlord Falls is the
1attorncy for the petitioner
| ellis is serving a sentence of eight
months in the oxford county Jail at
South Paris for an nfraction Of the
prohibitory liquor law The petitioners
| for the release OF ellis say that at the
| time h" was sentenced and for some
time prior thereto he. had been engaged
! in an honorable and legal VOCATION be-
| ing employed by the Rumford rails
| Light & Power Company; that ellis
! has Il family. consisting OF q wife and
seven small children. who are now be-
| ing supported ny the town "f Rumford;
| that he has already served four months
| of his sentence which the petitioners
believe to be sufficient punishment for
| the offence committed and thar the
| ends of justice would be served if he
| were given his release. Matthew Me-
Carthy of Rumford Falls is the tttor-
| ney for the petitioner.
Rector is serving Il scutcnr" nf four
years in the state prison, having been
convicted in the supreme judicial court
for Knox county at the September
! term, 1907 for breaking, entering and
larceny in the night time. Rector
claims that the time he has already
| served in prison has been adequate
punishment for the crime committed,
that he is = reformed man, that he
would make a good citizen, that he is
capable of earning Il good living. that
| his health has been seriously impaired
on account of his confinement, that he
| has a wife and children dependent up
| on him for support and that Il pardon
can now be granted him without doing
violence to any principle of law JUS
| tice. equity and sound public policy.
Forth is serving sentence in the
Andr"Scoggin county Jail at Auburn
| for liquor selling. The petitioner rep
| resentS that he is suffering from tuber-
culosiS. which has been aggravated
since his imprisonment. that further
| imprisonment will seriously endanger
| his health and that he believes that he
| has already been sufficiently punished
John +. Slattery of Lewiston is the
| counsel for the petitioners
| Announcement was made at the office