Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-01
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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nation was practicng physician who
was summoned as a witness in the
case. When the grand jury met he
: was summoned before it to give his
testimony. He went and came home,
i'm the. rotynda bout way that the gen
tlenan from Stoninston has described.
Then when the case WAS assigned
for trials he went again and stayed
around there two OF three days and the
2 court were not ready to hear the case
j. for some reason or other, and he re-
turned home and had to go a third
time In all ne spent in going and
coming and the few moments that he
was giving his testimony. some seven
/, or eight days. He got from the coun-
ty some SIS. If he had come to Knox
county he would not have got nearly
so much, but he got SIS. His actual
expenses were between $50 and s6G, on
that trip. That is what you are sub
jecting the inhabitants of Stoninston
to in their attendance upon the courts.
He went by motor boat, and on the
way his boat gave out and he was
rescued by a life saving station the
same as any shipwrecked mariner
would be; and all that to give just
little testimony in a homicide case.
Now that thing has happened right
along at every term of court, and 1t
can all be avoided by simply chang
ing this county little in the most
natural way. / am sorry That tine
proponents of this bill are not able
TO go to the expense of having maps
made that would particularly show
in regard TO that, but If you VIII look
at any good map of Maine you VIII
find where the line Of Knox county
goes across these islands-We nave
got some big islands in our county
the line runs Just north of North
Haven and carrying it right straight
q, along only a mile or two 1t will strike
right across a division between the
town OF Deer Isle and Stonington and
carving it just a little way it would
take in Stonington and Isle au Haut
into Knox county. From the stand
point of physical geography it is u
nrost obviously. natural division.
wish the members would refer TO the
nan and see how ii looks, and look at
the distance that it is from Stonlhg-
ton. IN Ellsworth and then from Ston-
inp.on 10 Rockland, and from Rock
land TO Bangor. from Bangor 10 Eho-
worth. met a gentlemaii last nlgh'
who came around this way. ne s'oP-
ped here in regard to this bill ne mao
been clear around to Ellsworth II
a little disclosure process ana ne nav
TO go around in this way That 1 speaH
of These are cases that are nap
pcaing all the time. Every montf
their probate court meets and the!
have to go this roundabout way &c
reach Ellsworth. whereas If a man
could go to Rockland instead, he couiu
lust take the boat in the morning
20 across, have all day in Rockland
10 attend to his business. could gc'
l,onrc the Same night before supper
an these things are happening all
the time. 1t is a constant thing.
Nov, MIR. Speaker and Gentlcrnen,
take il YOU will not suffer yourselves
TO be led away by this utterly irrele-
want talk about the disintcgration o.
Hancock county Dut you viii get right
down to this matter and consider fair
" and sympathetically the grievances
OF these men and women Of Stoning
ton and Isle au Haul. Mr.. Harmon hai
given an outline Of the situation. bu
any gentleman ought to be able to fiji
in the outline with his imagination am
see the whole situation and lind GU
: how he would feel. Put that question
to yourselves, gentlemen. How woul