Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-16
STATE HOUSE,
Council Will Hear Three
Pardon Petitions.
Democratic Opposition 10 Con-
tiInaiion Of Justice Savage.
Work Resumed Monday on Rock
land Rockport Trunk Line.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Wednesday, May II, at p. M.

Three petitions for pardons Will
come I'D for consideration al the meet
ing Wednesday of the Governor and
Council. The one in regard to which
the most interest is being shown is
that of Thomas j. Doherty, OF Az
burn, who is serving a sentence of
three years in the State prison at
Thomaston for shooting Peter +. Fa-
hey. The crime was committed un-
der most sensational circumstances.
Doherty shot Fahey at noon ON Oct.
/, 1908 in the crowded streets of Au-
burn Just as the employees of the shoe
shops were coming out. He fired
three shots, two of them after Fahey
had stumbled and fell and while he
was standing over him. An lndict-
ment charging assault with intent To
kin was returned at the January term
1909 Ey the grand jury. Doherty was
al the Maine Insane Hospital at Au-
gusta for period under observation
to determine whether or not he was
sane No signs of mental disorder be-
ing found he was tried at the April
term 1909 and on May IL was sen
fenced 10 three years at Thomaston.
that he will make good citizen If
released, that he has been punished
sufficiently and that the recommended
tion Of the jury that clemeney be
shown was entirely disregarded by the
presiding justice in imposing sentence.
LOUIS Gauthier of Lewiston, who y
serving 3. year in the county jail at
Auburn for killing Napoleon Rate,
alias Napoleon Beaudette, July %.
1910, asks that he be given his free
dom because he has been an exemplary
prisoner, has been punished enough,
and also because he was in Jail three
months before being sentenced. He
was indicted at the September term,
1910, for assault with intent to kill,
but later the charge was changed TO
assault and battery and he was SEN
fenced. Oct. l. 1910. According to the
evidence Gauthier struck Rate, knock
ing him down and death resulted.
one of the most peculiar petitions
received by the present Governor and
Council is that in behalf of Clarence
II. Copant of Temple Conant was
sentenced to the State prison at
Thomaston for a term of five years
at the September term of the supreme
court for breaking. entering and lar
ceny. He was later declared to be
insane and transferred from Thomas
ton to the hospital for the criminal in
sane at Augusta. The petitioners do
not desire that he be released from
the hospital for the insane but they
do ask that his name be freed from the
stain of a crime for which he was not
mentally responsible.
\ number of nominations made by
Governor Plaisted will come up for
confirmation at this meeting of the
Governor and Council, the most i'm
portant being that of Hon. Albert X.
Savage of Auburn to succeed himself
as associate justice of the supreme
court, in regard to which there is said
to be some doubt of a confirmation by
the council. The Executive depart
of letters from Democrats in oxford
county. protesting, on partisan
grounds, to the appointment of JUS
tice Savage. who is a Republican.
A delegation of Bath Democrats
consisting of State Committeeman F.
w Hartnett. Representatives Angus
tus A. Percy and Charles l.. Farnham
and Mayor Frank A. Small are re-
ported to have interviewed Governor
Plaisted Monday, in regard to the sit
uation. 1t is understood that the Bath
contingent urged the appointment OF
Hon. George f. Hughes of that city
as associate justice in case the Coun
Gil refused to confirm the reappoint-
ment of Justice Savage. A general
feeling is said tn exist that for a Sec
ton that did so much to ensure Demo-
cratic success last fall the I'd District
has been treated in a decidedly shabby
manner so far as appointments are
concerned.