Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-29
SUPERIOR COURT.
Few Criminal Matters for
The April Term.
Number OF Bound Over Cases
Smallest for Years.
Trial OF Joe Girard May Not Take
Place This Term.

Mess the grand jury should IND an
unusually large number of indict
ments upon cases which have not.yet
developed, the term of the Kennebec
county superior court. which opens.
Tuesday. April ,, will have an un-
usually small amount of criminal bust
ness To attend to- County Attorney
Williamson states that the number of
bound over cases is the smallest for
great many years.
1t is doubtful now whether Joe
Girard. who is under indictment in
this county for breaking and enter
ing and larceny of s125 from the Maine
Central station at Waterville. last
November, will be brought back from
Sarvia Ont, where he has just com
pleted a jail sentence for vagraneE
in season for trial at this term of the
superior court. Deputy Sheriff Orren
l.. Choate of this city and City Mar
shall Charles H. Barton. who are pro-
Nided with extradition papers. have
gone to Ontario for their man. but in
ternational eXtraditiaH is sometimes
attended by considerable delay. AS
the present term is snort oIfe. the
officers may not arrive back with their
man until after the close of the term.
Another man, indicted at the Janu-
airy term. who filed from the county
at the time. was John Parker. who
was indicted for the larceny of wal
let, shoes and hat aud $25 in money
the property of Harvey f. Crimmins,
one OF the grand jurors The sheriff's
department received word. Thursday,
that Parker Was being held in Port
land and Deputy Sheriff Lawrence
Colsan was sent after the prisoner.
Parker's trial is ffKsIy to occur al
this term Of court.
Ada Davenport and Fred Howes q
Sidney, charged jointly with statu-
tory offence. We're bound over from
The augusta municipal court and are
now waiting action OF the grand Jury.
Joseph Reynolds and Halmar John
son have been hound over from the
Belgrade municipal court, charged
with turning shed connected with q
schoolhouse in that town. last month.
Lawrence MeC'urdy of Gardiner is in
lah awaiting action Of the grand Jury.
having been bound over by Judge Al
kns of the Gardiner municipal co,nr,
upon the charge OF larceny &c an oyer
coat and other personal property from
the residence of Rev. NJ. G.. Miner
pastor OF the Free Baptist church az
that town SWiiliam f.fssett is bound
over from sfhee Watervillc municipal
court unomthe charge Of larceny i'm
Tue night time from the Vassalboro
station of the Maine Central Railroad
Everett Dodge Of Gardiner and
Henry Boynton of Whitefield were ar
rested in January for breaking, en-
terpls and larceny from the house of
l.. y. Greenleaf of Gardiner and were
bound over from that court. Another
bound over case is that of Miss
blanche stevens of Gardiner who has
been held TO the grand jury upon the
charge of assault Jan 10, on Mrs. w.
II. Glidden Of Gardiner
Among the appealed cases, which
win come up, this term, are those of
John Hogan OF Waterville. who was
sentenced TO three months in Jail for
assault upon George Mckay at Water
vile, and i. j. Knowlton of Augusta.
who appealed from a sentence of 500
and costs and 60 days in Jail and in
default Of payment of zine and costs.
SO laws additional, for Illegal possess
sion of intoXica ting liquors