Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-04
Emery Defence Asks More Time to Prepare Its
OPENING Judge StearnS Calls States Witness
eS "Spies, Seeking TO Destroy Old Man.
Appropriation Bill Carries Sn,517.14.

The sheriff appeared to be 40 nerv-
GUS that the county attorney asked
! him what he was scared about. ne
| money was counted after the sheriff
went out, the numbers of the bills TAX
eG and sealed up in an envelope, to-
gether with written statement in
regard to the matter
No further communication was made
between the sheriff and county attor-
ney until March %, when complaint
was sworn out by County Attorney
Richardson. and the arrest and trial of
the sheriff followed
The questions at issue, declared the
| attorney general, We're whether the
sheriff of York county on Feb %, en-
tered into corrupt agreement with
the county attorney for the protec-
ton Of liquor dealers and whether in
pursuance of that agreement on March
8. the sheriff of York county paid a
certain sum of money to County At
torney Richardson.
County Atty. Richardson Testifies.
The first witness called by the State
was County Attorney of York County
Asa A. Richardson of Kennebunk
Witness had been county attorney of
York county since Jan. /, 1911. Sher-
i'll Charles O. Emery of Sanford, was
sheriff during that time. The sheriff
was at home of witness, Feb. 2S. He
came because of conversation witness
had with a gentleman in Biddeford,
an agreement being made for meet
ing ON the 9th. but he did not come
until the next day Witness and the
sheriff sat in the living room, Ed. H
Emery, T.. r. Littlefeld and Elmer
Roberts were in the cellar at the time
under the hot air register. The sheriffs
chair was beside the open register.
Mr.. Emery arrived at the house at
10 A. NJ. The sheriff told of some
seizures he had made in Sanford. Wit
ness said he had some talk with gem
tleman in Biddeford The sheriff said
L know you did" and then went on to
say that it was impossible to get a
conviction In a liquor case in the Bid
deford municipal court.
The sheriff told witness he thought
1T was better to regulate the liquor
traffic rather than to atttemp to en-
force the law. He said he would insist
on Sunday closing and closing at 10
O'Clock on other week evenings and
IL o'clock, on Saturday evenings. He
would not agree to the sale of LIQUOR
to women, min IS or one intoxicated.
He told of the Urge amount of money
that had been received there from the
/ liquor dealers.
Attorney Gereral-"You mean re-
ceived by the county"
Witness-"I understood him To
mean the county,
Witness a slSad fha sta,;ee ;e :.
I true that he was to get $50 a week for
ioohlhs OUT Tor those fellows. He
snfd that he did and I told him ]
thought that I ought to get the same"
Witness continued He said thai
was right and promised to divide even
+ with me, saying if | get any more |
VIII De square with you and divide
( with you the same way"
County Attorney Richardson de-
! scribed in detail the location of his
rooms in the Ross block at Kennebunk.
He spoke of the means of eommunica-
ton arranged between the two offices
by means of a peekhole, concealed bv
a York county map. By pulling upon
string a flap partly cut out Of the
map could be pulled out by anyone in
| the Dane office adjoining, so that one
: III tHdt ONCE cDulu see what was 60
ing ON in the county attorneys private
office. Photographs showing the actual
condition of the rooms We're exhibited
by the State
County Attorney Richardson de-
scri' ed in detail the incidents of
March 8, when the Sheriff came to his
office. Ed. Fl. Emery was at the time
concealed in the Dane office. Witness
stated that the sheriff handed him a
roll of hills wrapped with an elastic
band. He handed it back. Witness
then signalled to Mr.. Emery with the
J aid OF his stenographer. The sheriff
again dropped the bundle of money
into the witness hand. Witness drew
out the slide of the roll top desk and
began to count the money. The money
consisted of five 500 bills, new money,
notes on the Saeo National Bank
The sheriff appeared somewhat nerv-
Gus and walked about the room.
Witness asked what he was frighten-
cd about and the sheriff said: Put
that money away. Somebody might
see it lying around loose,
Witness asked: SIS this money to
protect those fellows over there" The
sheriff replied: That's what the man
fCoptipIaJ oY, Do or,