Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-06
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| Attorney General Pattangall, stated
| that he had not been obliged to mol
pros a single Indictment except tic
White case on account of it's beinG
unsigned. The matter of using the
White and Cleaves cases alike was
taken up by the attorney general and
| it appeared by Mr.. Richardson's testi-
| mony that White got the worst end
of the deal.
Witness had asked for a Jail sen
tencc in the Biddeford municipal
court more than once.
Attorney general When Judge
Gleaves was there
Witness-"Whe the recorder was
there" Uaughter).
Witness had not asked Judge Haley
for Jail sentences at the January term.
The attorney general pointed out that
was the month before witness was
being negotiated with in regard to
moi securing jail sentence.
Was Old Orchard wide open all
last summer
"'fhat was The report"
Did you send any spoilers down
there?"
NO. sir
Did you send any minister down
there To look after the situation?"
Ne, sir
Didn't you ask Deputy Sheriff
Watkins, who was a close friend OF
yours. to close up Old Orchard ."
No, sir
The oss-examination then wen.
onto the Gleaves and White case again
and resulted in a lively passage n
arms between Attorney General Pat
tangall and County Attorney Rcih-
ardson.
Witness admitted that a part Of his
agreement with Read was that the
liquor dealers should pay fines three
times a year.
He also admitted that while he was
county attorney no one in Old Or
chard paid one fine a year. He knew
something of the wide open condition
at Old orchard the previous summer
Witness asked Fred Whcher to close
UP Old Orchard but he did not do it.
Understood that Old Orchard was
only wide open during the races.
Would you think Old Orchard
out the county attorney knowing it,
asked Attorney General Pattangall
Il wouldn't think SO. but that's
what happened to me- replied Mr.
Richardson.
On redirect examination by Judge
Cleaves witness stated that when only
small quantities of liquors had been
seized he had been accustomed to ask
for a mol pros. Witness would not
ask for jail sentences except in the
case of old offenders.
Witness admitted upon question by
Attorney General Pattangall that he
was not accustomed to ask for Jail
sentences and that was the general
practice in his county
Would anybody pay for you $50 4
week for continuing what was the
general practice in York eouhty?s
asked the attorney general.
The Evening Session.
Another surprise was sprung at the
opening of the evening session by the
ruling of President Clifford that since
the attorney general had stated that
he should not introduce any testi-
mony except upon the second count
in the indictment relating to the
blank indictment in the case no testi-
mony would be allowed to be intro
dueed except upon the second case,
but the attorney general would be
to introduce any evidence
necessary to rebut the testimony of
Mr.. Richardson
Judge Gleaves, senior counsel for
the defence, protested that in fairness
To the respondent the resolve of the
Legislature should be reformed to in
clude only the second charge but
since the Chair would not permit that
but still insisted that testimony
should be confined to the White case,
he could only protest and proceed.
Willis T. Emmons, collector of the
port of Portland and former clerk
of courts of York county, was called.
Witness had been clerk of courts of
York county since Jan. ], 1910. The
White indictment was not the first
indictment that had been mol pressed
OH account of some defect during his
term of office. Never knew County
Attorney Richardson to do less than
his full duty.
Witness identified the two docket
numbers on the indictment 223 and II
and said they had been placed there
by the clerk in his office. The docu-
ment was never out of his office from
the time it came into his possession
III September, 1911 until he went out
of office. County Attorney Richard
sons practice differed from County
Attorney Hobbs in asking for Jail
sentences. the latter always asking
for Jail sentence but it was like
that of proceeding officers.
Witness on cross examination said
there was some discussion as to
whether Cleaves had paid one fine or
two. The discussion was between
Judge Haley Mr.. Emery and the
county attorney. The county attor-
ney at one time thought that Cleaves
had paid two fines but afterwards
found that he had paid but one fine
Witness was of the impression that
the jury had been discharged before
the county attorney had found his
error
Edwin l. Littlelield of Kennebunk
testified that he had never heard that
Asa A. Richardson had done less than