Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08

-. And your approach was unherald
ed? A. Unknown to them until / an
peared.
.. And | suppose ii is common in you
| experience. is it not, that when an Off
Ger gets a search warrant for a place
| and starts out to search it that by some
means or other the proprietor frequentl,
hears of it and cleans out his stuff? A
| That has been the ease in a good many
cases in my experience.
| @. that one ordinarily would ex-
pect to find not quite the same situa-
| ton, going as an officer as he would as
| a private citizen-woul Int that be true:
| A. If he has been an officer, that would
| be the result
Q. He would realize that from his ex-
| perence? A. There would be a clean
| ing up, if he were an officer and meant
business, from the time he was appoint
ed ana got his warrants out there would
be cleaning up. nothing 10 find in that
place.
@. And that being so il is more or
less waste of time for an officer to get
| out warrants against places that are
well posted, isn't it? \. Places that
are we'll guarded by men-that is the an
swer 4 believe you want isn't it?
| Q. Yes. / think SO. Now take this Nc
| Giinch place, did you search it more
than once as a Sturgis Deputy? A. L
think We We're there once N that place.
| if | remember right
| @. But you mad reason to suspect that
it was bar room during all the time,
| hadn YOU? A. The bar was there, and
the building was there.
| Q. And Mctrlinch was there? A. But
| there was no signs Of liquor i'll there or
| around about it.
=. That was the time You went? A.
| The time I went and as far as l OBJ
| served, and on outside information that
got there from people on the outside.
G. So you think that place was really
| out of business for several months? A.
think it was
@, With nothing to sell in there but
ginger ale?. a. Ginger ale. and perhaps
4 little hop beer; think he had bar
rel of hop beer.
@. Now how about e Temple Place?
Who runs that place. A. | think his
name is Lowry. if | remember correctly.
Q. Is that one OF the old places or a
new one? \. l am not prepared to say
how Old it is; it was in 1910 anyway.
@. Was it closed in 1917 \. l think
the doors were open.
Q. And the same proprietor there? A.
| didn't see him there 1T any time /
know Of
@. Wei. do YOU know whether the
same man WAS then doing business there
that is now: A. ! think ii was always
called his place
g. Lowreys place? 4. Yes.
@. And did he have any other business
in 1870 as far as you know. except run
he didn't have. no.
Q. Now is that Il restaurant or cigar
store there? A. There were some tables
in there, / believe, on one side
Q. Do you know anything about the
restaurant business, whether there Is n
substantial restaurant business does
there are not? a. will say in 1910,
there We're no signs of grub in there of
any kind to my knowledge.
O. In 1910, so far as the place is con-
eerned, it was just a plain bar room?
A. Just a plain bar room.
c. Now il has got at least a semblance
of a restaurant? A. won't say-the
tables were there in 1910 the tables were
in the same building the same ROOM but
no sign of food.
Q. No sign of food? A. No sign of
food.
@. Now they have food about there,
do they? A. That don't know
@. Wen. what difference do you see
in regard TO the restaurant part of it. is
there any? A. | didn't go in far enough
to find out. | didn't go back into the
inner room where the stove was at the
time | was there before.
O. Is the restaurant in the rear or
the front? A. Tables are in the front
room. a large room.
O. Now, on January 18th. you went
from the front rooms where the tables
are TO the rear room where the bar is
didn't you? A. There is no rear room
excepting the little place boarded off in
the rear of the big ROOM AS you go in
the outside door you come practically
into the bar room itself, where you will
find the tables on the left as you go in,
and the bar is on the right.
Q. Now do you know if that place
was running when you were a deputy
| there? a. There was no place running
when | was deputy under Pearson and
Dunn, excepting two on Federal street.
| and the place across the street was run
| by Murphy.
! Q. What business was going on at
I Is Temple street at that time, do you
| know? A. / don't know.
| @. Now you went to 416 Fore street.
next? A. Yes.
Q. Whose place is that? A. Ingra-
ham was there the night l was there
Q. And do you know how long that
place has been running? A No,
don't
/ @. Was it running, in 1910? A. The
\ building was there but the doors were
! closed and we went in there once, l be-
| lieve, and searched the building from
the top to the bottom. into the sub-cel-
lar. but couldn't find anything.
Q. And do you mean by that that
the store part wasn't opened again dur
ing that time? A. Not that / know of
| don't know that 1t was.
l Q. Now when you went to Portland
first as Sturgis deputy. in March. 1910
there Were, | assume. certain number
of places where liquor was being sold
weren't there-you found some places
A We found some ulaceS