Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05


fatten their accounts. wives taking in
washing To support these places;
scores of young men diseased; fathers
folsaking their homes To live in these
places: school boys making these
places their headquarters. Every per-
son who can buy gallon of liquor
and is disposed to sell it, is doing so
for Saturday night and sunday s
trade Men are selling liquor for a
living and allowing relatives to de
| in the poor house. one place is leased
by the owner for $50, and the lessee
subjects it for 500 a month; the Same
place for Il legal business would bring
about SIS a month"
Now are the statements that you
presented in that letter true? n
They We're.
@. You speak of little boys II
years of age drunk and before the
court. At what time was that? this
year? A. I think SO.
q. You speak of girls of the same
age staggering drunk in the streets
! is that about the same time? \.
couldn't say just when.
| Q. But il was a comparatively
! short time before you smadc thes,
statements? A. 1t was.
| q. - You say every person who car
| buy gallon of liquor and is disposed
to sell it is. doing 50 for Saturday
night and sundays Grade. What dit
YOU mean by that? A. That is tho
common talk around she town
q. You speak of one place that is
| leased for $50 ana subleased for SO,
= month, that would bring about 81:
for legitimate business. What plac,
was that Z136 Commercial street
@. And do You know what the bust
ness there was? A. Well. l never
have visited it but it had the reputa-
lion Of being a house of i'll fame
| think the court records Will show il
was.
Mr. PLrMMER: wouldn't hay,
4 asked the question if l didn't know
that the records would support it.
Q. / show you copy of the Bail
| Times, dated March 4. 1913 (State Ey
1 a and ] read from it these lines tak.
en- from letter which purported t,
be- signed by you: "The vice condi
tons which I hoped to remedy still
exist in Bath, and the need OF {
house cleaning is as great today as j
was last week" And was that state
ment true? y. 1t was at that time
Yes sir.
@. Your place of business is yer,
near to the Maine Central Depot, ism
1T? a. It is.
! Q. Whether or not it is very nea1
to the Bath Iron Works. A. 1t IS.
Q. And approximately how many
| men are employed by the Bath Iror
Works A. / couldn't say at the pres
ent time.
| @. y very large number? y Foul
or five hundred.
! @. And the men go and come by
your place largely? \. They do.
! @. What have you To say as to Tho
condition of drunkenness in the city
MS YOU have observed it during tn.
months of--say January and February
! Of this year as compared with the
previous year? A. Why, about tn,
| same
I Q. Without mentioning specifically
whether or not you have during thi.
year gone 10 any of these places ant
/ requested them not In sell liduor [,
any particular person that yo,
named? \. / don't think I have thi!
year.
@. And about how long ago was it
| that YOU did those things, if you did ?
a. Within year.
Q. And will you tell this body th,'
names of those places that you went
to and the names of the propretorc,
| if You know them. SO far as you now
recollect? \. | went to John O'Brien,
| went To Joe Footer, went to Will
liam O'Bricn. Went To Dan Warner =
several others that | can't just recol-
lect.
Q. And by William J. O'Brien YOU
mean the proprietor of the Columbia
Hotel? a. | do.
Q. Now will you tell this body how
many places where by common re-
pute, or from your own observation,
4 YOU know liquor was sold. that the
| sheriff had to pass in going from the
court house to the post office. or did
pass ordinarily \. Three or four
@. And will you name those places .
A. John O'Brien. Joseph Footer, Will
| braham Leavitt.
| @. Is the Orient Club on that sam
| Center street? y Yes, sir | forgot
4 that. f.sst5i...s. 81
| -. where Is the ffdTpof bl1W itoT
| tel relative to the postotiieer A. Oh
most directly across from the post
office.
| q, Where is Tim McAuliffes place
| relative to, the postoffice? A. Almost
! acrnas from the postotiice, ~.
| o. Is there a sign marked Cafe"
| displayed over the door of john o.
| Brien's place. A. | think there is.
Q. During your lifetime have yol
ever seen anybody eat in that place.
| A l have.
| @. When? \. \ year ago, should
say.
| Mr.. PLUMMER: We offer Exhibits
one, two. three, four and five, it being
mutually understood that only the
! parts marked are the parts that we
| put in the record.
Cross Examination by Mr.. Pattangall.
Q. Mr. oliver, how long have you
| been acquainted with John Ballou? A.
| Forty years.
! Q. And during how much of thar
| time has he been sheriff of the county
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