Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-11
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Union street. Joseph st. Beau!ieu, Union
street. +. T., Boucher. Water street, New
Era Restaurant; IL, NJ Durham, Main
street, drug store; Fred Bell, CONNER
cial hotel; John English. Water street:
Joseph Cotter, Main street; Talien Du-
mont, "a Water street; Fred English,
Bosworth street; John l.. Ferguson,
Commercial Hotel; Alex Fraser. Water
street, City Hotel; J. Mile Fisher. Old
| Town Exchange: Joseph H. Grover.
Center street, west end of bridge;
Mitchell Groneau. Water street, City
Hotel: William Green. Main street, Old
Town Exchange; Joseph H. Head Il
Co. crock Hotel. Water street; Louis
Jam, Polk store. west side Main street,
NJ, y. Kane. The Willows, Court street;
]. +. Kennedy sherry Place. west side
! Water street: Fred +, Lovejoy, Main
street. That. however, is Il malt liquor
license, and should not have been read.
Josiah Mshou. Cousins Hotel: w. Glenn
emf Mutty. Main and Court streets. Nut
tvs pharmacy: \. G. Perry. Water
street. Riverside House; =, H. Shea,
| Water street: Joe !. Saindon. Water
street; Mike Sherry, Water street Sher-
| rvs store: Omar ST. Lonis, east side
Front street: Paul and Sophia Thibo-
deau, Front street. That completes the
list for Old Town
@ How many in that list at Old
Town" \. Retail liquor dealers in Old
! Town. %.
! @ Any wholesalers among that list?
\. TWO wholesale liquor dealers.
! @. And any Wholesale malt liquor
dealers? \. Ne.
uo,.,
!, 4. | have.
g. Read that list. please ~ Leon
\. Boynton. - North Main street: Will
lis q. Barker. les Center street. the
Merrill Drug Co. ani Penohscot square.
T. y. seymour, al South Main street.
Those are all in Brewer proper There
are some in South Brewer.
@. You via read those. please
4. Joseph E Cluett, 10 King street
William Andrew kiah Is Oak street
That. however, is a malt liquor tax
Fred Snecc. 80 II Oak street; Fred u
Wyman. 557 South Commercial street
charge of the work.
@. Have You similar list with ref
erence to Dexter and Lincoln. is there
any such list? \. Yes, sir
@. VIII you read the Dexter list first?
A. George L. Brewster Main street !;
d. VI. Cleveland. Exchange Hotel: AL
bert l.. Davis. Main street, Blithier
block; w. l.. Davis. Dexter House.
George Rance. Church street; w. r
Spfingall, II Main street.
Cross Examination.
BY Judge STEARNS.
@ MIR. owen. did you make personal
ton? \. Yes. sir
q. And you examined the books your
self? \. Yes. sir.
Q. When We're you there last?
~ The md day Of April.
@ You have no means of knowing
| suppose. how many of those licenses
We're issued 10 apnthecaries or drug
stores? y. They are not indicated on
tie books.
Mr.. ARTHUR L. THAYER, having
been duly sworn. testified as follows:
Examination by Judge CLEAVES.
.. What is your full name? ~ Arr
thur Ia Thayer.
@ You are an attorney at law2 \. I
am.
q. And practice in Bangor? A. do.
q. And for how many years
y. Since a year ago last February
q. Now since the first day of IAN
nary. this Year. have YOU made any
personal investigation and observation
in regard to the sale of Intoxicating
liquor in the city of Bangor? n
have.
q. VIII you state your investiga ion
to the convention. mentioning places
where you went and what you saw at
each place and about the time speaking
so that everyone can hear. A. Soon
after the first of the year, when Sher-
lift Emerson came in. he made, as / re-
member. several search and seizures.
WAS out of town and came back and
heard about it and was interested TO
know what he was actually doing and |
took particular pains. the latter part of
the afternoon and in the evening to
go about the city of Banfor and the
places that I knew where liquor had
been previously sold. TO see if il was
true. | found that most of the places,
that evening, were closed. Very few of
the places where they had been selling
previous to that day were open. The
next week / took particular pains. after
conversation in regard to the matter
TO go around again to see what the
change had been Every place that I
visited. and / visited about %. the fol-
lowing week, was open, and men We're
drinking in every place that / visited
liquor was on the shelves in practically
every saloon, and in most of them you
could see the liquor from the streets
through the swinging doors.
Q. Just let me interrupt you a mo-
ment. Were those places To which you
have called attention on some of the
principal streets of Bangor? A. Yes
sir.
@. And where people were almost mo-
mentarily passing along the sidewalk
a. Continually.
Q. And if ! understood you correctly,
when person went in or out of those
places so that the door was momenta-
city open, the conditions were such that
you, standing on the sidewalk, could
see in and see the parties drinking some
sort of liquor and see the display of
liquor and bottles plainly. exhibited on
or about the bar? a. Yes, sir, and
you could also see into each one of those