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

perhaps, as | was before.
/ o. Not when you We're a Sturgis dep
uty? A. Quite often / would so there
in the morning early, sometimes in the
evening.
Q. Now when you were there as a
Sturgis deputy, watching liquor, what
is your estimate of the amount deliv-
| cred in the city of Portland. during that
period? A | might say, perhaps.
| quarter of the amount | have named,
already.
@ You would feel safe in that?
A. | think so.
| % That YOU saw? a. / think that
would cover it easy enough.
@ That is, that you saw? A. That
! I saw
! Q. And you were employed as a
Stursis deputy in Portland about half
of that year? A. / came in March,
left in June, went back in August and
was there till the last of December.
@ That is about half of the year!
A. Yes.
9. SO you saw about quarter as
much as you estimated last year dur
| ing half of the year, and you say that
you were not there all the time? \,
Not TO the depot all the time.
@ Well, were you there half the
time? a. No.
@. Well, if you We're in Portland
six months of the year and only
watching these shipments half of the
| time and you saw only a quarter as
much coming in as come in last year,
wouldn't you estimate that the trade
hadn't changed much? That brings
You about the same results. doesn'
iit2 A. l ask the privilege TO make
Il statement. would like to have per-
mission.
Mr.. PATTANGALL: You are on
the stand.
The WITNESS: / could make it
clear. if YOU please, to the Convention,
what | mean
@. If YOU will answer my question
A. | will answer it. If you will give
it To me correctly, l will answer it.
@. You are doing first rate. Now
you visited on January 4th, $50 Fed
eral street? A. Yes, sir.
@. Had YOU been there before? a.
Not since 1910.
@ When YOU We're a deputy? \.
When | was a deputy.
q. And YOU had been there as
de putv2 A. | have been. yes.
G. Whose place is that? y. Il is
commonly called McGlinch's.
Q. And is that one of the places
such as Bro. Cleaves has referred to
IS Old timer places? A. That has
been running good long while,
don't know how long. but a good
while
@. Running back in the days when
you We're a deputy? y. 1t was open
IT the time.
. @. And down through since them
A. As far as l know
g. Well you knew about it while
You We're an officer. of course? A
Yes.
Q. And ii was running when you
We're an officer? a. Yes. sir.
Q. And when you We're i Sturgis
deputy A. The doors We're open.
G. And also when you We're II Stur-
gis deputy A. Yes.
@. And did the proprietor have any
other business so far as ecu knew
running that place when
you We're a Sturgis deputy? \.
don't know that he had any other
business
@. And when Mr.. Pearson Was
sheriff, and Mr.. Dunn was sheriff. did
he apparently have any other busi-
ness than running that place? \. l.
don't know that he did.
@. And so far as your recollection
goes, MeGlineh's place and 23G Federal
places has been open for L years? A.
Been open as far as my knowledge
goes along that line.
@. Do you work on that street? A.
The place where l used to work was
on that street.
@. You are fairly familiar with tho
conditions there? A. Yes.
@. And Mr.. Doughty, is there any
thing in front, a cigar store or any
thing. or is it plain bar room? A.
just a plain bar room.
@. AS YOU come in from the street,
what do you find first? A. There is
a vestibule two doors, you might say,
the outside door and the inner door.
swinging doors, l think. and then You
come to the bar room proper.
@. No restaurant, or cigar store or
A. No.
@. And that place in that way, with
inst the vestbule between the street and
the bar, has existed for the past L years
has it? A. Yes, sir. 1t has been on
the street good deal longer than that.
@. And even back of that years De-
fore? A. AS far as l know.
O. As an officer under the Sturgis dep
uties while Mr. Trefethen was sheriff
did you succeed in closing McGlineh' 5
place" A. No.
c. 1t was open, was it? A Yes.
@. And the bar was there? A. The
bar was there.
@. And the mirrors? \. Yes
@. And the glasses? a. l eouldn'l
say as to the glasses.
@. Well you We're in, weren't YOU? A
Yes, but | don't remember whether We
gathered up any glasses there or not.
Q. Well, you could see them there
when YOU went in. couldn't you? / viii
put it generally-there was all the para
phernaila of a bar? A. Presumably so
as far as | know. The bar was there
and the mirror behind the bar, and tht
man in charge.
@. Have a white coat on? A. No; NJ
white coats on.
@. When you went in there on Jan
pary 4th was the bartender dressed in