Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-14

deputies should do better this year? A
| think so.
@. Have YOU followed that to see
what has been done since the first day
OF January? A. Generally.
Q. And did YOU realize in the time
that they made no seizures from Jan
uary up TO March? A. I did not know it
.. You did not follow il up to that
extent? \. | do not see him very much
I do not have an Office in the county
building. His office is in Auburn and
live in Lewiston and do not see him very
much. He sends for me sometimes.
q. The condition of the business for
two years has been pretty open. has il
not2 A. You want my answer from the
evidence before the grand jury or my
evidence from having lived in Lewiston
all my life?
@. Anyway you pleaae9 A. The evil
dence before the grand jury would
indicate that the liquor business WAS
being conducted in Lewiston,
Q. Pretty openly? A, Judging from
the testimony.
@. And judging from your experience
as citizen? A. Having been born
there. think that the liquor business
has always been conducted there.
Q. Has it not been sold very openly
the last two years? a. ! do hot know
about that.
O That is, you mean to tell the con-
yention that you do not know whether
those places in Lewiston have been OPEN
lv selling liquor in the last two years?
A. / do not believe ] have been on that
~, ~ Ia ct xrn
@. And you want to tell the eonven-
ton that you do not know whethen Tom
McNamara's place has been running
openly in the last tive years? A. | as
sumo so from the evidence before the
grand jury. and | have no doubt about it.
@. And you have no doubt from the
evidence before the grand jury thai they
were all running openly? A. Yes, sir.
@. And you have no doubt that the
evidence by Mr.. Leach in regard to the
openness of the saloons is true \. Yes,
sir.
@. Back since the first of January and
back the last two years? \. | have
heard from the first of January what the
conditions are.
@. Since the first of January and in
the previous two years you have no
question but that it is true? \. ] have
no doubt but that it is true.
@. IT is true when a man sees white
coated bar tenders and liquor dispensed
over the bar, there is no doubt about it
then, is there? y. | have no doubt that
ne testities 10 what he saw. ! have not
seen It.
@. That being true that liquor has
been openly sold during the last two
years while the present sheriff WAS in, it
has been the practice of his department,
has it not TO make out all the search
and seizure warrants? You have not at
tended To that2 a. No. sir never
swore out q warrant and never knew of
a county attorney of any of our counties
who did.
@. You do not mean to- say that they
do not ia other countless y. They do
not in our county.
@. Now it has been the practice DUR
ing this administration fof''the officers
10 issue all the search and seizure WIZ
rants and you have had nothing to 30
with liz a. ! think they 80 Ia the
Lewiston municipal court and swear out
their complaints.
~. -alih III iitiN' ioefii'fe7 60 " WIN ~
whatever? \. No, sir. q IL.
/ @. And then they zcemefup on appeal
to the supreme court Al Ses. sir.
O. And it seems to be mhes practice
from the testimony that atithe time they
bring in search and seizure warrant
they also make out a complaint for q
liquor nuisance on the same place? \.
Yes. ana that is bound over and comes
up before the supreme court.
q. And then the party is bonnd over
no answer in the supreme court? A. Yes
sir.
@. And that accounts for the fac
that when they get up to the supreme
court. that you have up there a searcf
and seizure case and a nuisance case il
almost every instance y. Yes. sir.
q. So that the practice has been il
your county during the last two year:
and up to the present time for the sher
ifs force to take charge of all proseeu-
lions of the liquor sellers up to the tim,
they get to the grand jury? You do not
appear in the lower court? A. No, sir
the city solicitor proseeutes there under
the ordinances of the city. He prose
cutes all violations of the liquor law.
Q. When they get before the grand
jury, then your duties begin? A. That is
when / start
, @. And you have presented, as ] un-
derstand all of the cases the sheriff has
brought before you? a. I think so.
9. And that has resulted in those sixt,
odd indictments in the January term o
, 1912? A. Whatever number there We're
O. And something like 50 in the April