Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-11
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q. How many did you visit. on Sat
urday last? A. I couldn't state the
number exactly. We visited several
places on the square. one or two on Har-
low street, one on French street, and
several ON Hancock street.
Q. Now in those places what evidence
did you see If the use of intoxicating
liquors? A. Shall l name the places
Q. If you will A. On Hancock
street. there were men lined up at the
bar. There were no liquors displayed.
but there was liquor being drunk that
Hooked to me like whiskey.
@. That is. being drunk out of a
small glass? A. Yes.
Q. Did you see the bottles in each
place served to any one2 \. One
Q. Describe that bottle? A. 1t was
a Iong-nected bottle
Q. Go on. A. On French street /
visited one place kept by what Judged
was jew. There were no men in
there. There was an odor of liquor per-
ceptible all through, but no liquors in
sight. / had a reason to argue that he
was selling liquorand / said--(Ob-
jected to).
JUDGE CLEAVES: Don't give any
conversation that you had. A. At Han
cock street, we visited several places.
There was an odor of liquor in all the
places that We visited. In Some there
were a few men, and in some many
We came back to the Square and there
We went into one place where counted
as high as 40 odd men in one place
Q. Are you able to state relative
to where that was? A. That was Will
liam C.. Cox's place
Q. Now let us see If We can locate
that. A. haven't looked at that map
@. Would it be about where / place
my pointer, in Pickering square? A. 1t
would.
Q. And that YOU refer to as the Cox
place? A. l was told it was Cox's
place.
Q. And down there in that place you
found 40 men? A. Forty odd men.
Q. Lined up to the bar? A. They
were not all lined up to the bar: there
were one or two men in the corner that
were intoxicated and some men sitting
on the table who seemed to be eating
some kind of lunch. and the rest were
at the bar
e. At that place did you see any
hard liquor being drunk? A. There
counter drinking out of bottle marked
Rye" and the glass was small glass:
and l heard a man call for ale, and 1t
was served to him out of bottle. and
the other men were drinking various
kinds of liquor.
Q. Can you name any other place?
a. There were two places on that same
side of the street as Cox's / don't
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number of men varied in them, but in
all the places on the square that We
visited there were hard liquors in sight
had occasion to step to the end OF the
counter. and under the counter I saw
other places in there. some were in
cases and some We're in what seemed to
be--well, We might call it the lower
part of refrigerator and the long
necked bottles seemed to be in there
Q. AT any of these places did you
find the door locked or fastened in any
way when you approached? A. None
O. Did you find any watchers. or
any person apparently looking for youe
A. None. az s'asss ~
q. And in any place did you hear
| anybody refuse when they made a re-
quest for liquor? A. None.
Gross Examination.
| By Judge STEARNS:
Q. You live in East Corinth, 1 UNDER
stand? A. Yes, sir.
| @. And that is 20 miles from Ban
| gor? a. Twenty miles.
| O. And that is in Penobscot county?
A. Yes, sir.
| O. And how long did you say you
had lived there9 A. Two years
| O. Did you ever live in Bangor
A. Three years, while | was going to
}school
| O. And where did you go to school
in Bangor? A. Bangor Theological
school.
| @. How long ago was that? A.
should have to look up the date
| O. No. you don't need to look up any
date. Can't you tell approximately
when you went to school? A. I shou,l
have to guess at it, and don't want to
| guess
Q. You don't want to guess? A. No
| sir
sin in guessing? A. / am not talking
about sin.
| Q. Then why can't you tell ME APP
JpioAihdteis INV long ago Ii was that
you went to school in Bangor? A. +
said | would have to look up the date.
ard | don't remember exactly.
9. Can't you approximate the num-
Der of years ago? A. 1 suppose
could. but l don't wish to-
Q. What is your objection, Mr..
Carleton to giving me the approximate
time? A. l don't like to guess.
Q. What is your scruple about
guessing. Mr.. Carleton? A. Simply
that ] don't care to guess.
O. So you refuse to answer that
question? A. l do.
y. Have you lived in Bangor with
in the last five years. A. Yes sir.
G. And how recently did you move.
out of Bangor A. couldn't tell
you.
Q. Did YOU move out of Bangor
three years ago? A. | don't wish to !
guess.
z. Did you move out of Bangor
four years ago? A. l refuse to an
ser that question. Fl