Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-24
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Interesting Gases Befort
Municipal Courtat Dover.
Men Sent 10 Jail for RetusInp
10 Work After Fares Paid. 5
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County Needs jail workshop...con.
gresham Guernsey Recovering.
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CiaD--TWo Woodsmen were before tn,
Piscataquis municipal court, Tuesday
morning, charged with violating the
law concerning the reimbursing OF
lumbermen for advance made in money
OF transportation. These men Were
James McC.ue. and, George Coffin, COM
ing from Bangor and engaged by the
Haifiip. Lumber Go. to work AT their
operation in Wellington. Employ
~ neent .Asent cowhig of Bangor. en-
gagged the men for the above company
and Started them in Wellington. One
: of them had not Sufficient mileage and
was put off before he reached his
designation and the other had fol-
$ lossed HIM. The company, however.
=. got hem to Wellington, arriving 1T
d the boarding house carried on by tie
, lalnbef company. Saturday evening.
+. They Unnamed until three o'clock
Monday morning when they left the
house and started for civilization. WIN.
, Dyer the foreman in charge of the
= operation al kingsbury. started in
pursuit of the men and after overtaltr
ias them tried 10 persuade them To. re :.
. turn to the camp but they refused
Nhereupon Dyer telephoned Deputy
! Sheriff clyde Toss who arrested the
men and brought them to Dover by
automobile +. {. Hamlin, member
i, of. 1.-The firm. Was telephened for and 4
i hearing was given the men before
Teeord.r Tobcy, Tuesday morning.
The men had violated Section I If
+, Chapter Z of the Public Laws of 1907.
which makes provisions against
woodsmen entering into agreem mt
with a lumber concern to work for
them, receiving in consideration an
advance in goods, money or trans
p6ffatiun, and after receiving same to
"unreasonably and wilfully' refuse to
carry out the agreement to the extent
of reimbursing the employers for their
expense This law comes particularly
hard on Piscataquis county where
there are many of these cases and as
the men never have cash to pay
fine they must be boarded at the ex-
pense of the county.
Mccuu and Coffin both pleaded
= sguity and, in spite of the efforts Of
: the recorder to get them TO agree Il
settle up with the employers and pay
:, a part Of. the costs. the men We're oh
! stinate and seemed determined To so
to Jail The sentence of ten days
q each was finally given them which
really seemed a disappointment to the
men as they had evidently hoped fer
go days, 4as
Fred Fuller. man past middle age.
residence unknown. was before the
municipal court TUESDAY morning,
having been arrested at Shirley by
Deputy Sheriff Alien and charged with
having broken several windows in the
sBT VAR. r. station in Shirley. The
man had trouble on the train, Monday
evening. and was put off at Shirley.
he remarked to bystander that lac
would. show him some moving pic
lures" and picking up some rocks be-
gan to demolish the windows in the
station. After the man had broken
glass in three windows the station
agent finally succeeded in securing
i, him and placing him in IA box e3r
where he remained until the deputy
arrived. Fuller seemed in bad
: condition mentally but laid 1t to the
drinking of Jamaica ginger. he piea'i
guilty, Tuesday morning. and vas
given 30 days in the county Jail lie
will be watched as his sanity is ques-
3tioned. s..
Congressman Frank L. Guernsey is
:. recovering we'll from ting effects of his
dislocated shoulder He was holding
his s4,,tr g. driving horse by the head a.
= few weeks ago, near the railroad track,
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