Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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facts as showing the opportunity which
this man had to what was going OH.
Q. Now, what is the reputation of the
Harbor View place where liquor Is
sold? @. They hold a United States Ii
cense.
@. Do you know whether or not liquor
seizures have been made there within
recent times? "A. Not since January LIST.
Q. How long before that time do you
know of liquor being seized there. APP
proximately? y Per1nfps two months
before that.
@. And do you know howAiauch liquor
was seized there thai ame2 y. Oh. fifty
or sixty gallons.
@. Do you know wllafAer it took two
jiggers to haul II off? a. / think it did
@. And now during any Of these seiz-
ures referred to, slo xpu know of the
sheriff or his deputy milking any of those
seizures? A. M.
@. VIII you state the ,lafesef. 1he paper
which contains Your first instaiment?
A. March TO- 1873.
paper marked for dcntifeation estate
Eek. I'D ~. y
O. Whether or not during February of
this year you presented in the public
print a platform, appears n-iha Bath
Daily Times of February A. 1913. refer
ring to the condition OF illegal sales OF
Intoxicating liquor in Bath A. ! NJ
MR.. PLUMBER: | will ask that the
platform be read for this pnrpose. tina.
1T contains statements reg u hhs the con-
dition of the city asne saw them at
that time. and these statsments We're
given publication in the IL paper.
which has. as we shall s15xylns cir
culation one copy 10 every |eSslsIIer'fi
voter in the city 81 Pan StNe Offer
This as. showing his published statement
of the notorious condition, Of thf city AZ
that time and We snail ask that II be
read. - f.s97,
@. While that piper IS E exam
ined,SI ask you whether Or - a letter
purporting to be signed bysX4l ny ap-
pearing in the Bath &fimss of
March 9TH Is your letter. !IMEN nethet
chat is a correct print of. WHAT You
signed. A. 1t is.
O. / show you copy of the Bath
Daily Times of Saturday evening, Feb
ruary 22nd. 1919, which contains what
purDorts to be letter ofAaeeeptanee
from you. and ask you whether or not
that letter is as you wrote is& a. 1t Is.
Q. While the examination is proceed
ing, l will ask you whether or not the
statements of fact, or statements as of
facts, contained in those various com
munications were true \. They wefe.
tMr. Plummer hands paper to witness
to read platform, and witness requests
that Mr.. Piummcr read it
THE SPEAKER: There is no ohJec-
ton, probably, to his reading it.
MIR. PLUMMER: ] viii have Bro.
Pattangall read il.
MR.. PATTANGAI.L: No objection 10
BRO. Plummer redding 1t. find On eX-
animation of the platform that there
are two fairly brief statements of alleged
fact. Practically all the rest OF the
platform states Mr.. Wilbur q. divers
promises of whit he Will do II ne Is
elected mayor.
THE SPEAKER: That. Of course, IS
immaterial.
MR. PATTANGAl.f.: think perhaps
Bro. PluTnmer and can agree a. to
what shall be Introduced.
Consultation between attorneys
MR.. PIT MINER: or course II Is UNI
derstood in filing these we simply lie
the parts referred to. The sections which
we have agreed upon read as follows;
1T is pretty generally known that Bath
is wide open In quotation marks, tne
wide open. Not for many years, At
ever. has the law against dsofderiy
houses, gambling places, and the safe OF
intoxicating liquors been So openly ana
hagrantiy violated. sulte recently ltHe
date of the paper is Feb. l4th, This year,
Quite Recently a man from another
city, who Is said to have a chain OF as
reputable houses through the state mas
opened such an establishment mere ana
there are many others. some OF them
are vile beyond the limit oil description
permitted in q newspaper all OF them
are necessarily bad; ana they are rum
ing many of our Young boys ana girls.
1t is possible tnat the fol extent 10
which these vices are carried on Is not
known to the present administration, put
enough Is known 10 II to eaiF Tor at least
a pretense"ot enforcement or tae law
$3.50 @!uhere are ut ieast I'VE Sueh PiacrS
open in Bath Today several II not ana
ofet nsn nave ohsrahfierS seitei'iiis fie
mn