Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05


@. Did YOU get anything? A. Got 2
pints and 10 half pints.-
@ DO YOU know whether that plac
has since that time been visited by tn
police officers? A. Yes. sir.
@. About when? A. l think it wa
last December won't say for sure.
@. Did they get anything? A. Yes
sir.
@. In the way of liquors? Ayes. sir
Q. DO you know what they got2 A
Well l have forgotten now what the,
did get but they got enough to convic
him.
@. Now do you know where job,
O'Briens place is. A. Yes, sir
@. Where is it? a. 1t is on Centel
street l don't know the exact number.
j @. Almost opposite the Ram? \
Right across the street.
! O.. Have you ever visited that? \
No, sir
@. Have you passed it freademlst-t A
Yes, sir,
O. What is there in the front part OF
the shop A, Well, there is a half a
dozen tables in there, and counter.
| O. Now during the last year have you
ever seen anybody dining in there? y.
No, sir. ss8 IA s.f
@. And do you know what the reputa-
ton of that place Is. as regards the sell
ing of intoxicating liquors? A. Well.
they claim it is rum shop
@. What signs have you seen that in
Dictated To YOU that it was a rum shop
4. Men coming in and out of there in
toxicated.
@. Frequently? A. Very frequently.
@. About how long has that place
been running? \. 1t has been running
think he has been over there about
three years.
@. Do you know where Joe Footer
was prior 10 his opening the Ram? \.
Yes, sir.
@. Where? a. Harbor View.
@. And do you know whether or not
the officers visited him there? A. Well.
there was some officer visited him there.
but l won't say whether il was the po-
lice officers or not.
Q. Do YOU know whether a seizure
was made there? a. Yes, sir
O. About when? A. Well | wouldn't
say.
@. Do you know who succeeded Joe
Footer as the proprietor of the Harbor
View? y. a man by the name of Lewis.
@. And how long did he occupy that
place?-about how long? a. l guess he
was there a year and half.
@ About when did he so out? n.
lie went away about three months ago,
] guess.
@. About that time. or just prior. did
the officers search him? A. Yes, sir.
Q. What ofiicers?-I mean We're they
police officers? A. They were police Of
fieers.
Q. Did they get anything? y. They
got two jigger loads. / believe.
Q. Two jigger loads? y. Yes, what
understood
@. Two jigger loads Of what? 4. or
liquors.
@. Any whiskey in it, a. Yes. SIR.
Q. Do you remember what the loads
consisted of-roughly speaking-largely
/ remember right.
@. Now do you know where Tim Me-
Auliffe's place is2 a. Yes. sir.
Q. Where? A. Down on Front street
the corner of Front and Vine streets.
abreast OF the postoffice. L. ,.,
@. And how long has he been there
\. / couldn't tell you.
@. Well. roughly speaking, has he
been there all the time you have been
an officer? a. He has been there, six
years all right. =
Q. Now have you seen men going in
and out of that place? 4. Yes, sir, I
have seen more or less going in and out
there, not so numerous as some.
Q. To your knowledge has that place
been searched during the past six years?
\. Yes, sir.
@. About when? a little over year
ago.
O BY whom? A. Marshal Fred L.
McFadden.
@ About year ago last October,
was there spasm of enforcement of
the law in Bath? A. Yes. sir.
@. BY what officers? A. BY the po-
lice officers.
Q. Was that the result of another
newspaper controversy? a. Hardly.
Q. Do you know whether or not at
that time the city of Bath-city govern
ment-passed an order directing en-
forcement? A. Yes, sir
Q. And whether or not this activity
was the result of that order? a. Yes,
sir
.. can you state approximately,
roughly, how many searches and seiz-
ures We're made as the result of that
order by you officers2 A. Well.
should say there was seven or eight
searches. and three or four seizures.
c. During all of that time did the
sheriff OF his deputies do. any search
ing?i A. Not that I know of.
@. An of the searches that you know
of were made by the police? A. Yes.
| sir.
@. Do you know where John Gan
mons place is? A. Yes. sir
@. Where is it? A, 1t is on Mar
| ion street.
Q. In back of a bill board? A. Yes.
i two of them.
| Q. Now have you seen men going in
and out of John Gannon's place, within
the last year? A. Yes. sir.
@. What sort of men? Drinking
men? A. Well, drinking men.
Q. Do you know what the reputation
of that place is as regards intoxicating
| liquor? A. Well they claim that you
can get all you want down there.
| Q. And do you know whether or not
John has been seized or convicted?
A. Yes. sir.
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