Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-11

! you visited for the purpose of obser-
walton any places in Bangor where
you have seen Intoxicating liquors
sold? A. l have.
| q. When did you first go about?
A. About the middle of January
Q. And will YOU tell us first wheth-
er YOU visited the place called the
shack and observed it about that
time? A. | didn't at that time.
Q, What place did you observe and
| visit in January? A. didn't visit
| the interior of any saloons in January
! My investigations We're confined en-
tirely to exterior Investigations
q. Now where did you go? Upon
what streets? A. Upon Exchange
street, Hancock. Washington, Broad
Pickering Square, and a few others
| Q. Upon any of those streets, as
| you passed any OF the places, did YOU
see drinking and see bottles of liquor
displayed openly in any of those
places? y. In several.
O. Now are you able to designate
by name or location any of the places
of which you made such observation
a. Only in a general way. One on
Pickering Square and one on Ex-
change street, especially, that l saw
from the sidewalk.
| y. What did you observe in those
places from the sidewalk? A. saw
men entering and leaving those places.
/ detected very strongly the odor of
| liquors. l saw men intoxicated and
in partially intoxicated condition.
and | could see men on the interior,
and occasionally, as the doors opened
into the place where the bar is, I
would see men lifting something to
their lips. drinking from a glass.
| q. Upon that occasion were you
able to see into any of these barrooms
| and see the display of bottled goods
anywhere about the bar room. from
the street, l mean. A. I did not.
| Q. Later. namely about a month
ago, did you again make some investi-
cations? \. l did.
Q. And was it in the month of
March? A 1t was.
g. Now will YOU tell us first where
| you went? A. Practically over the
same territory as on my earlier visit.
g. Did YOU go into any of the
places month ago? A. | stepped in
| to the front part of two or three. one
| on Exchange street one on Pickering
| Square.
@. Now in those places what did
| YOU observe in regard to intoxicating
| liquor? A. l saw men entering and
! leaving the place where the bar is
| located, and could detect the odor of
liquor.
O. Did you visit the shack, or have
you been by it? A. Frequently.
O. Now as you went by. or as You
approached the place, what, if any
thing, did You see in regard to what
was going on inside? A. In the
shack
c. Yes. A. l could see from the
sidewalk through into the back room
and saw men lined up in front OF
what looked like a bar, and some OF
them drinking from glasses
@. Now do you know Mcnamara. s
place? A. / do.
.. Where is that located? \. AT
the easterly side.
c. Have you been into that place
during the month of March or tht
present one? A. I have.
@. Which? A. Saturday last.
@. Now upon Saturday last. YOU
say YOU were at McNamaras place:
4. was.
@. Did you go in? A. / did.
O. State to the convention what
YOU observed in regard to intoxicat-
| ing liquor? A. / saw several men
standing in front of a bar, drinking
| from a glass,
Q. And what kind of a looking
drink was it? 4. Dark colored, some
of it had frcth on the top of it.
@. Did you see what kind of re-
| ceptaeie it WAS poured out Of? A
Not at that place.
Q. How many men were drinking
at that place? A. Three or four
| Q. Did you see any signs of hard
lliuuor there then? A, l did not.
@. What other place did you visit?
A. visited the shack Saturday
morning.
| G. What did you observe there? a.
A man behind the bar. and three men
in front, one drinking whiskey from
u glass.
@. What other place did you visit.
A. The one next to it. brick building
next to it.
q. What did you opSeiNe 'peie' "a
A man behind the bar. and four or
five men in that place.
| @. What We're they doing? A, Two
of them were drinking from glass.
| @. What other place did you Visit
A. The one next to that.
| @. Did you visit at the other places
on Saturday LAST A, did.
@. What did YOU observe at the last
place. A. didn't see any one drink
/ ing in the third place. l saw severai
men in there, but none of them drink
| ing. -,
/ O The location of that so-called
| sbaclf-is il in the outskirts OF the
CITY. one OF the low down places IN
Paugor, or is it upon one of its pup
lie streets A. 1t faces East Market
square. practically the center OF the
! city.
O And where with reference to
that place. is the postottlce to De
built? A. Across the street diagonal
| ~.
| @ So that it is in one of the pet-
ter portions of Bangor, the business
norton? A. Within a thousand rect