Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-12
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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act they were not sciZable under the
State laws. That is true. But 1 ASK
you to remember also what the sher-
lift said when he tells you that the
old-time red sleds of somebody whoss
names he mentioned and | do not
now recall, was going through the
streets continuously with his own
beer. So what becomes of the argu-
ment of my Brother Stearns when I'M
der the law, which he SO well knows,
the man with the red sleds who owned
the beer went to the depot and got
his own beer and that had been de-
livered to him, and it was his, and so
had been delivered to the consgnee,
and it was no longer in transit; and
that is true of every barrel of beer
or whiskey that came into the city of
Bangor. You do not find any express
teams hauling those loads through the
streets, you find the men who owned
the beer with their own team or
teams which they had hired hauling
these loads of beer through the pub
lie streets of Bangor in the daytime
and backing them up to the rum shops
and unloading them there; so that
they were not in transit, and the shef-
if knew it, because upon one occa-
sion, and | think onely one, he gave
instructions to one of his deputy sher-
ifs to seize those teams, or that par
ticular team as I remember it, the red
team; and unfortunately this case has
developed several misfortunes upon the
part of Sheriff Emerson's deputies.
The deputy sheriff got into a laundry
wagon and the sheriff was sued. That
was early in the month of January,
and it does not seem To me it can be
urged upon you that because the sher-
if was sued on account of one of his
deputies breaking into Il laundry
wagon. that that was reason ard an
excuse Why he should thereafterward
permit booze wagons to be openly
conducted through the streets of the
city of Bangor. Another misfortune.
the deputy fell into a barroem down
in Brewer when he wanted Il match,
and came out with a seizure OF m
toxica,inge liquors.
Is il not strange that of all the
1900 gallons of beer in barrels, half
barrels and quarter barrels, and that
amount does not include a single
quantity of beer in cases, only the
barrel, half and quarter barrel lots,
125. 600 gallons of that kind of commo-
dity SO coming in in the three months,
that of all those barrels that came i'll
the sheriff and his deputies never
Thought to trace or trail any of them
to see where they were going, to see
where was the journeys end, to put
man right there as is done when the
law is really meant to be enforced,
nd I'M nItt
barrelled beer went, and then leaving
a man right there while another man
went to the Office of the recorder of
the municipal court and took out
warrant and went and got it, That
is enforcement, and that is dccency;
the other you and ! know what it is,
we don't have To guess.
is il not strange that of all that
quantity that only Il barrels of those
500 and over that came into the city
OF Bangor in the month of March last,
of those more than 1900 half barrels
which came into the city OF Bangor
during the same time, only AZ were
discovered by the sheriff: of the 6S
barrels of whiskey. in barrels. not in
bottles, not in bottles or jugs or any
; thing else but in barrels, and of these
6S the sheriff and his deputies never
wereable to discover one. although OF
the hundreds of kegs that came into
sthe city of Bangor during the same
time, did he in the exercise of great
Sdiligence discover one half full in the
haymow of a house he was searching
I Diligence, indeed,
The sheriff has undertaken 10 say,