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

tlon is plainly 1naQmlSSf5le.
The SPEAKER: The Chair would
lrule it was inadmissible
Mr.. PATTANGALL: l will say, if
Bro. Plummer wants to ask the mad
missible question, / won't object to It.
Mr.. PLUMBER: The only reason I
didn't object to your question as to
honesty was because 1 supposed there
was more latitude here.
Mr.. PATTANGAIL: The charge
was" corruptly"-Is didn't suppose you
would press thats,ss rs
/ HENRY C. PARSHLEY. being the
/ first duly sworn testified as follows:
/ Direct Examination by Mr.. Plum
| @. What is your name? A. Henry
C. Parshley.
| @. Where do you reside? A.
Bath, Maine.
Q. What is ytur business? A.
Driving a laundry wagon.
O. Whether olss not in pursuit of
your business YOU have been around
| to some of these shops and hotels
| that have been mentioned here during
| the last three. months? A. l have,
| yes sir.
9. Now whether or not you have
visited the place called the Ram on
Center street during that time? A.
l have, yes sir.
@. And when We're you in there
last. about when? A. About three
weeks ago. ,$s
I @. Who was the proprietor or tE. e
place at that time? A. ]. G. Fo6f4el
@. Joe Footer? A. Yes. sfgs : -
@. Now where did You go in That
shop? A. Went into the front sho,s.
into the cigar store, into the back
shop where there was a bar room.
@. Now was there any partition be-
tween the front and the back shops
A. There was. yes sir. si
@. You speak of the cigar store
about how many cigars were there in
the front store? a. Oh, should
presume. thirty-fiv or forty boxes.
@. And what did he have in the
back room? What did you find in the
hack room in the shape of a bar? a.
Beg your pardon.
O. What did you find in the back
room that you called a bar? A. Well.
il has a counter, tall counter made
right across the. building. the room,
where what they call bar
Q. Did you see any intoxicating l.
quors there? A. Yes. sir.
@. What did you see? A. Well,
it was right on the shelf. right open
iy, right behind the bar. piled up. bot
ties marked rum, gin. whiskey.
Q. Have you been in that place
more than once within the past year
or SO? A. Yes, sir.
@. About how many times? A. On,
I used TO deliver laundry there to the
bar tender, sometimes twice n weeE,
sometimes once week.
@. And during all of this period
that you have been visiting that place
was the same business being conduct
ed there. A. Yes. sir.
@. Do you know what the reputa=
ton of that place is as regards The
sale of Intoxicating liquor there? y
Well, they call ii the booze Joint.
O. Do you know where John o.
Brien's place it? a. Yes. sir.
Q. And where is that? a. Exac:-
~ across the road.
O. Have you ever had occasion to
60 into that place during the last three
months? A. No. sir.
O. So you don't know personally
what il, going on in there? A. NO,
si;
Q. Have you been to Dandy Var
ney's place? a. How long ago?
O. Within the last three months
a. No, sir.
O. About when? A. Oh. sometime
during the winter, couldn't say jus.
when.
O. This last winter? A. The fall
of the year, yes sir
O. What did you see there if airy.
thing as regards liquor or the sale OF
it, A. Why, I saw few men SIT
ting there smoking and taking, MI.
Varnev behind the counter. All
saw was beer being drunk no mar"
stuff.
@. You didn't see any nard stun
A. didn't sec any, no Sir
@. Now you have heard the'e
names read of places there. what are
some of the other places of ike rel'-
utation that you have visited III i5ae.'.
within the past three months
We'll. they all have the name OF peihe
.nauor places. liquor houses.
O.. What places A. Well, Harpol
View Hotel. Grip Gannon's place Oh
business, the Ram. -.
q, You speak of the Rani' aoo..
how many times have you been lrao
that Mace during the past thre7
monthso A. Probably dozen.
O! How many times have you o'.,'
in Grip Gannon's place during me
mast three months? A. Haven oe'''
there the last three months. oo
o. When were you iast 'heie g.
A some time last fall.
q And did you see anything .neie
IN indicate a violation of the liquor law
Inst a few men sitting rouno s''ioh-
ing and drinking beer
n And do you know whether OF io'
INV hard stuff WAS being sold there' VI
hns been? A. Do | know!
O. Yes A. No, sir, | don't.
O. Have you ever been in Leavi''
Mace. A. Yes, sir
@. whene A. Within the past Two
weeks. .,,oroo
O And what have You seen there:
/ a Likewise as l have stated Oh '.e
] n4har nlaces. some men in there ori''h-
ling and smoking and taking.
- ~ x,ou knnw whether or not iiq-