Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-14
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animation rs To now many cases. III
those liquor indictments counsel did
actually appear? a. On the docket?
e. or do you know in addition to
it.A. | wouldn't care TO say, | don't
remember.
q. How many DO you find on the
docket there A. r should say five
or six
@ Liquor cases. five or six2 A. |
should say so, i didn't COUNT them
q. You. cannot tell whether there
where any more or not: a.. couldn't
rccollect each term. Mr.. Wilson, posi-
lively enough 70 say.
Q. Now in those nuisances. there of
the April term and the January term
they all being pending at that time,
scire facias was ordered to issue BY
the court, Judge Cornish, both in the
january and the. April indictments.
was it not? A, There seems TO be an
entry here. | don't reeollect it per-
sonally.
@. At the April term SIRE faciaa
was apparently ordered to issue both
for the indictments found at the jan
uary and the April term? A. That +
true.
@. There hadn't been anything done
with your january iiuictHiciitS W. -
that time? A. Apparently.
O. Do you recall any conversation
with Judge Cornish about this and the
condition at that April term! A. NO.
sir.
O. Let me refresh your mind III
lie bit: Do you recall Judge eor nis'
calling you up and showing your ooc-
ket and telling you it looked hKe
rfr-tn
A. That is not true. He never ihaae
it To me.
q He made the remark? "A.
don't know that he did. lie never
sara IL to me I understood he SAID ~
to ewspaper man. onstt
@ He said il to- newspaper MANI
A. i don't know that he ala; II -
,f5J1isbee in the Lewiston Journal II
voc not said to me personally, al
though was County Attorney.
a Al that time it had about l5o.--
,oo uauor indictments on it, with Moth
mo at all done | forgot the eAac.
number. -
q f12-WeIl now at that term none Oh
the RESPONDENTS were brought into COURT
IA | don't recolect that they Wee.
O II is a fact they were not, isn't IT,
Mr. Hines? \. / think not.
| @ No eapiases, no bench warrants
! were issued on any of the cases! y.
Judge Cornish apparently ordered. none
issued.
O And YOU didn't ask for any? A.
| Apparently not.
n So that all the liquor sellers VINO
were indicted, | mean from the pee'"-
ming of January. 1872. had nothing gone
Win them as far as you were conceFheu
until september. \. Except the Issue "
tho smittimus. in each case in when an
, Indictment was found and the coiiectio"
nf 400 and costs of jail sentence.
~ Mitimuses were issued-on ihdict-
mantsq A. | don't understand a smitti-
mus issues in the case Of an indictment.
say search and seizures accompanying
each one of those nuisances.
O What did you have to do with
themq A. Had them defaulted.
O. You had them defauited? Didn't
the Judge call the docket? A. don't
! aecollect. sometimes they did sometimes
= 7hey DIDN'T We have had term OF
/ court where the docket wasn't CALLER Ut
: ALI
| O. But that particular term it was
Iutely called in open court or NOT a.
think il was. don't reeollect ansohteiy
| though.
| @. What did you do with the ISSUING
! of these mittimuses? A.. Asked for
| them. ..t
| O. Didn't You hear Clerk Bealleau 'es-
= tify here that mitinuses issued mere as
a matter of course without anything De-
ing done by the county attorney? a.
didn't hear all his testimony. lie saia
something to that effect as | recall It.
@. 1t is true as a matter of fact, isn't
it. when a search and seizure case Is de-
fauIted the mttimus issued from the
court or clerk as a matter OF fact WITH
] out action on the part of the county at
toruey. A. | think If you look at the
docket
@. Answer my question. Question
read by reporter) A. l think that is
generally true.
O And those the sheriff takes care of
and collects? A. Yes.
@. He comes in and gets them, so you
don't have anything to do with the
search and seizures at all after that!
A. Well he has advised with me good.
deal in locating some of these people. at
tempting to locate them. r.a.ss
O.. He takes the mittimuses right from
the court and goes after them himself?
! A. Like all warrants and precepts they
= are directed to- the sheriff and deputy
sheriff, not to the county attorney.
@. SO he attends TO that part or It
yo,, don't have to attend to that? A. 1t
is certainly not my duty to collect liquor
fines.
@. So that after September 1872. the
only thing that you have done with
the liquor sellers in Lewiston was to in
diet them at the January and April term
of court. and they were either continued
or sere facias ordered TO ISSUE and went
over to the September term of court. A.
There seems to be-
@. With the possible exception of one
or two cases? A. There seems to be a
case here where man pleaded guilty,
and ordered placed ON file. no money no
Jail.
@. Two other cases? A. I don't re-
member the number. There happens to
be one where ii is open here. don [
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