Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-12

pal court, on the. Goth day of January. 1
and from the Goth day of January to
the 2ith day of March. two months and
four days. with this amount of business
going on, not one single search was
| made or drop Of liquor received
There is something more significant
about these seizures. For instance, /
find libel dated January Is. for a seiz-
ure made presumably the day before. at
0 place on the north side of Main street
licensed TO Nay g. Company, Patrick
Nay and James T. Mcdonald. This seiz-
ure, I presume, was made the day be- \
, fore, but the libel is dated the 18th of
January. They got is pitts of beer
and quarts of whiskey. ! find that
on the 18th day of January, the day be- )
fore the libel was returned, they re- /
eeived by the Maine Central Railroad
| half barrels of whiskey and 10 barrels
of beer. 1 find that seizure was
made, returned into court, on January
g. at the place that | have referred to
on Middle street, near the school build
ing, Jerry Breen of ], w. Breen. they
got Il pints OF beer and six quarts of
hard liquor. On the 4th day of January.
that concern received five barrels of
a
on the 9Th day of January. the day that
this libel was returned into court, they
received 40 barrels of beer and Il casks
| m whiskey, and ON the 18th day of JAN
uary. the very next day, they got 40
| more barrels of beer. Now ] am not
| hiding any fault that on the 5th day
of January they didn't seize the 40 bar
nels that was received on the 9th and
IA ~, -nJx.
7th but our theory. gentlemen. is, and
will appear that no further search
has been made. our theory is that when
the seizure was made. on the 5th day of
Danuary, if the dealers didn't under
stand that they We're safe from molesta-
ton by the criminal prosecuting au-
Ithorities,- the sheriffs department and
| the county attorneys department, they
wouldn't get 40 barrels the next day
and 40 more the day after an take the
chances of a second seizure. 4
Now then. to substantiate our theory
that the county attorney is cognizant
of these matters. that they are carried
on with his wilful connivance. that he
isn't doing what the law requires of him
in the prosecution of these places we
shall offer certain specific testimony.
1t will consist of witnesses, who will
state their own experiences, and of the
\ records of the court and in the first
place as to the witnesses 1
We shall show you in the first place
or among other things that an associa-
| ton was formed in Androscoggin coun-
! ~. year or more ago, to try and Sc
cure better condition of affairs. one
| of entirely reputable makeup. Presi-
| dent Chase or Bates College was presi-
dent of it. George NJ Twitehell of Au-
burn. DR.. Twitehell. known to most of
your personally. or by reputation, was
vice president. John L. Reade, ESQ,
of Lewiston, was secretary, and j. W.
Stetson, treasurer of the Androscoggin
County Savings Bank, was treasurer
| The executive committee was made up
of Henry w Cakes, c. S. Stetson, mas
| ter of the Maine State Grange and 9th,
er citizens of excellent standing In
April. 1872. after they had completed
an investigation, they caused the re-
suits to be published. giving detailed
/ Information about a large number of
places that were openly violating the
prohibitory law, and stating that they
had the evidence to convict these places
that was at the disposal of the county
| officials This was not only published
in the Lewiston Journal of local as we'll
as State circulation, but COPY of It was
sent by the secretary to the county At
torney, among other county and city Of
| fcials, so that he had that information
SO that he could use it, not only in 1912.
but If for any reason he couldn't use it
/ conveniently. in 1918
we shall Introduce reputable citi-1
zen of Auburn, who will testify that he
| visited various places in Lewiston on
| one or more occasions last summer
and found widespread and open vio-
| lation of the law, and that night he
| went to the sheriff, who lived across the
| street from him and asked him to go
4 with this person and visit the place
| himself and see what they were doing 1
The sheriff told him he had deputies
Tor that purpose. and after Il eonsid-
| cradle argument offered to send his dep
| uties with DR.. Leitch, who was the
| party that had made the investigations
/ They went to the court house to find a
deputy and two of them came along
and Dr. Leitch told them that he was
lgoing with them. They jumped into a
wagon and as they started off Dr.
| Leitch asked them to wait but they
told him that they had got to go and
serve warrant. and they drove off in
the direction of Lewiston, and AFTER
some considerable delay another deputy
was secured and went with Dr. Leitch
and found the places ali closed and the
| curtains down
Now to bring this home to the coun-
ty attorney, at the September term of
court, while the grand jury was in ses-
sion. opening on the third Tuesday of
| September, DR.. Leitch and another
| clergyman went to the county attorney.
and told him what evidence they had.
what efforts he had made to get the
sheriff to do something about 1t, and
asked him for an opportunity to pre-
sent this testimony to the grand Jury.
both against the violators of the law
ana against the sheriff himself, under.
the so-called Cakes law. The county
attorney told him that he was very
BUSY at that particular time and would
telephone him when he got ready. The
next thing that DIR. Leitch heard was
that he read in the papers that the