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

al purpose III mind than that? a. |
] was going to run for mayor on that
platform; there was some politics in
it, suppose.
/ q. Just little. Now Wilbur when
you published the first article on Feb
/ II, and stated in it that there were
five houses Of i'll fame in Bath. did
you have any doubt but that if You
went To -FOUR sheriff John Ballou, and
pointed out one of those places to him
and said that YOU Wanted him to get
warrant and close that place for you
hut that he would have done it? \.
Well. | should never have gone to him,
Mr. Pattansall.
O. Well, you didn't go to him. a.
No / didn't.
@. Did you ever know him, in tho
forty years, To refuse to do his duty
when Il citizen called upon him? y.
never knew him to refuse.
@. Now if your desire was to Close
those places. assuming that your de-
sire was to close those places, did II
ever occur To you to go and tell the
sheriff something about that and ask
him to do that--did that ever come t.
your mind? A. Ne, sir.
c. 1t did come tn your mind that
YOU We're running for mayor AGAINST
Frank Small didn't it, A. 1t did
O. And that whatever YOU could
= say in the public prints about condi-
tons in Bath might reflect upon the
administration and Mayor Small? ~
Whatever | could say honestly, yes.
@. And you didn't have anybody
in mind. any public official but your
; city officials. When YOU spoke OF the
administration \. ! didn't care VINO
they were.
@. When you say the administer
ton. you didn't mean Sheriff Balloa
did yaua \. Not necessarily, no,
q, Did, you. necessarily or not? y.
Why, no. 4y5
| O.. or course you didn't. Now Whom
4 YOU pqblished that letter of Feb. T.
depicting conditions in Bath as YOU old
YOU were a canG date for mayor an an
4 election was h. AZ a. | was. yes, Sil.
O. As l understand it. yoh wore not
A clectede y | guess not ! don. 'h'nk
y So
&. ON MI ii {. In the Bah inns
after the election. Sou say There are
six houses of III fame on The pubic
streets and as many more on the side
streets | ask you as matter of fact
do you know that there are II houses
of i'll fame in the city of Bath" a. Not
: as a matter Of fact, no.
O. You don't know it, 10 YOU
A. Ne. sir. not as matter of fact.
O. And yet you didn't hesitate tc
sign your name u public piece in The
Bath Times stating that there were l.
houses of i'll fame? How many do you
/ know that there were \. should say
there We're T..
@. Name the L. then. \. don't
know as | want to. II is pretty hare
, work for man to prove that house
is house of i'll fame. He may have
/, all the reason
4 @ Why didn't you say 10 instead
= Of l.? y Perhaps l might have.
@. Why didn't YOU say IA? y. ] am
/, not going up any higher.
O. Why not A. Twelve is enough
for a small town like that.
Q. Tell me before this convention. be
cause this proceeding is not exactly {
joke, if you can name the l. places thai
= YOU say existed there as houses of ii
fame which is named the basis o.
one of the criticisms against your sher
iH-can you name them? y. think
can
@. VIII you do so? A. I don't car,
to unless | have to.
Mr. PATTANGALL: l submit tn,
question is proper one
Mr.. PETERS: We think the witness
should answer.
WITNESS: | can name those thai
a.e presumed To be that.
Mr.. PETERS: Those that he had ii
mind when he wrote the article.
Mr.. PATTANGALL: Those that hc
had in mind when he wrote the articl,
and then | can examine him as to the
extent of his knowledge.
| Mr. PLGMMER; | just suggested tC
Brother Pattangall that the witncs
should understand that he had pro
lection. He is giving testimony tina: Is
compulsory.
Mr.. PETERS: You should under
stand that you are protected from any
consequences that might otherwise he
incurred, that is, civll actions
Mr.. PATTANGALI.: AS against slam
der suits?
Mr., PETERS: As against slan.lel
suits, civil actions for damages.
| WITNESS: Mary T. Belcher. liz
! Water street; $50 Commercial street,
O. What name? They change mar eS
so often | can't tell Yen, / have got il
James Devise here.
O.. Who1e made that out? \,
made it ial.e
@ What did YOU put down Janes
Devise for3lieA. He was there nj tbs;
i time. Gertrude Davidson, 1876 CONNER
cial street: Mrs Gerrish. 100 Commer-
cial street; 1872 Water street
@. What name? a. | don't know
what his name is.
Q. Is that all? A. oh no, that ism /
all. Elizabeth Atkinson, 81 IL Center
street: Abbie McDuffey, High street.
There are two places across from the
City hall that | can't tell YOU what theit
names are
Q. Where. across from what way?
On what street? a. Between Center
and Water streets, on the west side Of
| the City hall.
| Q. What sort of block. or tenement
house? A. No, two different places.
| One is kept by colored lady, and the
| other. | think she is Jew There is
! two places in Private Way. what W.
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