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

would require of you. think not. Il
would not be an explanation that eN
planned anything.
But my Brother Stearns says that
these deputies did perform, we'll
they c"uld. their duty. You have seen
one of them. You have not seen Mr..
Spratt or Mr. Wood-Mr, Spratt. who
has had long experience as liquor
deputy IN the city of Bangor Mr. Wood
who has had at least three months ex-
periencc-and YOU would like, | have
no doubt to have seen both of those
men ana heard their story in regard to
what they mad done and when and how
and where they had done it: and my
Brother Stearns says that the reason
why they are not here Is because in that
great county of Pcnobscot there is ii
ter mof court going on at this time.
and there has To he somebody left there
to take care of the court and the peo-
| pie From what Nod have heard in tes
timony. during yesterday and today. of
| the activities of Mr. Spratt and Mr..
Wood and Mr.. Emerson, doesn't il inn
press YOU that the county of Penobscot
could spare Spratt and Wood for half
day to come over to Augusta and testi-
fy before YOU, Such an excuse, such
pretense as that the reason they are
not here is because they could not be
spared. does not appeal to my Judgment
and intelligence.
/ believe that the reason why they
did not come was because they were
afraid that Mi. Spratt and Mr. Wood
mght tell Nou. or in some way expose
To You what the f.tets were. Where is
the deputy sheriff whose name was
given in the presence of this respond
ent the man who, within two weeks
of this moment, was drinking in one of
the most notorious barrooms in the
city of Bangor which has been such for
years. in the daytime, with and in the
presence of other citizens of the city
Of Bangor Where is he? And / do not
because l ask YOU if at the end of al
most three months under the sheriff of
Penobscot county. that man. in the city
of Bangor, not only with his oath al
office about him, not only with n full
knowledge Of the character and pub
lieity of the place. went into that place
in public. and drank Intoxicating liquor
oyer the top of so well equipped and
notorious bar as that. Do you believe
he would have done il If he had not
felt almighty sure that he knew and
understood the policy of his chief and
that his conduct in so going publicly
into barroom and drinking would not
be disturbing to his chief, would he
understood and condoned and not com
planned of? To my mind the absence
of that deputy sheriff, concerning whose
presence there Mr. Hill testified, con-
corning whom in your presence that
ridiculous attempt to impeach was
made, by asking TWO witnesses If his
reputation for truth and veracity was
good or bad, when hy the simple. process
of this convention served upon that
deputy sheriff he would have been
| brought here. ana he could have told
You. not what Mr. Hiil'S reputation for
truth and veracfty was. hut lie could
have told you whether he was telling
lie truth when he said that that man
was there drinking in a public barroom.
and ms absence is II confessions and
mat confession is Illuminating and |
say again, that in the light Of that cir
eumsiance, in the light of the undenied
and tndeniable fact that a deputy shcr-
1T OF the county of Penobseot, within
two weeks Of this time. was n1hlfel,.
drinking in a notorious bar. is more
suggestive, more conclusive. of what
Tie sheriff's policy WAS commonly and
well understood 10 be. than could he the
testimony of 10000 witnesses. No man
docs that unlcs he knows that he is not
going To be disturbed or criticised. and
so | say that the absence Of these depu
fiAs to,
feSSion that they do not do their dutv
why, see for moment upon that
same hne-the sheriff himself has not
p"eh INTO any of those places. The
sheriff himself has not asked his depu
Ties In regard to the character of the
business carried on in any of those
places. He says SO himself Now with
ms great ignorance of conditions and
OF facts. what would you exDect him
to do? He can't tell you anything. He
mas got five deputies who. if they were
performing their duty at all, must have
AT least gone into some of those places.
he leaves four of them at home and no
brings here before you Mr. Trask. who
according to the best information
could get out of him, since sometime
IN the early part of March. has not been
INTO but few, if any. of the more no.
tofious places in the city of BANGOR
Tie has gone with warrants away out n,
Ihlrd street, he has gone way down
soinewheres by the Maine Central Fair
grounds, not within the limits of the
places exhibited by this map He has
gone during the month of March into
several places without the sembIance of
warrant or proceeding in form of
II" which would give him the right
10 subject the people he visited To
searches. He tells you that he went into
certain of those places without a war
rant to seize and you all know the diff
ference between search and seizure
warrant and the right which the Of
hcer has to search and seize without a
warrant where he has right to seize
what there is in sight, but when Won
go IN with a search warrant then Won
nave to take not only what YOU see but
you have to hunt around and see what
you can find and take that away, and
inns man, IN the three or four instances
IN the month Of in,