Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08

Pearson, Dunn or the Sturefs depu.
ties. did YOU? You don't recall any
A. can't recall anyone now. | know
of one man Who went out OF bltsiAcss.
| don't know where he is nov,
g. Well, one exception proves the
rules, you know. You had nothinesto
de, Mr.. Skiilinss, with circulating g
petition with regard to Sheriff Moul
ton had YOU \. No. sir
g You sisned it? \. No, sir
q. Wasn't your Maine on it? \
No, sir.
q. Did you know of such y petit
ton being circulated? y. | don't re-
member whether | heard of it or not
| know it was news to me. | may have
known OF it aud forgotten il, but when
| saw it in the paper it was news TO
me, and news To me that had signed
it.
Q. didn't mean that YOU did sign
it, | think you didn't sign it. Mr.
Skillings? a. No, sir, l didn't sign
it
q. 1t vast presented to you t.
sign was it, y. 1t was not presented
to me.
about Portland enough SO that YOU
recall hearing about IL until YOU SAW.
it in the newspaper n No, sir,
don't recall hearing of it.
@. Was it on your own initidtive,
or at the request of some person that
you visited these various places, Mar
Is. 16, il and 10, and, made the min
utes that YOU have presented? \. Il
was at the request of some person.
q. Who? what person? \. Am
Obliged to answer that person?
Mr.. PATTANGALL: Well, have
asked the question. The Chair VIII
rule ON it.
The SPEAKER; / think you may
answer
A. Mr. Charles 4 Plummer.
O. Who is Charles \. Plummcr? n.
lie is Il citizen OF Portland.
q. What is his business? \. In
surance business.
@. Was he at one time deputy
sheriff. \. Yes, sir
@. Under whom? \. Sheriff Pear
son. Sheriff Dunn.
g. co-deputy with YOU? A. Yes
ST.:
q. And like you, | suppose, became
familiar with these old timers when
their places were running in those
days. 4. Yes. sir
O. Now prior to the 18th of March.
how long had it been since you had
had visited any IF the PAGES which
you have named? A. Oh I had visited
some of them quite recently
@. How recently? y. Not a great
many of them, perhaps.
@. Well, how many and how re-
Gently? a. oh, | couldn't say how
many
Q. Well you can give an approx
nation? y, | drop in quite frequent
ly.
@. Have you visited sullivan's
place. Which Sullivan, Patrick
~?
q. The only one you have spoken
of. Patrick Sullivan, Big Pat? a. No,
sir not recently
Q. Or Easan's, or Brownrigs2 a.
No. sir
9. Or Coleman's? a. Yes. l think
l have been in there sometimc-I
couldn't say just when.
q. Who has the place on the corner
Corner A | could only give that
answer as matter of opinion.
&. Well who do YOU understand, or
who did you understand, was conduct
ing the place? A. A man by the
name of Feeney, John Feeney.
Q. That has always been-I near
by always. within your knowledge OF
affairs, liquor saloon? A. Yes, sir,
as far as | know.
@. For u years? A. And STILL ]
couldn't say but what in that II years
it might have been used fer short
time for something else, there may
have been lunches, may possibly have
been restaurant there for time.
@. Might have been restaurant
there last year, mightn't there? A.
Possibly. | couldn't say when
c. Or the year before, but during IA
large part A Oh, l don't thing i; |
was last year, / think it was earlier |
than that.
@. During large part of the L |
years, that has been known as a sa-
loon, hasn't it. A. Yes sir.
G. And been open and running? A. !
Yes. sir.
Q. l don't want to go into unneces-