Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-04-14
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the docket to issue scire facias writs. a
which would either bring the respond
ents into court or force the bondsmen To
obey the mandate. Now that was done
in consultation with Judge Savage.
Now about the bench warrants In
January. That was done after consulta-
tion with Judge Savage.
Now under the proposition laid down
here, first you must find wilful neglect
or refusal, and in the year 1913 was there
vii full neglect or refusal on the part of
Mr.. Hines to do his duty? DO you find
, any negligence on his part in procuring /
indictments in 1913? Was 1t any fault of \
his that liquor sellers did not walk into
court voluntarily? Was he at fault in
not issuing bench warrants when he had
the advice of the Chief Justice? What
was done. was done under the advice
and the wisdom of the judge. under the
instruction and the order of the Chief
Justice
: Is it wilful negligence that that order
has not yet been complied with? In my
opinion that is not negligence let alone
wilful negligence. There was nothing in
that order that said to Mr. Hines "Tf
you do not get those scire facias writs
served, before the Goth of March. you
will have to go before the Legislature
and be removed There was a statute
that said u months could pass before
the time for issuing those scire facias
writs would expire Why wait? Because
of this: Would any man who had any
common sense bring scre faeias suits
! within two or three weeks without Civ
ing the bail an opportunity to bring their
men in and surrender them and have
some arrangement about the casee !
! Was it the purpose of the order to }
bring suits against the bondsmen in
these cases and oblige the bail to be de-
faulted. for we all know that after the
bail has been defaulted and we can tech
nically take the money from the bail.
| that IL they produce their men, and they
stand up and take sentence. we always
| arrange it so that the bondsmen will not
have to take the money out of their
pockets.
Following right after that term of
! court, Mr.. Hines became candidate for
mayor of Lewiston and was elected He |
went into that campaign, and ] suppose
he was busy. suppose it was fairly
| busy campaign in Lewiston. and we J
knew it over here. Some of our State
| officials may have neglected their du-
| ties before election hut We do not call
! them wfully neg iSent We are willing
that they should give their time and
| they do
| Immediately following that election
came the organization of the city gov
ernment. and Mr. Hines was busy with
that. Then he had murder case on his J
hands.
| Then came the time for suing out the]
wrts FOR the April term of court when
| he naturally would have made such of
| the wrts as he intended to make. and
he had decided to bring to them and had
expressed that intention TO the deputy
| sheriff who had asked the privilege of
| serving them
| He had decided to bring these suits
and when the time came when he nat
| urally would have made those writs,
these proceedings ever here were started
The attorney general asked him If there
was anything in these proceedings which
could. haxe influenced .himssto refrain
| from doing his duty. You anu | know
that If it had appeared here that hel
! brought those writs the day that theseI
| proceedings started. every one of yourI
common sense men would have said that
| was the foolishest play he ever mate
| You would have said that he was afraid
| that he was frightened when he bi ought
| them. And | can understand the scornl
| in my brother Wilson's voice when he
said to him You brought these writs the
very day the case was flied against
you?' And then he would have said 1
| Yes"
AS he said, the time was approaching
when he had intended to delay some un-
til the September term; the time had
nearly expired. and then these proceed
ings started and he knew it would not
be said of him by the Legislature that
he was acting in frank way If he
served them. l think he did right to de-
lay action in this way.
To recapitulate, the sole thing that
they can bring against William H.
Hines in 1918 is negecting his duty in
not bringing scire facias writs, and there
is still nine months left by the law of
this State in which to bring them
This is the whole case. There is moth
ing else to it.
When they bring in "a list of the
amount of liquor hauled into Lewiston
over the Maine Central and the Grand
Trunk. you know and every man knows
that that list was not prepared to try
Mr. Hines case, but it was prepared to
try Sheriff Loves case. and notwlth-
standing the fact that Lowe had re-
signed, they had got to going on that
track and could not get off. No man
except my friend Wilson or my friend
SHELTON would say that a county at
torney was obliged to watch the ship
ments of liquors to the depots. If he
had watched them, tell me what he could
have done more than he did do when he
indicted every one of those fellows in
| January?
Next week when we get through
| bothering him, he will go back home
and indict them again. Shipments of
liquor to the saloons,-and that dotted
map shows the location of the liquor
saloons-have continued for many years.
| William Fl. Hines did not build those
buildings; he did not invent liquor sell
| ing In Lewiston And nobody expected
| that he would personally search and
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