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

: or the inside. Sometimes they would
be on the outside and sometimes on
the inside
.. And was there any sign of any
goods displayed for sale during tina t
time? Any sort of goods? A. In the
building?
q. You know what mean. | mean
in these barrooms you have described
A. l want to say that when we first
came in there We're signs of liquor
but after we had been in there a lit
tie while these places were cleaned
out and there was nothing in there
excepting what they could take 10
their hands and run with it.
| q. / understand that, and there
wasn't any sign of anything else be-
ing sold-dry goods or boots and shoes
or anything of that sort? A. No
@. So that during that time that
you saw these places open there would
be somebody apparently tending store
and no goods of any kind to SELLS
that right? A. That is right, no
goods SO far as could see
Q. What did you conclude from
that that they We're keeping the
stores open for? A. l don't know as
l just get that question.
| Q. AS an officer you We're watch
ing these places more or less, weren't
you. A. Yes, sir.
! 9. Now when you saw a place thar
.you had known to be a bar, and had
searched as a bar. and you saw the
| door open, and the clerk or somebody
| else iii attendance, and nothing dis
| played for sale, what kind Of business
/ did you suppose was going on there
A. That is a peculiar question to an
swer In answering that might make
! a statement.
| Q. Is there anything about that
| question that you can't answer? II
there is, let me ask it again, that is
| the better way. A. / understood the
| question correctly.
| @. Won't YOU answer it? A. In or
| der to answer it correctly ! would
| have To make a statement.
| Mr.. PATTANGALL: There are
counsel here-and very able COUNSEL
| to argue the prosecutions side of the
case If you will answer the question.
and If l didn't make it plain, let me
| now
Attorney General WILSON: I
| would submit that the answer 10 that
| question is matter of argument.
| simply asking for his conclusion.
| The SPEAKER: The witness is
asked To give his conclusion from that
state of facts which he observed. Oe
course he should give it, but he ough.
to have some latitude in his methods
| of giving it.
| WITNESS: That is why wanted
! to make a statement
| The SPEAKER. 1.' ~.':-' not 81
| outside the limits Of the ICES .on. but
you can give your conclusions that
you drew from the facts within your
| observation.
| Mr. PATTANGALL: II YOU drew
| any conclusion. tell me what 1t was.
a. The conclusion l drew was that
the places would be cleaned up when
| we approached and there was no one
inside or around about it.
@ You don't mean that? A. | mean
just that. II | hadn't | shouldn't have
| said it.
@. Wait and see. Dou you mean that
| there Would be a vacant store and nos
| ever 4 clerk in it? A. That is what
mean to say.
@ Nor a proprietor? A. Yes sir.
@. Nor a customer? A. Yes, sir.
O. That is true of how many cases?
A. Once in great while l would
catch man, but we would have tn
get down like a snake in the grass To
| dc it.
G. And the doors open? A. The
doors open.
@. And the proprietors there SO sell
dom. and the customers there so sell
dom, that scu had to get down Ike
4 snake in tie grass to catch any one
| IN there? y. That is correct.
Q. And that was true in all your ex-
nerience i'll il09 \. Yes, sir.
@. That wasn't true of McGlinchys.
was it? \ That wasn't true of Nc
| Gli;.chys. no
| O. And You never went into Nc
| G!inchy but once to see whether you
| had 20 go l., like Il snake IN the grass
| a. No.
| O.. And are there any other places
| ,hat you have described as old TIM
| crs'' that you didn't go into but once
Iduring that year? A. l don't know OF
any of them except that once.
Q. Did you go around every day
A. Nearly every day.
| @. And found the stores entirely va
cant? 4. In nearly every place they
would be out, nobody in them.
@. Do you know the Coleman place
a. Yes.
O. Where is that-coTner of Silver
and Fore streets? A. Corner of Silver
and Fore streets
@. Ard is that one of the old-tim
places? A. think that has been
rum shop since | can remember.
Q. And during the time that You
were there as a Sturgis deputy was
Coleman's place habitually and entire
" empty. \. Not all the time II
wasn't empty.
! O. Was ii most of the time? y.
Mos. of the time | went there 1t was
empty.
| Q. Nobody in it at ALE. A. Very
seldom anybody IL it,
| @. When there was somebody In IL.
| who would it be, Coleman or clerk
A. Once in "A While | would see Cole
man there.
O. When you saw Coleman there, ne
} would he doing absolutely nothlns a.
He would be doing absolutely nothing.