Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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side in regard to druggists. | have
seen men, three or four of them com
ing and going ana divy up. and I
have seen one n,cc detailed and 60
into n certain drug store and ! have
watched that crowd and the man that
went into the store would come out
and go around with them and some
times | have passed around quickly
and seen them take bottle and drink
out of it,
@. So that your observations would
lead You to think that there is some
business done in the drug stores? A.
] think So
@. And did You find it impossible
to deal with that when you were an
officer? A. Yes. in 4 certain sense
il was impossible to get at that.
@. You spoke about seeing \ large
quantity of goods marked for the obi
orne Botiling Company II l have the
name right. A. Yes, sir.
q. Was the Ordiofne Bottling Com
pany doing business in Portland when
You We're there as n Sturgis deputy
a. They We're.
O. And was the 0rdiorne Bottling
Company doing business in Portland
tswhen YOU weresn deputy sheriff spn-
der Pearson and Dunn? y. \ small
business.
@. Have you really any data as TO
the amount of business they do? \.
Why yes, under the Pearson admin
istration, they had it come in sugar
h.. adm itAic tfsri-
ton of 1910 they had it in bulk bar
rels, fifty gallons to barrel.
c. Now do you know how ii came iii
the Pearson administration? a. ! have
watched it and seen it come.
@. And seized it? y. And seized it.
Q. You don't know how much they
had come that you didn't get? a. No, 1
don't know how much they had come
that I didn't get.
Q. Now, if they continued to do bust
ness during the two years of that admin
istration they must necessarily have
done it on goods that you didn't seize?
A. They done business of course l didn t
seize it all.
O. They couldn't do much business on
what you had seized. You didn't have
any way of telling how much business
they did except that YOU seized certain
liquors. Now is it true that the Odiorne
Bottling Company has been doing bust
ness in Portland not only for the last Il
years. but for a longer period? a. They
had been doing business as l stated, but
in years gone by a small business.
Q. Were they doing n small business
& when you were a Sturgis deputy? a.
They were doing what | considered II
small business.
% Did you ever make seizure there?
A. Not in the Building. l''Hd ~
O. Did your deputies make 4 seizure
there? a. Not in the building proper.
@. Were you ever in tfetbuiding? \.
Yes.
@. Been through it? A. Been through
it.
Q. When? a, When ! was a stursis
deputy.
O. And they employ several men? a.
A number OF men.
c. And they employed a number of
men then? A. l don't know how many
they had.
@ DO you know how many they have
got now? a. No.
Q. And you don't know that they
have got any more now than they had
then? a. / don't know, no. because L
haven't been there and counted them up.
Q. But they did business enough so
that they We're a growing concerning
with number of employees under the
Sturgis Deputies? A. Yes. they ran a
bottlins business beside the liquor traf-
fc.
O. And they still do? A. They do
larger business.
Q. / wish you would tell the eonven-
ton how you know how much business
ing. A, The only way is what | see
coming into depets ana boats and what
] see around and about the building as
watch them.
@. How much have they had for the
last three months? A. / haven't watched
them very much but i have been there
very early in the morning. The first
Saturday in .aarch at aboHs o'clock in
the morning | was at that building and
stood in the passage and saw them load
several eases of beer on to the team and
few barrels of beer.
@. That was lately? A. That was
lately; that was in March.
O. Now when you were Il deputy Stur.
gis Commissioner didn.t YOU see the obi
orne BottIing Company loading beer and
delivering beer right along in Portland
, just as you recently saw them? A. Not
from the building there. They kept it ii
storage in some other placed