Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
MAINE Legislature.
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Q. I'm fact the appointment so far a
Sheriff Ballou could carry it out wa
complete? You were given written no
fice that they were ready for you to fiji
bondg A. Yes, sir
Q. You have recently decided not t
{ accept that office? A. Under the cir
cumstances. yes, sir.
Il @. And you do not intend to qualify
4 A. Not with the strings that are on i
4 now.
Q. Tell me- and the convention the
q strings that are on it. / want to know
y abeut that. A. The strings, you want
the strings?
f @. ! want the convention to know
here, and not in any newspaper inter-
view published on the morning when
they met to hear the case. A. The
strings are these: I wanted-my friends
L came to me and wanted me TO accept the
T appointment as deputy sheriff. ] did
not want the position. They urged it
on me. saying that Mr.. Ballou's deputy
E had got to resign, and they thought it
would help Mr. Ballou out if / accepted
the appointment And / decided that !
would accept it If it would help him.
s was called up over the telephone and
4 told that it could not be done; that par
ties had said that ! should not have
{ the appointment. I went to an office in
i town, and met some gentlemen there
and in the meantime the gentleman who
was opposed to my appointment came
! in and / asked him what reason he had
for not letting my appointment go
through. as | did not want the office
! but wanted to help Mr.. Ballou. He told |
me to come to his Office and he would |
discuss the matter, there. i did not go
Then the idea was put out, the propo-
4sition was pat up that accept the nom |
fination aud then would get out in two |
months. / see then that there was a I
little politics being played. / said; |
"An right, gentlemen. appoint me, II
quality. l will get out have not
qualified, and ! don't propose TO under
any such conditions
4 @. Without regard TO what anybody
aelse said 10 YOU or what you said 20
fslsIi did YOU not receive from John
I;allou a written appointment containing
no conditions or qualifications? A.
sreeeived from John W. Ballou letter
of my appointment. and at the sane
time ii was handed to me it was put
iup to me that the conditions were if I
qualif a that ! should run along two
months and then get out.
O. Did John Ballou put anything of
that kind up to YOU? a. That was talk
ed over by the men that put the string
on it.
Q. | ask you did John Ballou make
any suggestion to you that he expected
you not to qualify or to resign? A. Mr..
Balou did not.
Q. You have your appointment as dep
|uty sheriff signed by John Ballou? a.
Yes, sir.
@. Don't you know that if you quail
fed under that appointment that no mat
ter what any man said to you. you would
have full power as deputy sheriff? A.
Yes, sir.
G How long have you had that APP
pointment? ~ Since last Monday.
Q. Yet you never intimated to anybody
on earth that yon would do anything butt
accept 1t until the morning of this trial7
A. No. sir.
Q. Did you intimate it to John Bal
lou? A. Yes, sir.
@. When? A. Yesterday. and day be-
fore yesterday and the day before that
@. Every day? a. Yes, sir.
O. What did you say to him? a. |
Why. I wasn't going to accept the APP
pointment with the strings on it.
G. Did he put any strings on 1t? A. |
No. sir. |
O. When you told him that, you had
this appointment in writing in your
pocket? A. Yes. sir.
@. And you knew there were no strings
put on IL BY John Ballou? a. There
were strings on it, and you know there
were strings on it.
@. Mr.. Oliver. don't you tell me before
this convention that ] know about any,
thing of the kind that was entered into
by you, for l don't know IT, and ! shall
be sworn and testified before this con-
vention If you put any untruths into my
lips. A. ! say you do know it for l had
it published in the paper and you read ii
and you just said that you read II.
u4aughter).
The PRESIDENTS: The Chair desires
to remind those present that expressions
OF approval or disapprova will not be
permitted. If it should continue, the
gallery will be cleared
Mr. PATTANGALL: / did not under
stand you l know that you had so stat
go III the press, Dut / assumed tfidI YOU
were stating something that was with
in your personal knowledge. A. No, sir.
] didn't accuse you, it You, think ! said
4 that. fttaANuj nfa n9Iy8t0s1
@. Now, Mr.. Oliver, following this ap-
pointment as deputy sheriff, and during
the last 10 days or two weeks had you a
conference with the Governor In regard
to this matter? A. No, sir
@. None whatever? A. No, sir.
@. And the facts that you have stated
here were never gone over by You with
him, which you have testified to here?
"A. Just state what you mean.
@. If you did not have any conference
with the Governor at ALL OF course you
had no talk with him at all? A. / had
s talk with the Governor l did not have
any conference.
@. What do you mean, that you have
not had any talk with the Governor in
regard to the matters you have stated
here on the stand? a. / have stated in
regard to good many matters here that
Z Sid not talk with the Governor about
e Z. Arbe matters relating to conditions
in Bath? A. do not know that have
had any conversation with the Governor
! In regard TO the conditions in Bath.