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

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that you couldn't get hold of as an Off
GER? A. There would be some pretty
hard to detect
| y. Did you run into any of this bust
ness of young boys and girls being in
| the traffic a that time? \. ] don't re-
| member recalling any young girls or
boys regularly in the business. but | do
| recall of their calling out blow to call
| the attention of the roop,e that was sell
ing 10 give them warning that we were
| coming
| @. And usually after this warning was
given you didn't get hold of anything?
| A. The bird would fly and we couldn't
catch it.
| Q. And that would make it pretty diff
| hcult to detect that sort of thing, or
even to detect the extent or IT, i. Why,
| yes, in a sense.
| y. Do you remember how many of
| you worked with Mr. Pearson or Mr..
| Dunn or under him at that time? A.
| During '"e time that | served as dep
| uty?
| ~ Yes, sir A. There was four of us.
Y. ma you give your entire attention
TO 1t? A. Practically every moment.
q. Have you any idea how many
'"' iooihs were being run in
| Portland at that time? A. No. j don't
| nave any idea how many there were.
| ~ DO you nave any idea how many
| men, women and children there were en-
| gagged in pocket peddling at that time?
No.
| Y. DO you have any idea how many
Fpeople there Were who were standing
| around and watching in the employ
or these pocket peddlers? A. Oh.
couldn't estimate how many there
We're.
O. They had some regular watch
Iers! A. They had few of what we
| called buns on the corners
| u. Could you give any estimate or
Judgment to the convention of the ex-
tent of that Illicit trafiic?,,A No,
don't know that can.
| Q. 1t would be practically impossi-
BILE TO do it, wouldn't it, il was ear
ried on in such a way. A. Yes.
| q. is IL or not true that when en-
forcement is attempted from a differ
eht standpoint, as for instance, when
conditions are as they are now in
Portland. that pocket peddling practi-
cally ceases? A. | don't quite under
stand.
| q. Is pocket peddling going on to
any extent in Portland now, in your
| opinion? A. | couldn't tell you.
| 9. You don't notice any? a. /
| don't notice any pocket peddling as /
know of. but ! notice men divvy up
ana run up street, don't know
where they go or how they go about
it
| q. | mean when you were about in
December or January-did you see
any indication of pocket peddlers? A.
| didn't. no.
| Q Or during the last two years.
a. have seen men drinking out of
a bottle quite frequently | don't
Know where they came from or any
| thing about il
Q. But YOU have seen that in Port
land under all kinds of times in GER
tain parts of the city? A. Yes. some
parts of 1t.
q. When YOU We're working as
Stnrgis deputy and when YOU were
there under Mr.. Pearson. did you have
| reason to believe that the druggists
were many of them doing a substan-
tial business in hard liquor? A. We
did
G. And did you have great deal
of difficulty in reaching that part. of
the trade A. We had Difficulty in
bringing in evidence that the churt
would accept, in convicting them
@ So that practically, you were
unable to effectively enforce the law
| against druggists, weren't youo A..
Yes.
O. That is true, isn't it?
O. How was il abouf tho bofa1c u,hay
you were operating as Sturgis deputy,
did you have much trouble with them?
a. We didn't have much trouble with
| them. think the Preble House gave
us all the trouble that we had. except
the Goodrich House. so called, on Free
street
Q. Now it is fact. isn't it, that what
we would call the first class hotels in
Portland weren't selling liquor at that
time. ! won't say the Preble House
isn't first class but mean, speaking
of the first class hotels, they gave you
no trouble, such as the Lafayette and
Congress Square, A. They didn't as !,
a hotel.
q. 1t is, also true that these first
class hotels aren't selling liquor at the
present time? A. ] don't think they
are.
Q. You have no reason TO think they
are? A. No, have no reason to think
they are. 5.f.s5., ....5
Q. You have made no investigation
that would lead YOU to think so? A. No.
l haven't
O. SO that conditions so far as the
ha&els are concerned. have not matc-s
rally changed under the present admin
istration? ~ I haven't been into them
so that / could state. 81
Q. i don't know whether y0u have
| been asked. but some witnesses have
testified to the regulations sDfs places as
being places where liquor. is sold, and
| think the President has ruled the owl
dence to be admissible Whether any of
the first class hotels in Portland have
the reputation of maintaining liquor
| nuisances at the present time? A.. 1
think the Congress- Square and the
Lafayette do not have the reputation.
@. The Falmouth doesn't, does it?
A. | don't know at the present time.
but 1t used TO have.
Q. / mean since Mr. Pooler has
manage it. A. | don't know INV