Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

~. Ms 4 litHfUNF OF lne DOdTu Oh al
dermen dod you serve on any commit
tees, city committees of the city Of
Bath a. Yes.
@. We're You on the police commit
tee? \. Yes.
@. Had supervision of the police
work? A. Wen. no. sir
Q. Chairman of that committee,
weren't YOU \. Chairman, yes.
Q. AND mad authority under your
city charter to take charge general
charge OF the police work. didn't you {?
\. No. sir
@. You didn't? \. No, sir; | don't
think so.
G. can YOU briefly without taking
too much time about it. ten us What
the duties Of your committee on police
were? \. No. sir; ! couldn't
@, While you were in that RESPONSE
bic position did you communicate -
the press anything in regard to the re-
sorts that then existed in the city of
Hath? y. Why should l.
q. | asked you If You did, \. No.
q. Did Seu take any personal steps.
as 6He at the municipal officers of tile
city OF Bath and chairman Of the COM
nlittee on police. 10 close any OF the
resorts that existed in Bath? \. No.
G. Now YOU have named certain
clubs here. IN the Bath Daily Times,
clubs devoted to the sale of rum. DO
YOU belong % any of them? \. Yes.
9. 4 member of them? A. Yes.
@. Help support it? A. Yes.
@. Did Xon expect Sheriff Rallou II
close that cluhe y. didn't care
whether he did or not.
Q. You didn't expect him To. did
you? \. If he took notion To, let
him close it; it wasn't up To me.
@. Lid YOU expect Mayor Small tn
close the club you belong too A. Did
] expect him to?
@. YES. \. II was up to him. If h.
wanted TO close them up, he could close
them NJ
@. lid you belong to any clubs such
as sou described in the press us being
We're M alderman and chairman on
committee of the police?
Mir. PUMMER: Just a moment. The
document contains no such Statement
or similar statement. The language Is
some of which are rum clubs"
Mr. PATTANGALL: Eight clubs
some of Which are rum clubs. You have
named your rum clubs. Will you tell
me which ones Of them are not rum
clubs. That may be shorter than the
other way. \. You ask me that ques-
tom
@. dc. All them? A. All of them
You ask me that question, if all o.
| them are rum clubs2
@. No, l viii ask you again thy
uneetion, when you were Il municipal
officer eff tie city of Bath and chair
mar OF the committee on police weren't
YOU a member of one of those clubsa
A. Yes.
@. Did you make any effort to put
the club out of business? y. No, sir.
Q. As alderman of the city of Bath
We're YOU sworn when you went int
office? A. Yes.
O. Subscribed to the regular official
oath? y. Yes. you know what it is.
c. | do know what it is. How many
years lave Won been chairman of the
| Republican city committee of Rath3 n
Two or three years.
@. We're YOU in the first year ol
Frank small's administration A. Ne
sir.
@. Two years ago? A. No, sir
c. Were you last year? A. No, sir.
O. Who was the city marshal under
Small the first year he was mayor
a. Fred l.. McF'adden.
@. Did you have anything to dc
with putting him in? A. Voted fol
him.
@. And did you at any time COM
PLAIN to him the man who you assist
1 ~, nj
| his service of these terrible conditions
in Bfth? A Yes.
@. lie didn't take any action or
them. did he? A. Yes.
&. How many of the houses of pros
titution did he close" A, One.
@. out of II? A. didn't say there
was u there at that time
q. How many were there there
| them A. Oh, ] don't know.
Q. When did you first take a cen
| slls of the houses of prostitution III
Bath a. Last spring, last February
O. And before that you knew some
Of them existed there and had for many
years. didn't YOU? A. Yes.
| @. Mere than one y. Yes.
O. And your city marshal at your
! suggestion closed one. did he? ANY
city marshal ut my suggestion didn
say suggested anything to the city
MARSHAL
The PRESIDENTS; Answer the ones
| ton without argument.
MIR pATTANCsALL: But the city
marshal whom YOU helped to choose
| and to Whom you complained about
conditions in Bath. closed one? A., Yes.
@. And left the rest OPEN \. | pre-
| sumo so. yes.
@. Did YOU complain To the city
| marshal during that year, the man
| whom you helped put in office. about
the eight clubs where rum was sold2
A. | didn't. no. sir.
@. Did you say anything during the
year in the public press about that
A. ;i8n't think did
@ Dent you know: a. / don't
think | did
q You know you didn't, don't you?
A. don't think | did
Q. Don't you know, l ask you? a.
No. / guess ] didn't.
q. lou leave it with a guess, do YOU
y YES
@. Who was your city marshal last,
year? ~ Hiram T. patten.