Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-07

date, and as / say To anticipate that
as part Of the defense of the sheriff,
he NAV cause it to be stated in NGnr
presence th;tt the number of seizures,
and the apparent liquor activities III
his department is sufficiently largo To
cause you tn consider. | have taken
pains to analy2c them in order that
YOU may understand the testimony
before you rs il comes in, not only
witnesses for your Body but those
representing the sheriff, l want to
state briefly what the analysts of
these liquor activities show. Prior to
January list there were issued by the
municipal court on matters by com
plafnt made by the sheriff 119 differ
cnt matters. Ninety of those matters
were libels. Attorneys understands
what that means. Let me briefly
state that before intoxicating liquor
can be seized there may be issued a
warrant. under ordinary crcum-
stances After liquors are seized up
an Il warrant they are taken into the
custody If The officer whose duty un.
der the statute, requires and comDcls
him to file before some court Il paper
III which he asks that this liquor be
remandcd and considered contraband
Irpon that petition there is issued q
libel for the condemnation and coniis-
cation of the liquors SO that You will
see in the analysis Of these different
eases if 81 were libelled then neces-
sarfIN the proceedings on those libcls
and on this number of activities prior
10 January 1st. there must have been
some warrants upon which they were
seized II is only fair to eliminate the
number of iibels prior to January list.
ar g. Of the SO libels more than one
third Of the proceedings We're against
women: in some instances against
ceedings prior To January list and
FROM October LIST was the same perSon
proceeded against twice That is. if
the name of Angelina April was pro-
ceeded against in tho lower court by
reason of the sheriff's activities, hor
name never appeared as the defend
amt IN Il liquor warrant from that
time aftorWard That is universally
and absolutely true with reference 10
every one of the warrants which have
been issued by the municipal court Of
Portland in tho six months from Octp-
Der 1st to April LIST in behalf of tn
sheriff or his deputies. That means
i the attorney general-and before
efplain what | think the meaning is.
turing that sane period of time there
We're al these holders of United
states Internal Revenue taxes for the
sale of intoxicating liquor under the
retail liquor dealers tax. which does
not mean malt liquors and it elimi
mates drug stores.--all those notorious
places We're all that time in full blast,
but in order to make these seizures,
peared bat once.
1t was necessary for the sheriff or
his deputies in order to make these
seizures to so to a place almost bang
up against those places that We're
notorious
That means to the attorney general
that those places that were being run
and run openly, notoriously, and as
We say with the full knowledge and
acquiescence of the sheriff, those
places Sc running have to he protect
ed. as We hear the word used. ana in
order that they might be protected it
vas necessary to put Immediately and
finally out of business anyone who
had the audacity to open up in the
city of Portland, and in the vicinity
of those places liquor shop. Hence
the activities of the sheriff and his
deputies during that six months from
October LIST to April 1st We're directed
solely, with seven exceptions, to put
ting these people out of business and
they were successful. Those So peo-
pie who prior to January list were
complained against,-and so SUCCESS
full We're they that never but once did
any of those names against whom
they complained appear on the dock
cts OF the court The scheme was
absolutely perfect. and in the mean
| time. with seven exceptions, those
Other places were all running
In reference to the record of the su-
peElor court for the two terms. the
sreat majority of the cases ON that
docket came through appeals by poo
pie against whom complaints had
been made, and there were ut the last
term OF court some 80 indictments. and
of those 30 indictments solcmnly re-
turned by the grand jury at the last
term Of court under Il statute which
eompels sheriffs to furnish their evil
dence to the county attorney, of the
30 indictments but three were of those
who had paid a retail liquor dealers
license. and not one of those who
were old timers, who for twelve years
have been either personally selling
Intoxicating liquors or have been the
successors of those who have been
selling.
We shall show by various testimony
and facts and circumstances that these
conditions existed in the city of Port
land
in regard to Westbrook, we shall
call attention through testimony to
the conditions that existed there dur
| ing Mr.. Moulton's administration, up
to the time when certain citizens got
busy and discovered and brought
about things which witnesses will tell
you.
With reference to the situation in
Brunswick. ! viii not 20 into that i'll
detail except to say that We expect
10 have witnesses, or they are pres
cnt, who will give you testimony in
reference To that city, showing not so