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

Q. After you had been there while
IA Yes
Q. In that place? A. Yes.
Q. Do you mean liquor? A. Liquor.
.. How in the world do you think i
got there? Do you suppose it came from
the depot or the boat? A. 1t was there
that is all l know.
| q. How much of it? Al think Their,
| were seven or eight bottles in a hide il
the washtub.
| q. Then you made other searches? A
And we found once before that. just prio,
to that time, some kegs in a hide ava,
out in the shed, overhead
/ @. Any other times? A. We have
found liquor at other times than that
| yes.
@. So from your searches you would
conclude that Patrick Holloran kept
pretty steadily in the liquor business
during that year? A. / presume he was
lin nothing else.
g. On Washington avenue. a weeR
/ ago Saturday, yon visited William Egan,s
place? A. Yes, sir
| G. Is that a comparatively new place
or is that an old place? y. That is an
old place.
q. And was that running when you
| Were there as an officer, a Sturgis depu.
| ty? y. No, sir; it was closed.
| q. After you went there or before:
\. l don't know Just when it was clos
ed, but it was closed after We wen,
| there.
Q. Do YOU know Whether your officers
! had anything to do with closing it. OF
was it closed when you arrived in the
city? a. / couldn't tell you as to that
q. Now when YOU went there as a
stursis deputy was Shermans place run
ming? A. Frank Shermans bar was rum
ming; that is, when we first went there
we found liquor i'll the barroom hid over
| head. and then it was taken away.
Q. That is the place called the Gaft
Topsail? A. Yes.
q. And that was open in 1912 I mean
the business itself was open? A. The
bar when we first went there was open
and then it was closed, and he moved
upstairs. 1T was dwelling.
Q. What business did he go into dur
ing that year other than rum selling, il
you know? a. / think he went across &c
the old country hunting for a wife al
that time.
| somewhere in the neighborhood of three
or four months.
@. Outside of that what did he 90
into? A. don't know that he had
any busineS.5 outside Of the rum bus
mess.
@. During that year? A. During
that year
@. Was that his first start in bus
mess or had he kept Il place in some
other business before that \. He
has been in other places.
@. In the same business? Liquor
business? A. Liquor business.
@. How far back do YOU know of
him? A, As far back as was a dep
uty sheriff. in $780,:
q. Was he in the liquor business
| then? a. We made seizures ut his
place and brought him in rs re-
spondent.
Q. Had him before the court? a
Yes. sir.
Q. And he still continued in the
business? A. Yes, sir
@. Now when you worked under
Sheriff Pearson and under Sheriff
Dunn. u strong effort was made on
the part of the officers to enforce the
prohibitory law? A. There vas.
Q. Did you succeed in stopping the
sale of liquor in Portland? a. No.
Q. Where did the traffic appeal
when you drove it out of some places "
a. The most of it was on the streets
and in back yards.
O. And in kitchen barrooms2 n.
There were a few kitchen barraoms.
@. Mostly on the streets and in
back yards. A. Yes.
O. How was it conducted A. Ia
various ways.
O. Won't you describe some OF
them? A. This Thomas Brownrieg
was in the business at that time az
an express company. He used to haul
il and deliver it at back yards or any
where else they wanted it. on the
street or anywhere. He USED TO morse
it up and haul it to them.
@. He didn't haul it TO the consum-
er, but hauled it to places where they
retailed it? A. He hauled 1t and pu'
| il in back yards. presumably 10 sell.
| @. Not 10 somebody to use TOT theih-
selves, but for them to sell? "A. Yes
| @ And was that carried ON pretty
eXto nS.Neiv. n. Qulte 80, oh.h ''is
t last part OF that year
@ That would be 1882, would it? a.
| 1902.
| O. Now that was the way EroWnrlg
handled the trade, was 1t? A. Yes.
! @. How else was the trade carried
ono A, Some others that dealt in hard
goods would bring a basket down the
street and stand around the corner
and stand there until they saw a GUS
toner corning and go around the cor
ner and go TO the basket and l would
see them get something and deliver H.
| 0. What that trade comparatively
extensive or very limited? A. Very
| limited.
@. Did you catch some of them at
it, 4. Not very many OF them
@. Did ycu some. Have some before
the courts? A. ! think we had Mr..
| lanes WEIGH up for sales on the street
| corners
O. OF course whoneNer you knew OF
n man selling you had him before the
court? A. II we knew his name ana
| could get hold of him and there was
evidence enough to satisfy the court
/ he was in the business.
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