Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-29
According to Testimony in Har-
ry R. Mooney Search and Seiz-
ure Case Friday Morning in
Municipal court
STIFF SENTENCE GIVEN
RESPONDENT BY JUDGE
Appeal Is Taken and Bond Fur
nished for Appearance at the
September Term of Superior
Court

AS the result of the seizure Thurs
day afternoon by Sheriff Getchell and
Deputies Bucklin and Lewis of guam
rity of intoxicating liquors at the Cob
bossce Colony Hotel on the Monmouth
shore of Lake Cobbosseecontee, Harry
r. Mooney, director of a summer
school for boys in connection with
which the hotel is operated, was ar
raigned at 10 o'clock Friday morning
before Judge Lancaster of the mu-
nicipal court to answer to a charge of
search and seizure. The respondent,
who was represented by Burleigh Mar
tin OF the firm of Murchie & Martin,
waived reading of the warrant and
entered plea of notg Utility.
It viii be remembered that the war
rant against Mr. Mooney was sworn
out by one Francis NJ. Ono, who was
one of number of young men who
had been employed during the sum-
mer as walters at the hotel and he
was the first to- testify for the prosecu-
fion. He statedithat he was q native OF
Japan and that he had been in the
United States for about four years first
at Los Angeles, Cal. where he was a
student, then coming to the city of
New York, where he is at present a
student in the College of the City of
of New York.
Continuing, he said that he had been
employed at Cobbossee Colony Hotel
since the last of June, as waiter. He
further said that it was the custom to
serve liquor to the guests of the hotel
and decrihed the manner in which Ii
quor was handled; that "the captain"
(head waiter), who had charge of the
closet in which the liquor was kept,
furnished slips containing the order,
the name of the party ordering, and
the price: that when the order was
served the slip was torn off and sent
to the office to be charged in the week.
ly bill. the stub being left in the hands
of the waiter
Deputy Sheriff A. r. Bucklin was
then called and told of the visit to the
hotel and described the closet off the
dining room, where the liquor was
found Regarding the contents of the
closet he said that on the shelves in
the closet were bottles of rum, wills
key, gin, also many liquors of which
he had never heard, together with
various other articles. The testimony
of Sheriff Getchell and Deputy Sher-
iff Lewis was very much along the
same line as that of Deputy Sheriff
Bucklin.
The first witness for the defence was
Edward Paul Murphy, manager at the
hotel where the seizure was made. Ac-
cording to his statement the greater
portion of the liquor used at the hotel
was used for cooking purposes; that
much of the liquor was brought by
guests; that no charge was made for
the liquor served, and that the charges
on the slips were for service. In ex-
planning the use of the slips he said
that they We're used for the service Of
liquor and that the $9.45 on the stub
of one slip that was introduced at the
hearing was an accumulation OF
charges.
One of the guests of the hotel. Mr..
| Hartman Of Havana, Cuba, was called
and among other things, told Of bring
ing with him to the hotel half dozen
bottles of claret which was all that re-
manned of a case of the liquor which
had been given him by friends in Ha-
vana; that on his way he stopped at
New York week but did not unpack
his trunk. He further said that he fin
ishe6 the last bottle a week ago. Re-
garding many charges for beer against
him on one slip he explained that the
beer was used for Welsh rarebit.
Mr.. Mooney also took the stand and
produced a bill for about $54, for Ii
quors which were bought June "a of
the current year and were, he said,
for cooking purposes, the cordials be-
ing used for f1ayoring ices. In ex-
planning the discharge Of the complain
ant Ono. he said that there were COM
plants made about the man-that
there was one table on which Ono did
not like to wait, as the tips at that Ia
BILE were not as large as they were at
some others
Mr.. Martins argument was brief and
was along the line that the respondent
was not shown to be connected with
the hotel in question.
At the conclusion of the hearing the
court found the respondent guilty and
imposed sentence of 800 and costs and
80 days in Jail and in default of pay
ment go days additional. An appeal
was taken and bonds furnished in the