Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-02
STATE HOUSE .
Fish and Game Dept. Prosecutions

M. P. Kneeland, game warden at
Princeton Wash. Coz. reports the
prosecution on Aug. q before Trial
Justice E. Nj. Richards of Princeton
Of Roscoe Yates of Princeton for hav-
ing in possession and selling parts OF
a bull moose. The defendant was ad-
judged guilty and fined 500 and s6.34
costs, which were paid.
Ned Cross deputy game warden at
Norway, reports the prosecution on
Aug. 20 before the Norway municipal
court of B. B. Judkins of Norway for
guiding without a license. The de-
PENDANT was convicted but in view OF
extenuating circumstances sentence
was SUSPENDED during good behavior.
The Puhlic Utilities Commission
gave decisions Wednesday in four &C
cident cases. The decisions read in
part as follows:
Oliver Harrington, age 9, OF Madison.
was killed July %, 1915 by railing from
a pole of the Madison Village Corpor-
alton, where he came in contact with
electric wires. The pole is located on
the east side Of Old Point avenue
about $50 feet south from Main street.
1t is about 80 feet high. Twenty rect
up are two 10 volt service wires on
brackets Four feet higher are two tel
ephone wires on brackets, and IL lnches
above these a cross arm carrying Iour
wires, one dead" and three charged
with $500 volts. Eighteen lncneS lar
Their up is another cross arm carrying
two 1900 volt wires.
The telephone company has two guy
wires supporting the pole and attach
ed Is and is feet from the ground re-
spectively. The boy was seen by other
boys to start to climb one or the guy
wires Their attention was then dis
tracted. and he was not seen again I'M
til he fell. Physicians found no pioou
or broken bones, and no indication OF
burns They were Of the opinion that
he was electrocuted by coming in con-
tact with the wires.
On July 81, 1915, at about 7.35 P. NJ,
John Fitzgerald was riding in an auto
mobile driven by Charles LOWS on
Main street ct South Windham. Inc
night was very foggy and dark. Mrs.
Alzada l.. Libby was walking in the
street, and, as she was crossing at the
junction Of the two converging lines or
street railway tracks, heard noise,
looked back and saw the automobile
approaching close to her at high rate
Of speed, with no lights and without
sounding the horn. She became confus-
ed, hesitated, then started for the
car track on her left. The automobile
rushed by on her left, took the car
track then turned off to the right, zig
Jagged, going about 200 feet from
where it passed Mrs. Libby, hit a guy
wire and telephone pole, which latter
it broke in two places. continued on
into a field. and stopped.
Fitzgerald was struck by a piece of
the pole. fracturing his skull, and died
shortly after while being carried to
hospital.
The accident appears to have been
due entirely to the careless handling
of the automobile by Mr.. Lows.
J. Melville knight, aged 81, of West
brook, collapsed at the Cumberland
Mills station Of the Maine Central Rail-
most Immediately.
Mr. Knight was a drummer in the
band which was accompanying the
Westbrook Board of Trade on an out
ing to Sebago Lake. The band had par
ticipated in a parade Of about one mile
to the station, and was awaiting the
train. He was talking with some ladies,
when he fell to the platform with the
above result. undoubtedly caused by
heart trouble.
There was no train at the station.
had been no train movement. and 10
act Of the Railroad Company contrib
uted to Mr.. Knights death.
William Kelley was killed on NJ. C.
r. r. tracks, Aug. IA, 1915.
This accident was investigated i'm
mediately by member Of this commits
sion.
The man had evidently fallen upon
the track or was asleep there. when
special freight train No. $40. eastbound.
ran over him at a few minutes after s
o'clock in the evening, badly mutilat-
ing the body and causing instant death.
The man was about IS years Of age,
and had stated few days previously
that his home was in Pittsfield, Mass.
He had been working in Old Town.
The evidence gathered shows no rea-
son for his being on the tracks at that
time, and this commission can see no
cause for holding the Railroad Com
pany or it's servants responsible for
this mans DEATH