Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-15
COODCHILD
GETS JAIL Sentence
IN A LIQUOR CASE
But Sentence Is Suspended -
Portland Automobile Case
Falls Flat - Eight Cases of
Intoxication Are Disposed of

Monday morning was busy one at
the municipal court and total Of ten
cases claimed the attention OF Judge
Lancaster up to the noon hour. eight
Of them having for their cause the
er-indulgence in Intoxicating stimu-
lants. A verdict Of guilty was pro-
nounced in each case and in disposing
of them four respondents were re-
auired to pay $12.62 each, one paid
so.6o, one drew a suspended sentence
Of so days in Jail, and two were COM
mitted
A case around which not a small
amount of interest centered was that
of Mrs Emma Goodchild, at whose
house at 26 Monroe street Deputy
Sheriffs Rice and Pomerleau made a
seizure last Friday Of fiat quart bot
tie filled with whiskey and another
bottle of the same capacity and shape,
which contained a pint Of the same IL
quor. Mrs Goodchild was not repre-
sented by counsel and entered a plea
of not guilty.
The sheriffs in their testimony said
that they had received complaints rel
alive to the Goodchild home. which
was the cause for their visit: that
when they entered the house on the
day above mentioned little boy and
girl ran upstairs; that upon follow
ing the children they found a room
from which a scuttle led into the at
tic: that upon lifting this scuttle they
found on the attic floor at distance
the length of child's arm from the
edge of the scuttle the two bottles con-
tanning the liquor seized by them.
Mrs. Goodchild in her testimony said
that the liquor found and taken by
the officers was a part Of a gallon
that she had purchased two weeks ago
for her husband. She further claim
ed that she had placed the two bot
ties in the attic so that her husband
Of the action Of the children in rum
ming upstairs when the officers en-
tered the house was that they went to
the attic to see If the bottles were
there.
At the conclusion of the hearing
the court found the respondent guilty
Of the charge of search and seizure
and imposed a sentence Of 500 and
costs and so days in Jail. and in de-
fault Of payment of fine and costs 60
days additional, but in consideration Of
the fact that the respondent Is the
mother of nine children, the young
est of which is nursing infant, the
court was lenient and suspended sent
ence, although in doing SO he told the
woman that she would have to keep
beyond suspicion.
Another case was that Of Harry W.
Seaford of Portland, which was con-
tinued from last week. The charge
against the respondent was that of
reckless driving of an automobile,
June 4, on Western avenue, In this
city. When Mr. Seaford appeared in
court Monday morning he was repre-
scented by Carroll L. Beedy Of Port
land and by advice Of his counsel
prove by six witnesses that on the
date on which he was alleged to have
done the driving on Western avenue,
neither he or his car were away from
Portland, although it was admitted
that his car bore the tag IS 124"
which was claimed to have been the
tag attached to the car which figured
in the Western avenue incident.
1t came out at the hearing that the
respondents car is in appearance very
different from any car owned in Au-
gusta, it being a f1ve-passenger car
with undressing body and bicycle
wheels. and with but one headlight,
that being in the center Of the front
part Of the car. Mr. Seaford testi-
fed that the maximum speed Of his
car was IS miles per hour.
Ofhcer Arthur H. McCausland Of the
police force was the only witness for
the prosecution. His testimony was
to the effect that the number which
he saw on the car on Western ave-
nue. was 124 but he was unable to give
description of the car. At the con-
clusion Of the hearing the respondent