Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-28
LOUIS BETIT GETS
I MONTHS IN JAIL
ON VARIOUS CHARGES
Alphonse Dutil Arraigned for
Assault and Battery on Com
plant Of John Gurney-Gets
Suspension of Sentence

1t was an unlucky day for Louis
Betit when he yielded to the tempea-
ton which prompted him to appropri-
ate to his own use some money belong
ing to his grandfather. whose name is
the same as that of his grandson, as
the following story will show. Louis
was before the municipal court
Wednesday morning TO answer to a
warrant sworn out against him by his
grandfather and charging him with
larceny Of two sums Of money. 1915
one day last week and 60 cents Tues
day, the two cases being treated sep
arately.
Louis denied taking the 1915, but
when 1t came to the 60 cent matter he
admitted the truth of the charge. It
came out in the testimony that the
complainant sent the amount OF SO
cents to a store for the payment Of a
bill, and that the respondent had later
gone to the store and told the proprie-
tor that his grandfather had sent to
the store to get the money. Louis, the
younger, was found guilty of the
charge and visited with a sentence of
30 days in jail
But his troubles did not end there
for his grandfather then entered a
complaint against him charging him
with being an idle and disorderly per-
son, and when Louis was adjudged
guilty Of that charge he was given an
other Jail sentence, this time 90 days.
The final chapter of Louis interview
with the court came when he was ar
| raigned to answer to charge of intox-
ication and on being adjudged guilty
he was visited with still another SEN
tence of 90 days in jail. and the order
of the court was that each succeeding
sentence should begin at the expiration
of the sentence Immediately preceding
it. When it was all over Louis went
up.
Alphonse Dutil, the special officer in
charge at the Colonial theater, was be-
fore the court to answer TO a charge
OF assault and battery perferred
against him by John Quincy, who al
legged that when in company with a
friend named DUDE he went TO the
theater last Saturday evening and laid
quarter of dollar on the shelf at
the ticket office, Dutil took the quarter
and put it in the compliments pocket,
the theater, which he did; that after
he had reached the sidewalk Dutil
kicked him, and after he had gone
about 10 feet Dutil kicked him a sec
ond time. Mr.. Dube's testimony was in
the main a confederation of the COM
plainant's. He also stated that he and
! the complainant were not intoxicated,
although he admitted that they had TAX
en- two drinks. Eddie Pomerleau. an
other witness for the complainant,
testified that he saw Duril kick Quincy.
and also said that the complainant and
his companion were not intoxicated.
Dutil entered a plea of not guilty In
his testimony he said that he was on
duty near the ticket Office of the
theater when Quincy came in; that
the ticket agent called his attention to
Quincy and told him to remove him
from the theater because Of his con-
dition. and that he tDutiD did as he
was requested. He further said that
Quincy was intoxicated. In reply 10
a question relative to kicking Quincy
he admitted that he kicked him once.
Mr.. Thompson. who was in the ticket
office Of the theater at the time of the
incident, also testified that Quincy was
! intoxicated. In disposing Of the case
! the court, while not upholding the ac-
ton Of the officer in kicking the re-
spondent, ruled that in removing, the
! latter from the theater he was perform
ing his duty, and suspended sentence.