Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-02

The municipal court room Monday
morning held one Of the largest gath
erings that has yet assembled there,
because Of the fact perhaps that the
docket contained a larger end more
varied list Of cases than usual, and
the noon hour was approaching before
the last case was finally conclude".
The business was transacted IN Judge
Lancaster's usual thorough manner,
but there was some disappointment on
the part Of such members as were
present in the expectation OF nearing
something sensational.
The case about which the greatest
interest centered was that OF john d.
Coakley and Mrs Ethel Bartlett, who
had been arrested In Portland, ana
brought to Augusta on the SUNDAY
morning Pullman by Officer George
McKenney. The warrants for their ar
rest were sworn out by Blanche A. ret
tengill, and the charge was adultery.
When the prisoners were brought IN
to court Monday morning the proceeo-
ines were brief. Coakley and the Bart
lett woman were represented by Ernest
L..
son, Burleigh & Mclean and by aoVlce
of their counsel they waived an exam
ination and pleaded not guilty, where-
upon they were bound over in the sum
If $500 each for the September term
Of the superior court. Last evening
thew were still held at the police sra
t,on but were hopeful Of securing the
required bonds.
Another case was that OF George
Crabb, who it will be remembered was
before the court March % en- COM
plaint of his mother-in-law, Ca~rle L.
Jordan Of Augusta and at which Tune
il was alleged that he threatened 10
! "shoot up" the family. The case at
that time was continued for sentence
crahb expressing his intent.cn OF go
ing to his home at Mars Hill and from
there to Alaska, in which latter couh'
try he had passed a number or years.
But it transp!red that Crabb dld not
60 any nearer Alaska than the CITY OIL
lewiston. It was known that he was
| in Lewiston and when Sunday he land
| ed in Augusta from a Lewiston car ne
was promptly taken in by the police
| At the hearing Monday morning 1t was
| shown in the testimony of Mrs. JORDAN
that Crabb had been in the city three
times since March Is. although Crapt
claimed that he had been here but once
since April %. He claimed that he came
to Augusta Sunday evening to get his III!
overcoat and grip. When asked by th'
court why he did not go to Alaska he re
| ~ ha had a ROOt
lob in Lewiston and that they had raised
his pay; that later however, when he go
a letter from his brother he was golns
West. After Crabb had been questiohe'
TO some length the court disposed of tn
case by ordering him to furnish pon'
in the sum of $500 to keep the peace 10
six months. AS in his initial appearance
before the court, Crabb was represented
by Burleigh Martin.
Crabb's troubles did not end there
however, for at about o'clock in tn
afternoon the police were called to Tn
Jordan homestead on East Crescen
street. where Crabb had started "rougl
house" and had so frightened the womel
that they fed out OF doors. Officer Nc
Kenney went to the place and captured
Crabb and then took him over the rive
to the police station.
Clara Boucher of Sand Hill was ais
in the list of those who claimed the at
tention of the court. Clara lives in Blocl
56, room Z, and on a warrant sworn on
by Alice Bellavance was taken into Gus
tody Sunday forenoon. According to tn
testimony of the complainant the Bou
cher woman was intoxicated and was go
ing to lick" her. The respondent ad
mitted that she had been drinking, ant
as it was only a short time ago that sh
was before the court on a similar charge
as we'll as on previous occasions, it wa
the decision Of the court that the cas-
be continued for one week. on condition
that the Boucher woman leave the city.
other matters before the court wer
two cases of intoxication, in each o
which the respondent was allowed to g.