Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-05
JONES FOUND GUILTY
OF ASSAULT ON
ouELLETTE CHILD
Is Sentenced to Impris-
on m e t for Two
Months - Two SEN
fenced for Improper
Behavior and Anoth-
er for Assault and
Battery

Not a single word of it; I never
saw the girl before to my knowledge"
was the reply Of Daniel T. Jones, a
harness maker 81 years of age, when
asked by Judge Lancaster Tuesday
afternoon in the municipal court if
the story of 11-year old Marion Duel
lette. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre
Ouellette, who charged that on Sat
urday. Sept. 81, the respondent as
saulted her was true. Judge Lancas-
ter thought otherwise, however, and
sentenced Jones to 60 days imprison-
ment.
Marion. who is a child of attractive
appearance. testified that last Satur-
day afternoon a man whom she identi-
fled as the respondent seized her as
she was walking along Bridge street
and carried her to an old shack on
COny street. TO protesting passers-
by, she said the man explained that
she was his child and that she had
run away from home. Locking the
door of the house. said Marion, the
man struck her with a strap and then
started for the woodshed. Selling a
key, she unlocked the door and escap-
cried out: IF I get you I'll kill YOU"
according to the little girls story
Jones is a widower, who gives his
age as So but who appears many years
older. and is very lame. For a short
time he has been conducting har-
ness repair shop in Gardiner Only
recently he had a shop in this city,
in the building to which the Ouellette
girl testified she was taken. At the
time OF his trial Tuesday afternoon he
still had the keys to the building in
his possession. He was in business in
Augusta but two months. prior to
which he was located in Hallowell for
two years.
Testimony over rather wide range
of subjects, bearing on his credibility
as witness. was given by Jones in
answer to questions by the court. He
admitted that he had sold a harness
that had been brought to him for re-
pairs and explained that he had been
to do so as the owner had not called
for 1T within 30 days after leaving it
at his shop. The respondent also ad
mitted that he had paid no rent on his
shop in this city and that he was in
arrears on the rent of his place of
business in Hallowell.
Jones told the court that he had for
merly resided in Chelsea, Mass, and
that in the big fire he had lost $4,000.
In denying the crime with which he
was charged, he said that he had not
been out of Gardiner for two weeks
until today.
For assault and battery upon John
Grimshaw, Alphonse Patnaude was
ordered to pay a fine of S. or serve 10
days In Jail. He appealed and gave
bonds in the sum of 500 Grimshaw
testified that Patnaude struck him
three blows about the head and face
when on Monday he went to the prem
ises of the respondents son, Wilfred
fatnaude' to gather vegetables from
she garden which he himself had
planted and cared for He has been
tenant of Wesley Cummings. who
on Aug. II sold the property to the
younger Patnaude. The dispute which
ended in the encounter was over the
ownership of the garden produce. At
torney NJ. + Sawtelle, who represent
ed the defendant. argued that Grim
shaw was trespassing and that his
client used no undue force in dri,i,,
nm off the grounds Attorney Franz,
T' harrington, counsel for the com
piainant. contended that the garden
vegetables We're Grimshaw's Iavf,,
property and that he was within bic
rights In going onto the land to har-
vest his crops. This contention v.s
upheld by the court.
MABEL Dawson, who admitted thai
Tor Two years she has been living with
Everett Frost at a house on Arsoa,
street. was arraigned for wanton be.
naVior ana was ordered committed n
the Woman's Reformatory at Skow
hegan. On like charge. Frost was
sentenced to 90 days Imprisonment
Mrs Dawson has a husband living
nut testified that she has not seen hin,
tor long time. She is the mother of
three children, the oldest of which
aged ~. is child by a former mar
riage. When Officer Gagnon and Nrs
Ada, F. Hunt State agent for the nro-
lection of children, visited the house on
Arsenal street Monday, they found the
Oldest child playing in the street, the
next younger asleep on a couch and
the baby asleep on bed in a room the
door Of which had Neen locked. The
mother. they testified, did not return
home until after O'Clock in tho e,,o,
ing. Both stated the conditions in the
house We're revolving, as a result Of
dirt and decay.
Mrs. c. H. Harvey Of tho Maine