Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-03
MONDAY BUSY DAY
AT MUNICIPAL COURT
WITH LIQUOR CASES
William Bourgette, Richard
Fitzgerald and Mrs. Lettie
Fallen Each Given a Jail Sem
tence and All Appeal Their
Gases to April Term of Supe-
rior Court

Monday at the municipal court was
one of the busiest days of the season
and several cases were disposed of.
the docket requiring both morning and
afternoon sessions. The principal case
Of the day was perhaps that Of Lettte
Fallen, at whose home on Bowman
street last Saturday night the sheriffs
made a seizure of SO quarts of whis-
key and rum. Mrs. Fallen was arraign-
ed on the charge of illegal possession
of intoxicating liquor with intent to
sell the same in violation of the law.
She was represented by Herbert Locke
and by advice of her counsel waived
4 reading of the warrant and pleaded
not guilty. She was found guilty by the
court however and was given the usual
sentence Of 500 and costs and so days
in Jail, and in default of payment of
fine and costs 60 days additional An
appeal was taken from the sentence
anG the respondent was ordered to
furnish bonds in the sum of 5000 for
appearance at the April term of the
superior court.
The case of the French NaturaliZa-
ton Club, where the sheriffs seized a
small quantity of liquor Sunday at
tcrnoon, was then taken up and VIII
liam Bourgette, the alleged steward of
the club, was arraigned before court
on the charge of search and seizure.
The respondent was represented by
Herbert Locke and entered plea of
guilty. He was given sentence of
500 and costs and 60 days in Jail. and
IL default Of payment Of fine and costs
&c days additional. from which he APP
pealed and furnished bail in the sum
of 5000 for the April term of court.
Other matters which claimed the at
tention of the court in the morning
were one case Of int"XiCation in which
the respondent was found guilty and
paid fine and costs amounting to
S7.62, and one in which the respond
ent. one Warren of Waterville, was ar
raiened on the charge of .vagrancy
The respondent pleaded not guilty and
his plea for leniency on the part OF the
court was that he had but shortly
come from the woods and was very
anxious to get back to where he could
smell the halsamic odor of the pine
and spruce The words Of the wanderer
were SO nearly sincere that they I'M
pressed the court and sentence was
suspended in order that he might have
q chance to seek the forest Businesses.
In the afternoon the attention OF the
court was taken up for short time
with the case of Richard Fitzgerald.
who was arraigned on the charge OF
Illegal possession of intoxicating III
Tors. which case grew out of that OF
Mrs. Fallen, which was heard at the
morning session of court. The respond
cit was represented by Herbert Locke,
aud by the Iatters advice waived a
rca ling Of the warrant and pleaded
not guilty On the stand he TESTIFIED
that he drank liquor and had bought
u liquor which had figured IN the
.ailen case for his own use. The court
found the respondent guilty and I'M
+, scd a sentence of 500 and costs and
&C days in Jail, and in default OF pay
mont of fine and costs 60 days add
l.onal. An appeal was taken and bonds
in 5000 furnished for his appearance
at the April term Of the superior
court.