Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-27
Weekly salaries si3,1so.s2: highway
payroll s3G23.4s: total $16,sS4.30.
Pardon Hearings

1 Weekly salaries $i3,1so.s2: highway
payroll ssGa3.4s: total s1e,ss43o.
Pardon Hearings
| The afternoon session Of the Coun-
Gil was devoted largely to hearing
pardon petitions:
| Annie DevIin' O'Hare
Judge John Percy Dccying ap-
peared as Mrs. O'Hare.
Annie Deylin O'Hare was convicted
in September. 1913. in court at AL
fred, to pay a $500 fine and serve 4.
| months in Jail and in default of pay
ment months additional, for vio-
lation Of the prohibitory lay at Old
Orchard.
She claims that during the week
| she should have been in court at AL
, fred she was inncculated with an
anti-inf1uenza serum by DR.. John
Gray and became SO ill that she was
in bed. attended by a nurse and
physician and could not attend. She
also says that when she learned that
| il was necessary TO send doctors
certificate of illness, she procured one
from Dr. Francis ]. WEIGH and mailed
it 10 Judge Sanborn at Old Orchard"
There being no Judge Sanborn at Old
| Orchard. the certificate never reached
the supreme court, where it was in
| tended to 60.
Judge Deering stated that the sick
ness has been sent on advice Of her
council. Henry Cleaves Sullivan of
| Portland, and sent to Old orchard to
Judge Sanborn, when it should have
| been sent TO Chief Justice Cornish.
| 1t not being delivered, her case was
disposed Of in court. doing her an
| injustice.
! Medical examination has shown
her suffering from acute diabetis. al
! though the sheriff states that his
! physician was not satisfied that her
! condition was not serious enough to
I warrant release.
! Mrs. Barron, Il daughter, related
the home conditions and need of the
mother there. Said her mothers
| condition was very serious. Am a
| trained nurse; husband is in the
service. Have a baby s Il months
, old and have been caring for the
| home. The father, Martin O'Hare,
is a Waterman on government
! steamers at Portland. for past year.
Judge Deering read several affi-
davits concerning Mrs. O'Hare's con-
dition, including DIR. O'NeiIs.
Judge Lombard related the Circum-
stances of the hearing before him
and said he was compelled to hold
Mrs. O'Iarc.
Judge r. \. II. Lombard, who trieS
the case in Old Orchard, told of
Counsel Sullivan nhoning that n
/ sickness certificate had been mailed
me and | consented to take it to AL
fred but it didn't come. Finally the
letter. which had been in post Office
from Saturday to Wednesday,
reached me. directed to Judge San
born. Old Orchard. The case was
defaulted on Monday at Alfred.
The defence before me in the case
| was personal use, etc. Absolute de-
NAL of intent to sell. Arraigned as
Annie DeTlin.
Judge Decring reviewed the legal
course Of the case throughout and
claimed that her counsel was neg
IectfuI in not being in Alfred court
with the sick certificate. The daught-
er saw Justice Cornish, who said it
had gone too far for him to do any
thing and the only course was to go
to the Governor and Council. She
! has not had the absolute right of
a trial before a jury and the ncgli-
! gencc of her lawyer cannot be eX-
cused. She is now in Jail and SICK.
all for that negligence. We ask a
| cfo l1ac
! not had full hearing in the supreme
| court If not. YOU could give her a
conditional pardon; that is the
Governor can parole her in custody
Of her daughter.
Willis J. Page
! Edward =. Murray Of Bangor ap-
pcared as counsel for Willis j. Page
of Bangor, who was sentenced IN
| May. 1917. in Portland to : IL to )
years in states prison for adultery.
Mr.. Murray stated his client has
| been sufficiently punished as lie has
q wife and 6 children who urgently
need his presence. Tie young man
| of - years had a good position in
| the NJ. G. r. i. station at Bangor,
| made the acquaintance of q woman.
This acquaintance broke up his
home and he began drinking and
! went from bad to worse. He went to
Lowell, Mass, and back to Portland,
where he lived with this woman,
! who later to shield her condition,
! stated they We're married and lie
! didn't deny it. The truth later came
! out and he was arrested.
/ The mother has now gathered to-
! ing to take back her husband, who is
needed by the family.
! Mr.. Murray read letters from
Judge Blanchard of Bangor and In
! spector of Police Knaide of Ban
gor who favor the granting of a
pardon, even conditional
| Mrs. Page. the wife. said she was
! willing to take back her husband
and needed him and she knew he
would behave.
lenazio AIbanese-Joe Bill
| Frank 4. Morey Of Lewiston ap-
! peared in behalf Of Ignazio Aibanese,
known as Joe Bill.
| The crime for which 1gnazlo Alba
| neeS was convicted. was the murder
| Of his wife in the spring OF 1911 at
! Rumford. He was convicted at the
| October term that year and sentenced
| for life in State prison. The cause
leading to the murder was domestic
! troubles. The couple had separated.
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