Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-08

charges made against him.
Counsel Pattangall read the answer
which denied in toto the charges and
asserted that he had faithfully aud
efficiently performed the duties
of sheriff of Penobscot county and
prayed that the complaint be Gs-
missed. 1t was dated June 6. 1918. and
Counsel Pattangall stated that it was
signed by T. HERBERT White and had
| been filed with Secretary Of State
Frank w. Ball.
Attorney General Sturgis said:
Attorney Generals Statement
In addition to the testimony which
stated i'll my opening we would in
troduce as bearing upon the charges
laid in the complaint, | have witness
es who will testify in substances Is
follows:
In the matter Of the shipments OF
Intoxicating liquors into Bangor from
Jan. 3, 1918. to date, | have witnesses
here who would testify, if called, that
the barrels of liquor at the freight
offices in each case contain a tag
showing the character of the con-
tents and the number of the quarts or
gallons therein, that all Of the liquor
receipts Which we started in to
spread upon the records were for in
toXicating liquors by the railroad lines
is required by the Federal law. and
no soft drinks are included in the
list.
Witnesses would testify and the
records would show that a 250-lbs.
| barrel of Whiskey, for illustration,
contained 20 gallons or so quarts. That
lso-lb. barrel would contain 3 ga
gallons of whiskey and so on, so
that 1T would be readily aScertaineI
the approximate number Of quarts
ana gallons that was contained IN
these receipts which | said in my
opening aggregating approximately
$4,000 pounds by railroad and steam
er last month
our witnesses would testify that
while these barrels of Whiskey. etc,
were consigned to various individuals,
that automobiles loaded with men,
roughly dressed and apparently
woodsmen would be brought to the
freight house, would come in AMI
sign for the barrels of liquor and 30
away and sometime later, a jigger OF
truck would come and load the bar
iels, boxes. etc, into the truck or jig :
ger and be hauled away at one tim
| We shall present evidence that there
: is no record i'll the directory of the
existence of some, and | think I may
say many, persons whose names ap-
I pear as conslgnceS in these shipments
1 We even can show that the names nf
one certain consignee, for illustration,
I appearing in the records of the rail
road, was one Moses Giddings, who
was a former Deacon of one of the
churches and who in fact has bean
dead for 10 years, and that the freight
I agent sent card to the home of the
! former Mr.. GiddinGs, which came Ii
| the daughter and the card We ha\.
! here.
! our Witnesses would testify that
! these packages were almost. without
exception from 100 pounds up and a
greater majority. barrels of .:.1
! pounds, which as / have said, in nu-
merous cases were marked with
weigh bills as containing 20 gallons
! Other parcels of the 8 "a gallon size
etc.
We also have witnesses who would
| testify as 10 the receipts in 9th ;.
towns in the county, Lincoln. Old
! Town, Dexter, etc. Of large quaint
ties Of liquor during this period
| In the matter of the activity of thu
sheriff's department in the enforce
ment OF the I.rohibitory law. other
witnesses would show that during
| this period from Jan. 3. to date. az
oording to the records of the clerk IF
The municipal court. n total seizure
OF liquor by the sherin's department
IN the city Of Bangor has amounted
J to III l. quarts of LIQUOR which ir
cihdes 20 quarts of pint bottles of ,aialt
Tonic seized in South Brewer and
l. quarts of whiskey in South
breWer, leaving a total of SO quarts
of liquor actually seized in the city
of Bangor by the sheriff's depart
ment from Jan. 3 to date, accordins
TO the records of the municipal court,
| during which period as | said. 424. O0C
| pounds and if we call it pounds II
! the quart, 141, 900 quarts have been
! received.
We should further show on the
/ same point and have witnesses here
| VINO would testify that the deputies
OF the sheriff employed for the DUR
pose of Selling liquor were seven in
number and that they have been in
ana about the Office and corridors of
the Court House day after day ap-
| parently at leisure or in the words of
the witness ''loafing about the Court
| House
In addition to the testimony of the
/ men who | sent to Bangor to inyesti-
! gate as to whether or not rum shops
were doing an open business, we have
! witnesses from Bangor. policemen of
the city who would testify of places
generally and well known by the peo-
pie of Bangor to be rum shops, such
as Milans, Gallagher's. Cox, River
side Hotel Jim Profitas, Wayerly
Hotel, etc, have been doing an active
liquor business. Constant streams of
, men coming out and going in; drunk
( en- men hanging about, men coming
! out with bottles under their arms.
drunken men coming out from whom
| the policemen have taken bottles of
| whiskey.
These same men would testify that
on different occasions that they have
| gone into these various saloons and
| taken drunken men out and that
these conditions as to liquor traffic
have been almost without exception
general and continued during this
period
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