Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-31

highway pay roll. $1s,752.o5; total
$29, 1895.
Council Orders
The following orders were passed:
That the claims of cities, towns
and plantations, as shown by the at
tached schedule, for aid to depend
ents of soldiers, sailors and marines,
to July /. 1918, as provided by Chap
| ter 276 of the Public Laws Of 1917,
| amounting in the aggregate to $15,-
S40.s5 lie paid from the appropriation
for wal purposes:
Augusta s326.2S; Baileyville $245.-
Ga: Bar Earbor $36s2.61: Biddeford
| s4114.71 Caswell Plantation $102.s5:
Eddington ss4; Gouldsboro s225.14;
Harmony $20514: Jonesport $1567:
Kingman $20O.30; Liberty s219.7S;
pitts6eld s1326.S4; Plymouth s196;
Princeton $3.50: Presqua Isle $751;
Sc; ST. George s751.36; Sullivan
| s766.24; Temple s7.43; Thorndike
$3.50: Topsham s113.43; Turner
sIO6.63; total s15,s4095.
That $500 be transferred from the
! State contingent fund to the appro-
p-iation for postage, stationery and
office supplies, ETC., of the executive
department.
VIM. A. Withee Pardon Case
| Donald F. Snow of Bangor ap-
peared in behalf of a pardon for VIM.
A. Withee of Bangor now in Penob-
| scot Jail on liquor case. He stated
that Withee had always been a rum
seller but Withee claimed unfair
treatment by Ex-Sheriff Whites
| deputies. Having disposed Of his
| business, he went to Portsmouth, N
H., worked s months; then to Bath
and worked in Bath Iron Works:
| later got better job with United
| States Housing Corporation. He was
sent to Bangor on business, sur
rendered and was committed on the
| old charge. the legal papers having
| descended to Sheriff Thayer from his
| predecessor.
Mr.. Snow read a letter from Sheriff
| Thayer recommending a conditional
pardon, owing to Withee's abandon
mcnt of the liquor business and his
| manly act in surrendering himself to
clear mp the old charge. County
attorney A. L. Blanchard of Penob-
scot also wrote, recommending the
pardon; also that his wife, on
| Withee's bond, had settled with the
county.
| Mr.. Snow stated that as Withee
had gone out of the rum business and
| gone TO work and done something
worth while in this crisis, he asked
for conditional. He said the peo-
pie of Bath recognized his reforma-
ton and were in favor of the pardon.
| Sheriff Wilbur c. Oliver of Saga
dahoc county said Withee had done
well and he felt that he would make
good If given the opportunity. He
favors the pardon.
! Councillor F. w. Nichols af Bath
said the case had been brought. to his
attention and he had been asked by
numerous citizens of Bath to urge
the par6on.
| Caberna Levineski Pardon Case
| Mr.. Snow also appeared for
| Caherna Levineski, a Russian woman
asking an absolute pardon. Said she
lived upstairs over Salina Kelley. a
| deputy searched the Kelley place,
found nothing, and without a war
rant, went to Levineski tenement and
IN boarder's room found partially
filled bottle of liquor. She could not
speak English and when the case
came IN the upper court and her at
torney was in Camp Devens. so that
II, with many others, was defaulted.
Mr.. Snow said he could find no Of
hcers who knew even Of the woman,
to say nothing of criminal record:
was convinced she never sold liquor:
but was a victim of a train of cir
cumstaEces.
Sheriff Thayer wrote that she be-
iieved she was serving an unjust
sentence and that an absolute pardon
was warranted. County Attorney
Blanchard wrote to the same effect.
John J. Tracy Pardon Case
H. +. Warren of Waterville ap-
peared in behalf Of John j. Tracy
serving a 3-to-5-years sentence in
state prison, with years recon-
nended. for forgery at Old Town
convicted Feb. 10, 1916. Mr. Warren
said he had known Tracy for years in
vermont and later in Maine. Tracy
mad no wrong doing intentions. but
contracted the habit of drinking. He
came to Maine and in 1916 in Old
Town, while intoxicated, forged a
check for 81 on a Mr.. Davis. coal
dealer. visited him in State prison
and decided l would do what l could
to secure his freedom. Feel sure he
deserves it. having been punished
enough. and would be a better man
free. lie offers to go into any gov
crnmen1 employ and prefers to leave
the State.
William e. Perrigo Pardon
benedict +. Maher Of Augusta ap-
pcared in behalf Of VIM. E. Perrigo
OF Waterville, sentenced last January
to IL months in Kennebec Jail and
$1oc fine for adultery, Mrs. Arthur C.
Jcwett being given s months on a
similar charge. Perrigo had been
given previous hearing on July 81
last On petition for pardon.
Judge Maher said that Mrs.
Jewetts life with her husband had
become unbearable and she gradually
drifted into relations with Perrigo,
who had come into a family as a
boarder The circumstances were
extenuating. She has served her g.
months sentence and paid the PEN
atty. Perrigo has been in Jail the
same length of time and has paid as
much penalty as she.
Perrigo has been an exemplary
prisoner. He is a strong. able man