Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-07
THREE BOYS ROUNDED UP
ON LARCENY CHARGE
PhiIeas Dostie,. Ezanias Parquette
and Leo Bennett Plead Guilty to
Stealing Cigars, Cigarettes and
Bottled Soda From Pool Room Of
Handy Radsky

Handry Radsky
The attention of the municipal court
was taken up for the greater part of
Thursday afternoon by the case of three
youngsters who had been arrested for
the larceny OF cigars, cigarettes and
bottled soda from pool room which is
located over the Colonial bowling al
ieys on upper Water street and which
pool room is operated by one Handry
Radsky.
The boys implicated in the alleged
misdoing were Phileas Dostie, Ezanias
Parquette and Leo Bennett. each aged
about II years, although Dostie was
undoubtedly the ringleader. and the
story which had for it's center the doings
which went on in the pool room and
which eventually brought the three
boys mentioned into the presence of
Recorder Cony was about as follows:
The complainant Radsky, proprietor
of the pool room, finding that the pool
room was not paying very well, decided
some time ago to close it during the
daytime and keep it open only during
the evenings. he being employed during
the days at one of the shoe factories.
And it is also said that during such
times as the pool room was open eve
nings the cash receipts from the cigar
cite and cigar case and the soda tank
did not appear to he in keeping with the
amount of goods apparently sold. Rad
sky had his suspicious that things about
the pool room were not just as they
should be, and, secreting himself in the
vicinity day or two ago he made an
unexpected visit to the pool room and
found Doste there.
1t would be difficult to say who was
the more surprised. Radsky or Dostie.
but the latter made a hurried exit from
the place via the window, first drop
ping about % feet to the room of a
building alongside the one in which the
pool room is located, and then jumping
about 20 feet to the shore of the river
below. How the boy made the jumps
without breaking his legs was wonder,
even to himself, which fact he yester
day admitted
Dostie was arrested Wednesday night
at his home and locked up at the police
station, and his incarceration evidently
prompted him to talk. for he implicated
the other two boys mentioned with the
result that they were also takens over to
the police station. 1t is said that the
names of several other boys who shared
in the spells from the pool room were
also taken, but their presence was not
REQUIRED in the case heard yesterday
afternoon.
The three boys, Dostie, Parquette and
Bennett, were arraigned before Record
err Cony at o'clock to answer to the
charge of larceny of cigars. cigarettes
and bottled soda from the Radsky pool
room, to which charge all three plead
ed guilty. 1t came out during the hear
ing that young Parquette had been LEFT
in charge of the Colonial bowling al
leys during the absence of the proprie-
tor, and that Doste. who has not much
of reputation as an Industrious youth,
had secured a pass key to a door lead
ing from the bowling alleys to the pool
room All three boys admitted having
paid visits to the pool room and adj
mtted the taking of cigars. cigarettes
and bottled soda, so 1t could be easily
seen what might be the cause of the
discrepancy in the receipts in the re-
freshment feature Of the pool room
Dostie has in the past claimed the
attention OF the police department, but