Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-07

during the months of January and Feb
ruary which were prior to the time of
the sitting of the supreme judicial court
for that county at criminal term, that
the receipts Of intoxicating liquor IN
the city of Bangor were as follows:
January. by freight over the Maine
Central, $3.50 pounds or more than p
tons Of Intoxicating liquor; by American
Express, 1890 pounds; February, the
month when the court was in session.
1890 pounds of intoxicating liquor by
Maine Central freight: by American
! Express. 1870 pounds of intoxicating
liquor.
During the month Of March after the
court had adjourned. $3.50 pounds o:
intoxicating liquors came by freight
] over the Maine Central Railroad, which
! is equal to more than As tons and al
most< double the amount received in
January and more than three times the
amount received during the month of
| February when the court was in ses-
sion. During the month of April l02 446
pounds or more than 81 tons of intoxi-
eating liquors were received by Maine
! Central freight. During the month Of
May there were received by Maine Gen.
trail freight 1852 pounds Of intoxicating
| liquor and 40,l71 pounds by Eastern
| Steamship Company freight, or more
than 81 tons in the city of Bangor.
| whose population is less than 5000. or
more than five pounds of Intoxicating
liquor to every man, woman and child
in that city.
I'VE shall show that during the Pc
Rod of LAG days there We're received
424,119 pounds of intoxicating liquor or
more than al2 tons or nearly one and
one-half tons per day on the average
in the city of Bangor alone. and that
the records of the courts will show the
sheriff or none of his deputies did not
in one single instance make a complaint
or obtain a warrant for search ana
seizure of any box. package or parcel
of any size whatsoever at any of these
freight receiving depots.
I'VE shall also show you by the rec
ords OF the municipal court of the city
of Bangor what complaints have been
made and warrants taken out and seiz-
ures of liquor made from any place
whatsoever by this sheriff or his dep
uties.
we shall show by the testimony OF
witnesses that during that period places
long well known to be rumshops have
been repeatedly selling intoxcat ting
liquors. We shall present witnesses who
have been in these places and bought
|
purchased and show you when and
where they were bought and the cur
rent price which averaged s4.0O per
quart. We shall produce witnesses who
will testify that in the shop run by
Charles II. Milan they saw II men buy
10 quarts of whiskey in IL minutes. We
shall take YOU from place to place and
show the conditions Of general and reg
ular and repeated sales of intoxicating
liquors. We shall show you that these
conditions existed during April and May
and exist today.
We shall show YOU that the proprie-
tors of these places long known to be
rumshops paid United States revenue
stamp both as wholesale and retail
liquor dealers, which by the statutes Of
our State is prima facie evidence that
the person or persons paving said tax
are common sellers of rtoxica ting
liquors, and the premises kept by them
common nuisances. We shall show that
none of such places has been com
planned of by the sheriff or the fact of
the existence Of the prina facie ev!-
derce brought TO the attention by the
sheriff to the judicial officers OF the
municipal court. the prosecuting officer
of the county, the grand jury or the Off
GERS of the supreme judicial court.
I'VE shall show you an instance
where in the forenoon man went into
a place, III Pickering Square. run BY
Charles II. Milan and bought whiskey
which whiskey we shall produce and
show YOU. whereupon Rev WILDER F.
Berry of Waterville. one of the secre-
taries of the Christian Civic League Of
Maine, procured a warrant from the
clerk of the Bangor municipal court,
called Sheriff White, described condi-
tons and asked him to serve the war
rant against the place. The same man
who had bought the liquor stood in an
adjoining doorway. observed men reg
ularly and constantly coming and go
ing into the room where the liquor was
sold and where he had purchased it un-
til red-headed clerk came out, con-
versed with those approaching the door,
way, whereupon the travel stopped.
Two deputy sheriffs entered the place
and search was made. but nothing
. was found by these deputy sheriffs. They
went away. whereupon the travel to
and from the bar-room was renewed
and this witness going in again pur-
chased liquor which was taken from a
case as it was in the morning contain
ing other bottles of liquor which was
in plain view as it was in the morning.
referring again to the freight
receipts we shall show you that
liquor has been coming in sugar bar
rels of 200 to $50 pounds each, boxes
Of 100 to $50 pounds each. packages
containing all the way from six to 90
gallons each and that the monthly
shipments which we have given in
weight in the months OF March, April
and May amounted to from $4,000
quarts in the month CT March to