Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-08

left on tie premises. and had stolen
therefrom a gun which Il was al
legged was In tie house both IN jan
uary and February but was missing
in April Other items were missing
TIE gan which Mr.. York claimed to
be the one he had los. was found
and traced to the possession Of Mr..
Whitman. having passed through
several hands His defense was
based on the gun stolen rot being
IN, one brought into court The
Judge IN charging the Jury stated
that there must be two guns in the
world exactly alike. If the gun
brought into court was not the one
lost By Mr.. YORK James n. Thorne
Of Madison appeared for dr. Whit
man and County Attorney Merrill
acted for the State.
Sumner Hayden Of this town, Who
came into the limelight a few weeks
ago in connection with several lar
ceny cases including the alleged
theft Of dress suit case from the Of
fee Of the Soynerse: Traction Co.
here which belonged to Mrs Mary
Comber Of The Forks. theft from
the Weston House in Madison. lar
ceny Of money from the store Of
Frank Thompson 4 Co. and others
was convicted Of larceny in four
cases. Frank J Murray was found
guilty Of breaking. entering with in
tent to commit larceny. There were
two indictments In his case The
non-support case Of A r Dudley Of
this place was nol pressed.
The greater part Of the forenoon
Tuesday was spent On the case Of
State VS.. Zevi Coro Of Arson
against whom an indictment bad
been returned Of maintaining a COM
mon nuisance. Mr.. Coro's home has
been in . tenement house upstairs
near the Arson railroad station.
There had been living In the family.
which 10 composed Of himself. hiS
wife and four children. Bridget Fra
herty formerly Of Bangor and . sis
ter Of Mrs. Coro. H. E. Gordon tes-
tiled to having purchased about SO
worth OF liquor there At 50 cents q
drink, the purchases having been
made from Bridget Flaherty when
Coro was there according to the
evidence George Tayio. testified
that he had purchased liquor in the
tenement Deputy Sheriff Elmer S.
Adams Of Madison testified to hav-
ing recently searched the tenement
and found in the Flaherty womAn's
room. . pitcher which smelIed Of
liquor and two bottles Of liquor.
Deputy Sheriff Cole Of Skowhegan
also testified Of being present at the
searching Of the tenement. R c.
Small Of Madison testified that he
went with Hurley when he wanted to
buy some liquor there Sheriff
Mooers told Of being on the pre-
mises the night Of the search and
identified several bottles produced
In court - the liquor which was
turned over to him. H. R Pierpont.
chief Of the 4adison police force
and Officer George Walker told Of
assisting IN the search Of the pre-
misses and Charles Henry testified
to having bought whiskey Of Bridget
Flaherty. lawrence Bushy offered
similar testimony although he was
only sure ofthere being . woman
there who was called Bridget. AT
torney Fred Clair Of waterville ap-
peared for Coro who took the stand
and said he had never sold liquor
and had never dared to undertake
the business He knew that Bridget
had whiskey but did: not know that
she sold II. 1t appeared from the ;es-
timony. The Flaherty woman was
placed under arrest in connection