Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-28

should plead guilty. to the rest of the
indictment. which he did on advice of
counsel, not being represented by
anyone who took any interest in him
and not being familiar with our laws.
He was sent to Thomaston.
~ Cateio has wife and five children
| in Italy. The Oldest was here when
the war broke out and secured his
father's consent to go home to enter
the army. Since Catelo has been in
prison, his wife has been obliged to
contract debts in order to live and
greatly needs his assistance.
F.! DIR. E. l.. Soilima, Portland physi-
can and doctor for the Italian Hold
carriers Union, OF which Catelo was
president, and G. Vervena, the Italian
consul at Portland, who knew Catelo
personally, testified as to his good
character and industriousness and
accepted the responsibility of his
good behavior if released, the consul
saying should be transgress in any
way he would surrender him. They
only asked conditional pardon.
Herbert c. Currier Pardon
Edward 5. Anthoine of Portland APP
peared as counsel for Herbert {. Cur
rier of that city, serving II to years
IN State prison for obtaining goods
by false pretences from Portland
firms. Mr.. 'Anthoine said the boy,
only 20 years of age, just back from
honorable service in France, with a
legacy to spend, had become mixed
up With some actresses and on Sept.
IL, 1919, represented himself as his
own stepfather at the j. X. Libby
store IN Portland and secured to
fur coats. valued at s400. which he
had charged to his mother. He also
obtained other goods at the Owen
Moore Co. and the Eastman Bros e.
Bancroft stores, but giving his own
name there. The deception was soon
discovered and Inspector White of
the police department traced him to
Boston, where the goods were all re-
covered and returned to their rightful
owners. The boy was placed in Port
land Jail and staid there from Sept.
IL to the following term of court, his
family thinking the sojourn there
would bring him to a realizing sense
of his wrongdoing. He was then ar
raigned. pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced.
Mr.. Anthoine said he had been a
! spoiled child" brought up as an
idolized grandson by his grand par
ents, after the divorce of his mother
from his father He had been smart
in school and in spite of being
spoiled" was not vicious or a wrong
doer. He enlisted on the day war
was declared by the United States
and served well and honorably in
France. Coming home he found a
legacy from his grandmother. who
had died. and in the unsettled state of
mind in which most of the returned
soldiers found themselves. apparent
'ly "cut loose" and began a career of
wildness. ending up with the crime
for which he was punished.
i Currier is to report every month
for a year to George W. Grover. pro-
baton officer for Cumberland county.
Mr.. Anthoine asserted that the
young man soon saw the error of his
ways. repented and assisted in re-
storing the stolen property and since
being confined had actually become
reformed. He had been model
prisoner. He had good job await
ing him in Portland wholesale
house where n firm member took Il
personal interest in him and would
watch over him. Inspector White
I sent a letter urging a pardon. Let,
tiers are forthcoming from the State
prison chaplain and others. Warden
Ham and the county attorney of
Cumberland do not oppose a pardon.
Deputy Warden l.. D. Eaton of the
prison the ]. r. Libby Co.. Owen
Moore Go. and Fla stman Bros. & Ban
croft of Portland all favored Glenn
encr.
i Harry r. Taylor Pardon Case
i Attorney H. c. Libby of Portland
appeared for Harry r. Taylor of Cor
ham. who seeks pardon from State
prison, where he, was sent on con-
viction of destroying property of a
man and neighbor named Moulton by
dynamite. Mr.. Libby claimed that
| Taylor had shouldered all the blame
in the case to protect his wife. and
that she had now turned against him
and was seeking a divorce. having
made statements about him and say
ing she had disposed of him. He
thought it looked like a frame up on
F.. Taylor His presentation was BRIEF.