Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-12-10

| er'S wife, .teStlned as 10 us Soou
/ character and behavior.
i Wiifred Britton
| Cyrus n. Blanchard OF Wilton ap-
| peared for Wilfred Britton of Fay
!, cite also serving a sentence-one
year-for the same offence as Four
nier. Mr.. Blanchard said Britton en-
gagged the cider owner in CONVERSE
ton while the other three rolled out
the barrel. 1t was taken home and
the neighbors helped drink it, q COM
munity affair. They came to me the
| next day and I advised them to pay
| for it and went with them to the
man, whom they paid something like
| $40. I thought that was the end OF
| it but they were indicted.
Britton has been in Jail six months.
He is suffering with tuberculosis. He
was in trouble when young man
hut paved the penalty and has since
gone straight. The men didn't go to
/ steal-but in a spirit of deyiltry to
! get some of that ''fix-up" CIDER l
feel. that Britton, consumptlve,
should be removed from Jail, for the
!, safety Of the other prisoners as well
as his own.
DR.. w. J. O'Connor said Britton
\ was a seriously sick man, with con-
1 sumption and his presence there was
a menace to the other prisoners. He
should be out of doors, to have
fresh air and rest. The disease was
well advanced but might possibly
yield to treatment. He had advised
this to the sheriff.
John Anderson
The case of John Anderson of
Brewer. serving a sentence for as
sault with intent to rape, was again
on request of Counsel Burleigh Mar
tin.
Ernest Smith-RemovaI Case
Ernest Smith Of Belfast, a State
humane officer, was present to ans
wer charges preferred against him
by the county commissioners of
Waldo county and other prominent
citizens to the number of over 80, to
the effect that he was unfair for the
job, did not 60 into cases with call
ing on an officer to go with him and
used his position to gain personal
revenge; that he was not an Ameri-
can citizen. The compliments were
not present. Governor Baxter stated
that they had been in Augusta, but
the Council was not in session and
he listened to their charges and they
left the papers with him.
Ralph w. Morse of the law firm
Of Morse e Dunton, wrote that his
firm had had bill for collection
against Smith and that Smith denied
that he was the man, that he never
contracted the bill and would not
pay. Proof was found that he was
the man and he admitted it and
paid S25.
Dana E. Fletcher of Lincolnville, a
humane officer, wrote that he thought
Smith had acted unwisely in several
cases and that. he once, on complaint,
had seized and disposed of an old dis
abled horse belonging to Smith.
Smiths Defence
Mr.. Smith in his own behalf said
that the horse in question was owned
by his brother Charles. Fletcher had
once asked him to investigate somes
cruelty cases in Lincolnville and near
by in which Fletcher did not want to
be mixed, but he declined and Fletch-
ed had been sore" with him ever
since.
Smith said he never denied being
the man that Morse was trying to
collect bill from, but that at the
time he was in New Hampshire and
when he got to Belfast he thought the
bill had been paid. 1t was for 500 odd
and he finally got a letter from Morse
saying that the firm would settle for
SIS and he paid it and got receipt.
Smith said that Mr.. Black, one
of the compliments, had some ami
mails in bad shape and he had asked
Deputy Sheriff Beach to go along
with him for the ride and to see what
might be found. The conditions were
bad and Black had been sore" ever
since. A Mr.. Whitcomb, another COM
plainant, had some animals in an old,
unprotected shed, without blankets.
He asked City Marshall Knowlton to
go and see the conditions and they
were found as stated. eight horses
I
comb was told to take them out TO a
decent place or be taken into court.
! Smith then went to Judge Chapman
who said that If the animals were not
removed by o'clock that afternoon
! he would issue a warrant and the
| Judge himself. went with him to see
| if it had been done. 1t had. Whit
comb had ever since been sore"
/ Smith said that he runs public cars
in Belfast and did not search out
cruelty cases. only attending to COM
plants made He said that he had
never realized $50 from the humane
work. That one Of the county COM
missioners Mr.. Vickery, had said to
him that they didn't need humane
officer, that they didn't want him;
that they would get rid of him some
way or another and that the county
commissioners would not pay cent
of his bills in fact, he had to get a
lawyer for one. They refused at first
to pay the s15.15 bill, but later called !
up the lawyer and told him they |
would pay.
AS to his citizenship, Mr.. Smith |
said he was born in Derby Center, |
VT. and had lived in Belfast about Il
years. He had never voted there for !
the reason that when he went to reg |
lister, he was asked in rather an I'M
pleasant way where he was born and |
when he told them, was asked if he
could prove it. He told them that he |