Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-18

are standing. with both feet on a
cause OF equity. I believe, in court
Of claims, and as ! stated before,
they little expected that the man who
is standing here and pleading their
cause would do so. for had the young
men. splendid young men. had their
Will T would mot be here, but be-
long to the great profession of the
law in which there are no hired men,
to the great profession that when the
Father Of your country presided over,
! the convention that drafted your con-
stitutfon. he put into their hands the
last word to safeguard the rights OF
all the people. and in a sense of fair
ness and justice. gentlemen, I am
pleading the cause of those who by
their votes attempted not to let me
come here--I stand here under the
| shadow of the statue of justice and
listen to this evidence with closed
eyes, letting the reasoning of their
evidence fall upon the tablets Of my
memory and in spirit of fairness,
gentlemen. appeal to you. as I
| would appeal in your interest, to fol-
low with me this evidence, and I will
speak later relative to the minority
report, which is fair and upright and
honorable in the extreme. I admit it.
1t could not be anything else or. the
distinguished Senator whom we all
love would never have signed it, But
VIII speak of it at the proper time.
That on Saturday the oath day of
April he heard that SStanchfield had
escaped from the Bangor State
hospital, and that he immediately
called UP the hospital and asked il
this was 80; that they told him IL
was and he asked what they were
doing to catch him, and they said
nothing" Let that sink in, gentle
men. The third selectman of yeazie
when this madman escaped, that
everybody except the head of this in
stitution under whose guidance he
was placed knew was a mailman,
knew,w was dangerously insane, and to
recover him back and put him into
the institution that the selectmen of
the town of Veazie had put him in,
they were doing nothing in your in
terest, honorable members of the
Senate, and in my interest living
three miles away from the mailman
and the man whom everybody pro-
nounced to be dangerously insane,
with the glazing example before
their eyes that a man a few years
before had come out of that insane
asylum, whom they let out on parole,
and caught a beautiful girl and cut
| her throat and mutilated her person
in a manner that is unspeakab1o,
and they admitted that before our
Judiciary committee on the second
| trip-not that Hedin was then in
CHARGE am coming to that-but
that somebody else was then in
charge. lin the interest of the pa
rents of that beautiful dead girl. no
matter what we do with the claim
of Austin w. Jones Company, these
two splendid young men, am glad
to be on my feet to condemn here
such an infamous practice as has
been developed before the Judiciary
committee of this House and SEN
ate. You can do what you like with
it but it will not escape me until for
all time in the report that comes
from the pen of those reporters I
speak to 10000 people of the State
of Maine, beautiful women and
splendid men. Do what you like
with it, but you cannot stop me from
stating what I think about it,
whether Lam wrong or right
Listen to the balance. They said
they were doing nothing. Then he
said. DO you not consider him 4
dangerous MANI" Listen to this.
The person with whom he was talk
ing said. "Wait a minute and I will
see" "Wait minute and I will
see" An official of the insane asy-
lum situated three miles above my
city, having under his charge mad
man, man that civilians had
claimed was dangerously insane,
when asked by the third seleetman
of Veazie about him and whether he
was all right or wrong, said wait Il
minute and I will see." Murder
though it had no tongue will speak
with most miraculous clearness.
man was turned loose upon the COM
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