Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-08-26
PROBABLE CAUSE
FOUND IN CASE AT
MUNICIPAL COURT
Harry McPhearsOn of Dexter
Gives Bonds for Appearance
at Superior Court-Charge
of Obtaining Goods under
False Pretenses Nm Ca S e
Against Philip Plante Con.
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Two cases were heard Friday be-
| fore Judge Cony at the municipal
court. In one case. that against
Harry Mcpherson of Dexter.
charged with obtaining goods I'M
der false pretenses, the respondent
pleaded not guilty, but probable
cause was found and he was bound
over to the September term of the
Superior court in the sum of $500.
The other case was continued from
day to day.
In the Mcpherson case, the COM
plant was made by Thomas Quirion
of this city. Mr.. Quirion testified
that he desired to trade his horse
for horse Of greater weight so that
he might use it for plowing. He saw
Edward Bowling Monday morning
and told him that he desired a horse
that would weigh 1900 pounds or
more, and that he would consider
paying a little money to boot. That
night, Bowling and Mcpherson
came to his house and showed him
a horse and a weight certificate stat
ing that the horse weighed 1855.
Mr.. Quirion said that he looked
the horse over. and that it looked
larger from the front than his horse,
/ but that it did not look so large
| from the rear. He took the horse
and drove him little and thought
| that it was weak in the hind quar-
! ters. but was assured that the trou-
! BILE was that the horse had been
/ driven a long way that day After
some haggling, he paid $50 and
| turned his horse over to MCPhear-
SON taking the other. The horse
/ which he had bought he put in the
/ barn and soon it developed some
sort of sickness. He had him weighed
Friday morning. and the horse
weighed but 11G0.
Charles Sweeney of this city, who
I is the weigher at the Edwards Man
ufacturing Co. scales, then testified
that the horse weighed 1850 Monday
and 1850 Friday morning. He salC
that he could not see the scales
when he was Weighing the horse
There were two men with the horse
Monday morning. McPhearson and
Bowling. A Young man named 1-au-
sier who works in the Edwards Co
I Office then testified that he had seen
the men Weighing the horse and that
he had seen Bowling with his foot
on the scales. but he couldn't say
/ that they were weighing at the time.
I The defense first placed Mr.. Nc
phcarson on the stand. He said that
he had told Quirion to use the horse
as he saw 1T before he decided, and
that the latter had done ANYTHING
said that he did not say how much
/ the horse weighed and that Quirion
, did not say how heavy horse he
wanted. simply that he wanted one
heavier than the one that he then
! owned. He also said that bowling
got the certificate from Mr. Sweeney
and that he had known that bowling
had shown the certificate to Quirion.
! He has s.nco snapped the horse for
another owned by Harlow Howard.
/ Mr.. bowling then testified. He
! SAID that he did not as far as he
! knows. step upon the scales. He
/ also said that Quirion had told him
that he wanted horse weighing be-
tween 11.O and 1900 pounds. When
| Qurion had made n complaint TO
him he had said nothing about the
weight of the horse, but simply that
! it was sick. AS for the difference
in weight he said that horses often
shrink from 100 to 200 pounds on
the trip from Boston to this city.
Mr.. Howard was called upon and
testified that the horse which Out
rion had originally owned had been
weighed Friday morning and that
it weighed $50 pounds.
Mr.. Quirion was represented by
Attorney NJ. f. Sawtelle. and Mr.
PhearSon by Attorney B. T. Maher.
Case Against Philip Plante
The other case was that of Philip
| Plante, who was arraigned upon a
complaint Of Mrs. Annie Dufour,
| who alleged that he had defrauded
her. as his boarding house keeper.
He pleaded not guilty, and the case
was continued from day to day. Mrs
Dufour testified that he had lived at
her house for some time and that
he was supposed to pay her 81 a
week, but that he had not done So
In his own defense Plante testified
that he had not enough money to
pay her He was taken from the
| o'clock train Friday morning by
the officers and at the time gave a
fictitious name. When asked as to