Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-19

son and a friend named Roland Brill
ard who works on the same farm was
| to the effect that Richardson had
gone to Albion from the place where
| he lived, a distance of about -FOUR
miles, in the car. He had not at
| that time taken a drink but took IT
after he got there. He had q small
amount in q bottle which had been
| left over from the night before when
| he had attended dance and 1t was
| this he had drunk. He talked with
| the states witnesses at the time ana
after they had convinced MIN tnat
some one else should drive the car ne
| made no further objection ana mao
not driven 1t after he had taken tne
drink He said that he had been toiu
by Mr.. Jones that the best thing tnat
he could do would be to plead guilty.
| and this he did.
The other case was heard In the
afternoon. Charles F. Choate OF Haao
well and Mrs. Choate both testlneu
that on the evening Of the fourth OF
August they had been on their way
NV auto to Gardiner when suddenly
thew saw an auto ahead OF them III
the road. The car which was NOV
ing diagonally across the road had no
lights on and they had hard ]op 10
get by without hitting IT.
When they went back they lounu
the car drawn up beside tho ROAD
with Lint bending over the sterins
wheel After some talk with MN,
Mrs. Choate went into a neighporins
house to telephone to the police 20
cone and see the man. Whne sns
waa zone J, z. Labelle, q special po-
iicernan on the Gardiner ana Fat
inrton road appeared and after LOOK
| ing the man over took him 10 the
| Gardiner police station.
| Mr. Iabelle was then called to the
stand and told Of seeing Lint leavins
al he came alng. Lint was waiMns
in the middle of the road ana "aikeu
| unsteadiIy. He could not start lns
| car MS there was no switch Key an
| after he had taken Lint TO the police
station he came back with ga as
| car and towed the Lint car INTO .om ~
nv Vas first called for the defense.
To cold that he had been found guilty
-, q similar charge in July 1922 and
that since that time had been opheeu
to GOT some one to drive the car Tor
! him as his license had been taken
awav from him. A short time before
the night on which he was taken from
the car. Gladys l.. Stinson came 70
the house to keep house for MN: IN
his family are his two young chlloren'
his sister and his mother. AS soon
as she got there he had her secure
a license so that he might have inc me
use of the car. She had the SWIM
kew and she always kept it as ne dlu
not want to get into difficulty again.
On the night in question they Went
to Gardiner accompanied by his sister.
He admitted that he had been drink
ing and that he had paid me III
the Gardiner court for this oHense
but stated that he had not driven 'he
car at any time. When he was 1ouno
| in the car alone he said that me
lights had burned out and that the
| girls had gone away to telephone 1or
! some one to fix them as Miss Stnsoh
: did not dare to drive without them.
Both his sister, Miss Louisa LINT
and Miss Gladys Stinson testified SUD
stantially the same as did Mr.. Lint
but the place where they said they
left the car and the place where II
was testified by the states witnesses
that it was found could not be made
to coincide within nearly half mlie.