Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-15
WILD JOY ride AND DEPREDAT|ONS
At SEVERAL FARM HOMES RESULTS
IN fines FOR trio AUGUSTA YOUNG men

from Edward Lowden, a farmer Of
Weeks Mills in Windsor
Directly upon the conclusion of the
hearing of the case for larceny of the
poultry, Deputy Sheriff William J.
Cole stepped across the courtroom and
ing an automobile while he was intox-
icated. The respondent entered a plea
Of not guilty to this charge, but after
hearing the testimony of Mr.. Lowden
Whitefield the court was convinced of
his guilt and sentenced Pullen to serve
three months in Jail.
Pullen took an appeal from the sem
tence in the drunken driving case and
furnished bail in the sum of $500 for
his appearance at the September term
of the superior court for kennebec
county.
Had Wild Carousal
The two cases were the result of a
10y ride" which the three young men,
together with a fourth who had not
been apprehended yesterday. INDUCED
in last Saturday afternoon and eve-
ming. According to the testimony pre-
sented at the hearing of the charges
against Charles NJ. Pullen, the party
started out in Pullen's automobile
from the house at Spruce street
where Gregory and Crignon reside.
The four young men in the automobile
cut wide swathe through Coopers
Mills, Windsor, North Whitefield and
| Jefferson, and is result of their wild
| escapade the whole countryside was
Indignantly stirred to action, and
strong representations were made to
the sheriffs office regarding the law
less series of episodes in which the
four were concerned.
AS the story was unfolded In mu-
nicipal court yesterday morning, the
four stopped at the farm of Edward
Lowden in Windsor and Gregory rep
resented that they wished to purchase
some hens and broilers. Mr.. Lowden
smelled liquor on the breaths of all
of the quartet. but, according toSthe
declaration in court yesterday morn
ing, they were all sober enough to
know what they were doing" After
seven pullets and five young roosters
had been captured, bagged and placed
back to the poultry yard to secure ad-
ditional pullets, when Pullen suddenly
started the car and, without waiting
for the poultry, the four vanished
down the highway with the car travel
ing at high rate of speed.
Stole Farmers Dog
Chester Boynton testified that the
four Augusta men in the car drove by
hi iS far hnY, Oh or CO.
urday evening. They then stopped
their machine and backed into the
dooryard, where Pullen got out and
staggered across to the house to in
quire the direction to Augusta. Mr.
Boynton testified that both by his
conduct and his speech he was con-
vinced that the man was intoxicated
After Mr.. Boynton had given the in
formation desired and Pullen had
climbed back into the car, some mem
Der of the party called to the Boyn-
tons collie dog and, boosting him into
the automobile. they drove off,
Each Of the three arraigned yester-
day morning as the result of their
misdemeanors on the Saturday evening
junket declared that the dog was let
out of the machine several miles from
the Boynton home and they did not
know what became of it.
The official investigation into the
matter also revealed, according to Off
GERS of the sheriff's department, that
the party had created disturbances at
several other farm houses along the
road they travelled and they had left a
veritable trail of empty liquor and
hair tonic bottles. Residents of the
towns through which the car passed
declared that Pullen drove the machine
at the rate of so miles an hour, and
that everyone and everything was
compelled to abandon the highway to
the reckless speedsters.
There was some variance in the sto-
ries of the trio as to what had been
the disposition of the stolen poultry,
but Gregory and Crignon both insisted
that after the return to Augusta they
took the sacks of fowl to field and
let the birds loose. These two men
had some. difficulty securing money to |
pay the fines and costs, but late in the |
afternoon were successful and were !
released from custody.