Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-05

| cause of it. l have told them that IL
| should have been done long be-
| FORE"
| LaBar, his wife, and Mrs. Ramsay
might have visited the sheriff at the
| Jail, he admitted, and possibly they
were granted permission to see stills
in the rumroom.
The sheriff reiterated his statement
| that he never gave liquor to LaBar,
or got calls at the jail for rum from
| LaBar.
He wouldn't be a man would be
apt to give liquor to, anyway" ex-
planned the sheriff.
| Mention has been made here of a
| house of i'll fame. Do you know Maud
| Clement?
Eyes, I have known her for Is
!, years and knew her husband from
the time he was a little boy.
Continuing the witness testified
that his deputies had searched Maud
Clements house for liquor. but did
not find any.
"Have you ever been at Maud Gle
ment,s house?
II have.
ever been to her house before
you were sheriff?
Eyes, twice.
| "Why did you happen to go there?"
A woman who worked for me once
roomed there and she sent for me.
She wanted to talk with me. She
was bringing a bill of divorce
against her husband. Did not see
Mrs. Clement at the house on either
| occasion.
Mrs. Clement telephoned me about
the visit of my deputies to her house,
said the sheriff. She said she want
| ed to talk the matter over with me
and l went there. She said that my
| deputies could visit her house at any
| time without warrant and she was
| sure that they would find no liquor
there, unless some of her roomers
had it.
] DO you know the three women
who roomed there mentioned in the
| testimony of Mrs. McAllister 2"
asked Judge Connolly.
/ Il know one of them. She works
| in the State House and is now mar
| ried.
Investigates BootIegeing in Augusta
Continuing the sheriff testified
that he had made Investigations in
regard to bootlegging. One of the
Investigations related to testimony
which came out in the trial of Ward
| w. Wescott of Bluehill, Hancock
county, to the effect that bootlegger
! IL cargo OIL liquor IN the
shadow of the State House. Some
people had complained that a hack
driver at the Augusta House was
visiting a certain house. getting Nq-
uor and selling it.
Il paid a visit to Mrs. Clements
house twice to see what she knew
or could find out about the hack
driver at the Augusta House, as l
knew that she had worked there as
Il waitress continued Sheriff Cum
| mings.
Once I employed a spotter to
gather evidence in liquor cases.
did not want him to stay down town
SO I called up Mrs. Clement and
asked her if she had a room to let
for two or three days. She said that
she had only one room, with a sin
gle bed, but said she would have a
better room in few days. The
spotter stayed there three days, l
think.
Was. the spotter reliable?" asked
Judge Connolly.
"As reliable as any of them" re-
piled the sheriff.
did the spotter report that there
was anything wrong at the Clement
house?"
"He did not"
blu you nave KNOWLEDGE thaI
federal officers stayed in the Clement
house?"
81 heard about it after they left"
Has Mrs. Clement ever been in
dicted in this county or any other
county for keeping a house of Ill
fame?"
Not to my knowledge. / do not
think that there is q house of i'll
fame in Kennebec county. When
first became sheriff 1 had complaints
that three of these places existed in
Waterville, but the occupants left
that city a short time after I heard
of it,
"Have you any evi6ence that any
person is conducting such a house
in this county,"
did Mrs. McAllister ever make a
complaint to you about Mrs. Glenn
ent's house?"
"She never did, in fact, 1 never
knew that there was such a woman
until / saw her on the stand here
in this CASE
| Never Drank Home Brew
did you ever drink any home
brew in Maud Clements house,"
/ II never drank home brew in
Maud Clements house or any other
house."
Were you ever offered anything
to drink at Maud Clements house?"
Il never was. / never stayed
there more than few minutes at
a time, anyway.
Judge Cony asked me to find out
about a woman rooming at Mrs.
Clements house." continued the
sheriff, land I went there at his re-
quest.
"a man named Nash came to me
enc night He said that his wife
roomed down at Mrs. Clements
house and that she was entertain
ing man in her room. He went
down to the house and found the
wofnan-> but there was no man with
her. Mrs. Clement was not there
either.
ION one occasion, we were look
ing for a sport model automobile
which we suspected was a car be-
longing to rum runner. We heard
that the car had been seen on Swan
street. / went down on the street
and called on Mrs. Clement, asking
If she had seen the car. She said
that the car had stood in the neigh
bOrhood for one and one-half hours
that day. She said that she would
telephone me if the car again show
ed up, but she did not telephone me-
when did you pay your last visit
to Mrs. Clements house?" =,
Five or six weeks ago, at the sug-
gestion or request of Judge Cony."
Did you ever attend any party at
Mrs. Clements house?"
II did not''
Had Not Visited Rlouin House
Sheriff Cummings said that he had
not visited the Blouin house, al
though he had gone onto that road
where he could watch the house. His