Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03


of goods in his own store for law
! purposes.
Mr.. Pinkham testified regarding
searching the Jail in every part where
| he thought pack of cards might be
| found and on occasions he had found
cards. He had not found any evil
dences of liquor in the jail. the only
| bottles found being milk bottles.
| He asserted that he had never re-
fused to cooperate with Federal au-
thorities and he told of work with the
| Federal officers. He said that his
! bills for work had been cut in half
from the schedule of prices previously
agreed upon. He was paid 81 per day,
travel expenses for auto amounting
to Is cents mile, this later being
cut to 10 cents per mile. He fur
nished the car, gasoline and oil. He
never drew upon the supply of
seized liquor to get alcohol for the
radiator of his car.
Have you ever had any word from
the sheriff to avoid searching any
person or place?
Never witness responded.
7 Never Suspicious of Sheriff
| Has anything ever occurred to
make You suspicious of his honestly"
There has not"
Witness testified regarding cases
| in the Augusta municipal court as
! found from an examination of the
/ court docket. They show that the
. sheriff's department secured 100
' search warrants, the police eight, fed
eral officers two. sheriff and police
one, sheriff and federal officers four,
sheriff and constables three and police
and federal officers one.
/ tho nF ono =
ness for the prosecution that he won
/ SSS gambling in the Jail, Mr.. Pinkham
when asked about the mental condi-
! ton of the man, declared that he
should say the man was crazy.
Continuing, the witness testified
that he took Toulouse, a prisoner to
| Waterville in his automobile and Tou-
| louise has not paid him for the trip.
Everett Merrill of Augusta did not
| have a lawyer when he was arraigned
; in the Augusta municipal court for
! driving an automobile while intoXi-
Gated and told the witness that he
| did not have the money to pay his
| fine of 500, witness testifying for the
prosecution last week that he spent
I quite a sum of money while he was a
prisoner for liquor.
' Did you talk with William Shaw,
a former prisoner. about the sheriff?
II did" replied the witness, land
Shaw told me that if the sheriff did
not give him lot of time off from his
sentence, he would do all that he
could to hurt him.
! The witness was not cross ex-
amined.
I Deputy Sheriff Cole
William J. Cole of Hallowell. a
deputy sheriff, testified, that he de-
voted most of his time as deputy
to the liquor business. The sheriff
| had told him to investigate and en-
force all laws, Sheriff Cummings has
always cooperated with him in en-
| forcement and he had never seen any
| thing to indicate that Sheriff Cum
| mings was in alliance with liquor
sellers or other law breakers.
what did the sheriff say to you
about testifying in court?"
| HE told me to be very careful and
to tell the truth"
! The witness told how he employed
a prisoner named Shea at the sugges-
ton of the Hallowell poor depart
ment. Shea worked on the farm of
/ the witness and the witness paid him
$40 week and his board and al
lowed him vegetables and milk from
the farm for his family. Shea has
not OeGn III SlllCt WOIhGO
for the witness.
The witness testified to making an
| eXamina ton of the records of the
Waterville municipal court and from
these records shows the cases origi-
mating from the sheriffs department.
"You have been acting turnkey at
( the JAIL asked Judge Connolly.
! Eyes, at one time for a period OF
five or six weeks" replied the wit
ness.
} Did you have any one to assist
you?"
st did not"
! No Evidence Of Drinking in Jail
! WAS there any evidence Of drink
ing in the jail
There was not"
"Any evidence of gambling?"
Il heard that there was gambling
going on, so l had a search made of
! the cells, with the result that packs
of cards were found"
did you ever hear that liquor was
sold in the jail?"
! mo. never did"
! The witness testified that he did
rot know of any prisoner returning
to the Jail after s o'clock at night.
The witness explained that prison.
ers had obtained liquor from the rum
( room by removing the frame of the
| door, by filing rivet holding a
hasp, and by fishing through a win
dow with a pole containing a bent
nail in the end. One prisoner stole
some liquor from the sherff's bath
room. This was cide- seized by O.
deputy in Winslow He said in the
absence of the sheriff. who had the
] only keys to the rum room, seized
! liquors were left in the bath room in
: the sheriff's apartment. Another
ouer employed at painting lifted
window and reached through the