Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-10

sheriff of Penobscot county, are
| similar in some ways. Sheriff White
was removed by the governor and
council during the administration of
Gov. Carl E. Milliken for neglect
and failure to enforce the prohibit
tory Hquor law. The removal took
place June II, 1913, and was the
first under the law giving the gov
ernor and council power to remove
sheriff who had been found delin-,
quent in his duty. The removal was
to take effect one week later, and
on the same day as the removal,
June ~, Gov. Milliken nominated
Major Arthur l.. Thayer of Bangor,
formerly chairman of the Maine In
dustrial Accident Commission and
one of the Republican candidates for
governor in the June primaries as
governor. That nomination was
confirmed on the morning Of June
10, the commission rushed to Ban
gor and late that afternoon Major
Thayer assumed the office of sheriff.
1t can readily be seen how embar-
RAISING 1t might be in some directions
IL the sheriff should be summary
removed, for with him would go his
deputies.
1t is presumed that Gov. Brew ter
will follow the hand of Gov. MILL
ken in the White case, although no
intimation of this kind has come
from the executive department.
The law requires that a nominal
ton must be posted seven days be-
fore 1t will be in line for confirma-
ton.
No hint, 1t Is stated, has been CIV
en- by Gov. Brewster as to whom he
will appoint as the successor to
l. Ar,fff IV.rr~l ,sr1x~ To-. =
| Clinton, a former member of the
House of Representatives, and Frank
D. Robinson of Waterville, formerly
| city marshal of that city, recently
| announced that they would be can
didates for the Republican nominal
| ton for sheriff in the June primaries,
but at the time of the closing of the
| Department of State late yesterday
afternoon neither had filed his pa
| pers. the names of William V.
| Nash of Vassalboro and Arthur G.
Robinson of Gardiner, deputies I'M
der Sheriff Cummings, have been
| mentioned in connection with an ap-
| pointmet.
Sheriff Cummings stated last night
that he would probably file his pri-
mary nomination papers as a Repub-
lican candidate for sheriff either to-
daN or the first of the week. The
time for filing primary nomination
! papers will expire at midnight, April
| 10.
| Lawyers discussing the case yes
terday dug up the following fir
Section AZ of Chapter So of the re-
vised statutes:
IF any prison keeper voluntarily
! or negligently suffers any prisoner
In his custody charged or convicted
of any offense, to have any intoxicat-
ing liquor, unless the physician au-
| thorized to attend the sick, in such
prison in writing certifies that such
prisoners health requires it and pre-
scribes the quantity. he forfeits in
each case, for the first offense, $25,
and for the second offense, $50, to be
recovered for the county by indict.
ment: or for any person suing there
for, to his own use; and shall be re-
moved from office and shall be in
capable of holding the office of sher-
if, deputy sheriff or jailer or five
years"
| OF course some will say that one
of the charges against Sheriff Cum
mings was that liquor was used by
the prisoners in the Jail. yet others
say that in this case the criminal
process must be used.