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

patrolman of the State Highway Pol
ice complainant against Deputy
Megill was the first witness and told
of ordering the respondent to leave
the Jail office after Chief Field had
erected the building be cleared OF
all except the Eastman deputies and
Sheriff and Mrs. Cummings.
officer Marks said that he rushed
Megill out through the Office door
and along the corridor toward the
broken front portal. In the front
corridor woman approached him
and struck him a ''wallop in the
jaw" saying that the prisoner was
her husband. The three of them
were jammed into a corner near the
front door and a fellow Highway
Officer restrained Mrs. Megill.
In answer to a question by County
Attorney Southland, Officer Marks
said that he was the lat pound
class amateur wrestling champion Of
New England.
Deputy Megill resist the eviction
attempt from the start State High
way Officer Malon Ellis said he fol-
lowed Officer Marks along The CORR
dor when he was removing Megi1l
and 1t was he who laid a restraining
hand on Mrs. Megilrs arm after she
| had struck officer Marks in the face.
Edwin F. Megill. the respondent on
the stand in his own defense told of
the episode following the forceful
| entry of the uniformed officers into
| the Jhil office. He said that that Of
| ficer Marks told him he would have
| to get out and then seized his wrist
and applied painful pressure. He be-
| lieved that there were two Or three
highway policemen pushing him
| through the Office door and along the
| front corridor. He asked that he be
permitted to secure his overcoat and
hat, but permission was refused.
He saw his wife attempt to get
| the overcoat from the hall tree and
then she was violently jerked out of
his line of vision. He was pushed
through the front door and down
onto the stone steps and it was some
| time later that he was placed under
arrest. Requests of several. Highway
| Officers that his coat and hat be
secured for him were brusquely ig-
nored and they were not brought to
him until after his incarceration at
the Augusta Police station.
F.! What were your orders from
F., Sheriff Cummings about resisting?"
asked Judge Connolly.
/ Not to resist in any manner"
Ibid you?"
mo sir"
Mrs. Blanche Megill, wife of the
deputy under charges was called to
the stand and testified that she was
at the Jail on Saturday afternoon
as Mrs. Cummings guest. She was
| in the north parlor following the
| breaking of the door when a COM
motion in the corridor attracted her
and she saw three Highway officers
pushing her husband along toward
| the exit.
Mrs. Megill heard her husband ask
for his coat and stepped forward to
get it for him, when some officer
called out, Get that woman out of
! the way" and she was struck in the
neck and side of the head by
| highway poficeman's elbow.
! That young man there" she de-
clared pointing to Officer Marks, rs
the officer who grasped my arm and
swung me around. These bruises
on my upper arm were made by
him. / have been attended by a
doctor for the injury to my neck"
Did the physician diagnose the
| injury?"
Yes, and said that gland was
bruised"
Sheriff Henry F. Cummings on the
stand testified that when he saw
Deputy Megill being rushed out of