Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-02
Several Cases Listed For Trial,
Settled When Respondents
Change Pleas - Sentences
Pronounced by Judge Fisher,
Monday

Several sentences were handed
down in various cases on Monday at
the Kennebec county superior court.
after the jury was excused from fur
Their duty, all cases for trial having
been disposed of. Further sentences
will be imposed and divorce and
court cases will be heard by Judge
William III. Fisher on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
William Bolduc Of Waterville
pleaded nolo contendre to an indict-
ment charging two cases of single
sale to one Leeman Hanson, a spot
ter" employed by the county officers.
On one count he was sentenced to
serve two months in Jail and to pay
a fine of $500 and costs of $50 or to
serve an additional six months in
Jail and on the other count a sent
ence OF $500 or six months was i'm
posed.
Percy Cloutier and Delphine Silva,
both of Augusta, charged with hav-
ing carnal knowledge of female
child under the age of consent,
plSduSu llOlO dHo WSLC CdCIl oClt-
enced to serve six months in jail and
upon the payment Of costs of $40
were placed upon probation.
Arthur G. Stultz of Togus, charged
with breaking and entering the Of
fee of DIR. Silas o. Clason Of Gar
diner. pleaded nolo contendre and
was given an indefinite sentence in
the mems reformatory at South
Windham. Stultz declared that while
a soldier in the United States army
during the war he contracted the
drug habit and that at the time he
was arrested he was in the Office in
an effort to get narcotics, not being
himself as he was at that time I'M
der the influence of drugs. He stat
ed that he has been in the Kennebec
county Jail for about two months
and a half and that he is cured of
the habit.
Leland<Wellman of China pleaded
nolo contendre to a charge Of lar
ceny, 1t being declared by the state,
and admitted by the respondent that
he had taken a saddle and single
and double set of harnesses from a
Mr.. Stewart of Windsor. He declared
that he did this because he was
threatened with death by one Mike
Blair if he did not do so. The har-
ness has since been returned to the
owner. He has already served near
ly three months and was sentenced
to serve 30 days more in the county
Jail.
Charles H. LEIGHTON drew a sent
ence of from two to four years in
the state prison at Thomaston and
Edmund Knox was sentenced to
serve six months in Jail and was
placed on probation on payment of
costs amounting to S25 as the re-
suit of a case Of larceny of a Ford
automobile. the property of the Wa
terville Sentinel Co. Both men
pleaded nolo. Knox is of Oakland
and Leighton has recently lived
there. Knox admitted that he had
been implicated in the larceny but
being only Is years of, age and it
pe'ng clearly shown that Leighton
was the leader in the crime. the
youth was given more clemencv than
was received hv his COMPANION. Sew
eral petty crimes committed nv
Ieiehton were told of bv Sheriff
Henry F. Cummings, although So far
as has been learned he has never
been convicted of crime before. ON
his own admission he deserted from
the army last year after having serv-
ed since 1917.
Mrs. Rose Carson Bowden pleaded
nolo to a charge of maintaining
common nuisance and was sentenced
to serve two months in Jail and to
nay fine of 5000 and costs Of S25
or to sa~ve six months in addition. A
case of Illegal possession oa inst the |
same raSnondent was ,pIaoed IN flo I