Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-06

around the court house.
Have you been arrested within q
few days?" asked Judge Connolly.
Yes, last week." replied the wit
ness.
"Where?'
ION the Bond Brook road"
Were you arrested last night?"
eyes"
"For WHAT"
For drunk.
Were you drunk?
Il had couple Of drinks"
Major Charles =. Davis
Major Charles L. Davis, assistant
adjutant general, read the war record
of Fred Boucher, which stated that
| he enlisted at Augusta June 81, 1917,
and was discharged at Westfield,
| Mass, Nov. 16, 1917, because Of defec-
| tive eyesight.
Were there any other men in the
| Augusta company, the company of
which Deputy Sheriff Harry w. Pink
| ham waAa member by the name of
| Boucher asked Judge Connolly on
| cross examination.
There were two by that time" re-
piled the witness.
City Marshal skehan
City Marshal William J. skehan of
Augusta testified that he had seen
Fred Boucher on the streets of Au-
gusta while he was an inmate Of the
| jail. He knew that he was an inmate
| because he knew that Judge Cony of
| the Augusta municipal court sent him
| to Jail. Boucher was arrested by an
| Augusta policeman while he was sup
posed to be in Jail.
Augusta Policeman Testifies
| Leon f. Felker, an Augusta police
| man, identified Fred Boucher as man
| whom he arrested while he was sup
posed to be in Jail. He did not remem-
Der of arresting any other man by the
! same name.
, Governor Ryan Of Soldiers Home
| Governor Keith Ryan Of the Ma
| tional Soldiers Home at Togus testi-
| fed that the name of Fred Boucher is
| carried on the role at the home. The
| service record of Boucher remains the
| property of the man and the record
| at the Home pertaining to Boucher was
] taken from his service record
| State Police Officer William 0. Bur-
! CESS said that he had copied the dates
of the service of Fred Boucher from
! the records of the Soldiers Home.
Boucher enlisted at Augusta June 81,
! 1917, and was discharged at Westfield,
| Mass, November Z, 1917.
County Comm'r Hussey
County Commissioner o. ]. Hussey
| Of Vassalboro was the next witness
| called by Attorney Carter and testified
| TO the reduction of rates allowed for
use of deputy sheriffs' automobiles
from Is to 10 cents per mile. The
4 dp, ieS "a a
age day being eight or nine hours.
| Some time previous to August 1925
| the bills from the deputies had been
! getting heavier. There was spent for
! liquor enforcement in the county up
! to August 1925 the sum of between
! $4,000 and 81 900. The August bills
were OKd by Sheriff Cummings.
! Mr.. Hussey said the county COM
| missioners had received communica-
| ton from Sheriff Cummings that there
We're a certain lot of bills coming
! over and the sheriff thought they
| ought to be cut. The county commits
! sioners also thought that the bills
! should be cut as to the number of
miles deputies cars were used in 60
| ing between certain places in the
| county, some bills containing charges
| for 80 to 100 miles. These bills were
|
Inoreased Cost Kennebec Liquor
-.- s=s Enforcement
q, From the financial statements of
| Kennebec county, Mr. Hussey showed
| the following amounts paid for liquor
enforcement in the county: 1921,
s1591.30: 1922, $311S.37: 1928, 74T6.54;
! 1924, S11,769.S3: 1925, S1S.6S6.77.
! The county commissioner said that
his board had given orders that
| candles should not be used in the jail
! cells. these orders having been given
| either to the sheriff or the turnkey,
; but the orders were not Immediately
] put in force.
Liquor From Rum Room
Have you had any liquor from the
| rum room at the jail?" asked Mr.. Car
! ter.
Il had a little" said Commissioner
Hussey, shutting his feet.
| "Who did you get it from?
1.-THE Sheriff.
| How much did you have?
| "a quart bottles about two-thirds
| full.
| How many times?
I 1.-TWO times.
mot more; that's all you can re-
| member?
Yes sir.
Gave Notice Of Scaling Bills
Upon cross examination Mr.. Hussey
| said that no bills of deputy sheriffs
| for enforcement work. were scaled
! from the IL cent mile rate for auto
mobiles to 10 cents until after notice
! had been given. He first said that this
notice was in the form of letter from
! the chairman of the board, w. S.
| Knowles, to Sheriff Cummings, but
| later changed that and said it was a
, word of mouth notice. The agree
ment to pay Is cents mile was for no
| specific time. The coming upon the
! board of Mr.. Higgins had nothing to
do with the cut. The attitude of the
| board was to allow what was fair.
Mr.. Cummings said the Sheriff had
said things to the board which he did
! not think he ought to have. Sheriff
enforcement. 81
Ashamed of Amount Spent for
Enforcement
I'm ashamed of what we have
spent for enforcement" said Com
/ missioner Hussey. II wouldn't have
been had it been properly used"
He charged that they had never
! been able to get an accurate state
ment of what enforcement brought in
to- the county.
Judge Connolly directed his atten-
ton to page 20 of the county treas
urers report for 1925 in which it was
stated that the fines in liquor cases,
exclusive of costs. amounted to $l4,-
600. He said he had read the
item, but had forgotten the amount
He did not recall having made an ef-
fort to find out how much more the
county received from them than 1t
paid for enforcement.
did the county commissioners put
in those lights following public COM
plant March 81, 1924, by CRUDE B.