Show CHARGE DRINKING q qIN IN COUNTY JAil Former Prisoners Also Support Claims That Women Visited Cells AUGUSTA AUGUS TA Me Ie March 26 AP- AP AD Prisoners at the Kennebec county jail Jal v had women visitors in the their r cells and plenty of ot liquor wi witnesses nesses have testified t Governor Brewster add Hid his council Investigating charges brought by prohibitionists 1 I Additional witnesses were called for tod today y after the council took testimony until late last Jast ast night William Shaw a witness Jast last night read two poems he wrote while a prisoner One was called Sunday Night in in Kennebec Jail and the other was p. p a tribute to Sheriff Sher- Sher Ift iff ff Cummings for a Christmas party part he 10 gave the prisoners in 1924 The first r rhymes told of ot visits by young girls to the prisoners' prisoners cells Shaw ha W testified that there was lax behavior on the part of ot women visitors b but brit t he could not recall any of ot their names He declared de declared declared de- de that the prisoners had plenty of ot liquor In their cells that once some of the prisoners seized liquor that h at was stored as as evidence and that man many prisoners made their o own n liquor from mash stored In jn the jail lall garage garage CONDUCTED SER SERVICES ICES Lawrence B B. Gr Greenwood evangelist evange- evange list 1st list testified he had conducted serI services services ser ser- I vices at the Jail under Sheriff Cummings Cummings Cum Cum- called him a damn liar He declared that once during services a prisoner on r banjo player was so intoxicated in intoxicated in- in he could not tell one end endot of ot the banjo from the other Charles Pullen Pull n. n former prisoner described visits of ot women drinking and gambing He admitted that he ic had never seen any ny women visitors visitors vis- vis tors except wives of ot prisoners or any iny evidence of immorality Everett Merrill another former prisoner testified that prisoners in the kitchen hitchen us used d to sell lIquor at 4 a pint He said he went Into nto the jai Jal with and spent all allbut allbut but jut 10 or 12 on liquor Harold Tracy another prisoner ex testified he le had seen a deputy sheriff intoxicated and that poker and crap rap games ames sometimes s ran all night Nearly everybody got pot drunk runk on Christmas even 1924 he declared |