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Lewiston Evening Journal LEJ; Lewiston Daily Sun LeDS; Lewiston Saturday Journal LSJ; Sun Journal SuJ
June 9, 1893 LEJ - At the Auburn Municipal Court Friday morning John McCarty and Dan Driscoll, living on Newbury Street, Auburn, were fined $5 and costs for intoxication and were committed in default. Both prisoners were under 20 years of age and the officers say they were out for a lark Thursday, having a jug of beer along, of which they drank freely. They had a good deal of fun for a while, but the beer floored them at last. The boys admitted that it was stolen beer and part of a keg full. It is supposed to have come from the freight car labelled "350 bunches of bananas" gathered in by Constable Benj Mitchell Wednesday evening. It looks as though some one had a pull at the stuff before Constable Michell found it. (Google news archives)
August 5, 1893 LEJ - Miss Katie Driscoll is visiting her uncle, Hon. Timothy Driscoll of Chicago. (Google news archives)
October 3, 1893 LEJ - Lewiston Liquor Cases - In the case against Daniel Driscoll of Lewiston for search and seizure and for nuisance the sentence of the lower court was affirmed and the respondent not appearing, his bondsmen Thomas Driscoll and John R. Malier were defaulted. (Google news archives)
January 27, 1894 LEJ - TWO YEARS - Daniel Driscoll of Lewiston Gets a Big Sentence for Liquor Selling. - Judge Walton lifted his eyes from his spectacles at 10:30 AM, Saturday at the Supreme Court in Auburn, and eyed Daniel Driscoll of Lewiston. (Google news archives)
Driscoll stood by the rail of the bar - his hand on it; his fat round head bowed; his knees shaking; his short-tailed coat pulled up behind and the perspiration glistening on his neck above the collar.
He was the last of the select twelve who, a little while before, had ranged themselves upon the setee and had stood forth to be examined.
The other pleadings had been made and they were a curious looking lot, old and young, short and tall, and all indolent and careless. ...
At last came Driscoll's turn to plead and he stood by the bar as we have indicated.
Two indictment for liquor nuisance were read to him.
"Guilty," said he, in a very low voice.
Sheriff Hill stood by the judge's desk.
"What do you know about this man?" said the Court to County Attorney Oakes.
"Well! May it please the court I only know that he has been before the court previously. He has been concerned in the somewhat notorious place known as Muggs Landing in Lewiston."
"H-m-m," said the court, "Muggs Landing."
"Has he any money to pay a fine?"
"I understand not."
"How long has he been in jail?"
"Three months," said the sheriff.
Deputy Sheriff O'Brien was called up.
He was asked to Driscoll's standing - moral and financial.
"I don't think he has any money," said the officer.
"How about his police record?"
"The records will show that, your Honor."
"Has he given you much trouble?"
"Quite a good deal. He has been before the court for liquor selling quite often."
"Driscoll" said the Court after a time, "What have you to say for yourself?"
Driscoll shook his head and hung it low and said not a word.
"Haven't you a word to say?"
Driscoll seemed speechles.
After a little conversation the Court said, "I will give you credit for the three months you were in jail. The Clerk may now announce the sentence."
Clerk Hanson then read the sentence of the court that the respondent, Daniel Driscoll, be sentenced to one year in the county jail on No. 54 and to nine months in the county jail on No. 122, the second sentence to take affect at the expiration of the first. This makes 21 months.
Driscoll was taken out with a tear in his eye.
August 8, 1894 - LeDS - ATTEMPTED SUICIDE - "Kerry" Driscoll Attempts to Take His life in the Lockup- (Google news archives)
Auburn is getting to be notorious for sensations, and now they have sent a man over to Lewiston to try and commit suicide in our new lockup. But they got fooled and the reputation of our "cooler" is still clear from the blood of a self destroyer.
"Kerry" Driscoll of Auburn got hot Wednesday morning and was raising a disturbance in Lewiston, so Officer Breen called the patrol and landed him in the station shortly after 12 o'clock Wednesday noon. Deputy Marshal Sands says that they had hardly put the wagon in the stable when something possessed him to look in the lockup and behold ! There was Driscoll hanging from an iron cross bar which is a part of the door frame, and rapidly choking to death. Mr. Sands cut him down as quickly as possible and took his suspenders away from him as it was these with which he was hanging himself.
The deputy left him but felt a little suspicious, so in a few minutes went and looked into the cell, and there he was hanging again. He had taken off his shirt and tearing it into several strips had tied them together and made a kind of rope. The dexterity with which he performed the act was remarkable. The shirt was then taken away from him and he was left again.
The deputy again returned in a few minutes and there he was, this time with one pant's leg tied to the iron cross bar, and trying to arrange the other around his neck. The deputy then concluded that the only safe thing to was to take his clothing away from him until he became sober, which was accordingly done, and Driscoll was left in his cell naked as the day he was born.
He didn't try any more methods of committing suicide after that, and he was allowed to cool off until after supper, when his clothing was given back to him.
He was very anxious to end his earthly career, but as the bug juice filtered its way out of his intoxicated mind and body he evidently thought better of it, and decided he would wait a few days and see if Lewiston wouldn't win a ball game. At last accounts Driscoll was alive, but was troubled with a enlargement of the cranium for some reason or other.
August 9, 1894 LSJ - Daniel Driscoll of Auburn was fined $5 and costs for intoxication by the Lewiston municipal court Thursday morning. He is a slight, delicate-looking young man, and of just the temperament that he would attempt to commit suicide, as he did in lockup Wednesday evening. He hung himself by his suspenderss to the iron work of his cell, and was cold when the officers on duty cut him down; but a good rubbing and some brandy revived him. He was suffering from a light attack of delirium tremens. (Google news archives)
February 19, 1895 LSJ - Another batch of five drunkards were arraigned before Judge A.D. Cornish Tuesday morning and given the usual fine of $5 and costs. They were Alphonse Thibeault, Daniel Driscoll, William Daley, Dennis Sullivan and James Tobin. They were a melancholy looking set of men when they hauled up at the Court House in the shining patrol wagon and dismounted to enter the jail. (Google news archive)
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