The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-01-13
Serious ARRAY I'm Maine.

One man ktffcd and smother Badly Injur su
im attempting 10 enforce Me Liquor LaU.-
Tho passengers which arrived in this city yes
,erday afternoon from the east, report that sad
affray occurred atFrankfort. yesterday, in con-
'pection with the last passage of the steamer
Boston, from this port to L,ankfort. while she
NSsTstoppihg ct that place. The facts, as we
fesrn thstn are as follows:
The steamer had on board quantity Of IL
quor, which the authorities at Frankfort at
tempted to seize. For this purpose, search
warrants were issued, and placed in the hands
Of the proper officers. In Tho meantime, Capt.
Sanford had left the boat and gone up to Ban
,gon to visit the family. Before leaving, he gave
tho mate word not to allow tho liquor to be ta-
ken out of the boat.
When the officers came on board with their
search warrant and attempted to take the liquor,
the mate, assisted by the crew resisted them,
and melee ensued, in which two men were ve-
ry badly injured. Upon the return of Capt
Sanford from Bangor, he was arrested, and
gave bonds in the sum of $4,000 to answer to
the charges against him. He proceeded with
his boat towards Boston, and at Belfast was l.
gain arrested. and held to answer to the,charge
Of murder-a telegraphic dispatch having been
received that one of the injured men had died,
and that the other would probably not live
He was therefore taken into custody. and the
boat was stopped, her passengers coming thro'
by railroad.
Since the above was in type We have recei-
we'd tho following additional particulars. The
officer who attempted to take the liquor in
Frankfort was Deputy Sheriff Miles STAPLES.
lie was requested to wait until Capt. Sanford
returned from Bangor, as he had given orders
not ia allow any freight to be landed, and esps-
cially the liquors, until the freight money was
paid. This was on Wednesday. The officer
returned without making the seizure, but came
on board early next morning. They were a.
gain asked to wait until Capt. s. reformed. The
officer refused, md backed by a number of the
citizens, proceeded to seize the liquor. The
crew resisted, and the fight became general.
Mr.. Staples was very badly injured, and his re-
eovery is doubtful. William Chase was seri-
ously injured, and is reported to have since died
Two or three of The hnat's "r"a" -'"-" "i"r ="
The boat then left for Boston, as stated above
and an express headed her of at Belfast, and
Shoriffs Rust and Cunningham boarded her to
arrest the men engaged in the affray. After
considerable search they were found and ar
rcsted. Capt. Sanford gave bail in the sum Of
$4,000, as stated above. The mato and crew
arc in Jail. Loomis Taylor, the agent Of the
boat, is also under bail. II is reported that he
ordered the crew TO resist to extremties. A
correspondent of the Mail, writing from Bel
fast, says: Ftrr
"The liquor has beer seized at this place and
all taken from tho boat. The general result
may be put down as a triumph Of the law, as
far as its execution goes. The persons arrest
cd on the Boston were seized by tho officers
and no attempts whre made to rescue them
One or two were armed, and were taken when
offtheir guard"
No authentic information from any one con-
nected with the boat has yet been received in
this city. ThcageLt of the boa; received de-
spatch yesterday, stating that oil the officers
were arrested, and requesting him to send
down officers and men to bring her to this port
This was done, and an engineer, pilot, &c.
left by the train yesterday afternoon. They
will probably reach Belfast this afternoon, and
the boat will undoubtedly arrive here to- morrow.
As soon as the facts are all known. an authen-
statement Of the affair will be laid before the
public.
Wo learn further that the custom Of the own
ers of the boat has been, in transporting liquor,
which as common carriers they were bound to
do. when it was presented, to land il from the
boat, placed Immediately in their store houses,
and then deliver it to the officers Of the law
when they have demanded it-upon their pay
ing the charges Of freight, and giving the own
ers of the boats a security against all claims
from the owners Of the liquor. This has been
repeatedly dono in Bangor-and bad the same
course been pursued at Frankfort, this sad af-
frhy woulp doubtless have been avoided.
Boston Paper.