The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-11
CITY AND RIVER.
THE CITY.
IS A Respectable Trick"

Sometime since, when We published an &C
count of Dep. Sheriff Prince arresting the
supposed murderer of Trotter, at the Cave
some unaccountable spite, either towards US
or Mr.. Prince, on the part of the local OF the
Times induced him to write to Rawlings, OF
St. Louis. Chief Of Police, to learn whether
the account published by us was really true,
or not This he announced as being done by
gentleman of this city"
As the statement of Deputy Sheriff Prince. concern
ing the capture Mike Smith in Illinois, and his escape
ST. Louis looks rather ambiguous to souie gentle'
of this city has written TO one who knows down
that and the answer expected IN Few days. shall
be promptly communicated to the public on its reception
Tunes, Jane1a. Ha.- - - 3
The letter was received in due time by the
person addressed, and in due time came back
the reply. But it didn't suit the Times pur-
pose. Its account and ours 'gibed" exactly.
The designs of the Times fell through, and
they let the subject drop like hot potato,
because it was rather uncomfortable for them,
and said nothing more about it. The letter
was not promptly communicated to the pub
lic"
But mark the sequel. The person to
whom the Times local had written the letter.
turned up in St. Paul one day not long
since, and forthwith there appeared garbled
extract of the letter, brief as possible, in the
columns of that sheet, June Odd. This was
all that could be forced out Of the paper, and
L IL xl>.,l otk
turned home disguised. promising to send US
q full copy of the letter. We now give it.
ST.. LOUIS, June -, 1857.
". Il. Croght:
S1R,-Your letter of the Both inst, (May)
came TO hand on this day, in which you ask
me particulars concerning Mr.. Prince, Deputy
Sheriff of your CITY, MIR. Prince came here,
bringing with him letters from Chicago, and
also from St. Paul He was after man by
the name of Mike Smith, for murder j
made all inquiries about Smith, and am con-
WINGED that he was not here, nor had been
Prince then left for home; on his way in ILL
nois he arrested man end brought him to
Kings hotel for Identification, he proved not
to be the man. AS Mr.. Bradley, of Chica-
go. had sent me man from his city who
could identify Smith. On his seeing him he
stated that il was not Smith, who Prince
was after. The man that came from Chica-
go remained here some time at the expense
of Mr.. Bradley, myself and Prince. The man
that Prince had arrested did not see nor did
any Of my officers. Mr.. Prince appeared anx-
iOus to get the murderer, and was very in
dustrions whilst here. He seemed to be
much mortified at having arrested the wrong
man, and brought him seventy or eighty miles
back. have strong hopes of catching Smith
for you so II, my detectives are after him, but
his precise locality is yet unknown. I shall
keep copy Of this, and request that you
shall not publish until first showing i. to Mr..
Prince. Respectfully,
ID. A. RAWLINGS,
n. HAMILTON, Clerk.
*Or rather, it was proceed, in some way, that
he was not the man. Still. Capt. Parker, Of
the Progr IS. and the Pilot of the same boat,
were strong in declaring him to be the per-
son Mr.. Prince was in search of, but not be-
ing intimate with him, could not identify him
on oath. Mr.. Rawl ngs says that the man
which Mr.. P. arrested, he did not see nor
did any of his officers; and it is still believed
that the real murderer was in his hands, The
man from Chicago, however, stated that he
was not the person. This may be so, b t
does not disproce one cord of the narrative we
published.
We trust the TINES is satisfied now, in
attempting to prove our statement falsica-
tion, or as it says, 'rather ambiguous" by
means OF secret letter ''written by gentle
man of this city," and garbled extracts from
the reply. When the wise local of that pa
per attempts again to knock our legs from
under US, he will have to rise earlier in the
morning
MEssRs. FUTILE & PRATT have received
one of the most beautiful lots of jewelry, at
their Daguerrean Gallery, We have seen in
ST. Paul. Ladies will find there every
thing they want in that line ; and Frank
Pratt will show them, with his we'll known
politenesss, some of the most elegant lock-
cts, pins, brooches, &c, We ever saw, while
MIR. Tuttle will insert in them, an excellent
likeness of any one they want, whether pres
ent or absent This is an inducement indeed
and we expect to see that already popular
Daguerrean Gallery enlivened with the pres
ence of throng of fair ones continually.
A RAcE.-Some of our police, though
brave men, and fearless W hen in danger, can
do some tall running when occasion requires.
We witnessed a race on Saturday that was
rather amusing. Ed. Maher attempted to
arrest cattle driver who was driving thro'
the street contrary to Ordinance. The dro-
yer was mounted on tall mule, and like
Santa Anna fed at killing rate. But Ed
gave chase and for q square or so a cloud