St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-11-08

q - A case tried IN the Rseosd1<s
Court Saturday furnished new and yssy
impfesive illustration Of the iAfany q
.Jhs Detective system, - carried % b
lsqmea Of The private Detective Agencies
here: This was the case Of Miehael Kis-
by, indicted for the crime Of arson, Il ST.
ting fire to the lumber yard of Hok 4 Ma
son, of this city, long time sga Kirby
had just served outs term a impkison-
ment in the Penitentiary, for setting 6rs
to warehouse in Peoria. The vitaAn
against him was = man named Michad
Finnucane, an employee Of one Of The D.
teotive Agencies. According to this mans
testimony he had met Kirby for the f13t
time at Peoria. He there wormed himssK
into his confidence, and entrapped HIM in
to plan to set fire to the said varehouse.
He bought camphene and matches for Kn4
by to do the COB" with, and accompanied
him under the; building on the night when
the job" was to be done, previously stat
ioning officers, where they would appre.*
bend them a. they emerged after firing the
building. The plot worked Is deiigned-
the officer arrested Kirby and man Man,;
ed Murray, whom Finnucane had also in
weighed into the plot, and allowed Finnu-
cane to escape. While working up. this,
job," Finnucane went on to state, 10 rot
so far into the confidence Of Kirby that
he.told him that it was he, Kirby. who
set fire to tho lumber yard Of Holt & Ma
son: and no sooner had Kirby got out Of
the Penitentiary, whittier he had been sent
for the Peoria crime, than he:wss arrested
to be punished for the crime which he had
disclosed to Finnucane gar:.-5a 1,Er
When he had reached this point the
Court ordered the witness to stop-and
declared that the trial could proceed no
farther. A witness 90 infamous a this
man had sworn himself to be, could not,
be heard against any man; and tho prison
er was at once discharged. .lJZZg7 I
But the case shows again what .hos1ie.
BILE thing this: detective system is. ,Hees
men are employed to go about the coun-
try, get hold Of innocent men, ent1ap them
into crime, furnish them with the imple-
meuts of mischief, and set officers on their
track, while they themselves escape to plot
new villanies, and lure other men to their
destruction. The more that i learned Of
this system the more truly infamous must
it appear to every man who has q heart
and conscience. - Chicago Democrat
~ The result Of tho Senatorial eleo-
ton in Oregon has already been made
known in nearly every village of the land
by telegraph. Edward D. Baker, repub-
lican, elected to ell q vacancy, will take E
his seat Immediately. Mr.. Baker WAS
once wing congressman from Illinois, and
served in the Mexican war With the rank
Of colonel. OF late years be has been
prominent republican, both in Californi.
and Oregon. His colleague, J.. W. Ncs-
NTH, is Douglas democrat, an old re-.
ident of Oregon, and held the Office Of ter
ritorial marshal under Mr.. Pierce We be-
Gcve he also held an Office in the Indian
bureau, under Mr. Buchanan, from which
he was ousted through Gen. Lanes inau- I.
ence; he now Gusts Gen. Lane from his warm
seat in the national senate. ---e-~---~~-.--~--
A LITTLE D1FFERENT.-We] lately cop
led from the World paragraph in which
it was stated that Mrs. Gov. Morgan VAS =.
in early life milliner's apprentice. The
Hartford Courront remarks: ut would
have been nothing to the discredit of Mn.
Morgan if she had, as tho World states,
earned her living as amilliner's apprentices;
but the fact is, that Miss Waterman, now
Mrs. Morgan, never had occasion to earn
her livelihood rs poor girl, her father being
Hartford merchant, in comfortable cir. =
cumstanoes, during her youth; and ear
tainly her cousin, E. D. Morgan, whom
she married, was amply able to support
her"