Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-09
SALTED SHELLS.
The Ammunition Used at the Gun Club
Shoot Tempered With.

The Ammunition Used at the Gun Club
Shoot Tempered With.
The members of the st. Paul Gun club are
wrought up to righteous degree of indigna-
ton, and should the lightning once strike,
there are the best of reasons for believing
that some ones reputation will get pretty
thoroughly damaged. The riled condition
of feelings alluded to have been occasioned
by evidences of the most despicable skull
duggery or underhand work in connection
with the glass ball shooting tournament
which closed at the fair grounds on last
Thursday.
Slight rumors were circulated on Thurs
day evening to the effect that number of
the shells or cartridges had been stated, or
tempered with in such manner as to make
them utterly Ineffective or worthless.
No particular attention was given the re.
port, as 1t was supposed to have originated
from unofficial or disafected quarters, but
yesterdays developments were of such a
pronounced character as to demonstrate that
the rumor was only too we'll founded, and
the tournament was belittled by as base q
proceeding as could have been conceived by
its low-lived and utterly characterless perpe-
traitors.
In order to 81 bstantiate the charges of
foul play and to lay the correct status of the
case before the public, GLOBE reporter
called on a number of resident members of
the club, and amo1g those heard from. were
Messrs. Zimmerman and Lamprey, from
whom was ostained some very startling in
formation.
It was ascertained that the meanest SUBJ
terfuge known to the true sportsman had
been employed to counteract the skillful
Workmanship of these gentlemen, and the
INSCRIPTIONS perpetrators evidently intended
to win at all sacrifice of integrity and honor.
While the match was in progress on
Thursday the gentlemen alluded to observed
remarkable defect in their ammunition,
as the most deadly beads failed to accom-
plish any material execution. During the
hurry of the shoot Mr.. Zimmerman casually
noticed that one or two. of his shells were
filed with substance not then known, the
detective shells being preserved for future
examination. A singular coincidence was
that Mr.. Lamprey detected buckshot in sew
eral of his shells, which were also kept for
future reference. The examination of the
SHELLS preserved, and the ones not used, took
place yesterday, when it was discovered that
thirteen out of twenty shells examined by
Mr.. Lamprey contained buckshot, while q
number of Mr.. Zimmerman's shells were
filled with plaster and sawdust.
The true extent of the fraud has not yet
been developed, but it is believed to be
larger than at present discovered. The rea-
sons for the fraud could only have sprung
from two motives, viz: desire to have Ger.
tain men win, on whom money had been
bet, or desire to beat the resident members
of the club out of despicable envy and pure
cussedness, and there are reasons for be-
lieving that the latter theory is correct:
Who the guilty parties are is at present not
known, but the members of the club owe it
to themselves to probe the thoroughly dis
graceful transaction to the bolt IN, in order
that the perpetrators may be buried in the
ignominous contempt their transactions
have 80 richly merited.