The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-21
BOTHERING BERG.
A Midnight Attempt to Serve
aWrit on the Register.
Developments in the Mclean
Broadhead Contest--Delaying
the Certificates.

The circus over the Mclean BfOadhPad
| fight is not over by any means When
Messrs. Berg and Raum signed the con-
gressional returns as published in yester
days Post-Dispatch, il was supposed that
the fun was over. This was a mistake
The writ of mandamus, which was also
published in yesterdays Post Dispatch,
came down on The evening train from JET
ferson City. Accompanying the import
ant document were Henry w. Ewing, clerk
OF the supreme court; Tom Winston, the
mysterious marshal OF the same august
! tribunal, and Col. James . Broadhead,
for whose belief and at whose request the
writ was issued. Ewing and Winston
roamed about town for some time, and made
among other jonrneys,a trip to the Repub-
lican office. There they secured the ser
vices OF Mr. Frank Ryan, weli-known
attorney, principally because he is friend
of BrOadhead, and because he is goo'
I Judge of localities on dark night.
| A Republican reporter was added,
hack was hired, and the party went out To
search for Justice Raum and serve the
writ upon him. MIR. berg had personally
! pledged himself to do nothing until the
writ MIS- served, and had even VOLUNTEER
Ell To- come down 10 his Office last night
/ and have the writ served upon him. No
answer was made to this proposition, but
! the Broadhead side had plan, and they
proceeded To- carry it out. Rtum was
found about midnight, and, alter he had
been sufficiently aroused, the document
was served upon him by Winston, and
copy oi il, which had b. Ell IN ,de by a type
writer, was LETT with him for future perusal
Raum, il said, tucked the paper under his
| pillow, and ma,!e remark OF two which
indicated cont, mpt for the supreme court,
it Is alleged, and went TO sleep again.
From his house the hack was driven to
that of City Register Berg. At this time
the clocks were about TO strike the hour
after midnight. Winston pnlled Berg's
door bell, and the other members of the
storming party gathered behind him on
the steps. Soon window opened, and
Mr. Berg was heard to ask:
"Wno's there
a messenger on important business"
You know where the office is?"
"Yes."
SWELL, transact important business
there ami in the daytime"
But we want to SEE YOU now"
"WhO are you?"
My name is Winston" said the mar
shall.
"Who is Winston"
"The marshal of the supreme court"
"Well?"
"And have important business to trans
act with you"
BY this time Mr. Berg's son had opened
the door and the crowd filed into the hall
without waiting for an invitation.
Mr.. Berg's sOr went up stairs and an-
other talk occurred. when Mr.. Berg
shouted down TO the crowd:
Il transact my business in the day time
Then the quartet filed up stairs and tried
to get at the register, b"t he had barred
himself in his room. All kinds OF en-
treaties failed to bring him out.
The crowd then walked down on the
steps, when lady belonging to tine regis
ter's household, who had been endeavOring
to get the invaders out of the house, shut
he door and locked it, and the marshal of
the supreme court and his advisers were
locked out in the cold air at 2 o'clock in
the morning They rang the bell, but it
was no go, so they piled into the hack and
went down town again at slow pace, the
driver saving that he would "be blamed If
he was going To drive last and fill his hack
with mud" Shortly after o'clock the
vehicle arrived at the Monkeys saloon,
just across rom the Southern.
A Post Dispatch reporter saw Mr.. Ryan
and Winston as they lett the hack. They
entered the saloons. warmed themselves
by the stove, drank something that looked
like ginger ale q couple of times and then
commenced an elaborate wait for some
body. They then jOn'neyed down to the
Republican office and were let in the build
ing for awhile, when they again took the
hack. The driver was told To go 10 the
same place as before. At few minutes
after six o'clock this morning the hack
again halted in front of Mr.. Berg's resi-
dence. Mr.. Ryan says that he and Win
ston were the only occupants. The Re-
publican, which has official information
sbout the affair, states positively that Gov.
Crittenden was one of the party. Mr..
. Berg welcomed his visitors, laughed over
|. the nights adventures, said that they we're
| lucky he did not shoot one OF them, and
{ the wine was served. 1t is singular that
|, Messrs. Taaffe and Hoblitzelle were not
, aroused at all. This morning the dOcu-
ment was handed to the latter in his office
/ at the city hail.
Later, Mr. raafte walked in with copy
Of the writ in his hands, set down in tine
registers Office, and made great show oil
reading il. Col. James y. Broadhesd was
about the first man who visited the city
. hall to-day. He rushed around from on.
. office to another, followed everywhere by
. his son, Charlie and Marshal Winston
Raum was most mysteriously absent, and
did not appear until later in the morning.
! Col. Broadhead had troubled look on
his countenance, and he was evidently very
anxious abOu; something Mr. Berg was
down early and complained that he had
| lost considerable sleep.
What did You think of your visitors ??
ooh, guess they had pretty good
: time"
"What did Won think of themT
"Why, by jiugo, l thought they were
, bushwhackers sure NV daughter came TO
| me and said there we're a lot men trampiEg
. on the pavement"
? Did you see them?"