Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-06
AFORGER RUN DOWN.


Dollars Is Drawn--The Culprit Ran Down
and Arrested by Sheriff Arbuckle.
A GLOBE representative had the pleas
ure of meeting Sheriff Arbuckle of Will
kin county, brother to s. G. Arbuckle
of this city, and until within few years
for fifteen years, himself a resident of this
city. Sheriff Arbuckle was taking day
of rest in st. Paul, visiting old time
friends, after the successful termination
of one of the most sensational incidents
connected with his official life.
Itappears from the statement of Sher-
iff Arbuckle that man named s. G. Tag
CART owns good farm near Campbell,
Wilkin county. Taggart is single man,
about 80 years of age. Of bis last years
crop of wheat, some 700 bushels are yet
held in his granaries, and he has other
produce upon which he could realize
without detriment to prospective farm
ing operations, had there been necessity.
His business transactions had always
been conducted honorably, and he was
held in good repute by his acquaint-
ances.
On Wednesday of last week, the 2Sth
of December, Taggart presented to the
Minneapolis Millers' association tickets
for wheat in the warehouse of Baker s.
Knapp, at Campbell, upon which he was
paid nearly thousand dollars. The tick
cts were signed by Mr. Lane, the ware
house man for Baker & Knapp, and were
issued to the credit of Thomas Fox. Fri
day, the 30th ult., the Millers'
association discovered that the
name of Lane, the warehouse man, and
Fox, were forgeries, which fact
was telegraphed Baker s. Knapp at
Campbell. Following up the clue thus
given, Baker & Knapp discovered that a
large number of their blank tickets were
missing.
Sheriff Arbuckle was then notified.
The fact that Taggart had been hanging
about the warehouse good deal of late,
caused suspicion that he might possibly
be the man. Taggart was then in Camp
bell. Seen as to his whereabouts on
Wednesday, the 2Sth, he claimed not
to have been out of Campbell that
day, which assertion was reiterated
by several of his acquaintance,
and the hunt for the culprit was turned
elsewhere. 1t transpires, however, that
he was, and warned by the inquiries on
foot that the transaction had beer dis
covered, he went out to his farm, packed
up few personal effects, and taking a
team of horses Sunday morning, started
across the country in westerly direction
for the wilds of Dakota.
Late Sunday nights Taggart's fight
was discovered, and Monday morning
Sheriff Arbuckle started in pursuit.
After consuming some three hours of
time and driving some twenty five
miles the sheriff got his pointer as to the
direction taken by Taggert, and then he
commenced stern chase across the open
and almost uninhabited prairie, with no
stop for rest, which terminated at Brace
vile, D. T., late Monday night, nearly
seventy-five miles from bis starting point,
saying nothing of the skirmishing to find
the trail, where he found Taggart and
made his arrest, recovering from his per-
son $755. Wednesday last Taggart- was
delivered over to Sheriff Eustis, of Hen
nepln county, by Sheriff Arbuckle, to
await trial. The good judgment shown
by Sheriff Arbuckle in his stern chase Of
Taggart, and the persistency with which
he followed it, driving nearly Or quite 100
miles without rest, shows that he is the
right man in the right place, at least for
an emergency like the above. Sheriff
Arbuckle will leave st. Paul for his home
this morning.