Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
NOT THE PIPE OF PEACE.
An Interesting Litigation over a So Nicer
Schaum Pipe.
Galveston Newz.

Mention was made Monday of the It'll
cation over a meerschaum pipe claimed
by Capt. Joseph Atkins to have been
stolen from him when he was chief of po-
lice IN 1880. A meerschaum pipe was pre-
sented to Capt. Atkins in 1873 by Mr.. Will
lam Won Wrinkle. This pipe, Capt. Atkins
claims, was stolen from him in 1880 from
the police station. The pipe and its loss
had been almost forgotten until recently,
when Capt. Atkins discovered a pipe in
the show window of Mr.. Schornstein, on
Market and Center street, which he was so
positive was the pipe he had lost that he
had it produced in court to establish its
ownership. He did not charge anyone
with the theft of the pipe, as he had not
sufficient evidence to sustain any such
charge. 1t was merely case to settle the
ownership, a quasi civil proceeding,
though the style of the case on the re
corde s docket was unknown, theft of a
pipe of the value of So" There were
number of witnesses examined to settle
the ownership, Messrs. James Griffin, Will
lam Won Wrinkle, James Cahill, Leo Mich
OILS, John Williams, Tom Duffy, and John
Cossar all testifying that they believed
the pipe in court was the same pipe
owned by Capt. Atkins several years ago.
the pipe in 1867 from an old man who
brought it from Europe, and he soon af.
terward gave it to Capt. Atkins. He was
quite positive that the pipe in the court
was the same pipe. Capt. Atkins and
other witnesses testified to there being a
crack in the bowl of the pipe which Won
Wrinkle had presented Capt. Atkins, and
there was similar crack in the bowl of
the pipe in court. Leo Nichols identified
the pipe particularly by a small niche
that had been broken out of the stem part
of 1T. He had broken this himself while
cleaning the pipe on one occasion with a
piece of wire. The pipe in court was
similarly marked. All of Capt. Atkins
witnesses testified to the fact that the
pipe was a peculiar one, and they had
seen none or very few like it.
Capt. Atkins side of the case was very
conclusive, but Mr.. Davis swore quite as
positively that the pipe in litigation was
his property. 1t was brought to him by
Mr.. Isaac Heidenheimer, Jr., from Europe
and sent to him when he was at Albany,
n. Y. This was about eleven years ago.
His brother sent the pipe to him from
Europe. He had it in his possession all
the time until about three yaars ago, when
he placed it with Mr.. Samuels for sale.
Subsequently he took the pipe from Sam
uels and placed it with Mr.. Schornstein.
This was seven Or eight months ago. He
had never seen a pipe like ii before.
Samuels had the pipe for three years.
The bowl of it was cracked several years
ago by being damned in a door. Mrs.
Max Mas, the daughter of Mr.. Davis, was
also quite positive in her Identification of
the pipe as being the one that her father
had had in his possession for a number of
years.
Mrs. Davis was also quite as positive in
her identity of the pipe.
Mr.. Heidenheimer was quite sure that
the pipe in court, if not the same, was
very much like the one he brought from
Europe to Mr.. Davis.
Messrs. Samuels and Schornstein iden-
tilted the pipe as the same that had been
left with them by Mr.. Davis for sale. Mr.
Samuels testified that there were a num-
Der of pipes like the one in litigation.
Upon this evidence the court announced
its inability to arrive at any decision, and
so the matter rests, with the pipe in the
custody of the police.
Nasty on the Labor Question.
Il hate a capitalist, no matter how he
BEGUN one. I hate the meen-spirited,
grovelin reich wich will work ten or more
hours day, deprivin biself Nv beer,
and terbacker, and keerds, and bilyards
and hos-racin, and SIGH, savin peny by
peny til he hez ground enuf out Nv the
world to heV shop Nv his own, and to
employ other men to slave fur him, and
thus go on akumulatin till he owns things.
SIGH men ar monopoli is, and the enemies
of laber, and grinders.
II hold that the possession of so bill
makes monOpolist, and al SIGH shOOd be
crushed. Ez hevin $40 note makes a
man a monopolist, his monopolism in
creases iist in proporshen to the $40 bills
he hez. The owner Nv factory is a en-
envy to the human race, and ez for the
man wich bids raleroad he
Is monster NV such hidgus meen,
That to be hated needs but to be seen.
My hatred Nv raleroad managers is in
tens. It comenst with the fust time I wuz
dropped off the hind platform Nv trane
for not payin fare and hez increst with
every repetishiun Nv the ofense, which
generally happens every time l want to go
anywher. I lothe the ralerode monopolist.
"a grindin monopolist is any man witch
hez anything. Whenever man hez saved
anything he becomes capitalist, and ez
capitalists ar dangerous to labor he shOod
be made to divide it up SO ez to be on
a ekality with them witch never saved
nothin.
"The mechanic or workingman witch
saves so ez to own hous or farm be-
comes capitalist and consistently a
grindin monopolist, and ez accumolashens
ar dangerous to labor wat he hez shud be
contistikated and divided up among US
w1ch hezn't anything. Property is. a
crime.
Il amt jist shoor that hev got the so
clallstlc nOctrine down fine enuff, but l
think these defnishuns viii do, espeshly
when yu howl EN- under red flag to luv-
ers of humanity wich is chuck full Nv stale
beer"
Vests Story of Plumb.
A Washington correspondent, writing to
THE New York Mail and Express" says:
To small group of jolly friends chiefly,