St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-12
TWO TRICKY SALOOhISTS.
Caught in Trap on the State
Line.
A sHARP-WITTED MARSHAL.
Puts an End to a Practice That Was
II Demoralizing Natives of the
=, Commonwealth.

Fl When Maj. Brackett. deputy United
States marshal, walked up from the
depot to the Jail late Tuesday night ac-
companied by two individuals and
constable from New Albion, To-, there
were no indications of the exciting time
he had experienced in securing his
prisoners, The two men in his charge
were Charles Dorrity and August Bat
/ ter, proprietors of the only saloon in the
religious little village of New Albion,
10. They are sharp men, and took
the precautiOn to build their one-story
frame shanty obliquely on the line be-
tween Minnesota and Iowa, so that the
bar was in Iowa, and the standing room
for their customers in Minnesota.
This kind of saloon was
quite convenient, too, for, when
the Iowa officers go after them,
they could just step from behind
the bar and were in Minnesota, and
vice versa when the Minnesota officers
came too close.
How could they be arrested? That
was the problem in Marshal Campbell's
Office a few days ago when he received
an anonymous letter from New Albion.
MAJ. Bracket was accordingly sent
THEIR ARREST IF POSSIBLE
New Albion is quiet little village on
the line, where new arrival is quickly
sized up by everybody. 1t was not long
before Messrs. D0rrity and Batter began
10 suspect the newcomer, but he put
them OFT their guard. At the hotel he
was asked II he was travelling man.
NO, he was not; he was looking after
the man who stole a team of horses from
his farm near st. Charles" The major
knew that the anonymous letter came
from good temperance people, so
ne fabricated story to the
eHect that temperance lecturer had
Deen at st. Charles, and the imaginary
team had disappeared about the same
tlme as the lecture feller." He asked
If there were any temperance people i'm
town, and was promptly referred to a
certain deacon. The major hunted ND
the deacon, and learned that he was
the writer of the anonymous letter.
put was afraid to sign his name for fear
Dorrlty and Batter would burn him M.
Major Bracket desired assistance and
the deacon Informed him that it ,Nould
never d0 to trust the sheriff, as that of
nclal owned the very land upon which
the saloon was built, and, in fact, had
given the proprletors the privilege of
building Just where they did. But there
was constable who could be relied
upon. The constable's father had RIM
against the sheriff and been beaten. and
there was no love lost. The major must
get rid of the sheriff, however.
Accordingly he asked that official if he
had team. EYES," was the reply.
''Well, think my horses might have
gone through that little pass. Would
you mind hitching up and going to look
for them" Of course the sheriff con-
scented.
ii Then the deputy marshal and the con-
stable proceeded to the saloon. The
Il farmer who had lost his horses'' was a
pretty good fellow and ''set 'em up'' for
IEe entire crowd. So did the constable
linen the saloOnkeeperS wanted to
treat. Things ran along until the ma
=0Or got the men out from behind the bar
into Minnesota. whereupon he quietly
assured them that they were under ar
rest and in the custody of the marshal
OF Minnesota for selling whisky with
: out
~ A GOVERNMENT LICENSE.
r. Inc sheriff returned from his errand
q little too late. Marshal Desmond. of
Iowa, also arrived from Dubuque lit
Tie too late. but that's all right, major,''
ne SAID, with laugh, when the major
~. AAA'4i AS oiiSStCtt tlIc IIltII LII Mlnno-
sofa, and was simply taking them
through Iowa in transit.
The men were brought to st. Paul and
taken before United States Commits
sloner McCafferty westerly. 1t seemed
that they had suspected something.
however, and secured a United States
government license from the internal
revenue office in Iowa. Fortified with
this evidence, the were discharged by
Commissioner McCafferty. They are
now liable to arrest" said Marshal
Campbell. ''by the authorities either Of
high license Minnesota for selling with
out a state license. or of prohibition
Iowa for selling liquor at ALL" "These
fellows had the people drunk for miles
and miles around the Fourth of july"
said Maj. Bracket, ''as they owned the
only place where liquor could be OBJ
tanned. They had sixty men so drunk
that they couldn't do anything but fight,
sing and Sleep"