The Portland daily press., 1892-01-20
IN THE GOVERNMENTS HANDS.
Some Interesting Cases To Be Brought Be-
fore the Commissioner.

Yesterday, Deputy United States Mar
shall Burton Smith arrived in the city
from Belfast, with William D. Barnes of
Unity, charged with forcibly entering
the post office at Albion, December 10th,
1891 (of which c. II. Drake is postmast-
er), and taking large quantity of
stamps.
This Barnes has quite a record. In
1876 he was tried and convicted before
Judge Dickerson at Belfast, and SEN
fenced to ten years Imprisonment at
Thomaston for obstructing railroad
train near Unity. He served out his
time, and was released in 1886. He had
been released but a few weeks when he
was again arrested, tried and convicted
on charge of rape, before Judge Vir-
gin, and sentenced to six years in the
state prison. Upon his release he left
for parts unknown. 1t is claimed that he
tramped from Thomaston to Albion, and
there broke into the post Office and stole
the stamps.
A singular occurrence about the mat
ter is that the sheriff at Belfast wrote the
sheriff of Kennebec county that he had
a man who gave the name of William
Barnes, who was a suspicious character,
and thought the Kennebec sheriff might
want him. He also notified the United
States marshal's Office here. Deputy
Smith asked the Kennebec sheriff if he
had the man, and to hold Barnes until he
| reached Augusta. The sheriff wired
Smith that he had the man, and Deputy
Smith went to Augusta to secure him.
But the Kennebec sheriff's Barnes was
another man. Then Smith wired the
sheriff at Belfast, and ascertained the
Barnes that was wanted was in his pos
session. 1t seems the Kennebec sheriff
supposed the man he had, who was
tramp. had left the Belfast sheriff and
travelled east on his own hook until az
rested. Deputy Smith says that Barnes
will be tried on complaint of Post Office
Inspector Fl. A. Hall, before Commis-
sioner Bradley. Smith thinks the man
isn't quite right in his mind; that is that
sixteen years of prison life has been Sc
we're on him.
Deputy United States Marshal McNal-
| ly had quite an experience in arrestin g
Larry Martin for retailing liquor without
a United States license. Deputy McNal-
ly took team at Ashland and drove Al
miles through Piscataquis county,
through the unbroken forest, into log
ging camp to get his man, who had TAX
en- refuge there. 1t was hard ride.
The weather was bitter cold, every once
in while Instructions had to be re-
moved from the road, and when he got
to the camp he was nearly frozen. He
was all alone. There were so men in the
logging camp, and when they ascer-
tanned his errand things looked squally
for him. The loggers didn't think it
any crime for a man to sell liquor. They
got hold of the deputy's papers, from his
coat, where he had taken it off to warm
| himself at the fire, and would have made
| it hot for him but the "bossn of the
camp stood by him and would have no
nonsense. The laws of the United
States, he declared, must be obeyed, and
he made the men restore the papers and
other property of the deputy, who took
the man away with him. Martin will
probably be brought before the commits
sioner today.
United States Marshal Saunders will
arrive here today with Price, the sailor,
charged with conspiring with Mcdonald
to steal dory from the schooner
Olive Robinson some time ago.