The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-02-07
POOR ISAAC!
HE Is IN A TERRIBLE MUSS AT
BOLIVAR.


Preferred Against Him But Now He
is Arrested on the Charge of Crimi-
nal Libel by Man Who Says He
Didn't Poison His Sisters Cattle
waIkup is still Gamey.
When Detective Isaac Walkup succeeded in
stirring mp the Bolivar people he made the
mistake of his life. Bolivar is nOtn metropolis
but the little town has become known in all
parts of the country for the strange things that
happen in the midst of the people who live on
the property adjoining the reservation of the
Zoarites. They are slow to anger ndplentiful
in mercy, but when they get riled up nothing
can stop them. Detective Walkup is now the
object of their wrath and the tropical zone is
! frigid to Isaac in comparison with Bolivar.
Walkup was recently released on $500 bail
| for alleged attempt at blackmail, the Tuscara-
was county grand jury having returned an in
| dictment on complaint of farmer named
collars. David Parks is also after him, be-
cause Walkup accused Parks of taking some
tools that didn't belong to him. There is still
another David after him, in the person Of David
| Gibler.
When Walkup went to Bolivar to investigate
| concerning the cause of so many dead cattle
| being found in the feldby farmers, he was en-
ployed by Miss Anna Gibler. Several of Miss
! Giblcr's cattle had been poisoned and she was
anxious to know who administered the deadly
! drug, so she told Walkup to 90 ahead.
| Walkup spent several weeks among
the farmers and succeeded in getting
his salary right along but did not bring the
| cattle killers to justice. Finally he went to
! Miss Gibler and is reported TO have told her
! that her brother David who lived on an ad.
Joining farm. had poisoned the cattle. Miss
! Giblcr took no stock in this view of the affair
and forthwith informed Walkup that he
wasn't working for her any longer. She says
she told him not TO tell what he suspected and
he promised he wouldn't. 1t is now urged
that Walkup couldn't keep the secret but told
| several persons that David Gibler had dpoisoned
his sisters cattle. Walkup went down to
! Tuscamwas county few days ago to renew
! his bond OH the blaCkmail charge and re-
mained about the country. Hearing Of this
| David GiblCr decided to get even and caused
the detectives arrest on a charge of criminal
libel. He has waived hearing and will fight
| the case.
| walkup is an oily fellow and if he doesn't
| slip out of the fingers of the TusCarawas
county people it will not be because he has not
had experience in such matters, having been
mixed in a number of cases, but always being
| able to clear his own skirts. He is shrewd
detective and knows the law well enough to
! be dangerous when he wants TO be. If the
! Bolivar people prefer all the charges against
! him that they now have in mind 1t is probable
! he will be tangled so that he can't get back TO
! Stark county for some days. He has some
warm supporters in and about Navarro.
Detective Isaac Walkup's equilibrium is his
| long suit. He always manages to maintain ii
and il has helped him out of many a scrape.
J To a NEws.DENGOCRAT reporter night or two
| ago Walkup said that he would show the peo'
| pie of Bolivar and Strasburg some valuable
points before they got through with him. and
he is now hard at It. Strasburg correspond
ent, who has heretofore been giving it to Wal
kup rough shod writes now as follows:
Detective Isaac Walkup was ushercd into
the presence of Squire Fernsell today and
| asked to plead TO the charge of criminal libel,
preferred against him by David Gibler In
confirmation Of the rumOr atlOat this morning,
! the accused waived trial and was bound over to
| court in the sum of $500. Amos Woodling, a
prominent and wealthy citizen of this town
ship, signed his bond as surety. 1t is quite in
teresting to note the division of feeling and
| sentiment in the community, toward the de.
| tective. While some regard him as fraud and
| an impOster and are very vindictive in
their talk about him, on the other
hand, many prominent citizens seem
| to consider him very nice and proper person
| and are ever ready to serve him when in need
| Of help. Another warrant was sworn out
against him this afternoon, by David Parks,
OF Bolivar, on the charge of carrying concealed
/ weapons. This continuous harTasSing of the
sleuth with these criminal prosecutions begins
| to SAVIOR of persecution. There Is, undoubtedly,
a spirit of revenge actuating some of the cases
| instituted against him. He, however, main
tains his usual equanimity, under these trying
circumstances, and merely remarked that
when these little dogs got through barking at
his heels he would retaliate with lesson that
will last them long time. One olsthe ques-
tions asked here in connection with these
prosecutions is: Why do the people of Boil
var come to Stnsburg in quest of law and JUS
tice? The most significant answer given to
this query was that the courts of the former
place are in sympathy with Walkup."