The evening times., 1896-09-09

ley's Quarter Docking Club at Bengies, ON
the Philadelphia, Wilmington a.d Baiti-
more railroad, there has been dastardly
and wanton destruction OF English pleas
ANTS and other fowls, by poison.
Yesterday James T. Butler and Robert
Smith. both colored were arrested, taken TO
Towson, and charged, on the oath or
D. C. smart, with entering the private
property OF the club and maliciously de
stroying English pheasants. ducks, chick
ems and turkeys in the interim bet tween ] uly
~ and September 4.
Robert Taylor, a white man, was commit
ted as a witness against the accused, while
Butler and Smith were taken before JUS
tice Pielert and sent to juil TO await
the action OF the grand jury.
The pheasants destroyed numbered about
5000, and the domestic fowls. including
chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys, num-
bered 400. The monetary loss is placed at
So 900 Most OF the birds had been raised
on the place. they We're killed with grain
which had been saturated with arsenic. Dr.
George ". Massamore, assistant State game
warden and secretary of the Maryland Game
and Fish Protective Association, who caused
the working up of the case against the sus-
pected men, says he cannot ascribe motive
for the destruction of the birds.
The arrests were made yesterday at Bow
ley's Quarter by Sheriff W. T. Cole, of Tsw
son. Dr. George W. Massamore, and T. j.
Hardesty of the detective firm of I. j. Har-
des:y & Co. The men were taken to Tow
son BY Sheriff Cole and Detective William
j. Raw,eigh.
The State Game Protective Association
is responsible for the action taken and VIII
assist in the prosecution The penalty for
the offense is from two to twenty years i'm
prisonment. This Is the first case of the
kind ever reported in Baltimore county.
HOW BIRDS WERE KILLED.
Dr. Massamorc's account OF the killing
OF the birds is as follows
.'On July 81 | Went To Bowley's Quarter
on business connected with the gaine war
den's office. and TO see the progress OF the
raising OF pheasants by the clubs of which
am d member. The young birds are in a
space OF ten acres, which is surrounded by
. wire fence ten feet high. In passing
through this place with the gamekeeper,
Donald Mcy lear, found several dead
BIRDS and one that was sick. I remarked
TO Mr.. Mcyicar: This looks like poison
Later found other evidences of poisoning.
ION July 80 Mr.. Mcvicar iroughe two
dead pheasants to town, and an autopsy
WIS made and an 3ualysis by Prof. Z. B.
Wilson showed the birds had died from ar
senIcal poisoning.
ION August q / went there again, and
the birds were dying by hundreds, and /
was told that the other fowls were going the
same way. On August ii went to Bell
gies with Detectives Smart and Rawleigh
who, with their colleague, Richard NJ.
Brown, got to work.
Butler had been dismissed from the club
employ and was suspected. Later he was
re-cngaged. and he was an empioye when
arrested. Detective Smart personated a
young man OF wealth and leisure, who was
said to he relative OF Mr.. McVicar. The
other two appeared as tramps. They slept
in bushes and stayed about the place and
did much watching by night. Smart spent
much time with Butler, took him on fishing
trips. and all three of them got into his CON
fidence.
POISONED WHEAT FOUND.
Butler on one occasion told Mr.. Smart
that lie Butleri had become detective and
had a Commission from a Western detective
firm. Smart replied that lie would like to
get into that business too.
when the case was ripe the arrests We're
made. Poisoned wheat, which had been
found, was analyzed, and carcasses of dead
birds were also examined by the professor
of chemistry at the University OF Pennsyi
vania. Poisoned wheat was foundin box
in the shanty Of Butler. 1t was found under
bench i'll the shanty and under the Floor
The Bowley's Quarter Club has had xtra
ordinary success in raising English pleas
ants, and at least $500 Were reared this
season. The club, though composed of Phil
adelphians, had greed to let their place be
come Matching farm for the State of Mary.
land, through the Game Protective A ssocia-
ton, and had offered to furnish stock birds
graiisto persons who were recommended by
the association.
MT. McVicar, the game Keeper has had
long experience in producing and caring
for birds in England and New Jersey He
went with the Bowley Club about four years
ago. The club stocked the place with old
OF parent birds, which are worth about 81
each.
ONLY 400 BIRDS LEFT.
These old birds are kept i'll a separate
pen, and when they begin to lay, the eggs
are taken from them each day and saved
to ne hatched by hent. Ifthe eggs remained
wi tn the female bird she would stop lay
ing after producing fifteen or sixteen, but
If the eggs are taken from her she con-
unues laying until she has produced forty
or fifty eggs, enough for three broods.
After Matching, the young birds are placed
in the large wire inclosure. where they are
tended until they get large enough to fly
out of it. Those that fail to use their
wings to go over the wire fence are driven
out about the middle of September, SO that
they will becom wild for shooting about
October 1.
The wholesale killing of the phi heasants a t
hand, and none will be shot or given way
this fall, as all that are on hand must be
used for stock purposes.
Mr.. Nathaniel E. Janney. Of Philadelphia,
is president OF the Bowley's Quarter Club
Among other membersareM Messrs. RobertM
Janney, Harry Bryant, and brother of Mr..
Bryant, Horace Magee. Marriott c. Smyth,
and DR.. Biddle. all of Philadelphia.
The thousand acres of their preserves Ire
in Baltimore county, on the neck of land
bounded by Seneca River on one side. Salt.
peter Creek on the other and the Oh esa.
peake Bay in front.
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