The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-29
RETURNED TO BRITTON YEsTER-
DAY WITHOUT ANY ExTRADI-
TION PAPERS.
STILL DENIES HIS GUILT.
SAYS THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO
Do WITH THE ExPLo-
SION.
pEop1D BLAMED.
ing an Onslaught on the Vio-
lators of Law.


who is accused of blowing UP the Of
flee of the Marshall County Sentinel,
newspaper published at Britton, S.
D., was taken back to Britton by Sher-
iff Quarve last evening. A. Sherin,
the proprietor of the Sentinel, accom-
panied Sheriff Quarve and his prison.
err. Groufx returned to Britton with
out requ1sitfon papers on the st1pula-
ton that he was not to be manacled
during the trip The suspect was ar
rested on the West side Friday night
by Officer Griffin. Mr.. Sherin had Of
fered rewad of $25 for Grouix's cap
ture, and the amount was paid to Of
ficer Griffin.
Mr.. Sherin said last evening that the
destruction of his printing plant was
directly the result Of his activity as
states attorney in prosecuting "blind
piggers." He was at Pierre, S. D.,
in attendance upon the supreme court
in the interest of the prosecution of
an alleged blind pigger" at the time
his plant was blown up. Mr.. Sherin
claims to have positive evidence to
show that GrouiX is the guilty party.
He says the citizens of Britton have
contributed to purchase a new press
to take the place of the one destroyed
in the explosion. Grouix positively
denies any knowledge of the dynamit-
ing and claims he will be able to
prove his innocence.
According to Mr. Sherin. the dual
role of states attorney and publisher
Of the Marshall County Sentinel is
not as congenfal and pleasant as it
might be. Through court prosecution
and public censufe in the columns
of his paper, Mr.. Sherin says the vio-
lators CT the state liquor law have
conceived bitter enmity toward him
and have, on several occasions, sought
to intimidate him. Last spring, he
says, two plate glass windows in his
office were broken and after the dam
age was repaired the glass was
again smashed with large stones.
At this time Mr.. Sherin said
he had employed a detective to dis
cover the. perpetrators Of the outrage.
The detective, he says, gained the
confidence of Grouix, and it is alleged
that the latter confessed to having
broken out the glass. Grouix, it is
also said, frequently boosted of his
knowledge of dynamite, and intimated
that something worse than stoning
might happen to the newspaper Office.
Shortly after o'clock the morning
of Nov. IA, two weeks ago, something
decidedly more" damaging did occur.
The citizens of Brftton were awakened
from their SlnnhprS hU q Terrific
plosion, and an investigation showed
the office of the Sentinel almost COM
pletely demolished. All of the win
dows were blown out of the tWostory
building, the front utterly wrecked,
one side partially blown out and an
$500 printing press reduced to frag
ments. Furthermore, the explosion
barely missed resulting in serious in
jury and possible death to Sheriff
Quarve. The night Waterman at the
office had heard the marauders break
ing into the building and ran post
haste to inform the sheriff. Hurried
ly dressing, Sheriff Quarve ran to-
ward the Office and was within twenty
feet of the building when the fron$
wall collapsed with the deafening
crash of the explosion. A few minutes
later he would have been inside the
building and perhaps beside the de-
cation showed that the dynamite had
been exploded on the press.
When Mr. Sherin returned from
Pierre, his investigation of the explo-
sion, he said, convinced him that
GrouiX was concerned in the affair.
He says he learned that the suspect
was seen in the alley back of the
Office short time before the explosion.
Shortly afterward Grouix drove thirty
miles to railroad station and pur-
chased a ticket to this city. where he
lived previous to going to Britton
some six years ago.
GrouiX is a laborer thirty-six years
old and unmarried Speaking of the
offense for which he was arrested. he
said to a reporter for the G | e: 81
know absolutely nothing about the
explosion, and it had nothing to do
with my leaving Britton. I had taken
the Kelley cure and said that if |
ever went to drinking again I would
go away from Britton. I was on a
drunk and for this reason alone left
the city. l have no objection to going
back for trial, and will accompany the
sheriff without requisition papers, pro-
Vided l am not handcuffed. This man
Sherin has no grounds upon which
to suspect me of blowing up his office.
but he tried this afternoon to get me
to admit that / was the tool of others
who had hired me to blow UP his pa
per. He has had no end of trouble
with the people of. Britton on account
of what he published in his paper, and
there are lot of others who have it
in for him, who might have blown up
his paper [ certainly had nothing
to do with the affair, and am perfectly
willing to go back, as l can prove my