Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-11-24
PIRATES IN HIGH LIFE,
Pillars of Society Engaged In Rob
bling and Scuttlins Ships.

Pillars of Society Engaged In Rob
bling and ScuttlinS Ships.
| The Nova Scotian authorities are in Il
fair way Of breaking up one of the most
| dangerous gangs OF pirates that ever iu-
| tested American shores.
Their discovery and punishment have
| been the more difficult because of the
very prominent, respectable and even Of
! fetal position in society held by some Of
| the accused.
| For a long time past the people Of
| Whitehead and GuysbOrO have been iv.
| ing in state of terrorism because Of the
| laWlessneSs Of the unknown pirates VIII,
| were operating round about them. Yes
| sells have been designedly wrecked, rr;
! bed and cast away, and nets, fish, c.>::
| and valuable goods have-b been stolen ;i:,i
property destroyed, sometimes to conceal
| other crimes, sometimes out Of pl:r
| spite, at other times to dcf":l;!, il>!::..
ance companies.
These crimes gave lit.] to d %rH"ne
| reign of terror in the district. eve: E.:.,uy
| living in constant dread 1T ii tchuiarism
| and perhaps murder at the hands of the
| Unknown criminals.
Justice has al length overtakcn some
OF the guilty parties, and a sentence of
six years in the penitcntiary has been
| pronounced upon Perry and Arthur Nun
| roe and Otto n. Feltmate upon their con-
viction for per jury and ship scuttling in
! order to obtain money from the under
writer's.
Genuine as was the sensation at the
discovery that members of such eminent
ly respectable families should have been
involved in these nefarious practices, it
was as nothing compared with that
which has followed it.
Mrs. Melinda Munro, wife of Hugh
Munro and mother Of two Of the con-
victs above mentioned, now comes for
ward and makes a series of terrible &C.
cusations against her brother-in-law,
Enos L. Munro, collector of customs at
Whitehead, Guysboro county, who, she
! charges, in con- junction with Cranswick
and Howard Munro, set fire to and burn.
| ed the government buildings at White
head.
Enos Munro, who has hitherto posed
as one of the leading and most respecta-
bic people of the place, had no difficulty
few years ago in obtaining $500 dam
ages from a Halifax detective who had
| arrested him on suspicion.
! He is now safe behind prison bars, and
the alleged confessions of other mem
| bers of the gang are tc be used against
him.
Numerous stories of scuttling and
wrecking are now attributed to some of
the members of the lawless band. Many
OF these were responsible for the fi:;ii
cial ruin and one at least for the deaf h
Of the cOnspirators' victims.
According to the confession of Arthur
Munro, he assisted some of the otLe,
pirates in saturatng with oil and burn,
ing the property Of poor man named
Hendesber.
A vessel from Halifax. Oh Der way
home to Cape Breton. was compelled 10y
stress of weather some time ago to put
into Whitehead for safety. She had or
board a number Of men returning home
from a summers engagement in Halifax
with their earnings.
She carried also a valuable cargo of
merchandise. Her passengers and crew
came ashore. They were told by the
Wreckers that it would be dangerous fcr
anybody to remain on board her duriue
the night.
At midnight, however, she was visited
by the pirates, who took away the best
of the cargo and the possessions of the
passengers and slipped the anchor, so
that she would go to pieces upon the
rocks. Instead of doing SO, however, she
drifted out to sea, whence she was
brought back by Captain Harris and
prize crew, when the piracy was fully
discovered.
Indirectly it was the cause of the death
of the vessels owners, Messrs. Hamil-
ton.
They were unable to pay the salvage,
and. being obliged to take an inferior
craft, they went to sea in the latter and
were lost.
Still. things might be much worse 1.-THE
Man With the Hoe has not been staged
Chicago Times-Herald.
II fat policeman is unable to see that
4 scorcher N king 20 miles an hour car
ries no lamp, who can blame him pitts,
burg Dispatch.
The theft of electricity is no crime in
Germany. Possibly it is thought I've
wire ought to be able to protect ITSELF
st. Louis Star.
Why not send a champion American
train over to England to decide the long
dispute as to the relative railroad speed
In the two countries ?-Philadelphi Lets.
er.
One way tc determine the value az
franchise IL to watch the efforts of u.*>
corporation enjoying a franchise to =
vent competitor getting ove..