Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-12-11

man-o'-war'S man. who is now on the
messenger stan of the navy depart,
ment
They must have been pretty aStute
fly cops to have traced the man to the
receiving ship for the American navy
is a pretty good hiding-out place, In
the old days, in fact the United States
navy was about the first shelter made
for by fellows who had done things to
get the police after them. They would
ship and make bit of cruise and
stay in the uniform until their bunch
of shore trouble had blown over or
heeu forgotteu, and then. as like as
not they would Jump the service and
so back to their nefarious way of max
ing a livelihood on the beach, While
was jamming around the map on the
old tragates met up with a lot of such
chaps.
"One of them was craCkjack in
the counterteitjug line and he had
slipped into the service to dodge the
secret service men, who were after
him for manuf2 Earring a large number
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come aboard the ship with their
means. They had ascertained that
the American silver was bogus and
they all wanted the paymaster to
make good to them. He was in
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upon his profession Of manufacturing
cart.wheels, and he was sent over the
road for long term.
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cusses in the shane of fugitive that
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moonshiner in Kentucky. He had
been corra}led by an internal revenue
man. who was taking him to a Ken
lucky lookup, but the Moonshiner
waited for the internal revenue
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slant and then ne grabbed the officials
! gun and plugged him up a lot
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