The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-10
BUCK IS RETURNED;
OWNS TO GUILT
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with persons there and also in Mankato ~
before pleading guilty. ~
haHe Judge Cray fix the amount Of his =
him. Judge Cray is eniovine yaca. w
th "a: at Fair!1montt, camping on one Of ~
t thrns lakes * with eth his wife When he re- N
bail to be followed "a week later per- w
ha rs by "a; an application to be sentenced. Is
ne MINIMUM nun sentence which Buck lSjj
c ca receive Is i've years. It is believed ~:
that ne not only expects,to get a light "a
sentence, but will seek a Communication of W
the time after sentence. - -
Sheriff Tells of Trip. w
!, Sheriff Williams So ys that his trip was le,
an enjoyable one for him except for ~
his being detained at Havana for five Is
days in a detention hospital. When he AG
lett Mankato he went to st. Paul and =
taina mere ere TO Washington, where he OBJ lGi
calhed the necessary requisition papers ~
from the secretary of state. From there Is
he went directly to Havana. i' iSjj
ne was surprised when it was an =
that brou ugSt ali persons on the G
paced IN detention ohospital for FIVE ~
gays owing to the outbreak of yellow AGs
d d@n IN the southern states. He made ::
shortene sG h hay ms stay in the camp G
;, After he had served. his i've. DAYS. y
It took him n, three days to comply With lG,,
me q tormahtles that the law prescribed -
oner and start for home. As he knew ACj
no, Spanish, he would have had oreat =
d51tflGnltY in this had It not been for Ic,
* tb knd shax in introducing his
were Americans, or. could speak English, iCj
and they assisted him at ali times So y
mat ne was able to converse with the lG
sbortnst as aHh complete his work in the
In a Wreck. y
When he left with his prisoner. the 3Es
friends chartered a boat and accompa- -
med them out Of the 2harbor and ex- n
presse e thelr best wishes for Mr.. Buck w
steamer Landed the party at Tampa Bay, &c,
Fla, and they took a train to TAMPA
The train was wrecked on the way, and 10
the tn car "a al ahead Of the one occupied by W
smashed, but the Msnkato men suffered lSj,
no injuries except a severe shaking up. =
The rest of their trip to Mankato bv 10
way of Atlanta, Chicago and the twin ~
cltles was without incident worthy Of ~
mentlon. MI. Buck gave no trouble, as | 1Sj
he was as anxious to reach Mankato as =
was the sheriff: - Ia
SHERIFF Williams was greatly pleased ~
with the city of Havana and its beau II
tlful scenery and it's fire climate and lSi
the manner in which he was treated by -
the. Cuban officials ~
=. Arrest Stirred the Island. y
Mr.: Buck 3. arrest was made on July lGj
- at me Isle OF Pines, where he was =
Neuya Corona: His arrest was the "
greatest sensation that the Isle of Pines ~
has ever been treated. to since Amer "a
leans located there. It was made on -
thru Minister Squiers by Detective Ser "
geants Rival and Goicuria of the Ha! ~
|; yana detective force. Mr., Buck was ~
taken to Havana, there to await action =.
on the, extradition papers which were -.
ported that the arrest, had been effected. his
Pines IN the ca Arrest rest IS 6at
said to have been WITHOUT a parallel. gu'
faeleS fnq re- all Rartz ofths Island from
| ried to Nueva Corona. The. place was !
| a seething mass of Indignation. Sci
Speeches were made and violence to the an an
detectives was only averted by Mr.. lug lug
! Bucks GOODNESS and his insistence that 81
| he desired to 60 to Havana. ~ ~,
The temper of the people was at such h \ ~
| a heat that Mr.. Buck was offered forci- t Hns
i BILE release by his fellow Americans if ore
| ne QeSlreQ Mr.,
| On the day following his arrest the INV t,1,
steamer having the prisoner and detec- ser
tives was met at the wharf at Columbia his
| by every able-bodied man, and they
cheered him as far as they could be
| heard. .
Buck as a Fugitive.
Mr.. Buck, after leaving Mapleton G S't
on. Oct. 10, 1908, made straight for the wa
west. He tarried at various Places al On
ways going under the assumed name co,
of D. w. McGregor. Finally he started chi
| for Australia with the idea of going inc
into the goldfelds and making enough s
money to repay those who had suffered Ia
loss as the consequence Of his wrong ACT
doing. ali
When he left the Hawaiian islands i in.
| he changed his mind and returned to as
the United States, and then went thru dol
! the southern states to Havana, Cuba,
| where he remained about two months. he
! There he made many warm friends of
among the Americans and the Cubans to
and was recommended to 20 to the Isle win
| of Pines, which was a favorite health a !
resort for Havana people owing to its wa
| magnesia spring water. Oh
When he reached there he engaged he
in the, hotel business for time, but res
he did not do very well, and about a mo
year ago returned incognito to Man tho
kate and spent day or more he will ne,
not say how long-visiting his father,
Judge Daniel Buck, former Justice p
of the supreme court Of Minnesota, and Pin