The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-23
STOPPING A COCK FIGHT MADE HIM FAMOUS

BILE. Nor has there been an attempt
to make any when the sheriff has Wis
tied other Italian camps. The story
OF the first affair is told to every new
gang of Italians that arrives in York
county,, and when the sheriff comes
around they are very submissive.
This is the kind of man the sports
who attended the famous cooking main
expected ito subdue when they found
they were discovered. The sheriff him
self did not expect trouble. He did not
expect to find more than a dozen per-
sons at the fight, and believed that
this number would be made up of
sports who, finding they were caught,
would quietly submit and pay their
fines without any trouble.
All he knew when he called up Dep
uty Preble, early in the evening. and
told him to meet him in York village
was that something was going to hap
pen, a cooking main, he believed, but
where 1T was to take place or who
were concerned in ii he did not know.
Preble was waiting with his mustang
when the sheriff got off the electric car
at York village, and the pair kept a
lookout for suspicious persons. Finally
they saw strange team and followed
it. The men in the team knew they
were being followed, and led a long
chase; but finally, supposing they had
thrown off the sheriff, they started for
barn owned by one of the most prom
inent men in the village, an officer of
the town..
when the men he had followed saw his
team they drove away. The sheriff and
his deputy stayed. A third man was in
the sleigh. Trial Justice A. B. Cole,
who had come prepared to hold court
at moments notice. The sheriff had
figured that 1t would be one thing to
arrest a dozen or so persons. and an
other to take care of them after they
were arrested. York county is shy on
lockups and houses of detention, and
there are no patrol wagons in which to
transfer prisoners when wholesale ar
rests are made. So the sheriff had
come prepared to wind matters up
quickly If he proved successful in find
ing what he expected.
His Solitary Raid and Its Results
He entered the barn alone, leaving
| Preble and the trial justice to guard
the outer door. In the dark he groped
MS way, between carriages and sleighs,
past barrels and all kinds of rubbish
until he finally saw ray of light COM
ing through crack in the door, which
led to the part where the cockpit had
been arranged. He heard the voices of
pool sellers and the men who were put
ting up money, but even then, from his
position outside the door, he had no
| idea that there were so many men pres
ent. He waited until the birds had
been placed in the pit, then opened the
door and stepped into the dimly lighted
| barn.
Gentlemen, you are under arrest"
| he said.
More than sixty men turned and
looked at the big sheriff, who stood
with his back to the only door leading
| from the barn. For a moment they
stared in amazement; then there was a
grand rush. One man dived through
| window. and fell to the ground, four
| teen feet below; several others follow
| ed his example, jumping one after an
| other, without waiting for the first to
| get out from under.
But fully two-thirds OF those who
had been standing around the cock
| pit surged toward the sheriff; all SEEM
ed to be actuated by the same impulse,
and for moment 1t appeared that the
giant at the door would be either rush.