The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-14

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8 slot machines. Fined $500, and
$1.00 on each.
Case-Henry Miles, Mar. 16, 1907.
roulette wheel. Fined $4,000.
Costs, $500.
Poker table. Fined $500. Costs,
$500.
Same
10 slot machines. Fined $1,000, and
LOO on each. .
Case-John c. Larson, Mar. IS, 1907.
1 roulette wheel. Fined $4,000.
Costs, $500.
Same
4 slot machines: Fined 5000, and
90. costs on each.
Case-Peter Wolf, Apr 2, 1908
Immoral and indecent language
Fined $1,000 and $10.73, costs.
- Docket does not show disposition of
! case.
| Case-Robert Nelson, April 4, 1908.
1 roulette wheel. Fined $1,000.
| Costs, $500.
/ poker table. Fined $500. Costs,
Same
1 slot machine. Fined $1,000 Costs,
800
In reporting this case justice in
| cludes a fine of $500 for PAGER
| which no record appears in docket
Case-Henry Bolin, Apr. 6, 1908.
Fined $1,000, and costs, $3.50.
Note on margin of docket: 'Sep.
20, 1908. Paid fine and costs by Geo.
| McTaggart, one of the sureties.' -
tice to city was dated Sep. FL.
Case-Tom Kelly, Jul. 7, 1908.
Drunk-Fined $1.O0. Costs, $500.
Charged costs to city.
Reported case 'sent up
The following cases are unfinished
| SO far as the justice docket shows:
State VS.. G. G. johnson, page 1902.
State VS.. Emanuel corley, page 1os.
State VS.. Pat Tierney, page 104. -
State VS.. Chas. Lindquist, page 100.
City VS.. Pat Donavan, page 1877.
City VS.. George Clarity, page 1877.
State VS.. Hugh Mcdonald, page 1913.
City VS.. Chas. Collins, page 1913.
! Last report made by Justice Slocum
to city council dated Sept. 21st, 1908.
This report does not cover a period
between July list and Aug. 18th, inc.
Justice Slocum's term of office ex-
PRED in March, 1909, and in his
| docket appears the following cases
| since the expiration of his term of
| office:
March 18th, 1909-State VS.. VIM.
Lee. Search warrant Costs charged
| to county.
State VS.. Herman A. Eicksteadt-
April 9Th, 1909.
Fined $500. Costs, $3.50.
State VS.. VIM. Lee-March 10, 1909.
! Search warrant-Costs charged to
county.
A more serious charge IS maze
against Justice Slocum: That of pre-
! of the Peace after the term of office
having expired, that on or about the
| Goth day of March, 1909, he did notify
a certain party, who not being a resi-
dent within the city of Bemidji, that
he must appear before the said JUS
tice Slocum and there pay a certain
fine of about $4,000. That fine OF
Slocum on or about the 26th day OF
March, 1909. That the said Slocum
never entered the proceedings of the
case in the docket then in his posses
sion. That the dockets were in his
Slocum's, possession for nearly foul
months after that happening, and thai
no report was ever made of this tc
| the city council.
Affidavit of party paying the fines
! herein referred to will be filed with
this report in the Public Examiners
| office, st. Paul, MIMI, and which for
other reason is not included and made
a part hereof.
| I received from Mr. Slocum two
dockets and found with the city clerk
another two dockets, all being dockets
used by Justice Slocum during his
term of office as justice, and in as
much as his term had expired, I did
mot feel that had any right to again
! return the dockets to him; and the
| city clerk not being the proper Gus
todian of these records, I personally
delivered them all four to the Clerk
of District Court of Beltrami County
and received from him triplicate re-
| ceipts, one of which is herewith sub
mitted for the files of this report, and
another has been filed with city clerk
in city of Bemidji and a third de-
1ivered to Mr.. Slocum, showing dis
position of his dOckets.
The number of justice cases here
tofore referred to as fines for roulette
wheel, slot machines, etc., are noted
for the purpose of showing that the
justices have exacted an excess of
costs,-a matter denied by the JUS
tees, and therefore submitted.
| In nearly every instance, the re-
spective parties appeared before the
justices and paid fine - pleading
| guilty; and Justice Slocum explains
that, while he punched the costs, if
he should have itemized them, in most
cases it would have amounted to more.
/ respectfully cAe'1le1Se Tie Stdle-
mcnt
| So far as the records of Justice Pen
dergast go, he has as many as ten
cases on single page Of a docket, and
none of the cases signed by the JUS
| tice, and scarcely anything to dis
tinguish between the different cases.
He admits having been kept pretty
busy, and says he is not surprised if
| errors have crept in, considering the
/ no ho
| Your attention is called to provision
Of ordinance No. 16, under which
mosts of these fines have been col
lected. This ordinance provides:
THAT the minimum fine shall be
$500, and that all such instruments
or implements used or employed shall
be taken into custody and be de-
stroyed." In nearly every instance,
except fines for roulette wheel, the
by the ordinance, but costss added for
each gambling device to the full ex-
| tent, and more.
Robert Clark, Justice.
I was unable to locate any docket
used by Justice Clark, but found a
package of papers, together with a
monthly report for the month of
| March, 1907.
Amongst the papers on file with
city clerk appears the following:
| Criminal complaint and warrant of
w. H. Fisher vs. VIM. Chilsen, of April
| Goth, 1907, together with recognizance
to appear in district court, are on file.
Also the following criminal COM
plants, with rotations on back there
of showing that fines have been i'm
posed and collected: -
Andrew Jerome, April 10, 1907
| $500 and costs. -
| w. B. Viggerson, April 1as 1907