The Dickinson press., 1910-12-17
WILD might
5 ARRESTS
Plate Glass Smashed With Beer
Bottles. One Citizen Pounded.
Two Fires. Boy Ready
For Sentence,

Ihere was wild time in Dickinson
on Tuesday night and her citizens are
not at all pleased with the record. A
crowd of young toughs came in from the
east end house" at midnight. or soon
after, and meeting j. M. Watson, who
was preparing to take the early morning
train west, proceeded to give him
pounding. Con Short, also making the
same train, attempted to be peacemaker
but his good offers were not accepted.
The boys had been fighting among
themselves previous to this encounter.
Later the terrorizine crowd proceeded
up Willard street and at the Benzie Drug
Co. building sent a bottle of beer through
the plate glass, the contents of the
bottle spelling lot of magazines and
books.
At the Jessen building bottle went
through another plate glass and the
contents were spread over the Unique
Theatre automatic piano.
The big plate glass in the A. T. Crowl
Department store vn First Ave. West
was the next one these young rowdies
smashed.
The three breakages of plate glass
alone is damage of upwards of $500.
The next place visited was the armory
building where the Elk decorations were
damaged about $780,
To make things more hideous. two
fires broke out along about clock.
The first alarm was for the Gem Hotel
ice house and shortly thereafter there
was fire in the Mark Sutherland barn
on Second Ave. W. No one knows how
the fires started but both look like the
carelessness of people carousine around.
P. McGinley, proprietor of the Gem
Hotel, says that he went out to his ice
barn and shed at O'Clock in the morn
ing. as ls his custom before leaving the
hotel and going to his home one block
west to retire. The fire alarm was
sounded about 2 o'clock and it did not
take the Rremen long to put out his
blaze. The damage will not exceed
$3.50. rhe premises show that parties
had been there and left empty beer
bottles.
|; The firemen had no more than finished
at the Gem property when the second
alarm sounded for a fire at the Mark
Sutherland barn. Central misunderstood
the name and sent the firemen to the
Sullivan barn in the eastern part of the
city. Otherwise the loss of property at
the second place would have been almost
nothing. As it is the damage foots
around $3.50. Both places were unin-
sured and the damage is total loss to
the owners.
Mr.. Sutherland says the fire must have
been set from the inside. probably in
the manger. He authorizes the PRESS
to state that he will give $l00 to any
person or persons who will secure the
arrest and conviction of the guilty party
or parties.
The chief of police rounded up Jim
Doyle of Belfield. Roy Gilyer, George
Nolan. Leo McKeever and Harold Poor of
this city and brought them before JUS
tice a. p. Folsom on Wednesday evening
The complaint charged them with break
ing tile plate glass in the building on
lot IS. block 3, which is the Benzie
Drug Co. store. and after talking the
matter over among themselves. Harold
Poor said that he did the damage. Ac-
cordingIy the four others were discharf-
ed and he will appear before Judge Craw-
ford for sentence, the offense charged
being misdemeanor.
1t is supposed that some one has paid
for the broken windows and probably
there will be no more complaints sworn
out.
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