The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-09-07
BOOTlEGGER
DEF|ES POLICE
Growing Loudly, Crow Sells "Old
Crow to Crow Indian Named
Crow-Lands In Jail.
OFFICERS HAVE TROUBLE
OPENING REDS MOUTH
Held For Witness, "Red" Puts
Money Between Teeth and
Gives Up Only When About to
Be Hung-Castor Oil Fails.

Growing loudly that he was the
best man in town, and would like to
see the "bulI' that could pinch"
him, James Crow Fielding, more or
less intoxicated-so much so that he
aefied the law-sold a bottle of "Old
Grow" to Henry Grow, a Crow in
dian, and in less time than it takes to
tell it, found the "bull'' for whom he
had been looking. James is now in
carcerated in the county bastile
charged with "bootlegging;" the "Old
Crow is being held by the officers as
exhibit and the Crow Indian is con-
fned in the city Jail to be used as a
witness against the first named.
The arrest which was made by Of
fcers Smith and Gilman shortly after
three o'clock Monday afternoon,
makes something like half a dozen
times that H. Crow has been the
central figure in bootlegging cases.
Only last week one man plead guilty
to selling liquor to this same Indian,
was fined 5000 and costs and is now
doing time in the county Jail
Preacher When Sober.
Grow, who is preacher when So
Der, is by no means an infrequent
visitor at the city bull pen" having
been incarcerated on an average of
about once a week for the past sew
eral months. At the time Of Field
ing's arrest Monday, the Indian. was
told that he must accompany the Of
ficers to the jail Crow demonstrated
and it was only after the officers had
been required to put the hurry-up"
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convince him that his presence be-
fore Chief Kinnaman was urgent.
Upon arriving at the station, the
officers noticed that Crow was try
ing to conceal something in his
mouth. Crow was ordered to "open
up" He refused. The officers coaxed
the red for a glimpse of his larynx
but Crow was obdurate. Then as
many patrolman as could group
themselves around him, tried to force
his teeth apart they even attem pied
to use a pry-but through it all, the
redskin chuckled his way, his closed
teeth preventing him laughing out
right
Soon the matter ceased to be a
joke and Chief Kinnaman who had
taken no active part in the affair, was
appealed to. Scratching his head,
the chief recalled his mother having
forced castor oil down his throat af-
ter having closed hie nasal breath
supply. The chief had a happy
thought and at once set about putting
" it into execution.
Selling the half drunken Indian by
his copious nose, the chief shut off
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hung on. Crow grinned again and
revealed to sight the place where a
pair of eye teeth should have been
through which aperture, he was
assily initiating his lungs with oxygen
Seeing certain defeat staring him in
the face, Chief Kinnaman gave up
the ship for the time being and sat
down to rest
Hanging Stall Does 1t.
Next in line came the water cure
which left the red more or less damp
but with his mouth closed as tight as
ever. Then something happened as
is inevitable in cases of the kind
Officer Vern Chase, who is more OF
less comedian disappeared out the
rear door for a moment to reappear
carrying a long rope. Without utter
ing a sound, the officer threw one end
of the rope over a cross beam and
began making the other fast in the
vicinity of Crows Adams apple.
No sooner had the cord begun to
find it's way around the Indians
neck than it dawned upon the red
that he was about to be jerked into
the happy hunting grounds. With 4
40 U,
open and out rolled a nickle.