The evening times., 1911-07-17
PUP BROUGHT BATCH
Of TROUBLE AND
DISCOMFORT
Police Department, Express
Company and Others Par.
ties to the Affair

sss s* = sss.
The Cause. =
. One measly English bull ter i.
rior pup, aged months. +.
The Eject. =
Set the machinery of the Grand =
Forks police department in mo- {.
ton. {.
= Gave P. M. Follett about as un- {.
comfortable a night as he ever .
: spent. /.
/. Interception of an express con- I.
signment to Minneapolis wom- =
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= While "Jim" Edwards saw !
= visions of cells and bread and but {.
ter. :
Just one English bull TERROR pup.
that's all. But it brought on more
trouble for the Grand Forks police
department, for several employees of
the Frederick hotel, for P. NJ. Follett
and Phil Barney and the Great North
ern Express company, and probably
disappointment for Minneapolis
man, than has ever been brought
about by SO apparently insignificant
cause.
And here is how it happened.
Saturday night Phil Barney, pro-
prietor of saloon on the Minnesota
point, found that one of his English
bull TERROR pups was missing, and
Sunday morning he made a report to
the police department of that fact, at
the same time announcing that he
was suspicious that one P. NJ. Follett
was in reality the cause of the dis
appearance of the aforesaid pup.
Then the police department got
busy and the first discovery made was
to the effect that a pup answering the
description of the missing English
bull had been shipped out by express
Sunday evening on train No. 10 Of the
Great Northern. And the pup was
addressed to woman residing on
Logan avenue in Minneapolis, and at
the time the police department be-
came aware of this development, was
undoubtedly cozily settled in his crate
unmindful Of the progress he was
making toward the south.
Enter Jim Edwards.
Further investigation brought forth
the fact that the pup In question had
been Grated by Jim Edwards. the ac-
commodating porter at the Frederick
hotel. But ,Jim's intentions were of
the best: he was only lending help
ing hand to a friend who had told
him that he had purchased the dog
and was shipping 1t to his sister. But
the matter was put up to different
light by the police department when
hints were made at shipping stolen
property out of the state. But Jim
Edwards had acted only In the role
Of an innocent participant, and was
willing to unburden himself and he
did.
And here Jim leaves the scene.
| 1t was about 1 o'clock this morning
that the police department finally Sc
cured p. M. Follett, upon whom sus-
picion had fastened, and he was
brought to the police station for the
purpose Of conducting an interview
with Captain Sullivan. The pup was
missing-it was far, far away-and
SO little developed at this particular
session. the result being that Mr.. Fol
lett was allowed to return to his
hotel
aGood Fellow, That Captain!1
Returning to the hotel Follett be-
gan making explanation, to the sev-
eral persons In the lobby at that hour
of how the "cap" was fine fellow
how 1t was all a mistake. but how
"cap" had given him the hunch that
maybe he had better clear out for q
I5week or ten days until the matter had
blown over.
But Follett's story didn't stick, and
when he began to check out. packed
his suit case between 2 and 3 O'Clock
in the morning. iiad q carriage called,
and made few other preliminary ar