Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-16
TALKED ABOUT IN WESTERLY
Chief Thomas E. Brown Talks of Fox Hunting For Sport and For Bounties-National Guardsmen in Camp p-Bus- mess in Probate Court-John T. Edmond Undergoes Operation-Painters Fall From Staging.

Captain Alden Miner of Ashaway in his recently published statement conveyed the idea that he was the kinx fox hunter of this section of the lQAntry. and his satirical shafts aimed ot Chief of Police Thomas E. Brown of Westerly, struck the bullseye and started the articulary organs of the modest and usually silent Chief Tom. Liner and l are old acquaintances," !" ssld the chief but when he states that he has a good fox dog, he sure tells the truth. and l don't intend to be- little that dog. I have several good dogs and the Miner dog happens to come from the Brown stock, and there fore must have all the good qualities claimed by Brother Miner.
 -fsut let me say right here and now that Al Miner is not in the fox game as a sport but is after the bounty and gets after young foxes with pick and shovel before they leave the den. NO doubt he has killed many Reynards fn' his lifetime. as he never did much Of anything else He's more of a shovel and pick hunter, however, than he is a gun and dog sport Al is all right from the farmers standpoint, and he acknoWledges that he recent iv killed a litter of baby foxes over at Charles Mains place; but there's no sportsmanshfp in that; not from a
 
 Chief Brown continuing said: "Al Miners method of fox-killing is not approved by such fox hunters as Ed. Gay. Pat Burke Kramer. Gager and Punch. of Norwich. or Orrin Harris, of Ashaway. By the way Harris. who is now a clean sport in the fox game, was formerly a fox killer like Miner and others, who hunt for bounty, but he has graduated from that class. This man Harris hunted with Miner, tm .4-k- joins when breeding season is cyer."
 Chief Tom says: During the regular season. or rather during an entire year Miner secured with gun and dog just three running foxes, while Harris got seven and Harris makes no claim the location of three filters of foxes that have not been disturbed, and will not be by Harris until the foxes are in shape for a run and a good one, a chase worthy the sport If Al Miner had that Knowledge he'd hunt them with pick and shovel and take their noses to the town clerk and collect the bounty. Yes, Al Miners a good sport to put one over just for fun on your Uncle Tom
 T want 10 remind my friend Miner that I'm not jealous of any of his achievements in the fox line, for I'm not that kind of a sportsman. No, indeed I'm not a huckleberryf fox hunter There are hunters not many miles from the place where Miner keeps that good dog, of the Brown stock that killed four young foxes while they were feeding on huclle- berries and as playful as gray rab- bits If that's fox hunting then Al Miner made a mistake in considering me as his rival fox hunter. No sport in that kind of a hunt for me.
 -Of course. Miner has the advantage Of me- said the chief, 'so far as num- Der of foxes killed, for he's at 1t nearly all the time fin season and out of sea- Ecn. while I can indulge in the sport only during my vacation, which I se- 1ecf when the fox is in good fur and in good condition to take chances with the hunter and dog and gun The idea of my friend Miner posing as a real fox hunter. when only a short time ago he declined to go over into Con- necticut and clean up some foxes be- carse no bounty is paid in that state. It's all right for Miner to have his fun with me fin the public print, but he must expect a dose of his own med icine and this dose is prepared with pharmaceutical accuracy.
 ~Au true fox hunters" said the chief. -beiiAre in letting foxes live until they are in full fur, fully dexei- oped and in condition to be hunted Not so very long ago, Miner was asked fn sAEn an agreement to hunt foxes no more except with dog and gun and