Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-06

was on Sunday. Monday morning I
started to procure warrants: finding
the local Trial Justice had not filed his
bond l was obliged to go to Caribou to
Judge Roberts for them. After return
! ing from Caribou Mr.. Sharp and l
started for the stopping place, in Cyr
Plantation. of the suspected parties. On
arriving there we were informed they
had gone to Van Buren,; we went back,
hoping to meet them, as it was report
ed they were coming back that day:
we did not meet them but learned they
o'clock that night | took the sheriff
with me and we went back in the dark
ness to their stopping place, remaining
in the vicinity the rest of the night.
while waiting at the house about
daybreak for them to come out l heard
some one coming through the woods
and before long a man appeared haul
ing hand sled behind him and on the
sled the foreward quarters of a deer
which he confessed, after being appre-
hended, to having killed few days
previous. This was not one of the men
we were looking for but another party
-Xavier 4'ongemic of Cyr Plantation,
who subsequently paid $40 for the kill
ing of this deer.
I'VE afterwards learned that the
parties we were after skipped to Cam
ada the day before. They are really
residents of Canada. so | was informed.
interviewed the wife of one of the
men and she informed me that if her
husband could settle for a nominal
amount he would come back and do
SO. We still have hopes of catching
these fellows. however: if not, we have
the satisfaction of having driven them
over the line. | told the mans wife
that l should notify the Canadian Au-
thorities that these men had gone back
to Canada"
"Michaud' Is Dickerson.
Mr. Jorgensen also reports to the
Commissioners that he was much sur
prised to find that the prisoner Willie
Michaud is really one Willie Dickerson,
an alleged poacher, whom he has long
wished to apprehend, he having been
reported many times as saying that no
warden dared to capture him. Warden
Jorgensen received numerous congrat-
uations from the people in the vicinity
of Van Buren, for his capture of this
fellow, who is really resident of Can
ada but has been living on the Maine
side of the line for some time.
The authorities have not yet decided
what the course Of procedure will be
when Dickersons, alias Michaud, term
of service in the Houlton Jail expires
Whether additional charges for VIOLA
ton Of the inland fish and game laws
Of Maine will be pressed, or whether he
will be turned over to the Canadian au-
thorities, cannot at this time be stated
Further reports Of Warden Jorgen-
sens Investigations of the game law
violations in this section are awaited
with interest by the department.
Warden Jorgensen has been in the
service of the Inland Fish and Game
/ Commission for some time, his first
commission bearing the date of Oct.
81, 1908. He has been one Of the most
efficient and energetic wardens in the
service, having tackled some Of the
most difficult propositions which have
come to the attention Of the commits
sion and handling all Of them with dis
erection and ability. He has the full
| confidence of the commissioners and to
him is due a large part of the good
work accomplished for the benefit Of
the fish and game in the regions where
| he has been located. He has had
| charge at different times in Oxford
county, the Magalloway region and
Kingman, being now located at Ash
land, Aroostook county. No little
amount of credit is due him for the
successful termination Of the investi-
cation which resulted in the above