The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-09-23
IN NEED
GETS IN DUTCH
ATTEMPTS To BR,BE WHAT HE
SUPPOSED WAS GOVERN
MENT OFFICIAL

and the heavy hand of the law was
placed on his shoulder and a man
giving his name as Nicholson and
showing the papers of a United
States marshal told him hat he
was under arrest for shooting ducks
out of season. PETIT was so badly
ratified hat in answer to the charge
of the marshal he merely returned
the mechanical, Lets have a
drink"
The drink was had, after which
Petit was marched to the sheriff's
office. The marshal then went to
the Hermitage saloon, where be
placed under arrest on the same
charge Claude Dussault. a portly
mixologist employed there. He was
taken to keep Pett company in the
sheriff's office.
The plight of the two well-known
men soon became generally known
about town and numerous friends
flocked to their rescue. They in
vaded the court house and in turn
appealed t Sheriff ingalls,, Judge
Walsh and Assistant District Attor-
ney Foley, all of whom expressed
sympathy, but explained that they
we're powerless to give aid, as the
man. having been placed under ar
rest by a government official, the
case was one for a federal court
and out of their jurisdiction.
The marshal remained obdurate
and insisted that the men would
have to be taken to Carson to stand
trial.
Among the many who were at
that time attempting to secure the
release of PETIT and Dussault was
w. X. Cuiin.
Mike Cahalan called Cullin aside
and told him hat he thought the
marshal could be reached and that
500 would do the trick. Catalan
went to the hotel bar, secured five
500 gold pieces and gave them to
Culin, telling him to get the mar
sEal, take him out, get him drunk
and slip him the money to forget
the case.
Culin found the marshal, bought
some drinks and srealthily led him
into the alley behind the high school
Having the interest of Catalan at
heart and thinking hat the mar
shall could be purchased for less
than 500 he gave him four of
the twenties. The instant he placed
the money in the hand of the mar
shall. the officer Dinched him for
bribing a government official and
took him to the sheriff's office,
where he found himself in a far
worse plight than the men he had
been trying to free. bribing a gov
eminent official being no joke.
Culin realized the enormity of
his offense and panic-stricken does
not half describe his state of mind.
DR.. Mccarthy then appeared and
cheered him by telling him that
while he vas under arrest in Gold
not be confined in the Jail as he, as
county physician, would secure for
him an order committing him to
the county hospital for a fictitious
illness and his miseries would at
least be lightened by not having TO
stay in Jail while here.
The doctor further advised him
that after he had been found guilty
\ the federal court and been senten-
cod to 10 years in a federal prison
that he ask the court to be sent to
LeavnwOrth, as that was considered
the best of the prisons to which
bad men who bride government
officials are sent.
At this supremacy tragic moment
in his life everything that Culin
looked at was either covered with
stripes or bound with iron
bars and Catalan explained to
him that he, PETIT and Dussault mad
been the victim of an outrage per-
pertrated by Catalan to furnish an
afternoons entertainment for him
self. hat the supposed marshal was
not a marshal: that the papers,
only the top of which he showed,
were old ones that Catalan had
when he was a marshal and that
the supposed marshal had been told
by him that Culin. would bribe
him. After which many drinks
were bought.