The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14

Spouse.
"Well, what are you going to
do about it, now that you have
informed me as to plans against
my safety and freedom?"
81 am going to throw down the
gang. I am going. to my room
and go to bed. I have read your
paper and you are on the square.
1 would not do a thing like that
to man on the square.
Malloy was a man who evi.
IDENTIFY had seen the seamy side of
life and much of the great west
He admitted that he had kinfolks
in Duluth but would not reveal
their identity. He also declared
that he was under protection OF
chief McKercher if he carried out
the assault on the editors bald
head. The gambler who was al.
legged to have offered the $500 for
the deed, once operated gambling
rooms in Duluth under McKer-
cher's protection.
"How did this gambler hap
pen to offer you this money!
Malloy was asked.
''I was recommended to him by
a friend" He refused to dis
close the identity of that friend.
Later, on two occasions, Nal.
10y repeated his statements and
most solemnly declared that they
were true. One day he was met
in a restaurant where he stated
that, in few days, he was going
to France to fire a locomotive for
an engineer who had picked him
for that purpose. He soon after
disappeared.
When here, Malloy assumed to
sell shoes to the trade. He roomed
at. the Central hotel but was not
registered under the name of Nal.
10y. He served Is days at the
workfarm for drunkenness last
January. A woman called at Nc.
Kercher's office to pay the fine
of $15.> She either was talked
out of it or switched off and sent
away. She did not know enough
to 60 to- the clerk of the court OF
the municipal judge with the
money. Malloy was very sore
over McKercher's act and that
may have influenced him not tc
earn the. $500 by batting the Rip.
saw editor over the bean in the
dark hours Of the night.
Had the assault been success
fully made and the insensible
editor carted away in the waiting
automobile, he never would have
been taken to- a hospital. He
would have been landed in some
low, dirty dive and, after being
doped a few days, the police
would have found him there an6
accepted the statement Of the in
mates that the man came there
in fuddled condition and in
sisted on spending a few nights
The, daily papers would have
printed long stories, framed up
and inspired by McKercher. The
Rip-saw editor would have been
discredited throughout the city
McKercher4 and Halden would
have been safe.
Sounds wild and unreasonable
does it, Every word is gospel
truth. i -@' -
The Rip-saw is printed at the
New Tribune job rooms. It comes
off the press at about 1 a. m. II
is the custom Of the publisher to
be around when the edition is
printed and take a bundle on his
back to the office in the Fargus-
sno block where he begins mail.
ing. Later, an autotruck delivers
the entire edition, anywhere from
5000 to 1000 copies.
At about 1 80 a. M, Saturday.
November 2, when the Rip-saw
man reached the corner Of the
Fargusson building at Fourth ave.
nue. w. and Superior St., a big.
rough thug rushed out at him
from the entrance of clothing
store on the corner. He erupted
the loudest curses and the vilest
language as he began making
swings at the Rip-saw mans
head.
The head-sawyer was unarmed,
not even having jack knife or
cane. Not stone or stick was
available. He at first thought
the plug-ugly had made a mis-
take in his man and tried to ask
questions as to what was the
matter.
The assailant kept making his
swings and pouring out the