The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-30
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man. declared the girl the next
day to her custodians.
"What manY' was asked her.
'That great big, terrible look
ing man who came into my cell
last night .....,-. ......
Then out came the terrible
story and it duly developed that
the monster who invaded the
helpless little country girls cell
was no one but Robert D. Nc
Kercher, chief of police of the
noble city Of Duluth.
That was one girl for whom
Silberstein's >favorite did so
much. ' 5.
A woman of mature years was
in the woman's department Of
the city Jail. Life had gone hard
with her. She was not, above
reproach morally and she was
behind the bars for some infrac-
ton of the liquor ordinances.
That woman solemnly declared
to intimate associates that chief
McKercher came into her cell in
the small hours of the night and
importuned her to indulge in an
unnatural practice. She indig-
nantly refused and, after more or
less pickering, she consented to
satisfy his lust in a natural man.
ner. Name of this woman and
other details are in the possession
of the Rip-saw.
After the U. S. government had
started prosecution of Robert j.
Shields, Of Superior, on charge
of violating the Mann Act by
transporting Jeanette Palmer
from Chicago to Superior for i'm
moral purposes, the latter got
information that McKercher, Du-
luth's massive chief of police,
was mixing into matters and
proposing to testify against the
accused at time of his trial in
La Crosse.
The Superior insurance agent
and widely known wire-puller
for lumberman Hines, got busy
with some back fires. He secured
a large number of affidavits from
women with whom McKercher had
been criminally intimate. When
the Big Boob heard what Shields
had up his sleeve, he forgot all
his testimony and, at the trial, was
as mum as a mouse.
What the Big Chief did in St.
Paul with the Mormon car and
Fred Abelson for chauffeur, dur
ing three days that he was not
waiting at La Crosse, is very in
teresting story but entirely an
other one.
After Robert j. Shields was
cleared Of the nasty charge
against him, he was importuned
to turn over the affidavits given
him by redlight women and others
with whom McKercher had been
immorally intimate.
Shields declared that he did not
wish to take on more trouble as
he was sixty years of age, with a
wasted life behind him, and just
setting out to recoup the $4,000
that his Jeanette Palmer scrape
had cost him. -.
eco and see some of = those
women yourself he advised his
visitor. =. ..... IL. -.
"Who are some Of the women
who know most about McKer-
cher's immoralities?" he was
asked. After thinking moment,
the foxiest man in Superior re-
piled: s--,.< '.'.. -.
dorothy Hill knows more
about McKercher than any other
underworld woman ~,. -.
Rip-saw readers will remember
the several stories about Dorothy
Hill and chief McKercher, as
previously printed. When the Big
Chiefs favorite redlight lady was
living in Marotta flats detective
sought her on a Wisconsin charge.
McKercher complained that
woman spotter in an adjoining flat
was disturbing the neighbors with
her noise, thereby hoping to chase
the detectives agent out of the
flats and effectively protect the
dangerous little blonde from ar
rest.
1t will be remembered how a
bunch of high grade sports from
Hibbinp called IN Dorothv Hill