The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14
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guide than their eyes but the in
formation given the Rip-saw indi-
Gated that the quartet was not
studying Sunday school lessons in
that locked and darkened office.
The next morning the doctor
happened to note that the metal
flap in the letter drop was up.
Investigation showed that it was
held up by cork. McKercher
must have been informed, for he
never came up there again with
girls.
A detective once watched that
doctor in an upper room Of the
Holland hotel, with night glasses,
from the Lyceum building, but
that is another story. He, another
man and two women acted scan
dalously and forgot to lower the
window shades. But that's an
other story.
A startling story comes from the
West End concerning a respectable
girl who worked in a laundry.
She went to a dance one night and
was compelled to 60 home alone,
although not at a real late hour.
Her friends allege that she was
halted on an avenue by McKercher
who charged her with street walk
ing and threatened to arrest her.
After soaring the poor girl very
badly, the Big Brute informed her
that if she would become Grimm
ally intimate with him everything
would be all right and that she
would not be run in.
The frightened object Of the Nc
Kercher. lust broke away and ran
rapidly down the avenue, fearing
for her safety.
The Rip-saw told many months
ago how McKercher came into a
linotype shop that some young
men owned on West First street.
''Let me have the office for a
little while. I have a thief that I
wish to search" McKercher told
the night operator Of the ma
chimes.
The young chap took walk for
half an hour, leaving the Big Chief
in the dark shop with a girl whom
he frequently saw on the street
and who certainly was not thief,
whatever else she may have been.
: AS a human harpy, preying on
the chastity Of women, the man
whom commissioner Silberstein
thinks has done so much for boys
and girls, certainly has record
that will live and stink for many
years.
About a year ago cripple"
Willis, a redlight lady of the old
school, operated 20 rooms at 100
West First St. She specialized in
beer at $1.00 a bottle and girls Of
easy virtue. AS a result, she had
many male callers.
Late one evening a chap went
up to ''Tippie's" quite well stimu-
lated with the result that he en-
tered her salon with considerable
noise.
"Keep quiet. Do not make so
much noise. Chief McKercher is
in the kitchen with one of the
girls" hoarsely whispered the
cautious "Tippie.'
The rounder sat down and kept
quiet. In little while the big
McKercher came out from the
kitchen and went down the stairs.
He was followed out Of the kitchen
by redlight girl: When joshed
by her companions about enter
tanning the chief she abscenely
told how he had been paving over
her person and informed the
bunch that he was coming back
latter for more extended enter
tainment.
McKercher's skill in disposing
of automobiles, at fat profits, to
blockade runners and blind-pig-
gers was mentioned in the previ-
GUS issue of the Rip-saw. It was
tald how the mammoth Mormon
car, arcer two years of hard use,
was sold to Glisho Lazich, a re-
puted handler of illicit booze, for
$500 more than the car originally
cost.
Fellow countrymen of Lazich
stand ready to prove that he also
paid McKercher $500 for batch
of booze that was seized last sum-
mer and which never was poured
down the sewer at headquarters,
as the News Tribune once re-
ported. McKercher is charged
with pocketing the money and
Lazich with carting away the