The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-06-14

canned raspberries and wild strawber-
ries.
Palmer was so insistent that the
editor consented to stick his legs un-
der the Palmer table. On the way,
however, Palmer evidently decided
that he did not wish to buy a steak,
therefore he ordered a patrolman to
throw the visitor into the Oliver Jail.
There the scribe meditated for sew
eral hours before opportunity was
given him to get bail. It was a good
joke on the editor but it was another
proof that Palmer was a follower of
the deadly Double Cross as well as 4
bit "queer" in the upper story.
Before leaving Oliver, Palmer started
to impose on couple Of husky young
chaps from West Duluth. They tackled
the big bully with such force and
effect that he was left insensible.
They choked him and buffetted him
in various ways. Brother policemen
threw water on him and worked over
him for about fifteen minutes before
he was brought back to sensibility.
Although a big, strong, powerful fell
low, "Bugs" Palmer lacks action and
wind to stand up against husky young
sters who have not slowed down their
movements and cut their wind by ex-
cesses with booze and women. Many
expect that a chunk of red hematite
behind the ear will be Palmer's fate
if he plays many more dirty stunts on
Proctor boys.
After leaving Oliver, Palmer came
back to Duluth and secured another
job on the police force under McKer-
cher. He was stationed for time in
the vicinity of Lake avenue and Supe
rior street. Blind pigs were very
numerous in that vicinity and Palmer
is credited with knowing the location
of each one and with drinking their
stimulating milk.
One night, when well tanked, Palmer
was displeased because Joel Lichten
greeted a returned soldier in a loud
tone of voice. Lichten is promi-
nent member of the painters union
and a man who knows his rights as
a citizen. He resented Palmer's at
tempt to make him "move on" and
then went to headquarters to lodge a
complaint. Palmer followed him and,
when inside, arrested him and threw
him in Jail.
Later, when Lichten's case came to
trial in municipal court, he was cleared
by Judge Cutting. Both Lichten and
his soldier friend were well satisfied
that Palmer was drunk that night.
When the big bully gets blind pig
booze under his belt and locust club
in his hand, his big ambition is to
bulldoze some little fellow or to make
some harmless citizen "move on.'
Before Palmer left the Duluth police
force to 60 to Proctor, he met man
whom he had known when in Hibbing.
They exchanged greetings and, when
Palmer was asked what he was doing,
he replied:
ct am on the police force here. The
salary is not so much but the graft is
pretty good.'
There is a belief among many that
Palmer was given a good send-off to
the Proctor village council so as to
get him safely and surely out Of Du
luth. Had he not left the Duluth
force, the chances are that he would
have been dropped by the new admin
istration. Palmer was not under civil
service rules, therefore could not have
lasted indefinitely. He managed to
pass the physical examination but,
after looking over the questions for
the written tests, he came away with
out trying. The poor fellow was. so
ignorant and illiterate that he could
not even make bluff at writing out
the examination.
Booze and bluff are to blame for
the many 'discreditable stunts that
Palmer pulls when wearing star and
carrying club. Law, justice, fair
ness and decency to his fellow men are
unknown virtues to Bruce A. Palmer 8
rum-soaked brain.