The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-11-29
i. s. DISTRICT ATTORNEY
! EATS UP LAWYER CARDIGAN
con.cated Booze, Saved for Court Evidence Disappears
While IN Custody Of Chief McKmnon- Uncle Vincent
Seemingly Is Out Of Touch With Courts
Federal Attorney Fail. to Convict Only One Case Out Of
Thirteen Bad Actors Of Bmgoland in Grave
Danger of Prosecution for Perjury.

= A lawless contingent Of blind-piggers
and boot-leggers from Bingoland, Jared
poorly in the U. 8. federal court at La
Crosse recently. The juries brought
in verdicts of guilty with neatness and
dispatch, only one case out Of thirteen
being lost by the government.
United States district attorney and
assistant Mulberger completely ate up
Jack Cadigan, the favorite lawyer and
pinch hitter for the bad actors in Bin
goland. =.
Cadigan failed. to pull the rough
stuff that he uses so often and plenti.
fully in the municipal and justice
courts in Superior. More ethical and
dignified methods put the David of
the Dirty Dumps at sad advantage.
Messrs. Wolfe and Mulberger dem
onstrated in La Crosse that dignity
and decency pay far better in trying
cases than barroom and roughhouse
methods.
incidentally, too, it was found out
that considerable quantities of the
liquid evidence, secured by Mayor Bax-
ter g secret agents and turned over by
him to the federal government for use
in the trials at La Crosse, had been
lost, sadly depleted and caused to dis
appear while in the custody Of chief
IcKinnon. ~
What became Of the missing booze,
neither city, county nor federal gov
eminent really knows. It may have
been, stolen and used up by some Of
ehisf McKinnon's pet policemen. It
nay have been sold for nominal sums
to some Of the bad actors in Bingo-
land. Be the cause what it may, much
OF the booze was gone. Perhaps chief
MeKinnon saved out some Of the slim
ulating stuff for his November hunting
trip. ~ - -
In the case of Simon Magazine, for
sxample,t42 pints Of Clsarbrook booze
were seized under search warrants and
taken away in black leather suit
case. When called upon to turn it over
to the federal authorities, chief Nc
Kinnon produced "a pints Of Orchard
Knob booze and it was delivered in q
different suit case than the one orig
inally turned over to the police depart
ment.
In the Paul Heytens case, the police
seized 1873 bottles Of whisky. When
chief McKinnon was served a sub
puepa to produce the confiscated stim-
ulant, it was found to be II bottles
short, 40 result Of the McKinnon
custody.
Chief McKinnon also requested that
the booze be returned to him after the
government was through with it, say
ing that he wanted it for evidence in
city and county cases.
Chief McKinnon actually was igno-
rant Of the fact that the stuff already
had been used in city and state cases
and that it had proved to be helpful
evidence in such cases. District attor-
r"v Wolfe kept the stuff instead of
handing It back to the dear old chief.
Jack Burke, arrested for keeping q
blind-pig in the Fulton block, was
fonnd guilty and given 80 days in the
Milwaukee house Of correction.
Simon Magazine, accused Of illegal
sale Of booze at 405 Banks avenue and
in whose place ~ pints Of Illicit booze
were seized, was found guilty and given
90 days in the Milwaukee house Of cor.
Iection. .....f....>. H. ..
Lonis Barneay, 1917 Fifth street, q
convicted boot-legger, proved to be q
sickly disciple Of low moral endeavor
therefore considerable court let him
off with 80 days in Jail.
Willard Hare, caught at maintaining
Q blind-pig over the Cozy saloon on
Third street, agreed to go to work on
Col. Gannons farm near Superior
therefore he was let off with . casf
fine, Of $3.50. .,.<.... -. 49,. -.
Cannon, in addition to being state
oil inspector in Superior, is believed Il
impossible that his farm is q storage
depot. If 30, Willard Hare viii not b.
entirely out Of business while he is il
rural exile. r. ..,s 80; ri.
Cannon was hurt in an automobil,
accident with Frank Fischer some tim,
ago and he had his injured eye re
decorated by some one, in some way
while in La, Crosse. He appeared IL
court while badly intoxicated and th,
judge told him TO get out Of the court
room snd to stay ont during that tern
Of court. Just what strenuous adven
tures be had in the pioneer city Of tn
Badger state, does not yet fully up
pear. . ssu rs ~ ;rs - =
Mrs. Paul Heytens, Of Allouez, wa
fined &2S0 for keeping . blind-pig
Hsytens, himself, was found guilt
end fined $500. The son Of the Belgian
brace of low moral endeavorers drew
check fort750 aad paid the damage
right there. : daughter, only 17eyear
old. was not prosecuted, although an
loubtsdly mixed up in the deal.
Ina good many Of the eases, It Ia,
been planned by the defendants TO pre-
sent their famous 81 family alibis I" bu
they saw that Il they. did so, prosecu
tions for perjury would surely follow
What some Of me witnesses swore 4
y facts in the Superior courts, city o
ennnty, required Just the opposite nal
ration in La Crosse TO prove effective
therefore they side-stepped danger i