The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-06-28

parrot in some way. Whether he bought
the lucky ticket or bought the parrot
from the winner, does not clearly ap'
pear. There is no evidence that
o 'Brien ever pulled off the rattle. 1t
is not impossible that he pocketed all
the ticket money, kept the parrot and
then sold it to Ole Peterson.
Ole Peterson, by the way, recently
turned in his star, gave up the bluff
that he yearned for an investigation
and took honorable employment in Su
perior Credit is due him that he did
not try to break into the saloon bust
ness. But that's another story, also.
O'Brien expressed great sorrow that
members of the Superior police force,
who went to France to make the world
safe for democracy, could not get good
Yankee tobacco to smoke. He got
very busy at taking up collection
to send those boys cigarettes, just like
some of Duluth's society danes, but
no one has any information as to how
much he collected, what he did with
the money or if any cigarettes really
reached France. Those who donated,
hope for the best, of course.
Former redlight ladies allege that
o 'Brien, in his rough, swinish way,
had confirmed habit of entering
their salons of sin and demanding coin
of the realm, long green being his
favorite kind of contribution money.
If they came across, so they aver, all
was we'll. If not, then he grabbed
them, stood them on their heads and
helped himself to their silk stocking
banks. It is said that he Jared best
on such raids when Rabideaux was off
duty.
Although born of reputable, kindly,
representative Irish parents, O'Brien
early showed that he was well fitted
for being Mormon. Possession OF
wife and babies seems to have meant
very little to them. When not posing
as a rafting king and selling tickets
on some of the possessions of Alice
Powers, Mrs. Vehlie or other under
world women, he was consorting with
DANES of that class and acting shame
fully. He certainly was low charac-
Ter and a disgrace to his ancestry
and his church.
Underworld folk have Informed the
Rip-saw inspectors that O'Briea 8
taste, while he patrolled a beat IN Su-
perior, ran strongly to sinful women.
For time he was credited with con-
sorting with Berenice who had dump
of low moral endeavor on Fifth st.,
opposite the Superior laundry.
Blanche White is credited with be-
;no an unlawful sweetheart of o 'Brien.
He would carry on scandalously with
her and then 90 home with his skin
dripping booze and bawl out his wife
for not having the praties fried Just
right or for not taking the jackets OF
the Murphies.
They tell good story on o 'Brien,
E Row Gleason and another booze fighter
whc went out to the Brule on fish
ING trip In high, steep bank, they
discovered sort of cave, which showed
all the evidences Of being skunk den
The bunch had been wrestling pretty
hard with Old John Barleycorn, there
fore the members of it felt very sporty
:, and daring. They made up a pot OF
4 k$75, each putting in $25, that shoulc
! 90 to the man who went into thu
skunk's den and stayed the longest.
~ The third man went in and stayed
- two minutes before he was forced tt
!. come out.
8 Row Gleason went in but came tear
o ing out in eight minutes, half sui
d located.
n "That pot is NINE" declared
70 O'Brien as he boldly crawled into tn
, cave.
George had been in the den JUS
thirty seconds when the skunk cam
j. tearing out, as if the devil were ate
e it.
o Rip-saw readers will remember hov
u Row Gleason got drunk on his bea
T. a few weeks ago and was locked up il
3. the city Jail all night. O'Brien ha
Il been discharged from the force som
q time before. He was drunk bu
escaped Jail on promise to keep OF
g Witness beat. When Gleason was re
g leased the next morning, Capt. Osbor
d relieved him Of his star and told hir
ID that. he would be sent up to the com
1t mission. The patrolman accordingly
t, turned in his resignation.
le The two discredited, disreputabl
II renegades from the police department
IS hurried to Oliver for the purpose o
a. drowning their sorrow, anger and di!
gust in biting, burning red liquor.
'r When rambling around the byway
IN of the bibulous burg, O'Brien an
IL Gleason caught sight of the Rip-sa7
y man, who was there on bushes
s. Grand. Very drunk and ugly an
IS feeling as wise as couple Of boile
p owls, the two broken policemen frame
le up a job on the object Of their hat
s. They thought he was carrying q co,
y cealed weapon and saw how they coul