Seward daily gateway., 1923-09-01
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Slcl CldlIucu tlldL uc udO all SdUy DCCA1 tried for this offense, and cleared by a jury of his peers, month or so previously, in the court of the com missioner at Kenai. MT. Consiel then gave bail in the sum of $2,OOO and was permitted to return to his vine and fgtrees at Renal, awaiting there the Lims for him to appear at either Valdez, Cordeva, Seward or Anchor age, as the ease may be,
 Mir. Duncon Douglas, or Douglas Duncan, either being good Scotch names befitting royalty, Is man who has through the misfortunes of life, for the last two years been confed to his bed, being unable to arise there from and walk. This condition is a result Of severe attacks of rheuma- tism aggravated by sourdough diet, and such disease has so twisted and turned the knees of MT. Duncan that he will never walk again, or even sit up. Mr. Consiel was acting as nurse, housekeeper and friend to the invalid man.
 On the 2Sth or 18th of August 1923, it is alleged the jealous Fleckenstein came to the House of Duncan in ke- 4aai and it is claimed by Duncan that without warrant or other process, he did take the said Duncan and his bed and transport him to Judge An derson's court, at Seldovia, and incl dentally to a place within the domi- cile of the bastile presided over by MT. Hill.
 Upon arrival at Seldovia, upon the affidavits of certain gentleman claim ing this invalid had unlawfully and without consent of the framers of the Volstead Act, had sold them white mule and other liquids spurious and fermented, was fined $500 and given six months in jail
 It might be noted as Exhibit c that it is also alleged that fTeckenstein, deputy, also took with him and along with MT. Duncan and Duncan's bed, the persons of MT. Joe Consiel and MT. Arvid Wik, these gentlemen be- ing unfortunately at the bedside of Mir Duncan. when Mir. Fleckenst tein there arrived
 MT. Consiel was also fined in the same amount and given the same sen tence as MT. Duncan.
 MT. Wick a Recent Benedict
 Mir Wik was sentenceds but for what charge our informant has no knowiecee. Mr. Wik recently married at Renal one of the young lady school teachers, it is said of fine appearance and marked ability and intelligence. Our informant thinks this has nothing to do with whatever charge was laid against MT. Wik, who also claims to have been arrested without warrant or due process of law. No testimony was produced against him before the presiding judge, and our informant emphatically denies that kangaroo court was in session., but insists that the testimony of the two deputies stood for warrants, supOenaes, com mitments and other legal documents.
 Consiel has now brought. an action for abduction, kidnapping, assault and batteries and false imprisonment against Marshal Sullivan and his two deputies, Hill and Fleckenstein, based upon his allegations as set forth here in as to the incident of his first ar rest Mr. J. Lindley Green, a prohi- bition sleuth of the fair town of An chorage, is not a defendant in the action, said L. V. Ray, attorney for Mr. Consiel. "
 On the other charges, MT. Ray stat ed, that an effort would be made to obtain release of the men on writs of habeas corpus, in that the facts as wired to him, if true, showed that the men were tried on the affidavits of witnesses, not permitted to be faced in open court with the evidence against them, nor permitted to obtain witnesses in their own behalf.