Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — Duty of an Alien. [ARTICLE]

Duty of an Alien.

[Hartford(Conn.) special.J A case involving an interesting question was decided yesterday in the Waterbury City Court. Several days ago a Waterbary policeman met with considerable resistance in taking a prisoner to the police station. He called upon a bystander, John Bagley, an Englishman, for assistance. Bagley refused on the ground that as an alien he was free from obligation to assist in y reserving the public peace, as bo was free from being compelled to serve in the United States army during the war. He was subsequently arrested for refusing to help the officer, and made the same plea to tho court. The penalty was from $5 <0 S3O, and the court, while declining to consider his peculiar claim, imposed only the minimum penalty.