Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1916 — New York Nimrods Nabbed for Bringing in Game [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

New York Nimrods Nabbed for Bringing in Game

NEW YORK.—When Happy Boots Wilson, negro, stepped out of a special car in the Pennsylvania station he was arrested for having in his possession one squirrel. He was no more surprised, however, than was his em-

ployer, Diamond Jim Brady, and Mr. Brady wasn’t any more astonished than a score of other prominent New Yorkers who have been arrested and 'ined for bringing game birds into this city from other states. The arrests have been made by game protectors of the state" conservation Commission because the open season for game birds, such as quail, pheasants, grouse and partridge, closed on December 31 and because it is a violation of the conservation law for residents or this

state to bring any of these birds here, even though the season was open in many of the Southern states—North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and others. __— ' Consequently New Yorkers who went South for the shooting and brought back game have been met at the railroad stations by game protecting sleuths who possessed such a keen olfactory sense that they immediately discovered which suitcases contained dead birds. They seized the bii-ds, arrested the persons and saw to it that they appeared at the offices of the commission here and made a financial settlement. The commission is considering the employment of dogs to sniff, out the game, which hunters bring into the city in game bags, suitcases and Valises, although the commission’s fifteen game protectors themselves are said to be able to detect the violators with a nice distinction.