Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1898 — Uncle Sam Wants Bulger. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam Wants Bulger.

Wednesday’s Dally. Deputy Prosecutor Hanley received a telegram this morning from Sam E. Kercheval, deputy U. 8. marshal, at Indianapolis, telling him to hold Frank Bulger, the shover of raised bills, and that he would come after him, if Mr. Hanley was willing to give him up. Mr. Hanley replied at once that he was willing and Mr. Kercheval may therefore be expected on the first train out of Indianapolis. Bulger will be apt to get protnpt justice, and a good deal of it, in ,Uncle Sam’s court. The altering or counterfeiting of U. S- money is severely punished under U. S. laws, and Bulger has a good prospect for a pretty long term of imprisonment. Officials and people in general here are glad to be saved the expense of holding and trying-him, and everyone is glad to have him taken to Indianapolis, unless it be the witnesses in the case, and the fact that the government pays liberally for time and expense of its witnesses will go a long ways towards soothing their regrets. Bulger’s parents came over from Monticello, Tuesday, presumably in the hope of getting him released, but if so it was a delusive hope. The mother seems to be a very estimable person and deserving of sympathy, but the father is evidently the source from which the son derives his bad qualities. In spite of his son’s bad fix, and his wife sorrow, the elder Bulger broke for the saloons about as soon as he got here, and proceeded to get drunk. Towards evening, on account of Mrs. Bulger’s sorrow, Sheriff Reed had the different saloons‘requested not to sell Bulger any more liquor, and as soon as Bulger found that he couldn’t buy and more liquor he went to the jail and began abusing his wife, but the sheriff brought him up with a short turn. Mr. Miller, of Morocco, a relative, was telephoned for to come over to bail Bulger out. He came over but very wisely declined to risk any good money on such an unreliable specimen. It is reliably stated that the Bulgers, father and son, have squandered the value of a 54.000 farm during the past few years, and now Mrs. Bulger takes in washing. It seems a great pity that the old Bulger hadn’t as good a prospect before him as young Bulger evidently has.