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“LONE SMUGGLER FIGHTS FIVE COPS,” Toronto Globe. March 15, 1921. Page 3. --- Ferryman is Later Arrested, Slightly Wounded, His Dinghy Pierced ---- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) Bridgeburg, March 14 - A sensational battle was fought early today between rum-runners and five Buffalo police on the shores of the Niagara, directly across the river here, at the foot of Brace street, Buffalo. Sixty shots were fired.
A lone smuggler in a rowboat, armed with three revolvers, held off five policemen in the dark. When his last gun jammed he rowed away in the darkness. Four men in autos waiting near the landing place were arrested, but as their Cars were empty there is no evidence against them.
Later, James Tulley, a ferryman, residing on the Bird Island pier, was arrested. He is believed to be the man with whom the duel was fought. His boat, a dinghy, was spattered with blood, it being apparent that one of the shots had taken effect. He was slightly wounded. There was a hole in the stern of the boat.
Before Tulley was taken it was necessary to wait until daylight arrived, as he was in his boathouse, armed with a shotgun, and defied the officers to get him. The presence of a woman, peering over his shoulder, as could be seen with a searchlight, prevented. the police from firing into the building.
Sixty cases of Canadian whiskey. it was learned, were to have been rowed over, but connections were not properly made on this side of the river.
“NEGRO SENT DOWN FOR THREE YEARS,” Bertie Township Herald. November 6, 1930. Page 1. --- Robert Bright is sentenced for Crescent Beach cottage thefts ---- A sentence of three years in Portsmouth Penitentiary was imposed in Bridgeburg police court, Monday, by Magistrate J. C. Massie on Robert Bright, Bertie township negro, who pleaded guilty to 13 charges or burglary and theft.
He and his 16-year-old son were accused of breaking into summer homes at Crescent Beach and carting sway goods valued at about $2,000, most of which have been recovered. The boy was allowed to go on suspended sentence. The elder Bright has a previous criminal record.
The pair were arrested on the night of October 25 when Provincial Constables Wilkinson and Goudie and Chief of Police James Howie and Constable Sam Brown of Fort Erie raided the Bright farm near the Bridgeburg garbage dump and seized a large quantity of materials ostensibly stolen from the Crescent Beach cottages.
The two were arraigned before Magistrate W. T. Malkin on October 27 and remanded for a week, the case being outside the jurisdiction of the local magistrate.
[AL: Bright’s criminal record went all the way back to 1918, when he was sentenced for food hoarding during World War 1 - read more here. He was 45, from Bridgeburg, and was a local farmer. He was convict #1937 at Kingston Penitentiary, but was considered given his record fit for transfer to the reform-oriented Collin’s Bay prison camp - he was one of the first transferees! - in December 1930. There he was convict #145 and worked outside on construction. He was released April 1933.]
“WANT ADDITIONAL CUSTOMS OFFICERS,” Bertie Township Herald (Fort Erie). November 6, 1930. Page 2. ----- Applications now being received by Department of National Revenue Applications are being received by the Department of National Revenue for additional positions on the customs staffs at the ports of Bridgeburg and Niagara Falls.
November 12 is the last date on which applications will be received. Applicants between the ages of 22 and 35 years will receive the preference except in the case of returned soldiers.
The additional officers are needed to fill posts created by the adoption of the eight hour day for customs officers. As yet neither the whole staff of the port of Bridgeburg or of Niagara Falls is on the shortened schedule.
“CHANGES MADE IN PREVENTIVE MEN,” Bertie Township Herald (Fort Erie). November 6, 1930. Pag 1. ---- Hyatt, district chief, gets promotion to post in Hamilton ----- E. B. Hyatt, district chief of the customs preventive staff stationed at Bridgeburg for the past three years has been promoted to the post of chief of the Hamilton district. Mr. Hyatt left last week for his new post.
With his departure, the headquarter for this district has been transferred to Niagara Falls where George J. Archer is acting chief. His district will include Niagara Falls, Port Colborne, Bridgeburg, Welland and Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The personnel of the preventive staff at Bridgeburg also is being changed. Charles X. Downer, who has been stationed at this port almost since the inception of the preventive service goes to Port Colborne while his place on the local staff will be taken by Reg. Sgt.-Maj. James Johnstone of Port Colborne.
H. A. Trudell is transferred to Port Dover while the present officer at that port, A. J. Cutts comes to Bridgeburg.
The preventive staff at the port of Brldgeburg will continue to number four men, those besides Cutts and Johnstone being C. C. Windmill and Archie Campbell.
E. B. Hyatt, who goes to Hamilton has been at the port of Bridgeburg since June, 1927. His territory has embraced all this district.
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“Food Hoarder Sent to Prison,” Windsor Evening Record. May 18, 1918 Page 1. ---- Niagara Falls, Ont., May 18 - The first case of punishment for hoarding food in Welland county is that of Robert Wright, of Niagara, who was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment by Magistrate House. He pleaded guilty to unlawfully having eight sacks of flour and fifty-two cases of pork and beans, which were found hidden in a stable.
[AL: Curiously, this is also one of the only cases from Ontario I can find of someone receiving a penitentiary term for food hoarding during the First World War. That Wright was also a Black Canadian, and that his sentence was actually for receiving stolen goods - were the food supplies stolen somewhere else? - raises some additional questions. He worked in the stable at Kingston Penitentiary, received three reports for talking or contraband smuggling, and was paroled in December 1919]
“Pleads Guilty to Liquor Charge,” Bertie Township Herald (Fort Erie). July 30, 1931. Page 1. ---- Bridgeburg Man is fined $100 for having liquor in possession --- William Zanutto, Amigari, appeared in Bridgeburg police court on Tuesday and on pleading guilty to a charge of having liquor not recorded on his permit was fined $100 and costs, by Magistrate W. T. Malkin. More serious charges, keeping liquor for sale and supplying liquor in minors were dismissed when no evidence was offered by the Crown. E. W. Tyrill appeared for the Crown and A. L. Brooks for Zanutto.
“Three Years’ Term For Car Plunderer,” Toronto Globe. March 30, 1920. Page 03. ---- Stole Goods From Freight Trains In G.T.R. Yards At Bridgeburg --- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) Bridgeburg, March 29. - In connection with the drive under way here by railway detectives in connection with the recent thefts from railway cars, the fourth man brought before Judge Menno House, E. B. Gilledorff, a resident of Buffalo, employed in the yards here, was given three years in the penitentiary to-day. He was found guilty of having stolen goods from merchandise cars in the Grand Trunk yards here. Two other men, Howard Jackson and John Shilhuab, were remanded for sentence. Over two dozen search warrants have been issued by the Magistrate during the past few days, and hundreds of dollars worth of stolen goods have been brought to light in the general search.