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New Orleans - Feb. ^8,' 1910...Alien oyster fishermen,
apprehended a short time and proceeded in the the
after by a deputy sheriff, whtf' direction of Cat Island Chan-,
i- . -•	. , ..	..	•	was notified wheti the absence neL in St. Bernard 'and
. who were violating the oyster, -	,	,	_	*	..	.	.
Ijt;'- .■ T . . -	,	of the men was noted. Deputy • travelled at a good gait, being *
law. of Louisiana, narrowly. _	_	.	.» - •	„ . .	°.	„	“	,4
- ■ .Inspector Pereira, proceeded empelled by the wind. But ;
to the slaughter house VritH ' there being no possibility of '*
the Baton Rouge and brought the Oneida escaping capture, r*
his prisoners before Judge’ since'it was going further in )
Victor Cieutat of the First Louisiana territory, the Baton ’
Justice Court, where they j Rouge "continued to pursue *
‘ were charged with violating the other : boats, but ■yvasA
sections 9,18, 21 and 22 of the unable to run them down,J
oyster law, relative to,fishing owing to the "unfavorable!	r	________ ____
oysters without a license, not wind. The little cannon began ... -	,	oyster	boat^
.having numbers on srils and
"averted ■ arrest yesterday, T when they were located and ? pursued by Deputy Inspector Buegne Periera, of the Oyster •' Commission. For an hour or ■ two there , was an exciting K chase on Lake Borgne, in the
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which the small cannon on the patrol boat, Baton Rouge, was brought into play, and if the boats had not been so near the boundary line of the states of Misrissip-[ pi and Louisiana, several of f them would doubtless have; * been overtaken and the crews J arrested/- Whether any da-
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mage was done by the leaden [missies sent forth from the.
deck.of the Baton Rouge, is f*not"known, for only one oyster.
boat out
of twelve f captured, "and the oysters; f soon vanished after they got f on the Mississfppi side of the * Hne.
The schooner rigged barge Oneida was the one taken in custody by the deputy inspector. It had a crew composed of six men and w_as command-.^ ( ed by Captain John Lase, who‘ j’ subsequently made a dash for j | liberty with one of his men, as | the boat, in tow of the Eaton : Roijge, was entering the Lske ■ Bcrgne Canal, but v. as aj
bows of boats and transporting oysters in another state.
.The prisoners were John and line of the two states was H^nry Lessey, Frank Stillman : reached the Baton Rouge had ;and J. Paul (the last "name is .to give up the chase. Eight thought to be from Bay St.' shots were fired at the boats, L<mis) were incarcerated until:' the distance between the i they can furnish bond.	1 Baton Rouge and them being
Dep.Insp. Periera Vas pa- .,, one and a half miles. jVr"; '.''
: trolling the oyster district of J/ In another direction the was, JSt_ Bernard, in the fceik'hbor- <Jep. ,,insp. saw four more '.'hood of Grand Bank, when he ' (schooners dredging oysters,
to belch forth, but this did not j. ,>*«tcwed to the Lake Boi^gne • bring the oyster pirates to a^;.CLnd- to ^ Placed in chafge, stop, and when the dividing'	qep,sheriff aVthat pomt^
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‘ 'through the mouth of l * canal that the captain
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spied eight boats dredging ; and he signalled to them to
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.oysters. He skirted towards them and it was riot long . before they began to move. They l»esded for the Mississippi side of the line, i.hd dep. insp. Fericra>; took ' up the • chase. A . strong wind was . blowing-at the time and the - speed of the boats was reduced, including that of the Eaton Rouge. . The Oneida, .after trying to Kip. up \.ith the others, vhich \. c.re fle-i'ng from the F.sIon Ew^e, {.•..■nr.'d
hfi.lt but they did not heed the command, and a second chase, which was just as lively as the .first, followed, but without results so far as capture was concerned. The Baton Rouge fired three times at them, but that did not prevent the craft from crossing the line, where they found themselves safe. The P’ton Rouge then retur-h:-.d	the	Oneida,. which
:,fler I.:-ing pursued for a rhort time, ran aground and wis c&p'.ured.' *
^/Another member of the crew of the O.ncida jumped over-’ board, unobserved, with^a.. - 4view: of escaping, but when;, they.were missed at the river’ V;. end' j.pf ^the i'canal/.^Deputy-.. 'Sheriff*'Bernardine- Serpas-« -'was notified of the fact, and he •started to search for' them, and his efforts were quickly _ rewarded, for“he'^is well 4 acquainted with the lay of the . r ground in that section of the ' . Parish and knew where the oyster men h*d to pass. They were locked up in the Parish prison in ' Ter. e-Aux-Boeufs.'--The Oneida’ v.ras dredging *. ^ cyFt.ers for a Mississippi canj : ■':'.ry, rrid it is believed that •: V.ie other bnats were also’ ’ cr.gig' d in a like purpose,
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