Forest and stream . the Avater below the dam. I opened it and found a01b. trout in it alive. There was a very plain mark of (he hook inthe throat just back of the gills, and no mark of a hook ju themouth. Mr. Hollingsworth denied having anything to do orknoAving anything about this trout. Two days later I went to Audover with them, they paying mybills doAvn and back as they had previously agreed to do. Whenwo arrived there they both refused to plead guilty, as they hadbefore agreed to do, but said if I arrested them they Avould givebonds. After they talked together for some time Mr. Stewarttoo
Forest and stream . the Avater below the dam. I opened it and found a01b. trout in it alive. There was a very plain mark of (he hook inthe throat just back of the gills, and no mark of a hook ju themouth. Mr. Hollingsworth denied having anything to do orknoAving anything about this trout. Two days later I went to Audover with them, they paying mybills doAvn and back as they had previously agreed to do. Whenwo arrived there they both refused to plead guilty, as they hadbefore agreed to do, but said if I arrested them they Avould givebonds. After they talked together for some time Mr. Stewarttook me to one side and said that he did not want to be arrested,and did not Avant to plead guilty. It was not the money that hecared about; it was his reputat ion; aud he told me to keep themoney for myself, saying that he would make me a present of told him that Avould not do; but they had better come up anddo as they had agreed to, and if they did not they Avould be further Nov. 3, 1887.] FOREST AND STREAM. 287. dealt with. He said that he would take his chauces on it. Therethe matter stands; for reasons best known to myself 1 did notarrest them. About the middle of September, 186$, I found Mr. Stewart fishingat the dam with two large bait hooks on his line, one six or eightinches asove the other. On the upper hook he had a minnow,which was hooked on so it would revolve. On the lower hookthere was no bait at all. 1 told him that he had no right bylawto fish In this way. and requested tutu to stop it. Geo. D. Huntoon. It appears that Huntoon s course in demanding theamount of the fines was in accordance with the Mainepractice in such cases. When a person has been detectedin a violation of the game law, or is charged with violat-ing it, the officer may at his discretion, instead of arrest-ing the party, receive from him a sum of money equal tothe fine provided, to be held as a surety for the appearanceof the individual before a justice, either to stand trial orto plead guilt
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