An Ex-Sheriff Charged With Kidnapping Over a Columbia River Fishing Feud
A former Clatsop County sheriff is arrested in Tacoma on a charge of kidnaping, the long-delayed reckoning from an 1890 raid on Washington-side fishermen accused of illegal trap fishing.
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TACOMA, Aug. 23.—[Special.]—Deputy Marshal H. A. Hall, ex-sheriff of Clatsop county, was arrested at Tacoma, Wash., today, charged with kidnaping. He gave ball in the sum of $500 to appear next Tuesday for a hearing. The case dates back to May, 1890, when Constable Ogberg and Sheriff Smith arrested six fishermen on the Washington side of the river for illegal trap fishing. They were brought to this side for trial. One of them, a man named Glean, was finally convicted in the circuit court, Judge McLeod holding that Oregon had concurrent jurisdiction from shore to shore. The Washington officers have been waiting many months for a chance to serve papers on the Oregon officer.
“The Washington officers have been waiting many months for a chance to serve papers on the Oregon officer.”
The Columbia has always been a border as much as a river, and fights over who may fish its waters — and whose officers have the authority — are still fought out in courtrooms and statehouses today. Here a lawman's long memory turned a fishery dispute into a kidnapping charge.
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