FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman, 
_A NEW YORK MAN WHO WEARS 
BRISTLES. 
We went to Bathurst, N. B., September 
16th, last, and on arrival there were in- 
formed by the game warden that H. A. 
Jackson, of New York city, and his party 
had gone up the Nepisquit river a week 
or so previous; that all but Jackson had 
taken out licences, but that he had told 
the game warden, Henry Bishop, that as 
he intended to hunt bear only, he would 
not take out a license. 
The game warden asked us to keep a 
sharp lookout for Jackson, as he suspected 
Jackson meant to violate the law. 
We arrived September 21st at our hunt- 
ing grounds, and camped for the night. 
We intended to remain one week, but 
found there a Mr. Storm, a member of 
Jackson’s party, and learned from him that 
Jackson had fired at a bull moose the night 
before and had wounded him. This moose 
we found dead 5 days later. Instead of 
staying a week at the ponds we moved the 
next morning, having a suspicion that 
Jackson had sneaked in 2 or 3 days before 
us to some other small ponds, distant about 
12 miles from the South Branch ponds. We 
reached this latter hunting ground the 
night of September 22d, and Wednesday 
morning, September 23d, we met Jackson 
coming out. We accosted him and saw 
strapped on one of his guides a caribou 
head. Jackson admitted the head was his 
and we told him what we thought of him 
in forcible terms. 
September 24th Mr. Smith was injured 
and had to come out of the ‘woods. He 
arrived in Bathurst September 29th. He 
went at once to Mr. Bishop, the game war- 
den, and preferred charges against Jack- 
son for killing caribou without a license. 
Mr. Tilt, on going to the place where Jack- 
son had killed his caribou, found 2 other 
carcases of caribou, untouched, except that 
they had been shot. They were not killed 
for the heads, for they were spring calves. 
They were not even killed for meat, for 
not a pound of this had been taken. It 
was simply a case of wanton slaughter. 
William Gray, Jackson’s guide, is a thor- 
oughly disreputable man, and is despised 
by nearly all his neighbors. He was, of 
course, a party to Jackson’s unlawful work. 
Yours truly, 
Benjamin B. Tilt, 
Abel I. Smith, Jr. 
The facts regarding H. A. Jackson are 
as follows: When he and his party ar- 
rived in Bathurst from the woods, we had 
Jackson arrested on 2 charges, one of 
shooting a caribou, another of hunting 
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moose without a license. The party took 
out only 3 licenses, Mr. Jackson taking 
none. Jackson employed a lawyer and pro- 
tested that he had not violated the law. 
He had some bear skins, which he claimed 
he shot, but said his friends had shot the 
3 moose and one caribou, the heads of 
which they exposed here. You will note 
they showed only 3 moose heads here. 
When the trial came on we did not wish 
to be too severe on Jackson, and on his 
admitting the charge he was fined $50 and 
costs, for the moose episode, and the party 
left town. 
On their arrival at Bangor, the Daily 
Commercial: published an article which 
made Jackson out to be a great Nimrod. 
In Bangor they said the party had 4 large 
moose heads, the largest one a_ beauty, 
having been killed by Jackson, and gave _ 
full particulars of their trip. A friend sent 
me a copy of the newspaper and I wrote 
the editor exposing Jackson’s methods. 
My letter was published, and afterward 
copied into the St. John, N. B., Daily Tele- 
graph and other papers. I send you copies 
of the 2 articles. | 
Since then, a guide told me Jackson had 
previously taken moose heads from here by 
splitting the skull and concealing the skull 
and antlers in his luggage. 
I learned that Jackson or his party killed 
3 more caribou on this last trip, and did 
not even skin them or take off the heads. 
They simply left the 3 carcasses to rot in 
the woods. 
To further show that this man has been 
always a poacher, a man named Hotchkins, 
of Lambert’s Lake, Me., who was here 
lately, tells me he had Jackson fined in 
Maine, some years ago, and that Jackson 
skipped out after putting up a deposit. 
There is also evidence to show that the 
Jackson party used their permit to catch 
a few trout at the Falls for catching salmon 
this year. 
We have taken steps to prevent Mr. 
Jackson from getting any license here in 
future, and he will probably find that 
crooked work does not pay among sports- 
men. Yours truly, 
H. Bishop, Game Warden, Bathurst, N. B. 
I wrote Mr. Jackson as follows: 
I understand you killed a moose in 
New Brunswick, September last, which 
had a fecord head. Will you kindly ‘tell"me 
whether this report is correct? 
To which he replied: 
New York City. 
I send you the enclosed from Bangor 
paper. A. H. Jackson. 
