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cy; and one for Peoria, to be appointed by 

 the Governor. There was no provision for 

 appointing deputies. All illegal game found 

 had to be taken on a warrant by a consta- 

 ble, taken before a Justice of the Peace, 

 and by him ordered sold by the constable 

 at public auction ; the proceeds of the sale 

 turned over to the Justice, who deducted 

 the costs, and paid ]A the balance to the 

 warden or informer. The other Y / 2 was 

 paid into the county school fund. All game 

 law violators must be prosecuted before 

 the Justice and fines disposed of in the 

 same manner; and there was no other 

 money legally paid to the warden for ser- 

 vices. 



In August, 1891, I was appointed by 

 Gov. Fifer game warden for Chicago. I 

 proceeded at once to enforce vigorously 

 the game law as it had never been en- 

 forced before nor has it ever been since. 

 This I can prove by records such as Mr. 

 Loveday can not produce in contradiction. 

 I swore out search warrants at different 

 times for the places of business of nearly 

 all the game dealers in the city. I also 

 searched butcher shops, groceries, the Chi- 

 cago club, on Monroe street, and several 

 of our largest restaurants. I prosecuted 

 the Richelieu Hotel and the Union League 

 Club. Any place or person reported vio- 

 lating the game law I went after promptly. 

 I can prove by scores of persons here 

 that there v> 3 as much obedience to the 

 law during my term of office as there has 

 ever been here since the law was made. 

 During my term of office I never received 

 directly from any person or firm one dol- 

 lar of money. I never took any game from 

 anyone except in strict compliance with the 

 letter of the law. I prosecuted friends and 

 others without any discrimination. Nearly 

 all prosecutions were before Justice Ran- 

 dall H. White, No. 125 S. Clark street, 

 Chicago, whose dockets show the full pro- 

 ceedings in each case. There was more 

 money paid into the school fund from my 

 enforcement of the game laws than by all 

 game wardens before or after me. 



In 1896 there emerged from obscurity 

 this man Loveday. candidate for game 

 warden. When he first began a canvass for 

 help to obtain the appointment there was 

 objection made to him by prominent 

 sportsmen here, on the ground that he had 

 been written up years before as a violator 

 of the game laws. I did not assist or ac- 

 tively oppose him. I finally met him, and 

 had an interview. He did not impress me 

 as being a good man for the place ; but he 

 said if he was appointed he would enforce 

 the game law strictly and perform his du- 

 ties faithfully. After he got his commis- 

 sion, I went many times to his place of 

 business and offered to assist him in any 

 way I could. I gave him suggestions 

 about who were the violators of the law. 



and how to proceed against them. I called 

 his attention especially to the cold storage 

 houses here, yet they have never been mo- 

 lested by him as far as the public knows. 

 He says he has been enforcing the game 

 law that was in effect when Mr. Bor- 

 tree was game warden. Where is the rec- 

 ord? Before what court has he brought his 

 cases? Who has the money obtained from 

 fines and sales of our confiscated game? 

 Why does not Mr. Loveday clear himself 

 from this suspicion which rests on him? 

 I am informed that the school fund of this 

 county has not received $1 from his prose- 

 cutions. The school superintendent has 

 been trying for more than a year past to 

 find out how Mr. Loveday has been doing 

 things. The fact is he has 15een disregard- 

 ing the game warden law. 



Loveday savs, "the smallest express com- 

 pany in Illinois" has rendered him more 

 assistance than I have. The reader may 

 not understand why a "small express com- 

 pany" has been more valuable to Mr. Love- 

 day than I have been. He means the ex- 

 press company brings in the dead game 

 which he seizes and puts in cold storage, 

 or sells, puts the money in his pocket, and 

 then watches for more. This is what 

 should be called a newly discovered "Love- 

 day" method of game protection. As a 

 dead game protector he is a success. 



Mr. Preston, manager of a weekly paper 

 published here, last year began an investi- 

 gation of Mr. Loveday's methods. From 

 weekly columns of exposures and strange 

 doings charged against Mr. Loveday I copy 

 a few items. The issue of March 25, 1890, 

 says, • 



"Bortree has the interest of game pro- 

 tection at heart. Justice White says he 

 has paid the money in his hands from 

 game warden prosecutions into the school 

 fund." Mr. White says, 



"I have noticed that since Mr. Bortree 

 went out of office there has been little 

 or no prosecution of game cases in any 

 of the Justice Courts." Mr. O. T. Bright, 

 Superintendent of Schools, was seen. He 

 said no fines had been turned over to him 

 for any game cases since Mr. Bortree was 

 in office. 



" It seems that Mr. Bortree followed the 

 law to the letter and made vigorous prose- 

 cutions, and it has not been done since." 



April 1, 1899, this paper says, "Gridley 

 & Co. had a box of game seized at the 

 depot February 1st. What became of that 

 game? Before what Justice did Loveday 

 swear out the warrant to search for that 

 game? Where dfd the sale take place? 

 Why didn't Loveday prosecute the express 

 company for carrying this game out of 

 season instead of paying its charges? 

 When this is answered we have a number 

 of other seizures to ask about." 



This paper, quoting from the Evening 



