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March 9—At American Express office in Decatur, I found a shipment of 
fish by Henry Lemme at Pekin to Barbry & Cooper at Decatur, marked 
black bass and crappies. .Opened them and found they contained crappies, 
black bass, striped bass and pickerel. Found 11144 pounds undersized black — 
bass, crappies and pickerel which I turned over to Wabash hospital. 
March 30—At Decatur found a box of crappies shipped by Havana Fishing 
Co. to P. N. Howard at Decatur. Confiscated same. At Bloomington con- 
fiscated shipment of small crappies and sunfish shipped by Henry Lemme 
to Mandel & Schwarzman. 
April 13—Section 1 violated. Joe Smith, Leople Ketch & Lewis Law- 
rence. Justice of Peace, Lewis Zerwick, St. Clair Co., Lebanon. Quilty. 
Fines assessed, $25 and costs. Fines collected, $75.00. Amount sent to 
State Treasurer, $75.00. Undersized fish disposed of, about 250. 
April 27—Name of defendants, Joseph Johnson, Wm. Haines, John Scott, 
Ed. Ingle of Chrisman, Edgar county. Section 1 violated. Judge, J. A. Pat- 
terson, Paris. Defendants bound over to June term of court. 
May 11—Defendant John Speechley, St. Joseph, Champaign county. Sec- 
tion 1 violated. Judge, Rogerson, P. M. Champaign. Decision, not guilty. 
May 25—Destroyed 7 fish baskets from Grayville, Mill Shoals, Golden Gate. 
June 15—Defendants, Wm. Lewis, Sam Gash, Mat Medler, Rus. Leet, Dan 
Pane and R. C. Miller of Fairfield, Wayne county. Judge, Jacob Beamer, 
J. P., Fairfield. Decision, guilty for. Miller. Other cases continued. 
Amount of fine, $25 and costs. Defendant given 30 days in which to pay 
fine by giving security. Balance of cases continued until June 26. 
June 29—Went to Fairfield and tried three at that place for violations of — 
the fish laws by netting in the Little Wabash and Elm rivers. Then went - 
to Shelbyville and tried three at that place for seining. Con Fox, the party 
who made the complaint, from Strasburg, took too active a part in the case. 
He hired an attorney to assist the state’s attorney and talked too much. It 
was shown on the witness stand that the parties had had trouble before : 
and were enemies. Case was a good one but Fox showed too plainly his ~ 
feeling against the defendants, and that he wanted them convicted. For 
this reason the jury decided against the State. . 
July 183—Defendants, Roy Grupe and Rev. V. C. White of Watson, Effing- 
ham county. Judge, G. F. Taylor, J. P., Effingham. Decision, guilty. 
Amount of fine, $25 and costs, each. Fines collected $25 on July 10. Amount 
of fine sent to State Treasurer, $50.00. Fined for catching fish in the back 
waters of the Little Wabash river with their hands. 
July 27—Went to Champaign and took eight lake trout that only weighed 
4% pounds from Mrs. D. Roe, keeper of the restaurant in the Champaign 
hotel. They had had more but had used them before I got there. 
Aug. 3—Stopped at Decatur and at the express office at the Wabash depot 
took 39 lake trout that together weighed but 20 pounds. They were shipped 
by A. C. Booth & Co., of Chicago, to Godsell & Lowry at Philo, Ill. 
Aug. 17—Went along the Kankakee river from about 7 miles above Mo- 
mence from the club house to Kankakee. I took and destroyed 9 trammel 
nets, 1 seine and 12 hoop nets. - 
Sept. 17—Went to.Mattoon and inspected the shipments at the express 
offices and found and confiscated 42 pounds of black bass shipped by L. A. © 
Everist & Co., of Havana, to Jas. Sowers at Indianapolis, Ind. Donated the 
fish to the Odd Fellows Old Folks’ Home at Mattoon, for which I enclose 
receipt. 
Sept. 21—On my rounds of the express offices at Decatur in examining 
shipments of fish I found a barrel of mixed dressed fish, buffalo and carp. 
There were a great many that only measured 9 to 94% inches. The barrel 
was shipped by N. S. Bushnell & Co., at Meredosia, to A. Booth at St. Louis, 
Mo., Sept. 19. 
October 26—Two hoop neis and one seine taken. Went along the Kankakee 
river from Kankakee to Mcmence. Found two hoop nets and one sein above 
