Sheriff Rich
The Montpelier Examiner, September 29,
1911
Last Saturday afternoon Sheriff Rich applied the search and seizure law to all of the soft drink places in Montpelier, except J F O'Connor's place, which was closed. At Haggerty's which was the first place searched, the sheriff found a bottle containing a small quantity of liquid which he decided was liquor.
The sheriff placed Elmo Haggerty under arrest and leaving him in charge of Officer Ed French, proceeded to search the places of Jack Wedel and the old Captiol (sic) Saloon, in company with Deputy Sheriff Athay and Officer Dalyrmple. The officers found both these places "dry as bones" so far as liquor was concerned.
Returning to Haggerty's the sheriff informed Elmo, who was standing in front of the place, that they would be ready to start to Paris in a few minutes. All four of the officers were there at the time. Elmo replied that he would be ready to go as soon as he could get what money there was in the cash register. With the officers still standing in front of the place, Elmo went in, checked out the cash register, quietly walked out the back door and disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as though the earth had swallowed him up.
As soon as the officers discovered that Elmo
had given them the slip, they began searching "the highways and byways" but he
was no where to be found. Nothing was heard of him until the next morning
when it was learned that he was in Cokeville, having secured a horse while the
officers were waiting for him to check up on his cash register and leisurely
rode out of town.
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The Montpelier Examiner, February 16,
1912
Last Tuesday afternoon Sheriff Rich, assisted by officer Robison of this city, arrested Joe Cohen, Hugh Hall, J F O'Connor and Otto Peteriet on warrants charging those men with conducting a common nuisance, in that they kept whisky for sale in their places of business.
O'Connor and Peteriet furnished bonds in the sum of $1000 each for their appearance at preliminary hears, but Hall and Cohen were compelled to take up lodging at the Hotel Rich in Paris, pending their trial.
The evidence for the arrest of these men were furnished the officers by Van Henderson and O R Kelly, two "detectives" who were employed by the county and who posed as real estate agents during the ten days or more they spent in Montpelier.