The Sheriff Was Not Called

THE SHERIFF WAS NOT CALLED

Conclusive Evidence that No Notice of

THE DEXTER ROBBERY

Reached His Office Until Given by the Argus – Care Should be Taken in Calling Official

Still later information, and this time certainly official, comes to the Argus confirmatory of its first report to the effect that the sheriff's office was not called at ll Friday morning relative to the Dexter creamery robbery last Thursday night. The Argus so stated in its issue of Friday evening on the authority of Sheriff Gauntlett and Deputy Fred Gillen. Saturday afternoon, however, the Argus was called by some one claiming to be at the telephone office in Dexter while giving the information, who stated that the sheriff's office was repeatedly called from 8 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock. This morning Manager Keech of the telephone office speaking by the card confirms the first report given by the Argus. He produces conclusive evidence that the Argus was absolutely correct and that the sheriff was not called at all. He has the official evidence that some one at Dexter called over the telephone for the Marshal at Grass Lake, the Marshal at Chelsea, a certain detective at Detroit, the Marshal at Toledo, the Marshal at Jackson, the Marshal at Ann Arbor and the Marshal at Toledo again, but that no call whatever was made for the Sheriff at Ann Arbor or for the sheriff's office. Thus does it appear from the record that the statement given by the Argus by Sheriff Gauntlett and Deputy Fred Gillen as to no call being made at the sheriff's office was strictly correct, the statement from Dexter to the contrary notwithstanding.

It seems as though it ought to be understood that the sheriff and the city or village marshal are separate and distinct officials, and that while the sheriff's duties extend to the county those of a marshal are limited to the city or village.