Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1884-12-18, p.3

Jamestown Weekly Alert, Jamestown, 1884-12-18, p.3

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Summary

A two-sentence local item in the Jamestown Weekly Alert reporting that Policeman Murphy was retired from the police force the previous Thursday morning by acting Mayor Vennum on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The paper editorialises that public sentiment fully justifies the course of the executive.

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Acting Mayor Vennum removed Policeman Murphy from the Jamestown police force on Thursday morning, on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Public sentiment is reported to be fully behind the mayor's decision.

  • “Public sentiment seems to fully justify the course of the executive.”

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People

  • John Vennum(as printed: Acting Mayor Vennum)
    role: dismissing officer · family confidence: 0 not family

Also mentioned

  • Policeman Murphy · subject_dismissed_officer

    No first name given. Surname + region (Jamestown ND, 1884) + occupation (policeman) is namesake_only under the confidence rule. Open question: does he tie to any Murphy in the user's family research orbit?

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Transcription
transcription: complete · confidence high
# Transcription — Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1884-12-18, p.3 **Source**: Jamestown Weekly Alert (Jamestown, Dakota Territory), Thursday 18 December 1884, p.3. **Status**: Complete. **Method**: Cleaned from OCR against the page image. A fragment from a preceding item — "will be a cold day for them if they are." — appears above the clipping boundary and is not part of this item. --- Policeman Murphy was retired from the police force last Thursday morning by acting Mayor Vennum on charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Public sentiment seems to fully justify the course of the executive.

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Open questions

  • Is Policeman Murphy of Jamestown ND, December 1884, identifiable with a first name? Cross-check Jamestown police rolls and the 1880 / 1885 ND census for Murphy households.
  • Is "acting Mayor Vennum" the same John Vennum who hunted at Spiritwood Lake in August 1883? Plausibly yes; not confirmed.