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BOATMAN GOT IN WRONG PEW
La Salle Man Fined $200 For Illegal Entry Into Canada
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 5 May 1921]
Officers Gurnett and Paxton were motoring down the boulevard below Chippawa yesterday, when they saw a very speedy motor launch approaching the Canadian shore. They halted their car. The boatman as he drew near called out, “You’re too far down, back up to the trees.” The officers did so.
The boatman jumped ashore, and a farmer named Snyder stepped up to warn him that he was getting in the wrong pew. The boatman sprang for his boat, which he had not moored and which was moving off. He got a ducking, but did not get his boat.
The officers took him to Bridgeburg where he was fined $200 and costs for illegally entering the country.
The uninvited visitor was Charles Mills, of La Salle, New York. He was fined for a similar offence last February.
The officers are convinced he had come to the Canadian shore for an auto load of whiskey.
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