Philadelphia Inquirer, April 27, 1880View transcription
OVER THE RIVER.
Fishing Nets to be Sold—Before Justices Cassady and Ayers yesterday morning a man named Bernard T. Parsons claimed to be the owner of a boat and fishing net captured on Saturday night by Officers Gallagher, Barr, Franks and Streeper, for violation of the fishing laws. He refused to pay the penalty, and the justices ordered the captured articles to be sold. The men employed by Fish Warden Orr captured another seine in the same vicinity, and last evening it was also ordered to be sold. Beyond the mouth of Cooper's creek an encounter took place between the river patrolmen who captured the first net and several men whom they found fishing with a gill net, in which Constable Streeper was thrown overboard. While his companions were rescuing him the fishermen made their escape.
Fishing Nets to be Sold—Before Justices Cassady and Ayers yesterday morning a man named Bernard T. Parsons claimed to be the owner of a boat and fishing net captured on Saturday night by Officers Gallagher, Barr, Franks and Streeper, for violation of the fishing laws. He refused to pay the penalty, and the justices ordered the captured articles to be sold. The men employed by Fish Warden Orr captured another seine in the same vicinity, and last evening it was also ordered to be sold. Beyond the mouth of Cooper's creek an encounter took place between the river patrolmen who captured the first net and several men whom they found fishing with a gill net, in which Constable Streeper was thrown overboard. While his companions were rescuing him the fishermen made their escape.
