Iowa
Old Press
The Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa
Saturday, June 4, 1881
Rock Island Union, 2d: Constable Jeremiah LeQuette and Daniel M. Fester, of Drury, came into town, on Wednesday, with the contents of a gunboat, sent to jail by Squire Underwood. Agnes Willett, proprietor of the ship, is under $250 bonds, and Dick Clark, Catharine Black, Lizzie Wilhite and Emma Perkins are under $50 each, as inmates. The party was accompanied to prison by Arthur Willett, a three year old boy. Five other “inmates” were fined and released.
[transcribed by LZ, Nov 2019]