[ROBBERS & CONFIDENCE MEN OPERATING AT TROUT LAKE]--1891
Trout Lake is gaining an unenviable reputation as being the
resort of robbers and confidence men. Every week the local papers
tell of parties being fleeced out of money in some illegal
manner. The following from the Marquette Journal is the latest
report of that wicked place: "Trout Lake, the junction of the
South Shore and Soo lines, must contain about as accomplished a lot
of blacklegs as any point in the upper peninsula...
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[Newberry News, 27 Feb 1891]
The gang of thugs and black legs that have been sojourning at
Trout Lake for the past year, and who have made themselves
notorious through that section of country, are at last in the
arms of the law. A detective has been at Trout Lake for the past
month under the pretense of being "out for his health," and on
Sunday last caused the arrest of the whole gang. Four officers
took the prisoners to the Soo where they were placed in jail. The
Soo Line employed the detective.
[General News column, p. 5]
[Newberry News, 22 May 1891]
