National Affairs: Pennsylvania's Sheriffs

'When We got there we could hear them cursing. I broke into the place and found them reeling about like a lot of drunken hogs. It was the worst mess I ever saw. Bottles were being hurled about, men were fighting and two of them attacked me. We arrested the bellhop as he was serving liquor. [They] destroyed a whole bathtub of bottled liquor which was packed on ice.

"They were all in a bad way. I told them who I was, and they asked me to free the bellhop, but I refused. There were...

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