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February 38 Telescope early hour on Tuesday morning that this crime had been committed, and that two of the criminals were under arrest in Sandwich and were to be brought up for examination. But the District Attorney, Alfred Russell, who obtained such infamous notoriety in his prosecution of Eber B. Ward for defrauding the government, quietly sat in his office, and not a step was taken to induce the Canadian authorities to retain these men in custody or to arrest the others until a late hour on Wednesday, when it was well known they had fled, and then a warrant was obtained and placed in the hands of a local officer who could not, legally, execute it scarcely five miles from his door. If Mr. Russell had been as anxious for these men to escape as he was for Captain Ward, he could not have aided them more effectually than he did. It is a disgrace to the administration, a disgrace to the party, and that is saying a good deal, for them to keep in office a man who has been so derelict of duty --if not corrupt--as the District Attorney of this district. We hope these pirates will be arrested. The Canadian government, we understand, have signified their displeasure at the gross neglect of duty on the part of their officers in Sandwich. But we wish to say to them, as well as to our administration in Washington, that unless they employ better and more efficient men than those now in office, their efforts to bring these villains to punishment will fail. We want men who know more and who are more prompt in the discharge of their duty, or we may have a border war on this frontier which the nation will find it difficult to put down. Philo Parsons was back at her rounds on Sept ember 21, two days after her adventure. But the Free Press was caught up with other wartime concerns, and never clearly told what happened to her when her pirates were through with her. Only the routine entries of the vessel passages column noticed her return to service. Today we can read about the episode more clearly in Dana Bowen's Memories of the Lakes. And, a century later, the Free Press set the record straight on February 2, 1964, with Curt Haseltine's vivid retelling of the story. 1889 After railroads linked Detroit to Toledo and the south in 1857. the steamer line to Sandusky was no longer "essential transportation." Travellers were thereafter spared the inconvenience of wintertime alternatives--stagecoach travel - - and freight could move over and all year. After the Civil War, however, the islands grew into an attractive summer resort. With this in mind, the Detroiters ». 0. Ashley and John P. Clark gave new life to the Detroit-Sandusky line in its calls at Put-in-Bay. This line reached a peak in the season of 1878. These promoters placed their new steamer Alaska in overnight service from Buffalo to Cleveland in company with their steamer Pearl, continuing their westward passage on to Put-in-Bay and back to Cleveland in daylight. At Put-in-Bay were connect ions with their Jay Cooke for Detroit or bandusky, while the Toledo steamer Chief Justice Waite offered another connection at Put-in-Bay. The 1878 season did not favor the enterprise, however. The