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...lunged six feet at a thrust. Since the Pudding River was a mile and a half away and the Pacific Ocean 135 miles away by water, Jeskey refused to believe that it was a sea lion until State Police arrived and told him it was famed Sergeant Finnegan of the Oregon State Police...
Week before the sea lion, having quit the Pacific for the Columbia River, ar rived rollicking in the tributary Willamette River off Oregon City, was stopped there by the falls. Chasing carp and salmon, it delighted State Police by fouling the gill nets of salmon poachers, was christened Sergeant Finnegan. Prevented from getting any rest by Oregon City crowds, it humped itself onto a fisherman's house boat, peered in a window and got three charges of buckshot in the face and neck, blinding one eye. It finally climbed a fish ladder beside the falls, roistered...
...took police three hours to lasso and truss Sergeant Finnegan. By that time surrounding schools had sent 25 busloads of school children to learn about sea lions, and a sea lion expert had pointed out that Sergeant Finnegan was a female. She was renamed Mrs. Finnegan or Judy O'Grady. A U. S. geodetic survey truck took Mrs. Finnegan on a triumphal ride across the State toward the Pacific, stopping at gas stations to hose and exhibit her. When she was dumped onto the beach at Nelscott, she again took an unconventional line in refusing to go into...
Twenty-four hours later in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building a clerk in Judge Finnegan's court room called "The State of Illinois v. Martin J. Insull, Samuel Insull...
Most notable news exploit of the Times occurred recently in the parole of one Jesse Lucas who had been in prison 23 years for murder. Sharp-eyed Editor Richard James Finnegan read a small item in the Tribune telling of the deathbed confession of the murder by another man. He dug up two female witnesses who had testified against Lucas, got them to confess perjury. Now Lucas is out of jail, making quilts which Times girl employes are helping to sell. Meanwhile Editor Finnegan is personally presenting Lucas' case for full pardon...