The Justice of the Peace docket is a handwritten record of civil and criminal cases heard by Justices of the Peace in Otsego, Minnesota from 1884 to 1921. These records include the names of plaintiffs and defendants, arresting constables, evidence presented, and judgments made. These details reflect local values, customs, and personalities. Included are Justices of the Peace: Z. L. Case, Charles Snow, A. W. Praught, A. Plaisance, Joseph McDonald, D. W. M Leod, and Edson Washburn, Jr. Also included are Constables A. J. Wood, L. B. Hamlet, Barnard Duffy, W. H. LaPlant, Theodore Aydt, Edmund Fisetle, and J. A. McEachern.
Uniformed Sheriff's staff working at dispatch consoles with radios and telephones; county map on wall; reel-to-reel tape recording equipment in background.
Hennepin County Sheriff's Captain Richard Duggan, at control desk of jail in the Municipal Building -- also known as Minneapolis City Hall or Hennepin County Courthouse -- speaks to a deputy.
Hennepin County Sheriff's Deputy Jack Hacking, holding rifle, talks to helicopter pilot Bud Philips, seated in Sheriff's Department helicopter, with squad car in background.