Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 29, 1904, Page 4

TR e —— > DEATH BY A BULLET Coronor’s Autopsy Makes Important Develop- ment in Dahl Murder Case. Was Shot to Death By Bullet From 30-30/ Calibre Winchester Rifle. The autopsy held over the re- mains of N, O. Dahl this morning developed the fact that Dahl came to his death from a gun shot wound and ot as the result of a wound inflicted by an ax at first reported and supposed. Dahl’s body was brought down from Tenstrike this morning, having been hauled in from his homestead over almost inaccessi- ble roads by aneighboring home- steader. At the grave it was picked up and putin arough box. Upon itsarrival in this city it was at once taken to the undertaking establishment of J. P. Lahr, where Coroner Henderson and Deputy Coroner conducted the autopsy. A careful examination of the body was made for the first time and the gun shot wound was found. The body is in a state of decomposition and it is difficult to tell whether or not a wound might not also haye been inflicted by a blow from an ax but this is not improbable. The bits of broken skull placed together plainly show where the bullet entered. The ball was not found, but from the nature and extent of the wound it has been decided that it was probably inflicted with a 80-30 calibre rifle. At the conclusion of the au‘opsy tha body was hermetically sealed in a zink casket and will be shipped to Crookston. 0. C. Rood, a son-in-law and C. C. Strander another relative, both from Crookston, were present at the autopsy this morning, The funeral will occur at Crookston tomorrow but the ar- rangements had not been com- vleted when the relatives left the city this afternoon. The search for Miss Aagot Dahl still continues and has so far been without developments. It is believed, however, that she will be found dead or alive some time within the next few days. Homesteaders and woodsmen and experienced detectives as well are scouring the woods near Quiring spurred on by the large reward offered for the capture and conviction of the perpetra. tors of the most awful crime in the history of northern Minne- sota. Representatives of the Pioneer returned this morning from a trip to the scene of the tragedy, which will long be memorable as the experience of a lifetime. Quiring postoffice is most easily accessible from Tenstrike and is distant from that village twenty- three miles over a road that is all but impassableat times. The ti1ip in to Quiring was made Tuesday afterncon. The PRINCESS Grocery Co. M. E. CARSON, Manager. Fancy Crawford Peache: Der can........... ) Regular price ¢ Fancy Lemon Cling Peac! o DT Can. e oo .25 iteiaiar price 306 Faney Peeled Apricots, o Der can J .25 b Fancy Pear: Fancy Egg Plums, per can...... "Reguiar price 3¢ """ Regular price30c Fancy Canned Sweet Potatoes per can Fancy Canned A er gallon can Fancy Home Cured Hams, per 1b. ONIONS LETTUCE STRAWBERRIES RADISHES CUCUMBERS c|mains were being taken out of| .| Wednesdayafternoonover twenty «| awful delails incident to taking .| out the body and placing it in the entire country 1s in a state of the | most intense excitement and the | homesteaders in the vicinity of Quiring areina state of mind bordering on terror asa result| of the recent developments. | They talk of the case guardedly | and are all evidently of the im- pression that besides the arrests that have already been made the | sweep will not be clean um.ilj several more of the homesteaders | in that country are arrested and made to tell what they know of the crime. The impression also seems to be quite general that the girl is still living and that James Wesley, for whom the authorities have been looking for some time has not left the coun- try but is in hiding and has taken Miss Dahl to a cabin in the heart of an almost inaccessible swamp in the Battle river coun-| try. This theory is not supported | by any very tangible evidence, however. A resident of the| Quiring country makes the state- ment that Wesley is somewhere ! in that vicinity. He claims to havethis informationfrom others, who are working on the case with a view to obtaining the re- ward and are not telling whatj they know until they believe the | con licting stories. time is ripe to give out the infor- mation. Wednesday afternoon, two men left Quiring to go to the | Battle river country to look for| the cabin where Wesley and the girl are supposed to be living. One of the men is a detective named Patterson and claims to have been employed on the case by Congressman Steenerson. Still another detective is sup- posed to have left Northome on a similar errand Tuesday night. The latter is a Pinkerton and has | been working on the case with' two homesteaders for the past three weeks. Both gentlemen appear to have been far too talka- tive to have been sleuths of Conan | Doyle stripe. People represent- ing themselves to be detectives haye visited Quiring in numbers for over a month past and have besieged the residents in that vicinity for every scrap of inform- ation available. Men in posses and in twos and threesare scour- ing the country for miles around. Yesterday a party of Blackduck people put in the forenoon at the- cabin of Miss Dahl’s with a team overturning stumps in an effort to locate the body. f The only scrap of evidence di- rectly available to lend color to the theory that the girl was taken away from her home alive is; found in the fact that a piece of rope was found cut from the clothes line. It is claimed that the same piece of rope was found on the road to the Battle river country. It isalsoclaimed that a double bitied axe has been found with blood stains on the blade and a homesteader is claimed to have this and the l fiiece of rope in his posession. | iverybody seems anxious to se- cure the reward and to this end everyone who can is putting in every minute of his available time on the case. As a result it is highly probable that the whole matter will be cleared up in afew days. Since the discovery of the body of Dahl the cabin near which his body was found and where he lived before he went to make his home with his daughter has be- come a Mecca for everybody who is in the woods. While the re-! the hole under the balsam stump people were present. The stench was terrible and they were un- able to witness the sight and turned away in horror from the rude rough box, where it was left alone over night until a neigh- boring homesteader, assisted by the man of all work at the Carter place at Quiring loaded it on the wagon yesterday morning to take it out to Tenstrike. The cabin door is securely locked but from a small window on the south side it is possible to look in. Ifs contents are a num- ber of books and newspapers, a few pieces of rough furniture and a rudely fashioned bunk nailed up to the wall. About the premises everything is neatness itself. Wood carefully cut and split is in the woodshed, and the thrifty disposition of the owner is evidenced by every little atten- tion to comfortable detail in-con- struction and care. The stump where the body was found is lo- cated about & hundred and fifty feet distance from the front door of the cabin and behind and a little to the right of the log barn and woodshed. Itis a monarch balsam, which has been uprooted by the wind and later split by frost and allowed to settle back into the ground. It was taken out of place when the body was removed a team being hitched toit with a chain and literally dragged it from the ground. The searching parties have passed the spot hundreds of times since the investigation was begun. A rude foot path runs on one side of the stump and one of the men who was searching for Dahl several weeks ago acci- dentally stepped in the hole on one side where the body was buried while passing. He nc- | ticed nothing peculiar and paased on. Caldwell, who is under ar- rest and accused of complicity in the crime, claims that the first inkling he had that the body was buried there was when a dog that was with him stopped and began smelling near the stump. He then noticed the odor and stopped and made the search which resulted in the finding of the body. Concerning Caldwell and Four- nie, who are held for the crime at the county jail in this city, people in the vicinity of Quiring have little to say. Caldwell is known as very talkative and un- reliable and has told a number of Fournie is said tobe a bad man with a record. He was sentenced to the state penitentiary for highway rob- bery and served three years of a five years sentence, when through the influential friends of J. C. Sodina, the notorious Col- umbia theatre man, of Minne- apolis, he was pardoned. He has been in that vicinity for a num- ber of years. Caldwell and he have been quite intimate and much of the talk that Fournie is a bad man seems to have its foundation in the fact that Caldwell claims that a relative of Fournie’s named {Sayers told him that Fouraie had planned the murder of the government paymaster on his last trip to the Red Lake Agency. He was to be murdered for the money he had on his person and his ‘body was to be thrown in the river. perfected Sayers weakened and it was abandoned. After the discovery of the body and before his arrest Fournie ap- peared to very nervous according to those who talked with him. He was employed in cutting hay near the Dahl place and stated to a friend that he expected to be arrested for the murder but that he was innocent. A third man in the case who is connected with itin an important capacity by the neighborhood gossip is James Wesley, familiarly known as “Shorty.” Wesley has been missing from his usual haunts for some time. He also bears a bad reputation, Others are mentioned in connection with the case. .,-_esr-(-sséi»ssssr-x-a(-'(»::;(-'st-(»:(-'sfi_‘ v BASE BALL } &iiig ii!iia!i!fli&%sia?i?!‘l George Bungo of Flandreau, S’ D., bhas been secured to play ball with the Bemidji team for the remainder of the season. He will arrive in the city comorrow. In the game last night between the “Has Beens” and the regular team several scores were made and both sides claimed victory at the close of the game. Roy, vho umpired the game, had his hand in a sling and could not defend DO, —FOR— 0 [ ¢ Wedding g and % Baby Pictures —GO TO— HAKKERUP Up-to-Date Work and Prices Reasonable. Enlarging, Framing and Finishing for Amatuers. Hakkerup Studio Two Doors East of City Drug Store. With the plans all BEMIDJI BEER Bemidji Brewing Company Will Put Their Product on the ‘Market Tomorrow. The first brew of beer of the Bemidji Brewing company will be placed on market tomorrow. All the necessary machinevy for! the plant has been placed and from now on the brewery will be run full blast.. The product is said to be good and the company expects to furnish most of: the beer consumed in Bemidji and neighboring towns. ‘his decisions, so that a number of doubtful scores were made which were recorded by Score- keeper Schneider, who seemed to favor the “Has Beens.”” Barker who played at short, made some very lurid and astonishing errors, considering that he was talked of before the game as being the star man of the team. White seemed to freeze to the ball on first when it came his way, but seldom located the bag with his foot. Brooks made a yery pretty catch in left field and Flatner stopped everything that came his way at third. Palmer nfade a vecord as a foot racer whon he ran down a man between first and second. Gill was added to the “Has Beens’ 1n the fifth inn- ing, but his spectacles hindered him to such an extent that he was unable to score. Quite a crowd turned out to see the game and a large number of tickets were sold. 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Our mammoth department storeis always rife with bargains |The Bazaar ])epartment Store. private residence here was pur-|the hospital has an office, an oper- | connected with a hospital chased by local parties and mov- jating room, and rooms and ac- | Brainerd for some time. ed to a central point in the cowm- | commodations for munity, with the intention of' patients. The institution is remodeling the sane and put it ate one, but is open to the|hospital. into shape to use for a hospital. 'use of all physiciins. | The building has been over led | ties owning the hospi | water and sewerage con ion ' gaged alady to Lave the made, and heat and electric light ' tendency of the institu {installed. perin- | Ca m, Mrs. As now constituted, ! Antoine Riddell, who has been ye at this point. 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