Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 17, 1911, Page 1

Vl‘ : CARLTON VERDICT SURPRISE T0 SOME Park. Rapids Newspapers Intimate Feeling That There Was Mis- carriage of Justice. PRINT EVIDENCE OF THE TRIAL Show That The Two Young Persons Slaughtered Aged Invalid With Blow From Axe. FAILED TOMAKEPROPERBURIAL Continued to Live on Farm After Neste Had Been Hacked to Pieces and Burned. That the verdict of not guilty in the case of Lloyd Carlton, charged with the murder of Peter Neste, sur- prised and even disgusted some per- sons in Park Rapids where the trial was held before Judge McClenehan a week ago, is shown by current issues | of the Park Rapids papers, one of which, the Hubbard County Clipper, indicates its belief that there was a miscarriage of justice in the follow- ing language: “The jury after being out about half an hour returned a verdict of not guilty. This verdict came as a sur-| prise, as the case had been well tried, and the result is no fault ‘of the prosecution. This is the second sim- ilar case for Hubbard county with the same result. “Mr. and Mrs. Carlton are free; but the fact remains that Neste is dead, and that both Carlton and his wife admit that his death was caused by a blow from an ax in the hands of Carlton, Body Was Burned. “And not_ only. this;\but instead of giving themselves up and seeing that their father's body was properly bur- ied, it was fiendishly burned in an effort to hide the crime. When this no longer was possible they make a confession to escape punishment by pleading that they—two strong vig- orous young people against this one man over 70 years of age who was chasing them with a grub hoe were obliged to strike him down in self- defense.” The Park Rapids Enterprise says: “The evidence brought out as to Neste's Temper tended to show that Peter Neste was a man of uncontrollable temper at times, that on the day the crime was com- mitted he and the Carltons quarreled three times; his death resulted from the last quarrel. A son-in-law who had lived with Neste two years testi- fied that he had known him to lose his temper but three times during the two years he had lived with him, and Mrs. Neste testified that during the past two years he had not been so well as formerly and had been more amiable about the home, and that for two months he had lived principally on bread and milk, having stomach trouble, and that he was not strong; and that his hands were crippled with rheumatism. Quarrels on Fatal Day. “The story of the crime was re- peated on the stand. The evidence showed that the first quarrel on the fatal day occurred at the dinner table and another quarrel at the barn ‘where Carlton threw the old man down, and handled him easily, Carl- ton being a good athlete. “The third quarrel took place at the chicken coop where Mrs. Carl- ton went to feed the chickens and gather eggs. Neste ordered her from the building and according to testi- mony, slapped her and knocked her down. Dodged; Struck With Ax. “Carlton went to her assistance and helped her to escape from the building; Neste then grabbed a pick axe and chased them toward the house; as they passed the woodshed Carlton caught up an axe, and when Neste struck at them he dodged and struck the old man over the head with the axe, crushing his skull and killing him instantly. “The Carltons then went into the house and he proposed giving him- self up. Mrs. Carlton was disposed to try to cover up the crime, and they finally agreed to hide the body. Mrs; Carlton hitched up the horse and the body was hauled to a brush pile about forty rods from the house and covered with brush. Ten days later the brush was burned and the body, after the head, arms and legs had been chopped off was buried. Lived There Several Days. “The Carltons stayed about the VOLUME 9. NUMBER 67. place several days after they had finally disposed of the body, then they went to Bemidji to live. Neigh- bors became suspicious that the old man had been foully dealt with and on making a search found evidence of the crime. This was reported to County Attorney Woolley and Sheriff | Petrie, and investigation was begun which brought out the case as re- ported. = “Attorney McDonald for the de- fense emphasized the evidence indi- cating an uncontrollable temper, and the right of self-defense in a case which the evidence showed to be as reported in this case. His arguments were deliberate and well delivered and he succeeded in convincing the jury that his convention was right. After being out but twenty minutes the jury reported a verdict, and when read it showed ‘not guilty.”” POOOOOOOOOOOOOGCS QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ @ 100000000000 ®C® Temperance. societies in Washing- ton are in arms because certain prop- erty acquired by the government is used for the sale of liquor. " The United States army has turn- ed the searchlight on every arm of the service with a view to selecting prominent young officers to develop the war aeroplane. Theodore Roosevelt will be the star witness before the Stanley steel jinvestigation committee at its meet- ing in New York, according to in- formation received in Washington. The painting, “The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Into Heaven,” by Murillo, worth $500,000, has been discovered in the little chapel of St. Vincent’s Orphan home in Boston. New York will not lack an amuse- ment hall after Madison Square Gar- den is torn down, so a syndicate has been formed to put up a $3,000,000 building to take the place of the old| one. In a call sent out by the federal council of churches more than 125,- 000 protestant ministers are request- ed to preach on some phase of thel labor question on Labor Sunday, September 3. r Archdéacon William H. Allen of'" St.” Cathérine’s ~ Episcopal ~church, Pensacola, Fla., has withdrawn from the Pensacola Ministeral association because that organization is fighting Sunday baseball. Col. Gonzales has begun work on barracks for 300 men at Tijuana, Mexico. The barracks are to be well fortified and the guns will be placed in such position that they can be trained on American territory. Because he had failed to do a back handspring, Edwin_A. Kraft, a 19 year old Brooklyn boy, is dying in the Swedish hospital. He fell heav- ily on the back of his neck. The hos- pital surgeons found that his spinal column was fractured. Prof. Charles R. Vandervoort, for twenty-five years a school principal. at Elmwood and Peoria, Ill, who married Mrs. L. L. McNeal in Chi- cago ten days ago after an engage- ment of over thirty years, died Sat- urday at Denver on his honeymoon trip. ‘With nearly 15,000 miles of trans- continental interstate and trunk line highways contemplated in various sections of the country, it soon will be possible to drive from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, say officials of the United States department of public roads. Patriotic Americans and interest- ed foreigners to the number of 3,- 569,425 have been at the top of the Washington monument since the towering shaft was opened to the public at the capital nearly twenty- three years ago. The daily average has been about 500. MINNESOTA GIRL WINS PRIZE One of Young Women Who Gets $350 Away From Male Contestants. Girl students have received $350 of the $500 Norman Wait Harris political science prizes in spite of man’s supposed superiority in that subject. The prize of $250 for the best essay on the subject assigned, “The Prevailence of Crime in the United States: Its Extent Compared With That of the Leading European States, Its Causes and Best Means of Remedy,” was awarded to Miss Mar- ion Robbins of Dodge Center, Minn., a sophomore in Hamline College, St. Paul. Julius Goebel of Urbna, 1lI., a junior in the University of Illinois, won the second prize of $150, and Miss Anna E. Kjellgren of Milwau- kee, a sophomore in Milwaukee- Downer College, got third place. “Rebellion,” by Joseph Medill Pat- terson, will open in New York on Oct. 2. On the same day the play will be published in novel form. This drama is the most widely discussed among recent American productions, WHITE FINED ONCE JIN'5,000 MILE TRIP Arrest of Bemidji Banker in New Hampshire Only Unpleasant Feature of Auto Tour. VISITS HIS GRADUATION SCHOOL Party Also Sees Concord,’ Lexington, and Plymouth Rock, Trip End- ing at Bath, Maine. DUMAS CASE IN BOSTON PAPER | Wondered Most Who Other “Promi- nent Citizens” Were Who Were Mentioned in Cleanup. Five thousand: miles without a tire being punctured and with but one arrest for exceeding the speed limit is the record established by A. P. White, president of the Northern Na- tional Bank, who arrived in Bemidji at 7:30 Saturday evening after a tour of the eastern states which be- gun at Detroit, Mich., on June 3. It was at Seabrook, N. H., that the strong arm of the law reached out and gathered in Mr. White and $10.62 cents of his money. Ran Into a Trap. Mr. White was alone at the time, and it was about the first opportun- ity he had had to see what his new car, a 40 h. p. Cadilac obtained at the factory in Detroit, could do when given a chance. He was chugging merrily along when he bumped into a speed trap laid for automobilists. “There are a large number of |these traps in the east,” said Mr. White, “and at many of them . the ‘utomobile clubs have erected warn- ings. The traps are worked by an electric bell. When the machine en- ters a measured tract the bell rings which signals an officer a mile away.” At the Bar of Justice. Mr. White was taken before a New Hampshire magistrate and quickly found guilty of whatever degree it is that calls for a $5 fine. Mr. White was inclined to fight the case, but was informed that he must furnish bonds to appear in court at some fu- ture date. The fine and $5.62 in costs was paid. This was the only unpleasant in- cident of the entire trip which car- ried Mr. White and his wife and Ike Black and wife from Detroit to Bath, Maine, and included the cities of Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse, Springfield, Boston and Albany.. Back to 01d School. At Springfield a trip of nine miles was taken to Wilbraham, Mass., where Wesleyan Academy is located, in order that Mr. White might be present. at the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the class of 1886, of which he was a member. At Boston, trips were made to Concord, Lexington and Plymouth Rock, and at Bath, the residence of Mr. White’s parents a short visit was made. The trip home was practical- ly over the same route, with the ex- ception that at Buffalo a boat was boarded for Duluth, and the trip from that city to Bemidji was made via Minneapolis. See Dumas’ Case in Boston Paper. At Duluth Mr. Black left the par- ty and Harold White was picked up. The trip from St. Paul was made by way of St. Cloud to pick up Marion White. - “We first heard of the Dumas af- fair while still in the east,” said Mr. White, “by picking up a Boston pa- per which contained an Associated Press dispatch from Bemidji. We wondered most who the other prom- inent citizens were who were to be arrested—and we are still wonder- ing." CONVICT, 73; ENDS 29 YEAR TERM Imprisioned for twenty-nine years for killing the man he charged with breaking up his home, Fred Kling- beil, 73 years old, was today released from the:state pricon at Stillwater. He entered the prison for the first time when he was-43 years old and a robust man. He left the prison weighing ninety-three pounds, .a physical wreck, with a shert time to live. Klingbeil’s release is due in a large measure to his son-in-law, Ed- ward Sobbott of Chicago. Sobbott has agreed to give the aged man a home with him and the pardon will be absolute. Klingbeil was commit- ted from Washington county. Rugs, Purniture, Pictures and Billiard Tables to Go in'Commercial Club MUST MOVE ON. AUGUST 1 Bemidji’s. comitercial club will be i7" its new home ‘the first of next month. Aer Contractor Tom Johnson, who is erecting the Nangle building which is to shelter the club, has night and day crews at work on the construc- tion and it must be completed on time, as the owners of the present Commercial Clhub: rooms. have made ararngements which will take effect August 1. The new club rooms will be fitted | with the most modern furniture. New rugs and carpets have been purchased for the parlor, a new high grade billiard table has also been ordered and will'be here within the next few days. A set of book cases will be installed and a number of pictures will be add- ed to the present collection- of. the club. The billiard parlor, in which two billiard tables and the pool table will be placed, is to be arranged, and the card and private rooms will be weli furnished. The secretary’s office and the steward’s room will also receive the attention of the house committee. The house committee and the building committee are at work mak- ing a selection of the electric light fixtures, which are to be of the latest pattern. The board of directors and the finance committee ‘is considering a proposition whereby the club will rent the entire second floor of the Nangle building, in which the new rooms are located, giving the club an additional room of 25 feet by 40 feet, which is to be converted into a gymnasium. It is thought that if the “gym” is added to the club that a 'large number of the younger business mwme—-my ‘whozare not mow. members of the chib will join. WHIPPED WITH TUG, SAYS GIRL Witness at Whittier Hearings Tell of More Alleged Abuses. St. Paul, July 17.—Stories of beat- ings witn a harness tug were told by two girls who testified at the hearing before the board of control of the charges made against Superintendent Whittier of the state training school for boys at Red Wing. One girl told of being beaten by Miss Edith Kas- sing until her back bore black and blue marks. story four teachers co-operated in flogging her for a minor violation of the rules. The second witness testified that she had been spanked with a ruler because she talked in her sleep. Mr. Sanborn, counsel for the com- plaint, asked that adjournment be taken until next Thursday so that he might secure a number of the boy witnesses wanted. The testimony of the girls closed that portion of the complaint’s side relating to the management of the girl’s school. “We could put on 25 more girls if necessary,” said Mr. Sanborn, “but we do not want to take the time of the board in giving merely corobor- ative evidence. We feel that - the stories of the seven girls who have testified are enough to show what the conditions were at the girl’s school.” The board of control plans to sit two days each week for the hearing. So much state business awaits its at- tention that more time cannot be given. URGES $30,000 FORESTFIREFUND -|General C. C. Andrews Makes Last Report as Commissioner. General C. C. Andrews, now secre: tary of the state forestry board un- der the new state law, has made his last report as state forestry commis- sioner. He recommends a special fund of $30,000 a year to be set aside to pay for prosecution of those who violate the forest protection laws by setting fires, or by failing to observe proper precautions in logging or other operations in ~the timbered country. He recommends an amend- ment to the law, prohibiting anyone “| from setting fire to brush, stumps or meadows in the timbered region be- tween April 15 and Noy. 15, without first, making a fire break : of bare earth-a rod wide to prevent it from spreading to the property of ancther. Lord Penrhyn gave a holiday to his four thousand Welsh gquarrymen coronation day and on investiture , JULY 17, 1911, According to one girl’s| ™ ROE, WEDGE LAHR WIN SCHOOL FIGHT Receive Overwhelming Majority for Directors Out of Total of 488. Votes Cast. LIVELY 'SCENES AT ELECTION Automobiles Rush Many Persons, Including Women, to Polls Sat- ~ urday Evening, s NEW MEN BEGIN IN AUGUST First Duties Will Be to Name New Officers and Fix Salary to Be Paid Treasurer. Interest in the school election in this city is shown by the fact that 488 votes were cast. Two years ago, with no contest on there were 23. Three new directors for the board of education were elected as follows: J. P. Lahr, at present secretary of the board of education, who received 317 votes. K. K. Roe, 447 votes. A. G. Wedge, 322 votes. Phillippi 163; McCann 170- Candidates on the opposing ticket received the following number of ballots: J. M. Phillippi 163, and Thomas McCann, 170. S. J. Harvey and A. A. Warfield, neither of whom were candidates for re-election are the retiring members. Many Women Vote. The election. was held Saturday evening, the polls being opened at 7 p. m. The voting continued until 9:30, during which time automobiles Servige:by ! friends of *the” different candidates. Many of those who cast ballots were women. Take Up Work in August. The newly elected directors will become members of the board the first Saturday in August and at this meeting officers of the board for the ensuing year will be chosen. This means that a new secretary will be selected, that a treasurer, which office is now held by Dr. Mar- cum, will be designated and that the (Continued on Page 4) and other vehicles were pressed” intos{ DENTIST'S. GOLD' STOLEN With Woods Full of Seekers after Bad Men, Office of Dr. Stan- ton is Robbed, INTRUDERS MISS SOME BOOTY With detectives and the police on the outlook for lawbreakers of the burglar and safeblower class, caused by the recent Puposky attempted rostoffice robbery, w!\ich has ‘result- ed in the arrest of Dr. Dumas of Cass Lake, robbers entered the office of Dr. D. L. Stanton, one of Bemidji’s three dentists, some time during Sat- urday evening or Sunday and robbed the office of more than $60 worth ol gold, used for filling teeth. The gold which was taken was comprised mostly of scraps from plates and filings, only a small part of the value of the stolen gold being the leaf or rolled gold. Twenty-five dollars worth of leaf and rolled gold was missed by the thieves. The gold was kept in the work room of the doctor’s trio of rooms, in one of the drawers of the work bench. The drawer was seldom locked as the door leading into the work room as well as into the recep- tion parlor is almost always fastened. The reception room is used joint- ly by Dr. Stanton and Dr. E. W. Johnson, and it is customary for Dr. Johnson to leave the door leading into this room open, in order that patients might have the privilege of using it. It was for this reason that the room was left open Saturday evening, Sunday and Sunday even- ing, but it was not locked after clos- ing hours on either of the evenings mentioned, and the intruders could easily have gained entrance to the work room of Dr. Stanton without attracting attention: The doctor did not report the rob- bery to the police, as he believes it is impossible to trace the thieves as there is no clue. GOVERNOR NAMES. 'SCRUTCHIN | Bemidji Attorney in List of Delegates to Denver Educational Congress. Governor Eberhart has appointed the following delegates to the Na- tional Negro Educational congress, to be held in Denver, Colo., August I2 to 15: William R. Morris and J. M. Morris, Minneapolis; F. L. McGhee, St. Paul; Charles Scrutchin, Be- midji; William T. Francis, T. R. Morgan, John Hickman, Dr. Cal. Do. Turner, Rev. J. R. White, and J. Q. Adams of St. Paul panel. Copyright by American Press Association; 1911 QUEEN MARY IN THE PARK. ‘afternoon in Hyde park. When the family is in realdelu'e at wmdur she drjves dally in the park about the castle and sometimes goes on shopping ex- .peditions into town, where she is' immensely ‘popular. with the townspeople, who ;always resented King. Edward's open Dreference for other royal resi- WHEN THE QUEEN DRIVES NE of the favorite recreations with her children, to whom Queen Mary, the Princess Mary, her only daughter, and Prince Henry, her third son, out for a drive. The carriage is & simple open one, ornamented only with a very inconsplcuous coat of arms on the’ carriage The queen, when in London and the weather permits, drives every of the queen of England is driving she is devoted. This picture shows ‘dences. ~The queen doesn’t like the motorcar and {s no horsewoman, although TEN CENTS PER WEEK POLICEMAN AND ROBBER DIE IN REVOLVER FIGHT Effort of Minneapolis Patrolman To Capture Escaped Conmvict Causes Tragedy. JERRY McCARTY, DEAD BANDIT Has Long Criminal Career and Had Mce Before Escaped From 5 State Prisons. FIGHT ON STREET DESPERATE Fugitive Answers Demand to Surren- der by Pulling Gun and Open- ing Fire, Minneapolis, July 17.—In a revol- ver battle at close range, Jerry Mc- Carty, escaped convict and known as cne of the most desperate. criminals in "America, and Patrolman Joseph Ollinger killed each other last night ‘| at Central and Twenty-fifth avenues NE. .The hunted man, cornered, did just what his pursuer expected him to do, opened the first fire. Ollinger fired almost at the same instant. McCarty fell first and Ollinger, with four bullets in his body, fell on him. The battle, which eclipses any in the annals of the Minneapolis police, was fought alone by the two men watched at a distance by bystanders, who had been warned away by the policeman. Ends Four Months’ Pursuit. The death of the two men ends a search for McCarty which has ex- tended throughout the United States while McCarty, w had escaped from thé Stillwater“jlenitentiary on March 4, continued his career of robbery. i The fight last night strangely re- sembied one which preceded the cap- ture cf McCarty in October, 1909, when ke shot at Patrolman Jonas Jonassen, but missed fire and Wound- ed himself in the hip. It was for the attack on Jonassen that he was serving the Stillwater sentence when he last escaped. Sees McCarty in Pool Room. Ollinger had seen McCarty hang- ing around pool rooms in the New Boston district for several days. Early yesterday, after a conference with Ollinger, Captain of Detectives Nick Smith said Ollinger had the right man, Kissing his wife goodby, Ollinger said as he left home yesterday, “There may be something doing to- night,” and then left to go on his night watch. From that moment he was after McCarty. He saw McCarty at Cen- tral avenue and Twenty-fourth ave- nue and followed him slowly to Twenty-fifth avenue to the rear of Harry Bussum’s drug store. The fugitive stopped at the rear en- trance and Ollinger turned into the store. R “I'm Going to Get Him.” “McCarty is at your back door and I'm going to get him,” said Ollinger to Bussum. “Anyway, there’s going to be trouble.” Then Ollinger left the drug store and walked straight around to the rear door, where McCarty stood in the shadow. As he walked toward McCarty, he met Harry Stanley of the. fire depart- ment, who had just passed McCarty. He told Stanley to get back onto Cen- tral avenue. “There’s Going to Be Shooting.” “There is going to be some shoot- ing here in a minute and I want you to be out of the way,” he said in a whisper as he passed teh fireman, Then he walked straight to Mec Carty. < William C. Anderson, proprietor of a poolroom at 2502 Central ave- nue, heard Ollinger say: “McCarty, I've got you now or you’ve got me.” Then McCarty opened fire and Ol- linger followed. ' Each man emptied the chambers of his revolver almost in a second. Just as the firing ceased McCarty fell with a bullet through his heart and Ollinger, shot six times through the body, fell on him. One Dead, One Dying. When they were still several men who witnessed the fight ran to them. McCarty was dead but Ollinger still lived. Police hepdquitters®was ‘at once duy, together with an ndd!unn o( 5 wa her. dmuhter 18, uu! her interest in driving is likely to make. the use of with fashionabl (Ccmflnuéd on Page 4) @SOCIETY,