The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1920, Page 3

we) q t { P * FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1920 sii és 1, Henry Layer, being firet duly sworn, deposes and says, that ! make this statement out of my own free will, without any Promise of whatsoever, that on Thursday, April 22, | left my own home at about -11 o'clock a. m. and walked about one mile south following the section line and then walked from the north into Wolf's farm yard, arriving there at about 11:30 a.m. | then walk- ed into the house and there found Mr, Jacoh Wolf, Mrs. Wolf, the five children and the hired hand, Jacob Hofer, | began talking to |” Jacob Wolf, demanding damages for the injury done to my cow by Wolf’s dog. 1 told Wolf to come and look at the cow and see for himself how much damage the dog had done to my cow. Wolf then told me to leave his yard and go away. This conversation took place while | and Wolf were standing in the doorway leading from the. stormshed into the house proper, | then told him not to get mad and he (Wolf) got the gun, a double barrelled. shot- gun, out of his front room. | then tried to take the gun away from him and in the . fight between Wolf and myself for the gun, one shot went off and then another in quick succession. Une of the shots killed Mrs..Wolf. | did not see her fall, but saw her lay there. | then got the gun away from Wolf ‘and .then got more shells out of the bureau drawer in the front room, where P saw Wolf take two Shells at the time, he (Walf) got the gun and then | reloaded the gun and began shooting. | do not remember at - whom | shot. first, but I believe 1 shot at Jacob Wolf, who by this time had run out of the house across the yard toward the cow- shed and hit him and | saw Jacob Wolf fall. | then went out of the house, where Jacob Wolf tay, and fired another shot into Wolf’s | body. ! them went into the cow- shed, saw there Wolf’s two girls and shot them where they stood in the northwest corner of the When company comes there is no time to waste—no chances to be taken—so mother sees that there is al- ways a can of CALUMET BAKING POWDER on hand. Cakes, pies, doughnuts, muffins and all good things to eat must he dressed up in their best taste and looks. ‘ Then, too, her reputa- tion as a cook must be upheld—and she “stakes” it on Calumet everytime. She knowsit will not disappoint her. | Order a can and have the ! “company” kind-of bakings every day. Calumet céntains only such ingredients as have been approved officially by the i} U.S. Food Authorities. Ba| shed. | then returned to the You save when you Bury it. We} fiouse and there shot and kjlied You tare whee jon eiga He the rest of Wolf's family. | then returned to the yard, carrying Wolf’s coat, dragged Wolf’s body into the shed, first covered the bodies of the two girls with hay, which | took out of the manger, — threw Wolf's body on top of this ea oe . ile and the coat over Wolf's The public is advised that the body aid then glso. covered ‘his QUALITY: AwaRos Bismarck Water Supply Co. isi (Wolf's) body with hay, then re- € ing their reservoir, and; turned to the house, opensd fie ‘hile so doing is furnishing con-; trap door leading from e while so doing is furnishing ieee tte ake Rageaent cad sumers with untreated raw river water. As this water is danger- ous to use for drinking without | first. boiling consumers are ad-j d to boil the water until ed the same is safe. Signed C. E. STACKHOUSE, Health Officer | threw the bodies of the dead lay- ing about the kitchen, one after another, into the basement, then put down the trap door. The reagon | did not kill the Dapy was, | Heleve, pecause did not go into the room in which the baby lay. | then pulled loose the telephone wires ‘from the in- For All Baking Requirements e Use (limax F lour ways uniform SS in quality and contains a high percentage of gluten. Necessarily a high priced flour on account of its high quality. For sale by all grocers. Russell- Miller Milling Co. Bismarck, N. D-. which is al- Phone 33——Will Connect You With All Departments——Phone 33 QUALITY SERVICE SANITARY Fourth Street Bismarck Make a Dollar Worth One Dollar and Forty Cents Specials for Saturday CASH. WE DELIVER Bob Err’s famous prunes at, pound _About 50 25-pound boxes left at $2.00 box; 15 lb. lots $1.35; less, pound Kupitz Company Special Coffee; 10 Ib. lots 46 $4.40;5 Ib. lots $2.25; less, pound.......... Soe Cc 500 pounds California walnuts (snap) 5 5 Ib. lots $1.50; less, pound . —————SSSoo Iowa canned corn, case (24 cans) $2.90; 12 cans La 2 package crispy crackers (45c value) package Wie 6 Lees 39c We have everything the market affords in green veg- etables. Try us for strawberries and cream. MEAT AND FISH DEPARTMENT We have a large consignment of fresh halibut 25 that we have taken over at per pound........ , Cc Get your orders in early in fresh dressed chickens, as we have a nice lot . J Don’t forget we handle nothing but government in- spected meats. We are now cutting Swift’s prime steers. Deliveries ' On all days except Saturday 8:30 and 10:00 in the morn- ing; 3:30 in the afternoon. Saturday, 8:30 and 10 :00 in the morning; 2:30-4:30 in the afternoon. Evening 7:00. TURTLE LAKE SLAYER’S CONFESSION: was decided to arrest Layer. The suspected man continued to protest; | nis innocence, but he taken to | mythe county jail at Wa urn, All} | Strument. f then feft the Wolf house, carrying the gun, closing | the doors behind me as | walk d cut. Before leaving the house, | | picked up all the empty shells carrying them with me also. |! then broke the gun, carrying the same, walked south through Wolt's yard toward the siougn, which | knew was there. When | got to the slough | threw the broken gun and shells | had in my. pocket into the slough ‘and ten turnea east On ine nur Side of Brekken’s farm til! | came to the draw leading north. ana | followed this draw to the hill and then crossed the hill and cut over toward the road narth of Wolf's farm and then followed this road to, my house, a distance of about two miles. .1 don’t know what time it was when | got home but believe it was about 2:30 o’clock pom. | will also add that after | finished shooting in the cow- . Shed | threw about three or four empty shells from the. cowshed into the hayioft through an open door, This is the whole truth, HENRY LAYER. | ARREST, CONFESSION AND [TRIAL ENDS MOST BAF-| FLING CRIME IN HISTORY (Continued From Page One) seek a motive for the crime and then! tind a person to whom the motiv2 would apply. There were only two parties in the neighborhood to whom a motive for the terrible tragedy could be applied. Layer was one of these. Rumors Hinder Capture Countless rumors continually bob- | up to make the tracking of the er more difficult. * rom the start, Chef Martineson was confident that the murders had been committed by someone: living in the neighborhood. Suspicious actions of Layer on the | er, making contradictory to the authorities. ‘The sw country \ combed to dence agi st the suspected man. Depositions were taken from neigh- bors who had heard Layer say he wonld “get” Wolf. State’s Attorney J. ¥ lively operating ferud and Chief Martineson, ini pl that no arrests be made until the; suspect wa urrounded by a mass of inpenetrable evidence, In the; ugeue Franklin Hezne y of the Field Dete . Paul, and George 'North- n P; vay, the forme preserting Attorney General ‘Willi Langer, appeared on the scene to aid Martineson and Stefierud. Layer Arrested Following a conference Tuesday | morning between these officials it night Tuesday and all day Wednes- | the authorities failed to shake Lay er’s story of absolute innocence. M Dowell and Martineson were work- ing on the prisoner at this time and they decided to test the man's nerve. Forcing Layer to hold the pictures of the murder scenes taken the day the bodies were discovered, with the picture ‘of eight months old. Emma Wolf, the.sole survivor of the horvi- ble affair between the pictures of the kitchen basement and tne cowshed, Layer, after nearly 30 minutes of gaz- ing at the revolting scenes finally broke down and confessed he was the guilty varty. Memory Dimmed His memory dimmed by the awful tragedy, Martineson and ‘McDowell forced the confession from Wayer } piece by piece. Many of the minor details of those terrible minutes when the partially. crazed man killed seven members of the Wolf family and the choye boy were an absolute blank on Layer’s memory. He failed to remember if he had used a hatchet in killing any of his victims, although the blood stained weapon was found in the kitchen and one of the smaller j children was killed by a hatchet blow, while “ another is thought to have either been struck by the hatchet or her face gashed when her body was tumbled down the basement. Absolute secrecy was maintained by, the authorities concerning Lay- | Residents in the Turtie ction did not know he had}{ been ‘taken to Washburn. His’ wife did not know why he was being taken there. No one at Washburn, with the RYZON THE PERFECT BAKING POWDER is used by day until midnight Wednesday night | BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE exception of the five or six officiats knew he was in the: town. Mearing Brief The preliminary. hearing in justice court was very brief; occupying: but a few minutes shortly after noon when the courthouse was empty. Af- ter. Layer had been given every chance to adopt legal technicalities to postpone his incarceration in‘ the state penitentiary, he persistently refused such offers saying “whatever way is shortest is the way I want.” Judge ‘Nuesste was unable to shake the prisoner's attitude in this respect. Before the party left for Bismarck with .Layer, State’s Attorney Wil- liams said: . “Chief Martineson deserves all of the credit. possible in the solution of this terrible. mystery. Without, his keen judgment and marvelous intui- tion, neither Sheriff Stefferud or, my- self would have been able to bring Layer to justice so quickly. Martine- | son has’ made a splendid record in this case and deserves the thanks not only of the residents of McLean coun- ty, but of the entire state as well.” a Sheriff Worked Hard Sheriff Stefferud worked tirelessly to pin the crime on the guilty party. The McLean county sheriff scoured the country, interviewing farmers and other friends of the dead family in an attempt to clear up the mystery. It, was to Stefferud that people looked for the prompt apprehension of the slayer and this responsibility weigh. ed heavily on the sheriff’s shoulders. Rewards Due Martineson Chief Martineson will probably be given the, reward of $1,000 offered by Goverr.or Lynn J. Frazier for the ap- prehension and conviction of the mur- derer. The $1,000 reward personall: offered by the McLean county authori- ties and Attorney: General William Langer carried. a proviso that pay- ment, would not be made to a city, county or. state. official. Progressive citizens of McLean county, led by. Un- derwoda business men, started a fund of $10,000 ‘to be paid to the person capturing the murderer and Chief | Martineson probably will ‘be awarded the major portion of this fund. When questioned by Judge Nuessle before sentence was p dd, Layer said he was born in Russia and came to this country. when he was two years old. ‘His parents came directly to North Dakota and for several years he farmed near Ashley. Ile divorced his wife ands married again. He has children living now, the eldest being nine years old. Was Church Goer Layer said. that he knew Wolf and Woll’s, family for.the past four years) He ‘belonged to the same church as olf but worshipped in the school- house near his (Layer’s) farm, while Wolf attended chureh at Turtle Lake. Layer and Wolf had several misunder- standings during the past few year but none of them of. any great conse- quence. One disagreement was over Layer’s cattle grazing on \Woltf’s land, but outside of -several heated argu- ments, the men never came to blows over this matter. When Layer went to the peniten- tiary yesterday afternoon to start his sentence, he and his family were prac- tically penniless. . The authorities found that he had practically no mon- ey in“the bank. He had been buying his farm on the crop payment plan and this had not been entirely paid for, it is understood. It is presumed that the news of. Layer's confession and sentence to the state penitentiary was told to his wife and children yesterday by neighbors as the authorities were too busy tak- ing ‘Layer to Bismarck to break the news to the murderer’s family. Frazier's Man Arrests Boy Governor Frazier sent a personal representative to Turtlé ‘Lake to solve the mystery, but beyond arresting a young boy, who the McLean county} authorities long before absolved ot any connection with the crime, the governor's detective failed to accom- plish very much. He was ably assist- ed in doing nothing by Harry Dunbar, prominent in league circles, confidente of the governor, and owner of a farm in the Turtle Lake region. It is said that after the governor’s detective placed the innocent country boy in the Washburn jail, he forgot all about him for two or three days and left him there, He was later re. leased. No warrant was issued for! the young farmer boy's arrest and it has been intimated that the boy’s parents, incensed at this high handed and absolutely unmerited ‘and un- founded suspicion, will start a damage suit against the detective and the governor. Langer Praises Chief Attorney General William Langer in a statement to the press, with re- ference to the apprehension of the murderers of /Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wolf, their five children and the hired man, “Daring all the time that’ I was state’s attorney of Morton county and since I have been attorney general of North Dakota, there has nevr been a criminal case in the ‘state of North Dakota which was harder to solve than this one.’ Chief of Police C. J. Martineson of Bismarck who had been asked by State’s Attorney Williams and Sheriff Stefferud to assist in the hunting down of the murderers, pick- ed Henry Layer as the man who had done the deed. Chief Martineson af- Stefferud and 1. F. Hezner of the Thiel Detective agency, who do most of the important detective work for the office of the attorney general, de- cided to run down all clues no matter who they might involve and there was not a man living Within a radius of twenty miles of the Wolf place who was not thoroughly investigated. Trips were made into Sheridan county, Mor- ton county, McIntosh, South Dakota, to Sheridan county and Oliver county in ge‘ting the different men suspect- ed eliminated, until finally State’s At- torney Jack Williams and Sheriff Stefferud verified Chief Martineson’s suspicions of Layer. In all my experience I have never }. seen better cooperation between the sheriff and state's attorney and oper- atives of the atorney general's office than in this murder case.” —_———__—. 1 AFTER BEET WORM Dickinson, N. 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