The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1931, Page 2

reining wt brought here. DRAGGED PART WAY Bannon’s body was still warm when it was found Indications were that he had been by authorities, dragged part of the way Creek. one-quarter of a mile east of here. In the jail when the mob entered were Charles another prisoner, Maike, held in connection with a theft. was the only officer there at the time. Asked if he had anything to sa: declared “it is too bad it had to happen.” Bannon, his father, not comment further. The leaders of the crowd, after the deputy refused to give up the prisoner, broke into the cell block, by battering down the door, and then forced the lock on Bannon’s cell. When he realized that him, Charles Bannon protested the innocence of his father. The crowd apparently the story told by E. E. Hildebrant, proprietor of the Schafer hotel, across the street from the jail. Hiidebrant said he counted 16 au- tomobiles and two trucks. Telephone | wires between Schafer and Watford City, six miles away, were severed. Plans for the lynching were care- fully guarded, and authorities had no knowledge that any attempt would be made until after the hanging had occurred. Hans Nelson, Watford City chief of police, however, gained the first indication when he was asked by a Watford City man whether he had) heard “there was to be a lynching bee.” Nelson's informant said that he had seen numerous cars on the) way to Schafer and the circumstances | appeared suspicious. Nelson said he believed that the automobiles were carrying members | to an Odd Fellows’ meeting which he believed was being held at Schafer. | He, however, went to Schafer and on | his way found a phone wire across | the road. i When Nelson arrived at the jail./ the deputy was sweeping broken glass from the floor and straightening out the disorder caused by the crowd. | Used Half-Inch Rope | Sheriff F. A. ‘Thompson, - State's | Attorney J. S. Taylor, and Coroner | H. J. Larson went to the scene of the lynching and found the body stis- pended from the bridge. Ha‘f-inch Tope was used, and a reguiar hang- man’s knot was tied. WITH NOOSE AROUND NECK! (Continued from page one) James F. Bannon, who was wanted for questioning. He was arrested Dec. 13, near Toledo, Ore., at a tourist | camp and returned to North Dakota. He has denied | any connection with the killings. Bannon’s body was cut down some time after and ER to a bridge over Cherry and Fred The deputy , James Bannon He would | the mob had come to get was well-organized, from The body was returned to Watford | City where a postmortem was con- | ducted by Coroner Larson and Dr.} P. O. C. Johnson, Contusions about | the arms and legs indicated Bannon had been dragged part of the way. ‘The coroner held death was caused by a fractured neck. So tightly were Bannon’s arms tied behind his back that severe bruises were caused to his wrists: Maike said that the mob worked for some time in trying to effect entry into the cell. He declared the leaders nearly gave up the attempt and talked of departing, but some members of the crowd prevailed on the others to remain until they had. opened the cell. | Charles Bannon, when he was first | arrested last November on a charge of embezzling hogs from the Haven farm, was held in the Schafer jail. Later when, during his trial he re- vealed that the Havens had been slain, he was taken for safe keeping to Williston. Authorities a few days ago returned | him to Schafer in the belief that he would be safe there, and would be available for his arraignment to-j} gether with his father Friday. | Maike and James F. Bannon were | taken to Williston Thursday for safe- keeping. Williston Lynching Affair in 1913 Similar to That of Charles Bannon. Hanging of Charles Bannon by | an armed mob at Schafer early Thursday morning adds another grim chapter to the history of those who have been tried and found wanting in the court of that inexorable magigtrate “Judge | Lynch.” On Dec. 17, 1913, Cleve Culbert- , convicted of the murder of his former wife, her husband, and their 12-year-old daughter, was hanged at Williston under cir- cumstances that were much the same as those surrounding the ynehing of Bannon. Culbertson, | was taken from the county jail | by a masked mob, who had over- {| powered the sheriff, and dragged | him to a waiting automobile. | Driving to a nearby railroad bridge they hanged their victim. In November of the previous year, George Baker, Dawson, awaiting trial for the murder of his wife and father-in-law, ‘Thomas Glass, was spirited away from the Kidder county jail at. Steele by an armed mob who had stormed the jail. They meted out mob justice by summarily hanging him to a pole in the Steele stockyards and riddling his body with bullets. Alexander Cadotte, Philip Ire- land, and Paul Holy Track were lynched by an Emmons county mob at Williamsport in 1898 fol- lowing the slaying of a family of six. The three Indians, together with two others, had been tried for the brutal killing of the fam- ily after they had been refused money and whiskey, according to the contention of the prosecutor of, the case. E. S. Allen, who acted as special prosecutor, said Thursday that he recalls the « cumstances of the lynching wi He says that mob, after hanging Cadotte, Ireland and Holy Tzact., started up the west side of the river with the express intention of hanging the other two Indians implicated in the case and who / were being held in the Wurleigh county jail awaiting a decision of the supreme court. They had | proceeded as far as Mandanwhen | they decided to stop at a resort to get a drink. The leader of the mob, a man named McKenzie. | after having been given avdrink | of whiskey, snatched up a glass containing ammonia and thinking it to be water, swallowed it at a gulp. The shock to his system was so great that he fell to the [| floor dead. The mob, Allen says, | lacking a leader, lost most of its venom and gradually dispersed A man, whose name could not be determined, was lynched north of Washburn about the year 1883, according to pioneers who recall the event. He had been con- vieted cf stealing horses. ‘W. G. Worner, securities repre- sentative for the Insull interests, was an eye witness to a lynching at Wahpeton over 40 years ago. Worner, a child of five or six years, was driving through the streets in a carriage when the mob appeared dragging their vic- j tim. He was hanged from the Wahpeton bridge, the force of the | fall being so great that his head was severed from his body. There were a number of lynch- ings in the territorial days of which there is no record. Secretaries to Meet | In Bismarck Feb. 16) Pore | Between 20 and 30 secretaries, | members of chambers of commerce and commercial clubs in North Da- kota will attend the annual meeting of their organization in Bismarck Feb. 16, W. P. Chestnut, secretary of the Fargo Chamber of Commerce, “announced Thursdays The session was called to coincide with the date of the conference of | army engineers and others on the} Missouri river diversion project, and which the secretaries ate to attend. James Barrett, Minot, is president of the North Dakota organization and Miss Hazel Hanson, Wahpeton, is secretary. Housewives’ Red Hands now soft and white MENTHOLATU feel it neal FEED ME NORT If your su “IT PAYS” Now is the time to start those hogs off right by giving them the — proper feed to produce better quality pork for the least cost. 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The lynching came six weeks after Bannon had confessed that he killed Mr. and Mrs. Haven and their four | children who lived on a farm six! miles from here. The youth's father, James F. Bannon, held in the same was not molested. | Last Friday authorities brought the two Bannons from'the stronger jail at Williston to Schafer in the belief that possibility of mob violence was reme.e. On several occasions, op- portunity for lynching had occurred, | but was not attempted. | When Charles Bannon confessed | Dec. 13 he was taken from the Schaf- | er jail by authorities to Williston for | safe keeping. Officials had encoun- tered no difficulties, and last Friday brought the youth and his father to/ the jail here preparatory to their ar- | raignment Friday. A spirit of pioneer justice had pre- vailed in this section not so many years ago when the seat for the county was located at Dickinson, a distance of more than 100 miles. Administered Own Justice Pioneers administered their own justice often, rather than hazard a journey over wild trails to Dickinson to notify the sheriff. Too often pris- oners escaped before an officer could be brought to take them into cus- tody. At Williston, about 50 miles north- west of here, a lynching occurred 14 years ago. Cleve Culbertson, con- victed of killing three persons, was | taken from the jail and hanged to a | nearby bridge. It was in this same jail that the Bannons were held up | to last Friday. | Schafer is in the midst of North Dakota's ranching country, a frontier section where prairie wilderness merges with well developed farms. | Within sight of the jail is the farm | and ranch where Governor George F. Shafer's father pioneered and where the governor’s mother and brother still reside. Authorities brought the Bannons [| to the Schafer jail for convenience BETTY, YOU WERE RIGHT! 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Subsequently he con< fessed he killed the other members, but steadfastly had maintained that his father was innocent. Displayed Great Fear ‘When he was taken to the Willis- ton jail, he displayed great fear of mob violence. He related, after his confession, how he had hallucinations hang him. State's Attorney J. S. Taylor said) Thursday that a thorough investiga- tion of the hanging will be made. He declared that the lynching interferes with the state’s plans ‘o prosecute James Bannon. Young Bannon held the key to his father’s innocence or guilt, according to Taylor. It was hoped that the youth who had told many conflicting account to indicate whether he had any accomplices in the crime. Although Taylor claims that in- vestigation and circumstantial evi- dence indicates the elder Bannon had some connection with the crime, he looked toward the youth to ultimately Sheriff F. A. Thompson would not month, and the retiring sheriff, C. A. Jacobson, who had previously han- dled the case, was retained as a spe- cial deputy to continue his work in the case. ‘The time of the lynching is set at between 12:30 and 1 a.m. Sheriff Thompson, aroused by the noise, came from his nearby home, but was overpowered by 12 men. They took him behind the jail and held him there, handling him roughly. * Leaders of the masked mob, how- —————— Start the new year with entertainment at its best. A Coronado radio will bring: it. All latest improve- ments. Gamble’s Play-Boy $49.50—Model 72 $69.50— Model 82 $99.50 complete with tubes. GAMBLE STORES The guaranteed patent flours OCCIDENT, LYON’S BEST, OR CLIMAX “Our Money Back” guaran- special tee is an insurance policy with every sack. 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Expected True Account Many persons were of the belief that Bannon was spared earlier vio- lence because of the feeling prevalent here that he would ultimately give a true account of the killings. A few days ago, Bannon told another of his many conflicting stories, declaring that he had an accomplice. On the same day he repudiated this story. Possibility that his last “confes- sfon,” regarded by authorities as an- other of his prevarications, had acted to arouse sentiment was seen by many. One other belief expressed here was that had Bannon killed members of a pioneer family he would have be- come an immediate victim to mob violence. The Hevens were reserved people, who fraternalized little with their neighbors. There was not the strong bond between them as there exists between the many settlers who came to this section to pioneer. So little was known of the Havens’ affairs that when Bannon said they disappeared his story was first ac- cepted. 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