Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 31, 1904, Page 4

—— ee LOOKS BLACK FOR GUILMETTE STATE WEAVING A WEB OF STRONG CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. MANY WITNESSES - CALLED TRAIL OF THE “MAN WITH THE GUN” TRACED BY THE PROSECUTION. ' Crookston, Minn., Dec. 28. — The se of the first week of the trial of Suilmette for the murder of Joseph Mongeon of St. Pie, province oof Quebec, Canada, has resulted in the weaving of a web of circumstan- tial evidence such as it would seem im- Thirty wit- s have been called and _ the de- nt, Guilmette, seemingly has en proved to have been the compan- ion of Mongeon on the Saturday and Sunday preceeding the murder, which vas committed Monday afternoon at about 2 o'clock. ilmette, the testimony would tend to prove, was with Mongeon on Mon- day morning, and he admits that he Joseph possible to overcome. Damaging Testimony. Guilmette claims that at 9 o'clock he Mongeon and went to Red Lake lls, where he took the train for r, While the state claims, and hree witnesses have positively sworn, that Guilmette was with Mongeon at noon and at 1 o’clock on the day of the r. One other witness swears ositively that Mongeon’s companion s a man of about the same appear- ance as Guilmette, but she was not close enough to identify him to a cer- taint After the murder was committed, a man with a gun was seen leaving the opposite side of the grove, one mile of Mentor, in which the body of >on was found, and but a few before. the still warm body vered. Froom that grove the has traced “The Man With the Gun” o Tilden and on to Fertile, by eleven 2s who positively swore that man they saw and talked with was Guilmette. They pointed him out n the court room without any hesita- ion. The balance of the witnesses saw a man answering to that descrip- tion carrying a gun, but they were not close enough to identify him positive- mur< witnes Defense Will Be an Alibi. The defense will be an alibi pure and simple. From a number of the witnesses signed statements were se- by City Editor Kennedy of the soning Call of Woonsocket, R. I., who ssented at the time he secured’ ) that they were for publication in his paper. It is understood that when these statements were sprung in court it will be found that they differ ma- terially with the evidence given by the witnesses on the stand. However, the may not be used. The defense ady has subpoenaed nearly the e numbeg of witnesses as the state it is claimed that Guilmette will traced by the defense to Red Lake with as much apparent success as the state has traced him to Tilden. The evidence submitted has been alto- 4 circumstantial. State Rests Its Case. The state rested its case yesterday afternoon. Attorney Hagen outlined t defense briefly, stating -it would be shown that Guilmette was miles from the scene of the crime when it was committed. The defense made a mo- to adjourn until to-day. It was i. The motion was renewed and again denied, but at 4 o'clock a vranted, although Judge Watts scored the defense for not being ready to proceed. her TO CHECK UP LAND. Selle Fourche Irrigation Project Is 7 Progressing. Belle Fourche, S. D., Dec. 28.—Ray- mond F. Walter will arrive in this city to-day for the purpose of checking up the remaining land that has been pledged for the government irrigating scheme. Mr. Walter has had charge of the work thus far, and it is now only a question of a few weeks when the contract. for all the work will be jet. Enough ground has been pledged on both sides of the river to guarantee the government appropriation. MICHIGAN FEUD IS FATAL. M. E. Hanson Is Killed at Amosa by Baptist Delfour. M:rinette, Wis., Dec. 28. — As the outgrowth of a feud, Baptist Delfour hhas slalin M. E. Hanson of Amosa, Mich. Delfour put three bullets into flanson, who died almost instantly. The men were miners. They encoun- tered each other in a barroom. The feud was not originally between them, put between their brothers. Delfour is under arrest at Crystal Falls. wee FACE DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE. Duluth Hostelry Swept by Flames In the Night. Duluth, Minn., Dec. 28. — For the eighth time in twenty-three years, the old St. James hotel was swept by fire last night. Sixty-five guests were sleeping in the hotel at 3:30 o'clock in the morning, when the fire was dis- covered. The firemen and police saved many persons who otherwise would have been cremated. There were two theatrical companies in the hevse— “The Sign of the Cross” and '“The Curse of Drink.” The theatrical peo- ple madé merry over the loss of cloth- ing and other articles of value. Every one of the guests got down the fire es- capes, with the aid of the police and firemen, but none of them had time to dress. Some of the actresses carried their ou%er clothing to the street be- foore donning it, and used a plate glass window for a mirror. Daniel Mc- Donald jumped from a_ second-story window and escaped uninjured. An in- vestigation is being made as to the origin of the fire. It is believed to have been incendiary. INDIANS PLAN TO KICK. Redskins Say Federal Employes Are Interested in Logging. Ashland, Wis., Dec. 28.—The Indians of the Bad river reservation, twelve miles southeast of Ashland, have been hollding councils almost daily for a week for the purpose of formulating a plan for bringing to the attention of the department at Washington many alleged abuses of which the Odanah | Indians have complained for the last ten years. The principal grievance which the Indians desire to lay before the department is the proofs they say they have of the existence of financial relations between government officials in the Indian office at Ashland and a lumber company which has the gov- ernment contract for cutting the pine on the Bad river reservation. PORTAL HAS A BiG FIRE. Missing Man Thought to Have Been Cremated. Portal, N. D., Dec. 28. — Fire at an early hour yesterday morning de- stroyed a block of frame buildings on Front street. The fire originated trom a chimney in A. S. Way’s bowling alley and billiard building and spread rap- idly- to the adjacent wooden struc- tures, quickly consuming Rombough’s club rooms, the dwelling of B. Alm and I. Simmons’ building occupied by J. L. Aflame as a restaurant, S. Bartz’s shoe shop and M. Franzel's blacksmith shop. All were a total loss, and ex- cepting the Simmons building are part- ly covered by insurance. One man is missing and is reported to have burned, but no trace of his remains has been found. MRS. WINIER NOT GUILTY. Young Woman Was Charged With Having Slain Her Husband. Little Falls, Minn., Dee. 28.—After an all-night session the jury in the Kate Winier case returned a verdict acquitting Mrs. Winier of the murder of her husband. Mrs. Winier reported to neighbors that tramps had beaten her husband in their house. Before Winier died he said some Polish words. The prosecution contended that he accused his wife of killing him, while the defense, declared that the word he used meant “they,” re- ferring to the tramps. The case has been exciting much attention, as it is the first time a woman has been tried for murder in this section of the state. HANGS SELF IN SMOKEHOUSE. New Uim Bachelor’s Body Found Suspended by a Rope. New Ulm, Minn., Dee. 28.—Michael Fuchs, a wood sawyer, committed sui- cide by hanging. He was a bachelor and lived alone in a small frame building on South German street. He was missed by neighbors for several days and they notified the authorities. Yesterday afternoon Sheriff W J. Julius searched the premises and found Fuchs’ body at the end of a rope in a smokehouse. He came to New Ulm about twenty years agu from Bohemia, and was about sixty- five years old. CHILDREN GET INTEREST. Deposits in Pierre School Savings Bank Have Reached $1,215.02. Pierre, S. D., Dec. 28. — Since the school savings bank system was es- tablished in this city the pupils have deposited $1,215.02 and the deposit bank has just paid the pupils $28.27 semi-annual interest on their deposits, No interest is paid until an individual deposit has reached $10 or more. THREE KILLED BY TRAIN. Party Returning From Family Re- union Struck by Engine. Janesville, Wis., Dec. 28,—While re- turning from a family reunion near Evansville Mrs. Appel,.an. aged woman; Miss Lovell and Frank Woods were struck by a Northwestern train while driving in a single buggy, and were instantly killed. The train was held an hour and ten minutes Aifrrmohifromechifrswmcs A grizzled, sun-tanned, hard-featured man, whose face bore the stamp of hardship and adventure, was sitting in the smoking room of a New York hotel. He happened to glance at a calendar and saw that the day was Dee. 31. “By Jove!” he exclaimed. “So to- morrow is New Year’s day. Unless something happens before then, it will be the quietest New Year I’ve spent in twenty-three years. “In all that time I have never been so near my old home in Scotland as I am now. Often I’ve tried to get home, but somehow or other New Year has always found me in a tight corner in some out-of-the-way part of the world.’ This man’s experience is typical of that of many of the globe-trotters in this age, when people are so fond of “going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it,” like a cer- tain personage in the Book of Job. New Year's day, 1897, found Englishman facing death from hunger and thirst on board a life raft 300 miles southeast of Madagascar. His ship foundered seven days be- fore in a hurricane. The boats were smashed by the fury of the waves and some of the crew washed overboard. The rest made a raft out of planks and spars, but during the night high seas swept over the frail structure and car- | ried away most of the water and food. “All we had left,” said the man who est of the water casks. That was all we had to keep life in twenty-five hun- gry men. “We made it last as long as we could, but in four days everything was gone. Some of the men fell into de- spair and talked about throwing them- selves overboard. Perhaps they would have done so, but during the night of the fourth day half a dozen big sharks swam around the raft in circles. The sea was phosphorescent and we could see them plainly in the waves of livid fire which they stirred up as they swam around. Even the half-crazed men who had talked about drowning themselves shrank from death in a shark’s maw and stayed upon the raft. “Next morning I saw by a pocket diary which I carried that the day was Dec. 30. To keep up the men’s spirits I told them I had dreamed we were going to be rescued on New Year’s day. That appealed to the supersti- tion inherent more or less in all sail- ors, so I kept on telling them a ship j would come along and pick us up on that day sure, until I began to believe it myself. We even discussed grave- ly whether the sail would heave in sight in, the morning or the afternoon, and one’man who said he guessed it would be toward evening became quite anpopular. “New Year’s morning broke with a lead calm on the oily, blistering sea ind a blazing sky that aggravated our thirst tenfold. There was not a ship n sight all morning—nothing except that glassy sheet of water and that truel, cloudless sky above us. It was che same in the afternoon, and our aopes fell as the sun sank slowly to- ward the western horizon. “Just as we were beginning to de- while a search for the bodies was made. y spair, one of the men screamed hyster- ‘cally and pointed to a thin trail of one |} i went through this terrible experience, H “were a few tins of potted meat, a small barrel of biscuit anrd the small- smoke on the sky line. It was a New Zealand liner headed straight for our raft. In a couple of hours her doctor was giving us a hearty dinner and slops and weak brandy and water.” 7 same man spent another New Year's day off Cape Horn. He safled from Valparaiso in a British ‘“‘wind- jamme expecting to reach his Scot- tish home in time to spend his first Christmas there for many years. But calms delayed her for weeks in the South Pacific ocean, and when she got off Cape Horn she ran into a tearing gale, which brought her mizzen top- down on deck and ripped out all ils. For days she drifted help- exposed to the full fury of the ern gale. The crew labored industriously at rigging up spare and bending new sails. It was a task of tremendous difficulty, for giant combers rolled over the forecastle head continually, filling the v el amidships with green seas. Suddenly in the midst of this toil an apprentice piped out: “I say, fellers, this is New Year’s day. Have you all forgotten it?” ‘Belay your tongue,” retorted the gruff old mate. ‘There won’t be any New Year dinner to-day, except your usual whack of lobscouse.” \ The skipper was superintending the work frem the poop rail and heard the conversation. “Cook!” he bawled out. “Lay aft here!” The cook came out of his galley and the captain asked what he could give them for a fancy dinner. “Nethin’ but split peas, sir, an’ salt horse and marmalade. There ain’t no turkeys in my store-room, sir,” he said “Let’s catch one o’ them birds,” suggested an old tar, pointing to sev- eral abatrosses which were circiing about the wake of the ship. “We'll stretch a point this day and be for- given for it, I guess.” After several attempts an albatross was captured with a big fishhook bait- ed with salt pork and dragged aboard triumphantly. Served up nice and brown and swimming in gravy, it looked so much like a real turkey that it warmed up the men’s hearts and made them think of the holidays they had spent at home? But when they tasted it the resemblance ceased. tt was fishy and tough. like knotted rope yarn and the gravy suggested tar. However, it was a New Year dinner all the same, and it was enjoyed as keenly as the finest feast ashore that day. An American traveler, who is weli known commercially in the West In- dies, was mixed up in one of the peren- nial revolutions of Hayti in his hot and. foolish youth. Unhappily, he al- lied himself with the weaker side, and one New Year’s eve found himself one of a small band of desperadoes de- fending the stoeckaded town of Mira- goane against a government’ army. which outnumbered them by more than 100 to, 1. + During the night the government soldiers forced their way into the town. Only about thirty of the defenders were left alive. , “Stand them up in a line and shoot them.” commanded Gen. Manizat. The meat was GLOBE TROTTERS’ NEW YEAR’S Love of Adventure Has Landed Many Men in Positions of Discomfort and Danger. But they were too weak to stand. All of them were wounded, half-starved and fever-stricken. So the govern- ment troops propped them up in chairs and shot them as they lolled there. Only the white man was spared, in order that his case might be inquired into. When he protested to Gen. Manigat against the cruelty of shooting help- less captives that triumphant warrior merely blew a cloud of cigarette smoke and remarked calmly: “C'est la guerre.”” “Late on New Year's eve,” said the American, “they tried me by court- martial. When I woke up on New Year’s morning I was in the calaboose, sentenced to be shot at sundown. It wasn’t very pleasant waiting. I was quite glad when a gold-laced officer entered the cell toward evening, with 2 paper informing me that ‘his excel- lency, the citizen president,’ had been pleased to pardon me, in consideration of the request of the American minis- ter and of the fact that it was New Year’s day. “I believe they had never intended to shoot me, but only to frighten me, for they hardly dared to touch a white man whose country owned a navy that might bombard their ports. Anyhow, I got out of jail in time to eat my dinner with some American and Eng- lish friends on a coffee plantation near Miragoane.” An American globe trotter tells how he once spent a New Year’s day hunt- ing a crocodile in Jamaica, West In- dies. After a long hunt the crocodile was found buried beneath the mud in a shallow bend of a river on the planta- tion. The hunters only carried small shotguns, which were useless against the beast’s tough hide, covered as it was, Several inches deep in mud. But the planter was a man of re- source. He sent hurriedly for negroes and set them to work to construct two strong walls of bamboo poles across the bed of the stream, thus inclosing the crocodile in a prison from which he could find no escape. After the walls were built ‘every- body hid quietly in the tall grass or the banks and waited. Hour after hour they laid there. Their luncheon consisted of sandwiches and a flask of rum punch. ‘ It was not until the end of the aft- ernoon that the crocodile, finding it could not break through the bamboo barriers, crept out of the water. Be- fore it could drag the whole of its huge carcass out of the mud it was lassoed and hauled toward the bank by twenty willing hands. . Too surprised to offer resistance, the beast at first suffered itself to be al- most dragged on the bank; but it caught on the edge with its forepaws and made a desperate struggle. Twen- ty yelling negroes hung on to the oth- er end of the rope, but could not drag that crocodile up; they could only prevent it from flopping back into the water again. Honors were even in that terrific tug-of-war. _ At last a yoke of eight oxen had to be brought. They soon dragged the beast to the bank, where it was tied around a tree and dispatched with axes, ° Tew In Minnesota. 3 State News of the Week Briefly Told. | Judge Rice of Deadwood has sen- tenced W. B. Hayes for grand larceny to ten years. . Tjark Haase, one of the pioneer set- tlers of Dakota, died at Scotland of pneumonia, aged sixty-nine. Sheriff-elect Harry Trathen has ap- Pointed Martin Ellingson as deputy sheriff of Lawrence county. An athletic club, numbering 100 mem- bers, has been formed at Webster, with Tony Mellum, the pofessional wrestler, as instructor. Sam Komlemmich, a Slavonian min- er, was found frozen to death in a ditch by the wagon road between the Yellow creek district and Deadwood. George Ortwein of Aberdeen, for- merly night clerk at the Ward hotel, will become landlord of the Leon, one of the leading hotels in Brookings. Upon his retirement from office in January, Gov. Charles N. Herried will make his home in Aberdeen, joining the law firm of Taubman & William- son. The public schools at Webster are now crowded to the limit, and addition al room will have to be povided an- other year. It is probable that a new building will be erected. The county commissioners of Faulk county paid a visit to Aberdeen to in- spect the new court house and to get pointers for the which will be built in Faulk county in the spring. Frederck Meier, who murdered his wife, Dora Meier, at the home of his son-in-law, fifteen miles south of Bow- dle, has been found guilty and sen- tenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The Western hotel at Dell Rapids was destroyed by fire. It was owned by Mrs. A. L. Fulmer of Linton, N. D. Lew Smith, the landlord, had $1,500 in- surance on contents. The loss on the building is about $5,000, with insurance of $3,000. Sportsmen and others in the vicin- ity of Webster, interested in the protec- tion and preservation of game birds, will at the coming session of the legis- lature urge the passage of an amend- ment to the state game law prohibit- ing the killing of wild fowls in the spring. The pure seed meeting at Redfield was poorly attended on account of the inclement weather. Professors Chil- cott and Wheeler of the state agricul- tural college gave practical talks on the selection and testing of seed. A committee was appointed to ascertain the localities from which pure seed can be procured. Otto Erickson, charged with the murder of James Garrett, and his brother, William Erickson, also sup- posed to have been implicated in the crime, pleaded not guilty before Judge Rice at Belle Fourche and the case has been set for trial Jan. 23. Otto Erick- son has confessed to the killing, but will plead self-defense. The people of Herreid, in Campbell county, are complaining that since the establishment of the new town of Her- rick, in the Rosebud country, named after the governor of Ohio, a great deal of mail maiter has gone astray, that intended for Herrick going to Herreid, and vice versa. They may ask the postoffice department to change the name of the new town in order to put an end to the annoyance. Grand High Priest Perry, head of the Royal Arch Masons of South Dakota, presented S. H. Jumper and H. S. Will- iams, past grand high priests, wi high priest jewels. Mr. Williams v the first head of the Royal Arch Ma- sons in the state, and Mr. Jumper was the immediate successor of Mr. Perry in that office. It has been decided by the order to present two of the past grand high priests with the jewels each year until all of them have been thus honored. To have withstood the amputation of a leg after having passed his seven- ty-second milestone was the experi- ence of John Mashek of Kimball. A few days ago Mashek accidentally dropped a loaded rifle, which was of 44 caliber. The weapon was discharged and the bullet struck him just above the ankle and shattered the bones in a frightful manner. It was decided to amputate his leg in order to save his life, and three physicians performed the operation. The 18-year-old son of H. A. Gullick- son, a farmer of Castlewood, was shot by ‘a tramp. Two shots were fired, both taking effect in front of the ear, just below the temple, and the boy is in a very serious condition. The man who did the shooting is about 30 years old. While conversing with the boy he called his attention to the windmill, and when the lad turned to look the stranger fired the shots. Sheriff Ad- ams arrested him. There was no provo- cation for the shooting and it is sup- posed the man is insane.