H.J. Cole of
Ludden, Dickey county, is the latest addition to Warden Haggart's boarders. Cole became too intimate with a girl by the name of Annie Sydel, who has always borne a good character, but who under promise of marriage from Cole departed from virtue and became an outcast from society. She is now the mother of a little innocent girl, while Cole serves a term of nine months in the penitentiary. Cole made an offer of marriage after trial had commenced, which was refused, and Judge Lander held against the pleadings of Attorney Glass, of Minneapolis, that the offer lessened the crime.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 12-9-1891
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GETS LIFE SENTENCE
Frank Kethman of Moorhead is Sentenced to Penitentiary
Fargo.—Frank Kethman was found guilty of murder in the second degree by the jury that sat on his case. The victinm, Dr. Thrond S Egge, was killed on the evening of labor day and suspicion fastened at once on Kethman as he had quarreled with the doctor earlier in the evening in a saloon. The murder was a most brutal one and was evidently committed by a crazy or an intoxicated man.
Kethman was held to a grand jury by the coroner's jury and the grand jury returned an indictment against him for the murder of Dr. Egge. The trial began on Nov. 19, and testimony was taken on the 24th. The trian consumed thirteen days and the jury was out fifteen hours. It returned a verdict of murder in the second degree.
Under the statutes of the state of Minnesota the penalty for second degree murder is life imprisonmnet, and this sentence Judge Taylor passed on him.
Turtle Mountain Star 12/9/1909
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WAGON TIPPED,
FARMER KILLED
Ashley, N.D., Dec. 29—John Ley, farmer, living ten miles southeast of Kulm, sustained injuries that resulted in his death twelve hours after his team bolted and tipped a heavy farm wagon over upon him. The horses became frightened at a passing automobile.
Mr. Ley was 50 years old and leaves a wife and three children.
Bismarck Tribune, 12-29-1921
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The recent county election at Bismarck, D.T., the headquarters of the Northern Pacific railroad, resulted in the choice of Jack White, keeper of a dance house, for sheriff, and of Richards, an assistant in White's saloon, for register. The town is excited by a war between the soldiers of Fort Lincoln and the roughs. A soldier named King was murdered near Bismarck by a gambler known as
Spotty Whalen. A few days after twenty or thirty soldiers attacked the dance house of Mullen & O'Neill and fired a volley, shooting Mullen through the brain. The occupants of the dance house returned the fire, killing Dalton, a cavalryman. Mullen had been tried before for the murder of a soldier, and acquitted. Another fight at the same saloon between soldiers and citizens did not result in bloodshed. It would seem that the troops stationed at Forth Lincoln are rather demoralized.
Troy (NY) Daily Times, 11/19/1873 (Source)
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ANOTHER SHOOTING MATCH!
JACK O'NEIL DIES WITH HIS BOOTS ON!
Thirteen Months and Two Days between Dave Mullen's Death and O'Neil's
PADDY HALL THE ASSASSIN!
He Surrenders Himself and is Now in Jail
CORONER'S INQUEST AND VERDICT OF THE JURY.
General Feeling of the People
On Saturday morning last, between the hours of one and two o'clock, a few of our citizens were startled by the report of a revolver, which immediate investigation developed that a person well known here as Jack O'Neil had been shot and killed by a party whose general cognomen is "Paddy" Hall, the circumstances of which we give below:
It seems O'Neil and Hall had a little difficulty during the day, Friday, and came together in the afternoon of that day in the Exchange Saloon; they had a fisticuff round, in which Hall got the better of O'Neil. O'Neil "squealod," and the two were parted, O'Neil saying to Hall, "I will kill you for this." Both parties then went out, and shortly afterwards O'Neil returned to the Exchange Saloon, having with him a double-barreled gun, and a Navy revolver on his person. He made some threats at that time, of which little notice was taken. According to the testimony elicited from the witnesses during the inquest, the show is that O'Neil and Hall met several times afterwards, but no real trouble occurred; but about one o'clock O'Neil left the Exchange Saloon, quite drunk, saying "I am going home, and will be sober in the morning." He had hardly gone fifteen paces when Hall met him, and fired two shots at him from a Navy revolver, the first shot passing through the heart and body, the second striking the buttocks, and thus it was that.
JACK O'NEIL "DIED IN HIS BOOTS"
Immediately after the shooting
PADDY HALL
surrendered himself to Constable Madden, saying "I have killed Jack O'Neil," and gave up his revolver. Hall was taken to jail and held for an examination.
A coroner's inquest held over the body of O'Neil, after close investigation, rendered a verdict that O'Neil came to his death from shots fired from a revolver in the hands of "Paddy" Hall.
Something over a year ago, the firm of Mullen & O'Neil existed here, they being in partnership in a saloon and dance house, situated on the corner of Fourth and Meigs Streets. It will be remembered by many readers of the Tribune, that Mullen was killed in a melee, in the dead hours of night, with some members of the 7th Cavalry. He, too, "died in his boots," and bravely, and now barely
THIRTEEN MONTHS AND TWO DAYS
have passed away and the earthly partner left has gone "Over Yonder" there, mayhap, to meet in the "Land of the Leal," his former co-workre and co-operator. The
FEELINGS OF THE PEOPLE
as in all cases of a like nature, conflicts; but the general impression is that Hall acted from a personal sense of self defense. O'Neil had made threats against Hall's life, and it was only natural that Hall should be prepared in case of meeting O'Neil, and his own confession shows that he acted in that light, and with such impressions. Following so soon in the page of the cold-blooded murder of young Peterson, the mystery of which as of yet remains enshrouded in gloomy night, which had been a topic of conversation with all our citizens since its discovery, and its every surrounding and connection was of such a dark, deeply concocted, cowardly assassin-like nature, that nearly all have taken a lively interest in the case, and this second
EPISODE OF BLOOD
changes the current but little. The prevailing desire and hpoe of the law-abiding, peacable citizens, however, is that some remedy for this growing evil of the too common use of fire-arms, may be speedily arrived at. No man feels entirely safe when such lawlessness goes unpunished or rebuked.
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, 12-16-1874
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In the case of Chas. Frieburg vs. Erick Anderson a suit for damages for alleged slander the jury brought in a verdict for 10 cents and also piled the costs to the amount of 10 cents on the defendant. The suit was for $2,000, it being alleged that Frieburg had circulated stories reflecting on Anderson's honesty. Both parties are farmers and reside south of
Sanborn.
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, 12-15-1900
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