PARENTS ALLEGE DEAD GIRL LOST WAY IN FIELDS
Defendants in Towner Murder Case Deny Charge They Starved Daughter
Towner, N.D., Jan 6—Mrs. Walter Zimmerman was recalled to the witness stand today when the trial of her husband, charged with murdering their 7-year-old adopted daughter, Margaret Kottke, was resumed in the district court of McHenry County.
Mrs. Zimmerman commenced her testimony late Saturday afternoon. She followed her husband, the defendant, to the stand. He testified that Margaret Kottke disappeared from their home the night before her body was found in a strawstack on the Zimmerman farm, and that he had made an extended search for her during the night without avail. He testified that she had wandered from the home on other occasions.
Contention of the State
It has now developed that the state contends that the child was starved to death in the Zimmerman home, and that the body was taken to the straw stack after the child died. Prosecutor E. R. Sinkler thus far has been able to prove that there was no food in the child's stomach, with the exception of undigested wheat, that rigor mortis which sets in about six hours after death and continues for some 24 or so hours did not set in when the body was found, and did not set in afterwards, going to show that such condition had taken place and all traces of it disappeared before the body was found, although Zimmerman claims that the child was lost only six or eight hours before her body was found, and that the girl's body had commenced to decompose which could not have occurred in the time the defendants claim transpired between the child's disappearance and the finding of her body. It seems that the state is endeavoring to prove that the child died in the Zimmerman home and the body was kept in the house for a day or two, then taken to the strawstack and the alarm that the little girl had disappeared given.
Bismarck Tribune, 1-6-1920
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SCHOOL NOTICE
To Parents:
All children, whose 6th birthday will be not later than July first, will be urged to enter primary B Grade classes January 24th.
Please confer with
J.M. Martin, Supt.
Bismarck Tribune, 1/20/1921
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HANNAH DRIVE NETS 331 JACK RABBITS
Good Day's Work Results in Food for Twin Cities and Funds for War Work
Hannah, N.D., Dec. 5—Under the leadership of Ed Porter on the south and Phil Shafer on the north, the postponed Calvin township rabbit hunt resulted in the bagging of 441 jacks, the south team accounting for 208 and the north for 243. The losing team paid 50 cents for supper and the winners 25 cents, and the proceeds were contributed to the Y.M.C.A war fund. The rabbits were shipped to Twin City markets, where they netted a substantial sum for the benefit of the Red Cross.
The Bismarck Tribune, 12/5/1917
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A man named Ed Dagel committed suicide at a hotel in
Mott by hanging himself to a bed post. He was despondent over family troubles and his inability to find work.
Slope County News, 3/30/1916
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Washington Correspondence to Minneapolis Journal: Major Hamilton of North Dakota met with a painful accident while shopping with his wife during the holiday break. With his arms filled with bundles which were to be shipped by express to the northwest as Christmas presents, he slipped and fell on the pavement, dislocating his left arm and shoulder. His left hand and wrist are missing as a result of service in the army, and in falling he threw out the stump to save himself. The limb was set and put into a plaster mold and is doing very well. Today for the first time since the accident the major was on the street.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 1-7-1902
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A family of six persons in Grand Forks applied to Judge Fisk to have their names changed to Huard. The petition was granted, which together with the fact that their former name was was Loon would indicate that they were not so looney.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 1-8-1905
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