Anamoose Girl Shoots Father
THEODORE KUMMER SHOT THROUGH HEAD AS HE LIES ASLEEP
Anna, 20, Confesses Killing "Tyrant" Who Threatened Harm to Her Mother.
FIRED GUN NEAR HIS EAR
Reputed Wealthy Retired Farmer Fourth North Dakota Killing In Past Six Weeks
Towner, N.D., April 29—Anna Kummer, 20, was in the McHenry county jail today charged with first-degree murder after shooting her 66-year-old father, Theodore Kummer, through the head as he was sleeping in their home at Anamoose about 3:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon and North Dakota was investigating the fourth killing in the last six weeks.
Anna shot her father, she told Albert Weber, assistant state's attorney, to prevent him from harming her mother, as he had threatened to do. He was napping, fully-clothed, on a lounge in the house. She placed the barrel of a .39 calibre revolver at his right ear, and fired. The bullet pierced the brain and killed him instantly.
According to Anna, her mother was working in the garden outside the house, when she shot him. Mrs. E.R. Johnson, a roomer at the Kummer home, was upstairs and heard the shot. Kummer was dead on the lounge when she entered the death room.
Bismarck Tribune, 4/29/1930
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All Children Die.
Livona, N.D., May 3, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knudtson of this place, lost all their children by scarlet fever, Thursday and Friday of hast week. Their infant child, Ferdinand Paul, died about 6 a.m. Thursday, April 28th, aged 10 months and 13 days.
Their little girl, Stella Mary, died about noon Friday, April 29th, of a complication of scarlet and brain fever, aged 2 years, 5 months and 17 days, and her little brother Frankie died the same day at 6p.m. of scarlet fever which changed to croup and caused him to choke to death. William Francis was four years, 5 months and 25 days old at the time of his death.
Mrs. Knudtson's brother, Tommy Kelley, who has been herding for her husband for the past three seasons, was taken sick with the dreadful disease Friday morning, April 29th, and died Sunday, May 1, between 7 and 8 p.m. Tommy attended school in Bismarck during the past winter and was a bright and industrious boy. He was 13 years, 8 months and 15 days old.
St. Paul Minn. and Syracuse, N.Y., papers please copy.
Bismarck Tribune, 5/3/1898
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Two Women Slain At Beach
DWARFED ITALIAN, ACCUSED BY POLICE, FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
Murder and Attempted Suicide Seen By Officials As Possible Explanation
RECENT QUARREL BLAMED
One of Victims Had Worked As Housekeeper For Alleged Assailant
Beach, N.D., May 9—Believed to have attempted suicide after brutally slaying two women, a mother and her daughter, "Dago Frank" Genino, 60-year-old Italian, was in a hospital here Tuesday afternoon unconscious from a bullet wound in his head.
After posses during the forenoon had combed the Badlands in this area in search of Genino, he was found behind his home shortly after noon with a wound in his head and a gun at his side.
Bodies of the two women, their heads battered with some blunt instrument, were found shortly before 9 'clock Tuesday morning at the home of Mrs. Rosalia Dodge, one of the victims, one mile west of Beach.
Victims 85 and 65
Mrs. Dodge was about 85 years old and her daughter, Mrs. Mattie Steger, the other victim, was about 65. Both were widows.
The fact that they were fully dressed led police to believe that they were slain late Monday night.
The bodies were found by Charles Jant, who came to their house to milk their cows. Mrs. Dodge operated a 15-acre farm.
Mrs. Steiger, until recently, had been housekeeper for Genino, a dwarfed man about four feet six inches tall. Following a quarrel, she had left his employ and moved her belonings to her mother's home.
Leaves Note In Italian
Suspicion pointed to Genino as the slayer when he could not be found and a note, written in Italian, was found on a table in his home by police officials when they began their investigation. They were unable to translate the note, however.
Genino was arrested Monday morning on a charge of stealing grain from a Beach elevator and it is understood Mrs. Steiger was the informant in the case. This angered Genino who, it is reported, had threatened Mrs. Steger's life several times before.
Genino, who has lived in Beach for many years, resided in a Northern Pacific Railway section huose and earned his living through odd jobs about the city.
Mrs. Dodge and Mrs. Steger had lived here for many years also.
At the hospital here, it was said Genino had a chance to recover should no complications set in. The bullet lodged in the right side of his head. He was semi-conscious Tuesday afternoon.
Bismarck Tribune, 5/9/1933
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SOME ROUGH HOUSE
There was a rough house at Chas. Campbell's place south of the track, in which there were a number of combatants said to be involved. A bull dog was hit by a beer bottle, it is said, and killed, and one of the men was hit over the head and badly cut. The police were called in to settle the disturbance, but found everything quiet on the Potomac when they arrived.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 5/13/1911
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Sergeant-Major Jack Abbott came down from
Buford a few days since to see the town and shake off the monotony which soldier life in these piping times of peace involves. The major proceeded to rehabilitate himself in citizen's clothes. He says in four hours those clothes were an irretrievable ruin—being ripped in every part. Again donning the army blue, he carried the wreck to the astonished dealer and offered him the "hull paraphernalia" for $2.50. The major has resumed military attire permanently. He says he has no use for citizen's clothes.
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 3/16/1883
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Wimbledon—Falling from a high chair, Wallace, 16-month-old son of A.J. Leick, sustained a broken neck, death being instant.
Turtle Mountain Star, 3/16/1922
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