Bandit Steals Kids And Car
Wishek, N.D., Aug. 10—(AP)—A thief, who stole the automobile of Adam Weidenback, a farmer living west of here, Saturday night, stole more than he bargained for.
Two sons of Weidenbach were asleep in the tonneau and awoke to find themselves traveling with a stranger at the wheel of the automobile. He gave them a dollar and asked them to keep quiet, but eight miles from the village the machine ran out of gasoline and he borrowed the dollar back. Then he tucked the children under the blanket and left.
The stolen car with the children again asleep was found by searching parties at 2 o'clock Sunday morning.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/10/1925
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THREE DIE IN AUTO CRASH
N.P. TRAIN HITS CAR NEAR VALLEY CITY, N.D., WITH TERRIBLE RESULTS
Valley City, N.D., Aug. 18.—Three are dead and four injured as the result of an automobile-passenger train collision on the N.P. tracks west of here last evening. the dead are Mrs. Nellie Wilkinson, 62; her daughter, Mrs. Paul R Thomas, 32, and Anetta Thomas, 4. The injured: Lloyd Wilkinson, 23, and three children of Mrs. Thomas, Edna 10, Monroe 9, and Arthur 4. All are from Williston.
The party was returning from Wisconsin when the fatal accident occurred.
Lloyd, who was driving, said he did not see the train until within only two feet of the track.
Moorhead Daily News, 8/18/1923
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BAD BOOZE AND BAD MOTOR MAKE MIXUP
Beach, N.D., Sept 26.—Bad booze and a bad motor made bad mixture for Joe Goettsche and W. J. Shanks, Wilton young men, who mixed things in a free-for-all in which knives figured, while enroute from Yates and Wibaux, Mont., in a little roadster. Both men were badly smashed when they drove up to Beach in their car and asked for surgical attention. Neither has any vivid recollection of how the fight started.
Bismarck Tribune, 9/26/1917
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Charley Wieland and his hired man were killed by lightning a few miles west of Orkney Monday evening. They were sitting in a barn door, Wieland having a little girl in his arms. Both men were killed and the little girl was stunned. Wieland formerly lived south of
Sanborn.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/24/1905
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Western Union Man Shot by Son With "Unloaded" Gatling
Dickinson, N.D., July 7—C A Nelson of the Western Union was shot through the fleshy part of his hip by his young hopeful, when the latter dug into an old trunk and resurrected a .32 calibre revolver, which he didn't think was loaded. The wound is not serious.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/9/1917
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Negro Had Rights.
Minot.—It took the jury ten minutes to agree on a verdict of not guilty in the case of the State vs. Gust McLarn at Towner. McLarn, who is a negro, was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon on one of the brakemen on a Soo passenger train. The cutting was established and was admitted by the defendant, and the brakeman has sustained a severe wound, but the jury found that he had the right to use the knife to prevent his being ejected from the moving train and were satisfied that McLarn acted in self-defense.
Turtle Mountain Star, 8/17/1911
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