Peltier Not Quite Hanged
Bismarck—Joe Peltier, the half-breed, under sentence of death for the murder, with two companions, of a merchant and his daughter in Bottineau county, this state, a year ago, and who was to have been hanged did not pay the death penalty. On Feb. 1, an appeal in his case was taken to the supreme court, which acted as a stay of execution, but the attorneys in the case forgot to have the warden of the penitentiary notified of this action and preparations were all made for the execution, when someone woke up and had the clerk of court wire the warden official notice of the appeal.
Turtle Mountain Star, 2/18/1909
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Grand Forks, D.T., Jan 29.—A
jail delivery took place here about 12 o'clock last night. A prisoner who was confined there, and whose time had expired, had arranged to be on hand with a team. A wrench was constructed of hard wood, and nuts which held the
staples were taken off . They were two wheat thieves, one horse thief, and one pickpocket. The sheriff had gone to New York. No clue to the fugitives has yet been discovered.
Bismarck Tribune, 2/2/1883
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Mrs. Edward Kleise of
Enterprise,
Roberts county, was drowned last Thursday in a most peculiar way. It seems she had accompanied her husband after a load of hay and when crossing a turnpike across a slough, the load tipped over and Mrs. Kleise fell under it in a ditch in which was three feet of water and before her frantic husband could extricate her she had drowned.
She came over from Germany about a year ago and had only been married a few months.
Hankinson News, 6/7/1906
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Strawstack Saved His Life.
Minot.—C. L. Howell, who drives the Standard Oil wagon from Minot to points in the western part of the county, nearly lost his life in the blizzard while driving a four-horse team hitched to a heavy load of oil between Lone Tree and Berthold. The man was found in a hay stack by citizens of Des Lacs, Wednesday morning, more dead than alive and was taken to Berthold, where he is reported as recovering, though it will be a long time before he is well. His face, hands, and feet were badly frozen, though the doctors say he will get well unless complications arise.
Turtle Mountain Star, 1/12/1911
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MAY BE ARSON
Officials Investigating Into Cause of Fire at Norwich.
Norwich, N.D., Dec. 19.—Investigations being made by Norwich officials into the cause of a fire which did $10,000 damages may result in arrests, as it appears the blaze was of an incendiary origin.
The fire burned down the J. W. Shields general store and the Norwich pool hall, as well as doing damage to adjoining buildings. Only the fact that a freight chanced to be passing through the city at the time the fire started saved the entire town from destruction, as the members of the crew sounded an alarm. A bucket brigade was made against the fire.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 12/19/1911
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An intoxicated farmer from near
Vernon was dragged to death by his horses while driving home from White Rock last night. We have been unable to learn his name.
Hankinson News, 2/8/1906
FATAL ACCIDENT
Monday evening of last week Henry Hamann, living about four miles east of White Rock, S.D., in Minnesota, met with an accident from which he died Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock.
Monday Mr. Hamann was at White Rock in a buggy with a spirited team. It was about dark when he left for home, and just east of town at a cross prairie road which he generally took for home, was a ditch to cross. It is surmised when the team crossed the ditch Mr. Hamann was thrown forward over the dashboard, his feet were caught under the seat and his body fell head downward between the whiffle trees and the axle, in which condition the unfortunate man was dragged to his home frozen and mangled almost beyond recognition. The horses started on the run when they struck the ditch, and the deceased was dragged head downward, bumping the hard frozen ground until the top of his head was worn away, blotches of blood, bunches of hair and flesh being found on the ground over the road which the horses took in their mad flight.
Undoubtedly Mr. Hamann never suffered any as it is supposed that he was knocked senseless when he struck the ground and never regained consciousness again before he died. The deceased leaves a wife and nine children to mourn his untimely death.
Hankinson News, 2/15/1906
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