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Killed His Neighbor's Stock
Quite a lively case was settled before one of the city attorneys the other day, without any fuss or delay. It seems that A. Fleutsch, a farmer, living two or three miles northwest of Spiritwood, turned his horses loose or allowed them to run about his place without restraint, and on the morning of the 11th inst., about 2 a.m.m they wandered over to F. Peterson's place, a neighbor of A. Fleutsch's. Mr. Peterson, who is very irascible, awakened by the stock, took his gun and in five shots killed, without attempting to drive them away, three valuable horses. Civil action was immediately brought against him by Fleutsch, and last Saturday he came in and settled the case, by paying $300 cash, the cost of prosecution, which amounted to some $20, and gave a mortgage for $300 more. Peterson owned up to the deed and did not try to deny it in any way. It is reported that his mind is not wholly sound and he is not always responsible far {sp} his actions.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 10/20/1892
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Accidental Discharge Of Gun Causes Death
Rolla, N. D.—The death of Robert H. Conn, 30, whose body, pierced by a bullet thru the heart, was found in a garage here, was pronounced by the coroner's jury to have been due to an accident. When he was found, a gun was observed lying across the top of an auto near which he lay. It is assumed the trigger of the gun caught on the cushions when he attempted to pull the gun out of the auto.
Devils Lake World, 10-26-1921
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Six miles southeast of Viroqua, Wis., lives a family named Boggs. Mrs. Boggs is a woman of violent temper, and the family quarrels were frequent. After man and wife has retired, a quarrel arose about something. The woman got up and laid her husband's razor on a chair by the bedside. After a time she got up again and got her husband's knife, which she took to bed with her. She then requested her husband to put his arms about her, which he did, and while in this position she used the knife for the accomplishment of a most dreadful mutilation, almost succeeded. The doctors hope to save the life of Boggs. The woman has disappeared, and up to this date has not been found.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 10/29/1995
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A young man named Fred Betz was killed at Fort Rice last Thursday morning. He had gone to the barn to harness his team preparatory to going to Mandan, and one of the horses kicked, striking him above the heart, killing him almost instantly. The funeral was held yesterday, and interment made in the Fort Rice cemetery. Much sympathy is expressed for the mother, who is almost heartbroken.
Bismarck Tribune, 10/30/1908
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MADAM DARRELL Has Again Returned to the City on Account of the Numerous Requests of the Many Friends She Left Behind. This Gifted Lady Tells the Past Present and Future as No Other Living Person Can. Gives Advice on Love, Marriage, Divorces, Sickness, Lost or Stolen Property, Locates Hidden Treasures and Minerals; in Fact Your Life Is to Her an Open Book. If you Are in Trouble or Wish to Know What the Future Holds in Store for You, Call on the Gifted Lady. Parlors at 28 Merritt Street.
Oshkosh (WI) Daily Northwestern, 8/19/1896 (classified ad)
MRS. I. DARRELL, CLAIRVOYANT and trance medium. Hours 8 to 12, 1 to 9, 411 P.
Sacramento (CA) Record-Union, 9/20/1896 (classified ad)
ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
Miss Lillian Darrell, the noted palmist and clairvoyant, is now located at 671½ Main street, Deadwood, where she can be consulted on all affairs of life for a few days only. Don't forget the address—671½ Main street, Deadwood.
Lead (SD) Daily Call, 6/27/1902 (advertisement)
MRS. DARRELL
PALMIST AND CLAIRVOYANT
Satisfaction or No Pay
Horoscope given free with each full life reading.
Mrs. Darrell, the acknowledged queen of clairvoyants, and palmistry, has by her marvelous gifts, succeeded in dumbfounding learned savants of Europe and scientific men of America, whose unending efforts to solve the mystery surrounding her have only served to plunge them into greater darkness.
It is a matter of history from the remotest aged to the present time that there are few people who posses occult power sufficient to enable them to accurately reveal the past and give a correst {sp} forecast of the future.
To Mrs. Darrell, nature has been most kind, bequeathing to her that rare gift which enabled her to reveal the lives of her fellow creatures as clearly as an open book.
Gifted by nature with mediumestic powers she can read your future destiny with as much certainty as the solving of a mathematical problem.
When you call on Mrs. Darrell today or tomorrow, you will find her advice clear, concise and right to the point and well worth the trouble of a call. Remember, that I guarantee to give you entire and perfect satisfaction or charge you nothing.
Salmon Block
No. 107 Main St. LEAD
Deadwood (SD) Pioneer Times, 12/4/1906 (advertisement)
MME. DARRELL, palmist and clairvoyant, card reader: past present and future. 125 Raymond hotel, 62 Main, bet. So. Temple and 1st South.
MADAM DARRELL, palmist and clairvoyant; scientific and truthful readings of past, present and future. 125 Raymond hotel, 62 Main st.
Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 7/8/1910 (classified ads)
MME. DARRELL teaches palmistry. Over Journal office. Goodnough bldg., Elevator 5th Floor. Suite 505
Oregon Daily Journal, 2/10/1911 (classified ads)
Mrs. Darrell, palmist, for a few days only. Located at 620½ Front street, over Empress theatre. Call today. Office hours 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. Reading 50c. 60-1m
Brainerd (MN) Daily Dispatch, 9/26/1912
PALMIST.
MADAM DARRELL
Who is in your city. Come and see her today. Your luck is in your hand. Learn palmistry and read your own future. Madam Darrell has studied palmistry under Professor Cheiro's methods—Professor Cheiro, the world's greatest palmist. It teaches the length of life; tells how many times you are destined to marry—if you will. Gives initials of names of those you love and recognize. It teaches what you are best fitted for. There is no life so dreary or sad that cannot be bettered by being able to read your hand. The Bible says the sign is in the hand of man. So you may know the good and evil thereof. Palmistry teaches you what you would be successful in—whether it is a trade or profession, and if you should be a mechanic or a merchant, doctor or lawyer, senator or soldier; tells whether you may gain your fondest hopes; if it will be success or failure that will greet your efforts; teaches the art of gaining love and friendship; how to strengthen your weak points, making you more lucky; teaches what you would be best fitted for—whether a profession or a trade—what your vocation in life should be. Office hours, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Call today, 11½ South Main, room 6, opp. Deseret News bldg.
Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 6/21/1910 (classified ads)
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GIVING NAME AS "GOOD LUCK" WOMAN IN SILKS IS IN JAIL.
Giving her name only as "Good Luck," a woman dressed neatly in silks and furs sits in a cell in Bismarck refusing to tell anything of her past. She was picked up in a demented condition after she had tried to drive away with R. D. Hoskin's auto. Her trunk and grip are in hock in the hotel. The woman is said to be Lillian Pearl Darrell. In her handbag was a receipt for dues paid in the Rebekah lodge.
Ward County Indepdendent, 1/15/1914
SPIRIT WOMAN AWAITS FATE
MISTRESS OF MAGIC, OR INSANE, COURT MUST SAY
Judge Costello Holds Final Hearing for Lillian Darrell
Strange Creature One Celebrated Medium and Clairvoyant
Sacrificed Child Rather Than Give Up Communion With Spirits
Wandered by Night, Speaking, She Said, to Invisible Beings
Today Lillian Derrell, woman of mystery and misfortune, self named by the ironic whim of fate, "Good Luck," will have a final hearing before Judge Costello to determine whether she is as she claims, a creature of occult powers or the poor victim of a deranged mind.
Twice in a little more than two weeks since her arrival in Bismarck, she has been picked up by the police, apparently demented and as many times released when her responses to questions seemed to indicate that she was not only sane but of far above the ordinary intelligence.
Once before she had been in the custody of the sheriff here but was released after the county authorities made provision for her board and lodging. Once she was cared for in a local hospital but was released from there when physicians could discover no malady.
Each time her peculiar actions have caused the authorities again to take her in custody and attempt to solve the puzzle of her condition.
Six times in the last two weeks the police have had calls from various parts of town late at night, that a strange woman was wandering about the streets. Each time she was described as walking aimlessly and talking in a low monotone as though communicating with unseen beings.
Women and children have been frightened when returning home late at night they have met the strange bearing bearing over the appearance of one half earthly and half ethereal, speaking ever to the strange invisible spirits with her eyes fixed and intent as on a vision afar off.
From belongings discovered in her trunk and by her responses to a cross examination by Judge Costello Monday, the authorities have learned in a garbled way all that can be gleaned of her past.
Born in Illinois letters in her possession indicate that the woman has traveled over the entire continent. A decade ago she was known, according to newspaper clippings found in her trunk, all over the western United States as a celebrated clairvoyant, and a medium with the power to wring from the spirits of the other world secrets that the future held in store.
Business cards styling her as Madame Darrell, with an address in a fashionable part of Los Angeles, were found among her belongings. In her time she practised {sp} fortune telling through the medium of the spirit world, clairvoyance and palmistry. Testimonials from her patrons show that she was an oracle almost infallible.
Her maiden name was Wheeler. Marriage certificates she still keeps, showing that the woman was married three times, the first time early in life to a man named Fulkerson, who died after a few years of married life, and she remarried a man named Darrell. Later after a divorcfe action, she was married to a man named Boustoy, in Thief River Falls, Minn. A divorce action is now pending, she says brought by the third husband.
She has one child a girl born something over five years ago. The child is now staying with relatives of Mrs. Darrell in Minnesota. According to the divorce decree it is said the mother was denied the right to see her child again. The ruling is explained by the fact that the husband's relatives disapproved of the spiritualistic teachings of the mother. It is believed by the authorities that grief over the separation from her child caused the mental derangement that has brought the woman where she is. Even now she speaks more freely of her child than upon any other subject, mourning continually for the babe she sacrificed rather than forfeit communion with the shadows of another world.
Shortly before Christmas the woman of mystery came to Bismarck. Christmas day she was arrested by the police on account of her strange behavior. At the city jail she gave her name as "Good Luck." Later she was sent to a hospital but was released a few days later.
On Jan. 10 she was arrested for attempting to drive away in an automobile and turned over the police. {sp} A few days later the sheriff released her after providing quarters for her at the Soo hotel. Several times since citiens {sp} have notified the police that the strange woman was abroad at night strolling now near the haunted precincts of the old Capitol Hill cemetery, where the spirits of dead frontier outlaws are said to hold high carnival at night and again wandering in the direction of the state prison, where other haunted souls live, tortured by the memory of their own misdeeds.
Monday she was again taken into custody by the sheriff's office and a hearing was held before Judge Costello. He reserved his decision pending the efforts of members of the local Rebecca lodge to communicate with the organization in Sacramento Cal., where the Darrell woman is said to be a member in good standing.
Meanwhile the woman is being held at the county jail. There she seldom speaks to the other prisoners. When questioned by the judge her answers were intelligent and voiced in a chosen language that marked her as a woman of culture and refinement. In repose, her face drawn and thin with a high intelligent brow, has far more of the esthetic {sp} than the physical. It is hard to believe that the passive pallid face, with its peculiar, almost spiritual light, can be that of a maniac, yet the actions of the woman continually belie her words. She admits with a pitiful attempt of a smile that she is "not like other people."
Today Judge Costello will have the woman brought before him again and upon his decision rests the judgement whether Madame Darrell or Good Luck, is insane, and a fitting patient of the Jamestown hospital, or a mortal endowed with supernatural gifts.
Bismarck Tribune, 1/21/1914
Mrs. Lillian P. Darrell, who was arrested at Bismarck after acting strangely, will be taken care of by sisters of the Rebekah lodge at Sacramento, Cal. She was released from jail, but owing to her queer actions, had to be taken back.
Ward County Independent, 1/29/1914
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