William Stoeser, of
Grand Harbor, came to Devils Lake Saturday and swore out a warrant for the arrest of Otto Tial on the charge of abduction. It seems that the young Tial ran away with Stoeser's daughter, but before they could have the marriage ceremony performed, the would-be groom fell into the clutches of Sheriff Wagness, who arrested the young fellow at
Willow city Monday and brought him to this city for trial. The case, however, was compromised by the girl promising to return home with her parents. Tial boarded Wednesday's train for the west.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 12/9/1898
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OFFICER SHOOTS INTRUDER
Ambrose, March 22.—Michael Tachney, an employe {sp} in a livery barn in Ambrose was shot by Chief of Police Vig of that city when caught leaving a coal shed in which fuel belonging to the city of Ambrose was stored.
Chief Vig as {sp} sleeping quarters in the fire hall, and it is reported that for some time the coal owned by the city was disappearing altogether too fast. The chief heard some one in the coal shed, which adjoins the building in which he was sleeping. Vig immediately arose and went to the shed, and discovered a party leaving the building through a small door of the coal bin. He ordered the intruder to halt, but the party who had been helping himself to the city's coal kept on going and was part way out of the door when Chief Vig shot at him. The bullet passed through the building, the fleeing man being astraddle the partition, and entered his leg which was outside. The chief then easily made the capture, and it proved to be Mike Tackney, an employe {sp} in a livery barn just east of the Ambrose city hall. The prisoner is recovering in a Crosby hospital and will have a trial at Minot.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 3/22/1912
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There was a smell of gas in the room and the night man at the Hub restaurant in
Oakes tried to discover the cause with a lighted match. He found it, but the fire department arrived quick enough to confine the damage to $75.
Wahpeton Times, 2/14/1907
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The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Badger, of
Colgate, died last Friday. The funeral was held Saturday at Cogate
{sp}. This is the second child they have lost in the past six months, and the sympathy of the entire community goes out to them in their bereavements.
Hope Pioneer, 3/13/1902
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Paul, the three year old son of Ed. Schieyek, the tailor, was struck by an outomobile
{sp}, near Martin Jacobson's home five o'clock Friday afternoon and knocked fully fifteen feet into the gutter. That the lad was not instantly killed is a wonder for the machine was running at a rate of speed far in excess of that allowed by law. The little boy was badly cut about the head and face and his arms and legs were injured.
Ward County Independent, 5/25/1911
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FORMER RICHLAND SHERIFF KILLED BY HANKINSON CARPENTER
Hankinson, N.D., April 9.—Fred Menski, who Saturday night shot and killed Evan Jones, formerly sheriff of Richland county, is in jail at Wahpeton today, but refuses to make any statement regarding the murder. Jones was killed when he accompanied the constable to the Menski home to serve papers on Menski.
According to two witnesses, B. S. McIlwain and O. W. Bonath, who accompanied the two, the shooting followed a short argument, Menski picking up a shotgun near at hand. The papers were being served in attempt to gain possession of a wagon box. Menski, who is a carpenter, is said to have agreed to make the wagon box for a Hankinson man for $14, but later to have refused to deliver it for less than $20.
Jones is survived by a wife and three daughters. Two of the latter are school teachers, one at Dazey and the other in the northern part of the state. The third is attending Valley City normal.
Grand Forks Herald, 4/9/1917
MESKE TO BE TRIED IN DISTRICT COURT
Wahepton, N.D., April 16—Fred Meske, accused of the murder of Evan M. Jones, former sheriff of Richland county, will face trial at the next term of the district court, being bound over without mail at his hearing yesterday.
Meske was saved from lynching at Hankinson when the shooting took place, the action of the authorities in swearing in a special guard of a dozen men preventing a mob from forming and carrying out the threat to lynch the alleged murderer.
Grand Forks Herald, 4/17/1917
EMIL MESKE IS CONVICTED
Manslaughter in Second Degree Decision of the Jury.
Wahpeton, N.D., July 10.—Emil Meske was convicted early today of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced to one year in the state prison for killing Evan S. Jones, former sheriff of Richland county at the Meske home near Hankinson several weeks ago when Jones, aiding a constable in serving attachment papers.Meske made a plea of self defense, charging that Jones treated his wife brutally when she attempted to protect their property. The jury went out at 6:30 last night charged by Judge C. M. Cooley of Grand Forks. A verdict was reached at 5 o'clock this morning.
Grand Forks Herald, 7/10/1917
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