WOMAN KILLS 14 WOLVES
Fair Young Homesteader Picks Them Off One by One.
Williston, N. D., November 21.—Miss Eugenia Halstead, of McKenzie county, shot and killed fourteen wolves near her homestead shack.
The animals had been attracted to the vicinity by a fine lot of chickens, but Miss Halstead picked off the wolves one by one. She missed two shots in her campaign of extermination. She had never seen a wolf before coming to North Dakota, but she quickly became acclimated and manifests a marked ability to hold her own in an emergency.
Detroit Free Press, 11/22/1908
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WAR DEBATE ENDS IN DUAL SHOOTING
Haggart, Dec. 16.—Arguments over the European war are believed to have led Otto Suket, a German, 49 years old, to kill John Deacon, an Englishman, 69 years old, and commit suicide. The men were neighbors. Suket ending his own life with a shotgun while officers were en route from Fargo to arrest him.
Walter Suket, a son, testified at the coroner's inquest his father and Deacon had argued frequently over the war.
Valley City Times-Record, 12/21/1916
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INSANE WOMAN TAKES LIFE OF BABY DAUGHTER
FULLERTON THE SCENE OF TERRIBLE TRAGEDY—DRUNKEN HUSBAND BLAMED
Oakes, N. D., Dec. 13.—-Coroner M. Boardman was called to Fullerton upon receipt of word that a little girl had been murdered. It proved to be Selma, who would have been two years old January 1st, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Griepp, who live in Fullerton.
The dastardly deed was committed by Lucia Griepp, mother of the child, who first gave it a dose of dry strychnine because she did not seem to know just how to dissolve it; following this she took a razor and severed the left jugular vein and cutting about a four inch gash across the throat. After finishing this work the mother went over to a neighbor's and informed her of what she had done, and also told she had come to give herself up. There is no doubt but that the woman is insane, and as soon as the sheriff arrived she was taken to Ellendale.
R. A. Grieppe {sp} is a carpenter by trade, and, so we are informed, imbibes at times too much of the fiery liquor, with the result that his family of wife and three children have suffered in not being properly cared for. Their home is evidence enough, and when one gets so shiftless and careless as indications point out it is about time something was attended to.
Rev. B. G. Jackson went over to Fullerton where he conducted the funeral services.
Valley City Times-Record, 12/19/1912
INSANE WOMAN KILLS OWN CHILD
HORRIBLE CRIME COMMITTED BY INSANE WOMAN AT OAKES.
Oakes, N. D., Dec. 14.—Slashing the throat of her 2-year-old baby girl with a razor after she had already given the child two grains of strychnine, Mrs. R. A. Greiff, insane, was committed to the state asylum for the insane yesterday.
The woman's horrible story was related by her to a neighbor where she went immediately after the affair happened.
She had given the child the poison first, and thinking that it was not working fast enough, she took the razor and slashed the baby's throat.
"No use going over there. It's dead," said the mother to Mrs. James Lawrence when the latter, to whom the woman told her story, suggested that they go back to the house of Mrs. Greiff. Mrs. Lawrence went to the Greiff home and found the baby's body just as the mother had said she would.
Three other children, ranging in age from 4 to 7, were in the house when the murder was committed. When Mrs. Lawrence reached the home the others were huddled about the bed on which the slashed body of the infant was lying.
Over a year ago state authorities made an investigation of conditions in the Greiff home and {illegible} then to take the children from the home because of alleged ill-treatment. No further steps were taken, however.
Because the woman gave the entire story of the affair, the officials did not deem an inquest necessary.
That Mrs. Greiff had intended to ending the lives of her other children is asserted by authorities, and she had searched for a revolved with which to kill them.
Ward County Independent, 12/19/1912
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WOULD USE A GUN
Walter Ross, a restaurant man of Tolley, came to town Tuesday evening and proceeded to get into trouble at once. The first thing he did was to fill his hide full of booze and proceeded to the home of Mrs. Boeck who had been in his employ recently. It happened that a Mr. Shanks was there and this highly displeased Ross, who proceeded to buy a gun and return to the Boeck residence. He made a flash, but Shanks who was too quick for him, took the gun from Ross, gave him a sound thrashing and had him arrested. Ross was taken before Judge Kahellek yesterday and was bound over in the sum of $1,000. This he failed to produce and last night was taken to Minot.—Kenmare Journal.
Ward County Independent, 12/1/1910
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Three hobos slept in a straw stack near
Courtenay, Stutsman county. Two of them set fire to the stack and the third, who was a sound sleeper, slept until his house burned down about his ears. He was quite badly burned and lost all his clothing and $35 in money.
Bismarck Tribune, 11/11/1897
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Killed On A Train
A NORTHERN PACIFIC NEWS AGENT MURDERED—NO CAUSE KNOWN.
Dickinson, N. D., Dec. 27.—Lewis C. Buss shot D. A. Shannon, the one-armed news agent, with a revolver, on the Northern Pacific train between Andrews and Little Missouri. Buss jumped off after committing the crime, undertaking to make his escape, but the train was stopped and the passengers soon overhauled him. Buss showed fight and was badly injured. He was from Sac City, Iowa. Shannon was formerly from Mason City, Iowa. He was brought to Dickinson for treatment, but is dying, the ball having entered the brain back of the left ear. Buss is not in a condition to tell why he committed the act.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1/1/1891
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