WELL KNOWN HOPE MAN IS A SUICIDE
Despondency Results in Self-Murder of John E. Holcomb at Son's Home
Hope, N. D., Aug. 29—John E. Holcomb, father of John Holcolmb of Colgate, and well known citizen, committed suicide by the revolver route during the {sp} period of despondency at the home of his son. The deceased was 61 years old, and is survived by a son and a daughter.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/29/1917
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GRAND FORKS GIRL GOES TO JAMESTOWN INSANE HOSPITAL
Confessed Pyromaniac Blamed for Many Fires to Receive State Treatment
Grand Forks, N. D., Aug 6.—That Miss Ruth Erickson of Grand Forks, confessed pyromaniac, is a proper person for treatment at the State Hospital for the Insane at Jamestown, was the decision reached by the county insanity board at an adjourned meeting held in the court house this afternoon.
Miss Erickson has been committed to the hospital and will be taken there as soon as a representative reaches the city who will accompany her to Jamestown.
This closes, for the time being, one of the most sensational cases that has arisen here in years. Miss Erickson was arrested and charged with sending fake fire alarms to the fire department and in following up the false alarms it was brought out that she was connected with various fires in this community.
The whole affair culminated in a signed confession of Miss Erickson admitting that she set a series of thirteen fires in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks covering a period of two years.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/6/1919
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FIRED TEN SHOTS AT SWEETHEART'S PARENTS; ESCAPES
Finley, N. D., April 5.—Citizens headed by Albert Sparrow, sheriff of Steele county, and Oscar Johnson, chief of police of Hope, are scouring the woods in the vicinity of the Sheyenne river near here today for John Nagel, 30, farm hand, who late Saturday night fired 8 or 10 shots at Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hendrickson, at their farm home, because they had objected to his intentions to their daughter, Miss Josie Hendrickson.
After threatening the lives of the couple several times during the winter Nagel is said to have gone to the Hendrickson home between 10 and 11 p.m. Saturday and after Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson retired, he began firing immediately. Two shots hit Hendrickson, one in the forearm and the other in the side, causing flesh wounds. Authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest. The complaint on which it was issued charges shooting with the intent to kill. Authorities believe Nagel is partially demented.
Hides in Small Room
Nagel is believed to have concealed himself at the farm home until Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson retired. From the bedroom window, he opened fire on the couple.
Hendrickson went into a small clothes closet to get a gun and to barricade himself and wife against Nagel. Nagel entered the house and placing his gun against the clothes closet door fired three times through the door.
When the two shots struck Hendrickson he was forced to give up his hold on the door. Hendrickson chased the assailant into the yard, during which time Nagel fired at him several times, but aim going amiss because of the darkness.
Nagel, according to authorities, started to cut telephone connections so that the Hendricksons could not spread the alarm. Mrs. Hendrickson saw him through a window. He turned and fired two shots at her.
Hunts For Sweetheart
After the shooting Nagel went to the rural church a mile distant from the Hendrickson place to find Miss Hendrickson.
He told the young people, gathered for a social evening, that Miss Hendrickson was wanted at home by her mother.
Fearing for her safety they informed Nagel that she was not at the church.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 4/7/1921
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A man named Henry Neahring lodged a complaint against his wife at Deadwood, charging her with violent insanity. The board of commissioners investigated the case and pronounced the charge baseless and its author an inhuman villain.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 8/20/1885
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Mr. J. C. Kinney received a letter on Thursday evening stating that his brother Charles, who was helping his parents on a farm about three miles from
Larimore, slipped from a hayrack and was impaled on the upturned tines of a pitchfork inflicting serious injuries. Mr. Kinney is unable to go to his brother on account of the serious illness of his child.
Bottineau Courant, 9/1/1900
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Horses Stampeded.
At the horse sale at the stock yards Tuesday afternoon, a bunch of horses stampeded, rolling James Foley about under their heels, giving him a severe shaking up. Luckily no bones were broken and he was not injured as much as one might have expected. It was a narrow escape.
Ward County Independent, 9/2/1909
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