The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-10-16

1852, upon the body of Simon Dalton, deceased.
Jury, j. c. Ramsey, Stephen Wood, William
Freedom, George Wells, P. R. Winnie, Robt
Kennedy.
TERRITORY OF MINNESOTA,
County of Ramsey.
Deposition of Simon Dalton taken upon his
bed. living in the House of Thomas Calder, in
Third street, Saint Paul. by Jacob j. Noah, Jus
tiee of the Peace. Simon Dalton being duly
sworn according to law deposeth and says:
All the man that done anything to me was
James Breck. He struck me with knife. James
Winters and Colonel Breck had hold of one an
other, and went up and caught hold Of Colonel
Breck in my arms, when James Brock run for
ward and stuck me with knife behind Mr.. Cal
der's bar. l saw the knife in his hands. Twas
looking at him. twas big knife. had hold
of Colonel Brcck when l was struck. Don't
think the Colonel Struck me- for was looking
at James Breck with my two eyes. had hold
of Colonel Brock by the coat collar, but never
struck him. was intoxicated at the time but
know what was about. / don't know the
cause of the difficulty amongst the crowd. There
was quite crowd in the room. do not know
the cause of the difficulty with James Breck.
and the Brccks were always good friends This
occurred last night, October 18th. 1852. had
no difficulty with any body else that know Of
Both the Brccks ran out the back kitchen. Did
Brock. Do not remember that Col. Brock ask
ed me to let 60 of him. Neither of the Brccks
threatened me. Luke Dalton saw Jim Brock
pull out the knife and told him to put it up for
there mas no occasion for it there. Did not see
o knife taken away from Col Brock. Did not
see Col. Breck with any knife. Do not remcm-
Der any talk with any body at the time. l took
knife away from James Brock one evening
when was with him and he was going to stick
C,p,,n;nno I bo1 ho1 doet nj Rrocly Inv
the breast when l was stuck. Col. Brcck was
standing up behind the bar. He was standing
up; him and me contending but no blows were
passed between us. Did not hear the Col. tell
James Breck not to stick me. James Breck run
round the corner of the bar, and came up behind
me and stuck me.
SIMON u DALTON, his mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, October
Is, 1852.
JACOB J. NOAH.
Justice of the Peace.
Thomas II. Calder being sworn. says Simon
Dalton and Daniel Breck were sitting upon n
each others neck, apparently friendly. James
Brock and said Dalton got into some difficulty,
to which Daniel Breck interfered and quoted
the difficulty for few minutes: but soon after
Simon Dalton threw his coat and handkerchief
off and threw them on the floor i: just at the
same time l was endeavoring to get Daniel
Breck out of the back door. Said Dalton ap-
pearcd to be perfectly crazy at the time. At
the distance was, could not get to him; it
took all the strength Dalton's friends had to
hold him, as he was kicking and yelling. did
not succeed in getting d. Brcck out of the
house. S. Dalton says, let me at him. will
take his heart out; Brock was at the door and
turned and said he would be damned if he
would run like dog. l said to gentlemen
hold him, ID. Breck) and will put Dalton out;
but he pushed me back, and Brock hollows out
to keep him away from me: saw him ID. Breck)
fourishng knife over his head: his eyes were
furious: caught his hands and pressed them
down to his side, with kuife in his hands, and
carried towards the back door. Before reach
ed the partition, Simon Dalton rushed from his
friends crying he has knife, and the crowd
with him: they rushed on to D. Breck and my
self, and pushed us back on the table, with
Brock in my arms; struck my head on the ia
bic, and Brock got away from me, and l was
stunned by the blow. / was Supplied. and
the crowd tremendous, that | saw nothing
more. The first thing / discovered, after recov-
ering saw D. Breck inside the bar; he was
standing in u leaning position against the bar
with q man, think S. Dalton, choaking him by
the neck and Breck had the knife over Dalton's
head; then l grasped at Breck's wrist, for the
knife, from the corner of counter: at that mo-
ment brought Breck's arm down to the count
er, and called to wrcst the knife, and James
Winters did so. AT the same moment the per-
son who had him by the throat pushed him fur
Their back and Brock hallowed 20, Cod as
quick as the knife was out of his hand. l got
the DaltonS away and took Brock to the back
door, pushed him out, locked the door and
throwed the key away. James Brock was got
out at the same moment by some one else. S.
Dalton was inside of the counter with some Of
his friends, and could see blood on the lower
shelf inside the counter just as got up to the
three: Dalton says am cut: this was after
had got both Brecks out doors. At the same
time with his friends, one of them says Simon
you are stabbed, and Simon saw the blood and
followed out and says by God l am stabbed,
where is he, meaning the man that stabbed him:
in an instant there were several running to the
door to find them. Just at the time that he
discovered he was stabbed, he mourncd till the
Doctor was called to dress the wound: they
then took him into the kitchen. Dalton s
friends are two Winters and others. l called
on Doctor Vitchers and Charles Bazill to take
him into the kitchen till could get the crowd
out of the saloon. The said Simon Dalton is
the same man now lying deceased in the other
room.
THOS. II. CALDER.
j. j. Noah sworn, says he is Justice of the
Peace in and for this county. l was in Mr..
Calder's saloon the night of the ARRAY. There
was great crowd in there, and all pretty we'll
intoxicated. a good deal of quarreling going
on between every body almost. The crowd
was so thick could hardly discover any one.
Mr.. Calder called on me to command the peace.
turned around and saw man, think jim
Winters, trying to strike Mr.. Ward: some
wanted 10 part them, others were anxious that
they should fight as they did not appear anx-
lous to quiet them, caught this man Jim, by
the waist and threw him about ten feet. I
then Quilted Mr. Ward James Bell and myself
then quoted this man Jim, and he promised
to keep the peace; this was about o'clock in
tne evening as quick as my hack was turned
he made three or four efforts to strike Mr..
Ward Mr.. Ward went around behind me and
went out of the door. Afterwards some of the
crowd went up to the bar to get liquor. Col.
breck was sitting on the counter; he (Breck)
said Mr.. Calder told him not to give anybody
any liquor, and no one should have any: and
came up to the Col, asked him if he would not
let the Squire have some, and he says no. not
even you. Afterwards, news coming of the