Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-03
10 LAMEAR.
HIS story or How he Came to
Assault Janaque.

Az We briefly stated yesterday morn
ing, Sheriff Mcdonald returned from Ne
braska Thursday evening with 10 La,
Near in custody. LaMear was brough
! before Justice Brennan yesterday after
! noon, and by request of his attorney, MI
. Mackenzie, tire preliminary examination
: was c.ntiaued uatil .next Monday after
) nooa, u Mess being remandcd to jail un
til that time.
The circumstance attending the move
meptss III LsAieAr and his arrest are inter
|. eat,nr. We interviewed all the parties
CONCERNED i'd the matter yesterday and
rive herewith the facts ~ gained from
such interviews. II will be remembered
that tka scc5uut OF LaMear's trouble with
Janaaue, which resulted IN the death OF
the latter. il JOS W version of the affair
and 10 not endorsed by US nor given as a
correct statement Of tile facts, but merely
i. what LAMear has to say fol himself.
JO and the Old man. John Janaquc. for
whose death he was arrested, had had
several quarrels from time to time about
soae money that 10 claimed the old man
owed MIN. The old man had abused him
without stint on several occasions, and DO
had not replied No he might have done,
because he had . great admiration for the
daughter Of the old man. At last Jn
wanted to marry the girl, but Janacque
wouldn't hear t. it Of all, and gave 10 a
terrible .'tongue isshing," aud ordered
him 10 keep away from his daughter.
On the 10th Of February. 10 WAS walk
ing along the road on the Iowa side Of
the river, gong toward Sioux Point.
| He met old man Janacque coming toward
town with a load Of wuod. The old nan
stopped and GIT off his wood. anl Jo and
he had . quarrel, the old man being es
pscial!y severe on 10. The latter then
Knocked him down and struck him scv
eral times, So we'll ~ kicked him. The
cid man, some days afterwards. died.
While he was confined to his bed, JOS
mother was 10 much alarmed that 10,
upon her advice skipped the country.
He came TO Sioux City and took the
train here for Council Bluffs. Meyer
Wise Of the firm of Wise Bros, was in
the car with 10 when he started for the
East, on the trip from which he returned
a few days ago, but he did not recognize
LnMear on the train.
LaMesr proceeded directly to Rulo,
in Richardson county. Neb.. where he
used to live, and where he had some
property, which he now wished to dis
pose Of. He had many friends there,
having resided there several years before
coming here, and to some Of the most in.
innate he told what he had done, and
that he wanted to sell his property and
leave for Colorado or some western local,
ity. His many friends advised him to
return, Immediately aud give himself up
and stand his trial, arguelng that as he
had mt intended to Kill! Janacque, and
that il was not certain that he had died
of injuries received at his hands, it would
be much better for him to surrender
himself, and trust to the fortune of cir
cumstances. 10 q y he had almost con
cluded to do this when John McDonald's
officials stepped in upon him.
There was . travelling show in the
town and q friend of JOS who keeps a
saloon wanted to attend II. He therefore
got 10 to attend his bar for him. 10 had
been up a good deal the night before,
and was very sleepy. He was yng OF
the counter half asleep when Deputy
Sheriff Alec. Kerr, of Richardson county,
came III, and told Jo lac had an order for
his arrest. Jo aud Kerr were old friends,
and 10 got down off the counter and said,
"All right Alec aud pulling his revolver
from his pocket handed it over TO Kerr.
He was then taken to falls city, the VI
~ seat Of Richardson county, and put in
Jail there over night. On "Wednesday
morning Sheriff Mcdonald arrived and
took charge ol the man and that evening
conveyed him 10 Lincoln, placed him in
Jail over night, and the neXt morning
started for home, arriving here Thursday
night, as VIC have stated. The abnye
account is founded upon the statements
Of 10. LaMear. He says he was o
concealed in Sioux Point at all, as was
supposed, but when he disappeared from
the every day view of people in this
above detailed.
The manner in which the
cApTuRE WAS INFECTED
eyinces q commendable shrewdness upon
the part OF Sheriff Mcdonald. At first,
he hal an idea that 10 was concealed Oh
Sioux Point. He therefore, together
with the sheriff Of Union county, Dakota
put Z guard upon that locality, rs has
been fully detailed. The Sheriff went to
LAMear's house. and from a conversation
with his mother ard other relations at
home, became satisfied that 10 was not at
home or near there, although they tried
by I'LL their means to make him think
that the object OF his search was still at
hame.
He began to cast about then for some
clue to 60 by and got JOS history, show.
ing that he had q sister ia Dallas, Texas,
some relatives In Missouri, aud that he
had lived for years near Rulo aud had
hundreds Of friends there. So lie put
mea on the watch at each Of these places.
lie found ~. inally that 10 was at Rulo
and on Thursday OF last week sent a dis
patch ordering his arrest there, aud on
Sunday received q dispatch from Kerr
stating that he had arrested LmMear the
night before md had him safe IN custody.
Mcdonald had taken the precaution to
guard the arrest at all points to prevent
the liberation of LaMear on a writ OF
habeas corpus or other extra judicial pro
ceeding. He left here on Sunday night,
We t to Fort Dodge aud thence to Des
Moines for = reQuisition on the governor
Of Nebraska. Then he Few over to Lin.
cola. Neb., presented the requisition Of
Gov. Gear 10 Gov. CARRIER and got the
warrant Of arrest from the latter and took
the train Tuesday night fer Falls City,
arriving there Wednesday morning. secu
ing his prisoner aud returning as above
mentioned. It was a well arranged and
we'll carried out affair.
LaMesr is in good health and says he
was glad when he raw that Mcdonald
had come for him. lie says his mind
troubled him greatly over the affair, and
be WINS satisfied that he would not be able
TO have any rest Of mind unless he return
ed. He views the affair a. . bad piece
OF business and says lie had been drink
ilg somewhat that day, or he would
would have taken all the old man bad to
say. without doing him personal violence.
| He lau0hinQlv remarked that Mcdonald