The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1886-02-04
An Unfortunate Affair.

AotV'S Odnos jOnn EAlCn.
An Unfortunate Affair.
Early Monday morning word pass
ed about town that the cook, Mrs.
La Pierre, at the Headquarters had
pounded q kitchen girl, Miss Emma
johnson, over the head till latter
was insensible and really in danger
GUS circumstances. DR.. Swaine was
at once called and pronounced
the wounds not necessarily fatal as
the skull had not been fractured.
Toward Tuesday morning the doc
tor got the girl to sleep and after a
while she awoke in q rational spirit,
remaining so since, and the doctor
says the girl will get we'll. 1t seems
the cook is some IS years of age,
having been married twice has two
children, and it is said has been un-
able to live with either husband,
but being an excellent cook, follows
this for livelihood. For some
weeks the girls about the house
have had more or less amusement at
the cooks expense, and this has
ripened into very cordial hatred
on both sides-the girls all against
the cook. On this occasion, Emma
"made face" at the cook when lat
ter brandished potato masher over
or about the girls head and the lat
ter repeating the "face," the cook
struck her on the forehead, knock
ing her senseless she dropped upon
the table, against which she was
leaning, and the cook administered
two more blows, before the girl
struck the floor-insensible. Each
of the three blows cut a cash from
an inch to an inch and half long
down the skull. The girl was taken
care of and the woman arrested and
placed under bonds of $500 by JUS
tice Dow, S. H. Snyder appearing
for the woman and City Attorney
Purcell and District Attorney Lau-
der for the territory doing all they
could to have bonds placed at $500,
and finally $500, but the justice
would make it $500 and nothing
more. Then b. L. Bogart and Fred
Stewart went on the woman s bonds,
the former going on scarcely 10 oking
into what it was, it being taken to
him by Mr.. Snyder. All this oc-
Cured when the girl lay insensib ible.
AS soon as this was arranged the
woman began to pack up and the
same afternoon purchased a ticket
for st. Vincent, and boarded Tues
day mornings five o'clock train
headed in that direction. This is
the station ON the international
boundary line from which Winnipeg
is reached. The woman, however,
gave out that she was going over to
Fergus Falls till court set when she
would return and defend her case,
at no time evincing regret that she
had been so brutal. Tuesday after
noon Mr.. Bogart had the sheriff tel
egraph to St. Vincent to have the
woman stopped, but nothing has
been heard from the telegram or
woman since. Some seem to think
the woman has gone to Grand
Forks. But our opinion is that she
has succeeded in getting out of the
country and that the boys will have
to stand the paltry $500, much Us it
would be under the circumstan ces,
but poor compensation for a crime
that should be paid for back of the
bars. There are stories that the
woman has lot of farms, houses
and lots and things lying around
the country loose, and that she is
worth $4,000 or $4,000. She makes
out to be a good deal of a criminal;
a fraud on general principles, and
we presume is worth precious little
money. She deserves to go over the
road, and its q shame to allow her
to escape. ,, !