Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
INDICTMENTS FOUND.
The Labors of the Grand Jnry in =,
Haddcck Murder Case Com.
pleted.
indictments for Both Murder and r.,
spiracy Returned Against Arensio,,
and Others.

| high tension from the time the crime W
committed, over three months ago. m
Jury has finally completed its work. i,
porting the results OF its nvest'gation,
the court on thursday afternoon lo.,
| While the officers of the court deem il .,
visable at present to make no In
Their statement to the inquiries of
porters than that all the parties lon,
over by the magistrates at the prelimp,
examination are indicted for the Offers
for which they are held, yet from aln,
official authority the details of the iuo
work in the case has been asserting
| Two indictments, one for murder ami
| other for conspiracy, were returned as,a
each Of the following persons. all of WIN
are shown by the evidence to have Ia,
present when the fatal shot was fired:
John Arcnsdorf,
| Ii. L. lGayltt.
| Henry Peters.
| Sylvester Granda, (Gan,ers}.
] Albert Koschnitski QBismarchs,
Fred Muncllrath, Jr,,
q. louis Plath,
George 'freiLcr.
Paul Leader,
Henry Sherman.
| The action of tho jury IN returnil
double indictments in each Of the alov
cases is commendable, since it leaves
! chance Oh the guilty parties escaping. Ear
| must first clear himself of the intlictmg
| fer murder, and then answer to the c!ag.
! OF conspiracy. On their own sta,emer,
| nlready published, all OF the parties nalns
| above are Implicated mere or less il I;
! conspiracy, while no reliable evidence ls
yet been made public changing the genoa
/ belief. established by the evidence in III
| preliminary hearing. that Agenstlorf tn
| lha shot. Conflicting as some OF the state
ments no doubt We're. the jury unanimous
| held that double indictments as,Ai,ls. enc
was the safer plan. 1t is stated Tia
Laayi!t was indicted at his own rcoue
that after consulting his attorney he cou
cludcd it might be well to have bill m
tuned against him With the Under
standing implied tha: nothing sheuld rom
of it WHOM brought up for trail. 1t wilh
remembered That prior TO Lcavitt HAVING
made his statement charging III nsiu
! with the murder. he was promised nnmtl
nl'y by the Governor and !.t!orncy-G NJ
era, so far rs such promises could l,c lEa.,
| relating to the conspiracy. Should it l.
shown, however, that he was more deel.y
implicated. the promise of executive niH
ence in his behalf does not apply.
So far as has been learned, the ..v,G.aa
before tue Graud jury Was about the sin
as that given to the Coloners jury. S.9
era parties whose statements have ber
called. their evidence being considered
| art 4 1iitl, t,,1 In
Among these was Deal. the railroad nan
who claimed to have been approached ~
A'tlslein, II snloonl;eeper, with II prcpo
sition OF pay if he would secure party
dc mp the Methodist preacher. Neal
knowledge OF the facts was found 10 il
very meager. Also juhI, the Dane, brouel
fIon Norfolk, Neb., was not hear,l. hi
statements being very much mixed. III
SUSPECTED that the Dane has been "seen
by tle defense and will be brought as
witness III their behalf when the trial come
on. None OF the prominent saloon men u
Sioux City We're called, the attorneys "a
the prosecution thinking it best to dispens
will their testimony.
CT the ten men Implicated in the crime
six are now i'll Sioux City and four are
pats as YET unknown. John Arensdori
held in bonds of $4,000 on the lw
charges Of murder and conspiracy, the Ia
in the first named case being $50, $50, m
i'll the last S5,0oG; Fred Alunchrath, Jr
Paul Leader and Henry Sherman are Lei
i'll bonds of 5000 each on the conspirar
charge; Albert koschnitski Bismarck
IS IL Jail Ill default of $50, 600 bonds Oh til
two charges of murder and conspiracy
S2o.OtO beng required on the first charg
and $1,000 on the second; Leavitt is hei
IN $500 bonds as a witness. The where
abouts of Treber, Ilah, Granda and Re
tiers is unknown. The above mentioned
bonds were cXacted by the magistrates be
Tor, whom the parties We're arraigned TO
prel n'nary hearing some weeks since
Bal will no donht be furnished and nc
cepcd i'll ArensiOrf s case, and most of th
Other parties will likely be able to funis
nnqlesuoned security for their appearance
when wanted
The Sioux City journal on the 19l
INST, III its account of the jury's report
contained the following:
he evidence before the iury disclose
the fact that just previous to the mnrdel
there existed i'll the city II conspiracy. III
magnitude of which has never bee
dreamed Of. The idea of this conspirac
among those interested in the liquor tratt !.
was to do up" a number Of promnel1
temperance people, who were forward
pushing the injunction suits. 1t was nd
developed that the general intent of thod
interested was to kill these people, but SIM
ply to give each one good thrashing, Wit
the view Of sca,ing them out OF the wei
] begun. There We're, however. per,o1
connected with the conspiracy who wonl
nothesitate to do worse, should the oppo
tlnty be presented"
number Of The jury was asked abot
tlisconspiracy by an Erening Times re
portr, and i'll reply said:
lam not telling what passed in III
Grad Jury room, but am free to tell whi
did lot occur there. No such evidence
a great conspiracy as the Jou1.na! sta'e1
was presented to the Grand Jury. II AMI
such evidence had been pr senled, indlrtI
ment' would have been found. l believe
b4fol' l went on tn. Grand Jury that th"!I
Was no conspiracy to murder Haddoc1
that plan-formel the evenin. of til
mnrd to waylay him and beat him. lt|
suited in the murder. No evidence p"t
sentei 10 the Grand Jury showed anyth:i
bcyoll this"
Proposed Extra Session.
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