The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
sept. 8. 1851, Edmund liberty. q i

Sept. 8, 1887, Edmund Liberty, a squaw
man on the Ceur d'Alene reservation W. r.,
went to visit a neighbor named Peavey, and
found Mrs. Peavey lying on the floor with
her throat cut. One hand appeared ne
though she had clutched the ham OF the
murderer, as it was badly cut. On the bed
near the woman lay her infant with it's throat
cut. Suspicion fell on an Indian named Paul
Harry, who had just been arrested for horse
stealing. When he heard Of the charge he
managed to escape, but Indian police capt
ured him. He was tried at Rathdrum for
horse stealing, there not being evidence
enough to try him for the murder. Recently
Susan Latraux, q squaw, said she had heard
Harry boast of the crime while drunk. Har-
~ has been captured. His accomplice has
been aslo discovered. He ia at the point of
death at the DeSmet mission, and will prob
ably die before the trial.
ST. J. Fox, postmaster of ..Larkin, MIMI,
was found wandering aimlessly in tho street
at Syracuse, N. Y, along with his little
daughter. He is now at the station house.
Fox has no knowledge of how he came to be
there, except that he wandered from home
during q spree. The mans name is T. J.
Fox, and he runs a merchandise store and is
postmaster at Larkin, MINI. Recently there
was a wedding party at his place, and he
drank 40 much cider that he was crazy. His
friends tied him up SO that he could not
harm any one while the fun progressed. Thu
next morning, however, he got un'asuened,
and, taking his little girl, went to Wabasha,
Mimi, and from there he went to La Crosse,
Wis. At La Crosse he bought @ thorough
ticket for New York. He says he didn't
thoroughly realize what he was doing. This
morning at Fox's request. Oyerseer Gere
telegraphedtO the mans banker, at Waba-
sha, for money, SO that he could return
home.
James Smith, who was arrested three
weeks g for robbing the Armourdale
office of the Badger Lumber company, while
on trial in the court of Justice of the Peace
Lewis at Kansas City, suddenly rose from
his seat, threw a knife, rushed upon Detective
Gilley and cut his throat, inflicting a prob
flee, but just as he was going out OF the door
was shot five times and killed. The cash in
Galley's throat is seven inches long. Gilley
himself fired four shots ut Smith, but the
shot fired by Policeman Maloney was prob.
ably the fatal one. Thomas Laven, an &C
complete OF Smith in the burglary, was in
the court room at the time, and escaped dur
ing the confusion that folio we'd the cutting
and shooting. As Smith darted toward the
door to escape, he stabbed Policeman Ma
loney in the left leg. causing u slight flesh
wound. After Smith was dead, some excited
persons in the court room fired several shots
into the body. Charles Dukes, a young man
who was in the court room as q witness, was
struck in theleg by a stray shot. The wound
is not serious.
A young Laval university law student
named Seers, whose family belonging SOM
where in the states is very wealthy, disap.
peared a month ago and his friends here
thought he had gone home. The ~nou
ment is made that he died in the Notre Dame
Hospital at Montreal. Investigation shows
that the time of Seer's mysterious disap.
pearance he was very melancholy and de.
spondent. He had fallen in love with a
young lady in Quebec and upon being re.
jected threatened to her that he would kill
himself. She thought no more of it. He went
to his rooms, Invested himself of coat and
vest and plunged q dagger into his breast in
the region of the heart seven times, each
time miraculously missing q vital spot. He
was found weltering in his blood. Physi
clans called and he was taken to Notre Dame
Hospital. The case was hushed up. Aweek
ago gangrene set in and finished the dagger's
work and he died. His parents have been
notified and SO has the girl who Tilted him.