Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-10-31
He Is Charged With Seducing the
14.Year-Old Daughter of Com
missioner Hogue.
The Doctor Denies It and Saws It Is
a Put up Job for Political
Purposes.
Public Sentiment DIVIDED, but in the
Absence of the Doctor All Is
Speculation.

from Fridays Daily, 24th.

/ prominence of the parties involved, but be-
1 cause OF its effect upon the future life and
standing of a hitherto highly respected
/ gentleman and q young girl just entering
4 womanhood. The TRIBUNE has not all
the details, but learns from Kidder county
| people the following:
DR.. Harcourt is one of the commissioners
OF kldder county and the republican nom
inee for the lower house from that district.
Wednesday afternoon he presided at a
grand republican rally at Steele, uncon-
sclous, at the time, of a plot eliminating,
having for its object the taking of his life
Mr.. S. A. Hogue is the name of a prom
inent farmer who lives in the country and
is also a county commissioner He has
several children, among them a couple of
grown boys and a daughter about IA years
Of ~age-buxom, fully developed and just
donning long dresses.
1 H0gue and his sons were in Steele to at
tend the republican rally. The boys were
In and out of the hall several times, and
I there were a few in town who had heard
rumors of trouble brewing. 1t is said the
1 old man n boys had imbibed freely dur
ing the day and were somewhat noisy.
4 About 8 o'clock in the evening one of the
4 boys went up into DR.. Harcourt's office
and told him that the old man (his father
was after him; that he had heard of i'm
\ proper relations between him and the girl,
l and he (Harcourt) had better go down and
\ explain matters if he could or there would
/ be trouble. The doctor went down stairs
4 and was met by Hogue, who made a lunge
N at him with a knife. The doctor grabbed
II the hand containing the knife, wrenched
Il loose the hold of the other hand and ran
n for the prairie. A crowd assembled and
& the enraged father related the details
#Of the trouble.
~ He said that after q recent meeting of
board lMonday) he went out to the
Mbarn to hitch up his horse. AS he vent in
he discovered his daughter, with flushed
face and disarranged clothing, emerging
l. from one OF the stalls. He walked on in
81 He said nothing at the time, but avows if
n had had a gun he would have shot him
a there and then. He had heard, however,
VI tnat the doctor was something Of an ath-
u lete andlhe thought it wise to say nothing
h at that time. The next day, Tuesday, he
.asked his daughter TO accompany him on a
##driye across the prairies. She consented
land when out a short distance he asked
Ssthe girl to explain the episode of the day
Mpreyious. The girl, after some hesitancy,
##made a confession and stated that the
relations had been going on for
S$three weeks.
&@# The next day was the rally and the old
and his sons were in tOwn-not to at
SEfend the rally, but for blood.
@a These are the details as stated by Mr..
&NHogue. Friends of Mr.. Harcourt follow
s sssE boh III and foand him in hiding.
.Ss3hought, under the excited condi-
ZION Of affairs, it was better not to unless
SSN8sDlr. Hogue could be appeased. He denied
5ssghe charge and declared it was purely DO
thai MIR: HoIue was a relative of
sSSsNElr. simpson, the democratic nominee for.
mousse against him, II that this thing
gSead been cooked up against him. His
returned to Steele and endeavored
ssss&O adjust matters, but without effect. The
was expected later, but he failed to
GONE and yesterday morning it was found
Sa$tnat mad taken the midnight train at Daw-
for the east.
sss All sorts of opinions are put forth. Some
the doctors story and say that he
Twill return and face the music and that it
Ms a put up job, while others nave no doubt
sASsDf The truthfulness OF the charges of ST.
W Steele is all broke up over the sensation
ssand everybody is anxiously awaiting fur
KsXNEtner developments. 1t is said thai the doc
and MIR. HOgue have always been the
M&sDest or friends and that the doctor has
sgranted Mr.. Hogue numerous favors, and
a5aghe friends of both gentlemen are in a
M ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
III STEELE, N. D., Oct. 23.-[Special. T.
This town was startled on Wednesday
#evening by an attempt on DR.. Harcourt's
as&llfe by an irate father for the attempted Sc
a&duction of his daughter. The would-be
&avenger. n of Kidder ~county's most re-
n spected citizens and a prominent county
ssof6cial, met the doctor at the railroad
S#Scrossing and struck him several times with
IA pocket knife, but without inficting any
injuries. The doctor broke away and ran
"A up the street toward the Hotel Stickney
Mand disappeared in the darkness, and has
II mot been seen since. The father claims he
s cappght the doctor and his daughter, a H.
81 ~ sschool girl, in a compromising po-
4 &sSyh last Monday afternoon, and as the
SsMGtor has left here there seems to be no
s%sSN9Sdbt as to the truth of it. The sentiment
MA in favor Of the wronged family and very
HPitter against the doctor and it would not
be safe for him to return. He has accumu-
Il lated considerable property which will
have to be sacrificed. He was a candidate
u for the legislature on the republican ticket
II with every prospect of election. He was a
4 prominent man in politics and society, not
A&s0nliy at home, but throughout the state.
Nothing has caused so much excitement
9$siDce the town was started. A warrant
MAS been issued for The doctors arrest.
#srhe legislative committee will Immediate
81 Y select another man to run for the legis-
3 AZURE in his place.
M HE WILL RETURN
E& Later advices received by the TRIBUNE
y al. early hour this morning are to the
efect that the doctor will return at once
md face the music; that he did not believe