The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-12-12
THE REMINGTON TRIAL.

The entire jury then stood up and the
oath was administered. Following are
the names of the twelve as they were
accepted: Henry Baron, Eldred; O. H
Corliss, Fargo: l., Delameter, Erie;
Joseph Tumble, A. Scott, L. A.
Barnes, Fargo; w. O. Boughton.
wheatland; James Kerr, Charles Far,
rell, Fargo; R. J. Green, Mapleton;
Frank Johnson, Fargo; Joseph Brown.
ing, Buffalo.
States Attorney Rose, who conducts
the prosecution, then made his opening
speech to the jury, occupying the re.
mainder of the forenoon. He said that
the defense would endeavor to prove
the following facts:
That at 2 O'Clock on the morning of
Feb. II Joseph Remington arrived in
Fargo from Minneapolis, after having
went to William q. Doyle's livery
stable in company with a companion
and secured q team and buggy, stating
that he was going to a place southwest
of Casselton. He started at about s
O'Clock in the morning. Upon reaching
Mapleton, being somewhat cold, he
stopped and tied his team in front of a
store and went in to get warm. While
in the place he inquired where he could
find q hardware store and was directed
to one. He went owe to the store and
purchased some center fire cartridges.
From there he went down to the depot
and inquired at what time the trains
would leave for the east. He. then pro
ceeded on his way. The next stop was
at Casselton where he again went into q
place to warm himself. On the way he
was met by several parties who knew
him and recognized him, but he seemed
to evale them. From Oasselton he
went on to Arthur, where he arrived
sometime in the afternoon and tied his
team to q post in a lumber yard, where
it could not be seen from the street.
Then he proceeded to the office of the
Northwestern Elevator Co., where he
remained all afternoon on the pretext of
having some grain which was coming in
that evening. Agent Flett made pre-.
paration to receive it, W going to the
extent of throwing snow on the ap-
proach to the elevator, that the
sleds bearing the grain might
run more easily. He kept
the agent there under this pretext until
just about dusk, before the opportunity
for which he was waiting arrived. The
agent then went up into the hay loft of
the elevator to throw down hay for his
team. Remington followed him up to
the top floor, where he pulled out q re.
volver and shot him in the back of the
head, the bullet lodging against the
frontal bone. The victim had about
$3.50 in cash and a gold watch on his
person, and securing this and several
other articles, among which were the
keys to the elevator, the murderer fled.
When the. body was discovered by
Charles E. Gay and the wife of the MUIR
dered man q few minutes later, life was
not yet extinct, there being a spasmodic
twitching of the muscles, but all sense
had departed. From the elevator the
murderer q back in the direction of
his carriage. He was met when about
forty feet from the scene of his crime by
an old acquaintance, who spoke to him,
but he turned his head away and started
in another direction. He drove back to
Mapleton. where he left the team in the
charge of q livery stable keeper, sending
the team: To this letter. he signed the
name of the liveryman at Mapleton.
instead of his own. He boarded the
eastbound train at Mapleton, arriv.
ing in Fargo about an hour and
q half after the crime "a committed.
Here he purchased q ticket to Mime.
apolis, leaving on the Q O'Clock train.
Upon arriving at Minneapolis he pro.
decided to the home of Miss Eva Gay,
the woman in the CASE, where he
passed the night. The revolver with
which the crime was supposed to have
been committed was afterwards found
in this woman's possession. he was
finally arrested on Feb. "a. at Lacrosse,
Wis, where he made a full confession.
Then Q murmur raj around the court.
room as Mrs. Flett was sworn. She was
dressed in deep mourning and
trembled with emotion. She said her
full name was Catherine Alice Flett,
and that she was the wife of the de.
ceased, James T. Flett. The members
of the Jury eyed her with commiseration.
and as her husbands watch
was handed to her for inspection
and Identification. She said she gave
the chain to him for q Christmas pre-.
sent q year ago last Christmas. The
tears ran down her cheeks and Reming-
ton shifted his eyes uneasily around the
room. She could not positively identify
the watch. She said her husband did
not have any safe in the Office but that
he kept the bulk of the moley on his
person.
Then she was handed the pocket
books, one Of which she identified as
the property of her husband.
MI. Hildreth waived examination of
her and p. Peterson was called. Before
he testified, however, Mrs. Flett was
recalled and gave testimony as to where
she and her husband had lived.
Nj. Peterson stated that he wa q
jeweler and that he had lived in Lari-
more for some time; that he had known
Flett for some time. He had repaired .
watch for the deceased and that he
had kept Q record Of all the watches re-
He had the book with him.
The watch Was examined by the witness
and he identified il % being the one
he had repaired for Mr.. Flett.
The court was then adjourned:
Destruction to Life and Property.
TACOMA, Dec. a.-The hardest and
most destructive wind and rain storm
prevailed on or about Puget Sound
the past ~forty.eight hours that
has been known for years causing de.