Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-15
Agnes BaldWiu's Sentence.

Sheriff Ever Wagness and Deputy P.
j. McClory arrived from Devils Lake
Wednesday with Miss Agnes Baldwin,
convicted of ~manslaughter and sentenced
to seven years at hard labor in the peni-
Tertiary, and James Finley convicted of
grand larceny and sentenced to one year
in the pen. The plea of ~manslaughter in
the first degree by defendant Agnes
Baldwin, for the murdero Of Jack Kinney,
terminated the most exciting and ~fiercely
contested case ever tried in the Devils
Lake district. Deceased was staying
with the defendant, who was of a disre-
putable character, on July H., 1890.
Later railroad boys, Maggie Blue, and
the defendant were %carousing at defend
ants shanty. After the boys left, the de-
ceased threw a large lamp at the defend
ant. She threw it back. Both tussled
till Jack fell on the bed. The body
was found with the head, legs and arms
severed from the trunk and buried in a
hole near the house. The defendant de-
MED any knowledge of the butchery.
Maggie Blues testimony went to show
Agnes Baldwin did it. The trial lasted
ten days in July last, resulting in a dis
agreement. States Attorney Cowan was
assisted by Attorney General Spencer.
The defendants attorneys we're M. H.
Brennan, of this city, and Cochrane and
Feetham, Ct Grand Forks. DR.. Moore
of Jamestown, and DR.. Logan, of Grand
Forks, we're defendants experts on the
question of insanity. The sentence was
light, owing to the circumstance sur
rounding the case.
Not Fighting the Senators.
Washington dispatch to Minneapolis
Journal: Congressman johnson of
North Dakota maintained to the Journal
correspondent to-day that it was a great
mistake to say that he was making any
fight against Senators Hansbrough and
Casey over the matter of distributing
federal patronage in that state. Mr..
johnson went on to say that since his
election to congress over $50 appoint
ments had been made, and that he had
or two. The only fight that he had
waged was over the selection of postmas-
ters at Fargo and Grafton. He had
agreed with the senators, he said, in rec
ommending the men who had been ap.
pointed, and he had done this because he
recognized the ability of those who were
appointed to fill those positions. Mr..
johnson considers his position a fair one,
in view of the fact that he claims he is
the only recognized republican repre-.
sentative from North Dakota IN the pres.
ent congress.
MI. johnson made no bones about
saying that when he conferred with
President Harrison at the White House
early last spring he told the president
that he would like to have him take al
the worry Of appointments in his state
off his hands. He said he did not cart
to be mixed up in the trouble tina
would likely arise over the distribution
of federal patronage in his state. MI
johnson at that time said to the pr4si
dent that he a. the only man Wit
rightly held the credentials to Office
from the republican party Of North Da
kota, and that he was willing
to waive all his rights in order to keel
out of the fight over patronage matters
The North Dakota congressman say
that the president smiled and said to hin
that he thought this was q wise move Q
his part. The president added that dun
ling his congressional life he had had on