Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-18
The perpetr.tor Of One Of the
Coolest Blooded Crimes On
Record, IL Here,
And Will Pass the Remainder of
His Life In the Penitentiary-
Story of the Crime.
State Auditors Adjourn Fifteen Days
Board of Education-other
Local News.

AlDotU 1OkOAooAy VIZ WAAS
murderer, who pleaded guilty at the re-
cent term OF court. and was sentenced
to life imprisonment in the penitentiary
was brought in by Sheriff O'Connor,
and turned over to Warden Boucher to
begin his term.
P~eterson's crime was n of the most
heartless and cold blooded in the annals
Of the state, or of any country. In 1876
he was a prisoner in the Stony Noun
tain, Manitoba, ~penitentiary, and made
hs;escupe, going from there to Pembina.
In 1887 he was recaptured, while on a
trim to Winnipeg, taken back and made
TO serve out the remainder of his term,
about two years. He then returned to
Pembina, and took up his abode with
his family. His life there, and in fact
everywhere, was a series of quarrels and
rows, his disposition being naturally
quarrlesome, and especially 81 when he
was inhamed by drink. On Oct. IA,
1892, he returned with his wife from a
business trip to Fargo, and the evening
and night of their return were occupied
with a continued quarreling. The next
forenoon matters seemed to have quieted
down, except that Peterson wanted his
wife to leave him and his house. They
walked together out into the yard, and
Peterson stood with his hand on a wagon
wheel, the foot OF his wife resting on the
hub. Peterson pushed her away and at
the same time drew a revolver and shot
her in the left side, and she fell on her
back, in plain view of her two daughters,
who stood a little distance off. The rest,
and most brutal part of the affair is best
told in the afidavits Of the two little
girls, which is. touching i'll its descrip-
ton:
Flora asked, "What have you done? ~
mother on the ground. Father said he in
tended it long ago. Mother asked for
water; Sarah went, Flora took water away
from Sarah and gave it to her mother,
Father said: .'Poor old woman, you are
sutfering;;'' and then he told us to look and
see where she was shot, that he made it
for a fair shot," Father came up and tried
to pull her dress open: Flora opened her
dress and father said: 1T did not strike the
right place." Father then gave her a KIND
of a kick in the side and then went into
the house; got his pipe aid came back; sat
and looked at mother for some minutes,
then said to her: do you want to get up
and go noww Mother asked for another
drink. Flora sent Sarah to the well:
father said l shouldn't give her any. I'll
you have any respect for her, which you
shouldn't have, l wouldn't give her any,
There was water in the dish which we had
been putting on her head, and father said
that is good enough for her. After q while
he said he would give her a drink. ne
told mother she should drink from him fol
the last time. We had put her straight on
apillow for a little while. and then she
asked for another drink. and Flora helped
her up and Sarah went for water. Father
told us to stand back. that he was going to
shoot her. Flora still held her, her RICH,
arm resting on the ground, so that she
could help herself. Father wouldn't lei
her have the water; he spilled It on mel
hand, and then went up to her with ms re
vOlver, pointed it at her breast n sald NJ
was going to shoot. Mother shook mel
head and said no, father shot again, TINS
time a little above where he shot first, anc
mother fell over on her face and dld no
move again. Father caught her by TN
nose after he shot her the second time, say
ing he had finished her at last. Inc shOt
were fOrty-flve minutes apart.
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