Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-22
FIVE ARRESTS MADE
Authorities Apprehend Five Persons
Charged with Completely in the
Whipping Outrage.
Hearing of the Accused Will Be Had
Before Justice Tibbils at 9 O'Clock
Thursday Morning.
Fraleigh, the Victim, in Pretty Bad
Condition-1tems of News
About the City.

Uondltlon-1tems of News
About the City.
A Disgraceful Occurrence,
At about II o'clock Tuesday night Night
Policeman Barnes attention was attract.
ed by the sounds of a rumpus near the
Dakota block, on First street. He says
he heard sounds as Of rapid blows from a
whip, and then the screams of some man
as in pain. He ran rapidly in the dlrec-
ton of the noise, and with his approach
saw five men disappear IN the darkness.
When he reached the scene of the trou.
BILE he found WI. Fraleigh, who lives in
one of the houses in the rear of the block,
in a rather used up condition. He had
been set upon, he said, by five men who
handled him roughly, beat him we the
back pitilessly with a whip, and admon-
ished him to leave town. Policeman
Barnes says Fraleigh's clothes were badly
torn, and his back badly cut and bruised
from the blows Of a whip or rawhide, and
the man altogether in bad shape.
= ARRESTS MADE.
Five arrests were made Wednesday
morning in connection with the whip
ping assault upon W. J. Fraleigh, which
occurred at about IL o'clock Tuesday
night. The men who were arrested we're
Mills Beech, formerly a resident of EN-
mons county, but who has been engaged
in various occupations about the city for
the past year or SO; M. S. Evans, re-
ported to be an insurance man from
Brainerd, and who has been about town
for the pastfew months; FrankR. Little,
a farmer from Crofta township,and Hugo
Saalberg, a farm hand, who works for
him, and came into town Tuesday after
noon with a load of coal; and Luther
Cakes, a laborer, who has also been en-.
gagged at coal hauling.
1t is claimed that there is evidence
sufficient to connect each of the men ar
rested with the assault. Fraleigh, it is
said, recognized Beech and one or two
others, and there is evidence that the
other men we're with Beech earlier in the
evening, and made passing remarks
which, in the light of the subsequent as
sault, will implicate them also. A broth
or of Cakes, one of the men concerned,
says that Beech came to him earlier in
the day and wanted to enlist his services
IN the affair, and he refused to have any,
thing to do with it.
At any rate, whoever committed the
assault, it was a thoroughly cowardly
and d~espicable piece of business, and il
the perpetrators can be proven, they de.
serve a punishment severe enough to
prevent any further occurrences Of the
kind. Fraleigh was met in the alley
ba OK of the Bismarck Bank block by hle
assailants, who secured a stick of cord.
wood and rode him on it for a time.
Lime was then smeared over his fac.
and in his eyes, rendering him almost
blind, and then he was knocked down
and beaten with a rawhide whip and q
piece OF heavy barrel stave until his
back was literally covered with bruises
and welts, where the weapons left their
cruel marks. Wednesday the injured man
was in a sad plight, being helpless, and
suffering from his injuries. His eyes
were almost blinded from the lime with
which they had been covered, and his
body was a mass of bruises and sores.
He is at present under the care of DR..
Bentley, and is unable to be out of bed.
He was visited during the day 10y Sheriff
Taylor and Justice Tibbils, before VIII ON
he swore out the complaint against the
five men who were arrested, but he was
unable to be present at the hearing.
The motive for the assault upon Fra
leigh is said to be a family affair, Fra
leigh being a son.in-law OF Beech's. The
latter has had trouble with his wife of
late, and since then has had it in for
Fraleigh, accusing him of various
things in connection with the trouble.
Wednesday afternoon the five defend
ants we're arraigned in justice court, be-
fore Judge Tibbils. The complaint,
charging them with assault with intent
to commit a felony was read, and the
case was adjourned to 9 o'clock Thursday
morning, to give them an opportunity to
secure counsel. Bail was fixed at 5000
in each case.
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