St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-19
is 1T PERSECUTIONf
Ihe Nadsworths Tell Sqtrange
story of Long Suffering.

The members of long-sufferlng and perse-
cuted family were at the Brunswick hotel
yesterday, on the way from the scene of their
sorrows to their old home They were Mr.
and Mrs. Mark Wadsworth of Medora. n D.
ana tneir daughter. The husband and wife
nave LOT more than year been under the
SnaaoW OF a terrible fate, and though Mr.
Wadsworth has been acquitted his wife is
not yet through the hard ordeal Readers of
ne newspapers are familiar with a portion
" tlelf story, at least In brief it is this:
On Dec. q, 1894, Ed Seveson man who
worked for the Wadsworths on their farm
h ilit miles north of Medora, was shot and
hllied, though 1t was at first thought that he
had been killed by kicking horse. An
Slghteen-year-old boy named Ed Rhoem con-
Ilessed to the murder. but declared that he
had done it at the instigation of tbe Wads
s~orths. Accepting this statement and in the
FACE OF the fact that the murdeded man had
peeh the principal assistant and helper of Mr.
%a,u MRS; NadsWorth. both of whom are in
tdius, tney were arrested. Both managed
10 secure bail in the sum of SO 600
90 A n long delay Mr.. Wadsworth was tried
ing ana ACQUITTED after trial last
pe Irled next May. The feeling against them
IN IN the vicinity of Medora is so strong that the
aGmfy th nat acquitted Wadsworth was hung in
eIhgy and the report was currently circulated
IN that town that one of the Jury was tho
nus OF the daughter of an alleged Mime
ao[a murderer who was acquitted many years
@5o through the efforts OF Wadswortb who
i was d member Of that jury This statement
Is Is an right with the exception that this man
W. iU. serve on the jury His name is G. e.
Nv w eR Hfi, ana ne is with the Wadsworths
~ ~ - minneapolis today. He laughs at the re-
per- mat he was on the jury, but positively
asserts the innocence of his friends ely
b., "lI. MadSWorth is man who appears tn
n De crushed by the persecution he has been
f apDJected TO. He had very little to say about
he s lioeeI Wnen questioned by a reporter bur
ne showed that his life has been greatly srnt
p.ItGFeu by what he regards as nersecutior
~ tne fankest kind. He is almost a helniess
DiidP PPI' ana the two misfortunes have COM
-. Mrs. Wadsworth is much moro aegross;,.o
nan taan her husband and entertains ferce
haired OF the men who have caused bar CT
lifut 81 trouble She told the reporter the story
4 III Ine crime, alleging that the boy had nor
on ms horrible story until the county
ooliilinisssioners OF Billings county had suc
:, stockman at Medora" she said with .
~ p1'ter smile is at the bottom of il all IF ;s
ne ana MS gang that have bounded us all tbis
cii'e; Ihousn why, God only knows Think of
and how tbn5 tney nave circulated about US
; , now they nave followed us until now we
nave hau 10 leave the country In search of n
t.ttle peace.,We are going back to our old
iiolle at nadella, in this state and Ibere
we VIII stay until we die except when 7 eo
b bavn IN May to stand trial And while We
10 the murder is practically allowed his Iibl
efty He is allowed entire freedom in H.
gay tline, coming to the jail in Medora to he
locked up at night. He may be seen most an V
tnne drinking and playing cards in the saloon
a a.. Meuofa. lie has been convicted of murder
my triai, as he is to be the chief witness
against me. And then to think that this fer
rlple charge of murder is made against nc
lor the most horrid kind of crime, the killing
t - one VINO mad been our devoted servant and
neipef Ior twelve years. 1t is too HORRIBLE