Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-01-21
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Jamestown Alert: Jeweler Thorald
has a c%uriousity, an Indian pipe from
catlinite store, handsomely carved, which
was picked from the furnace ashes at
the asylum. Where it came from and
when it was made is the question. It
undoubtedly came with the Ignite coal !
from the Dickinson mines but whether
it wa imbedded in it is unknown. 1t
shows the effects of fierce heat, un-
doubtedly that of the furnace, but its
fine workmanship is injured but little.
When found it was in two pieces but
they have been cemented together and
from a pipe of red pipe stone six inches
in length. The bowl is three inches
high. while the blade of the tomahawk,
the entire pipe representing a Ratchet,
is nearly four inches in length and three
inches across at the edge.
The prosecution IN the Villers murder
case at jamestown rested Saturday, and
appears to have made out a pretty strong
case against the defendant. Evidence
was produced that Villers had endeavor-
ed to persuade the wife of Tromer to be
unfaithful to her husband. Another
witness testified to the finding of a
hammer in the middle of a buggy track
near Vil!ers place, which may have been
the weapon with which Tromer was
killed, and another witness testified to
having written a letter in German for
Villers, addressed to some mans "wife
and children, supposed to have been
the letter shown Mrs. Tromer by Villers,
who represented it had been written by
her husband. The defendant in the
case took the stand for the defense and
made a general denial of the statements
that had been made against him. The
case will be completed in a day or so.
The identity of the man who held up
Gene deLendrecie in Fargo two weeks
ago and was later killed at Mallory
Mimi, by being run over by a train,
seems absolutely established. He was
q. w. limerick, a local tin horn gambler
who operated in small towns over the
state. Ee came to Fargo five years ago
fran Cincinnati and has always been
regarded as a crook. His wife and his
babies live in Fargo and are in destitute
circumstances. 1t is stated that limerick
, was en- route for Winnipeg to dispose OF
, a diamond which was wanted by a
Winnipeg gambler who had tried to buy
, it from deLendrecie, and on being refus
a ed had hired limerick to hold the owner
}, up. limerick is alleged to have beer
implicated in a number of similar affairs
over the state and even to have been ii
q the Northern Pacific hold up last fall
Mrs. limerick confessed to the whole af
fair and told Sheriff Wilson that her hus
band came home the night of the robber.
and showed her the watch and the rins
and told her it was taken from Gem
deLendrecie by him and another man
He told her that he intended taking tn
stuff to Grand Forks and selling it ant
! that he would get half the money ant
that the children would not have to g
hungry and cold.
In the trial of the Villers murde
case at Jamestown the evidence Of Mrs
Tromer was continued, she being still
;, i'll and weak, and being forced to Civ
:, her testimony from a reclining invali'
chair. She told of the disappearance o
;, Tromer, her husband, and of the fac
that after his disappearance Villers ha'
come to her with letters that he sal
- were written by Tromer, stating tina
he was east being treated for his eye
sight. Testimony was also given of tn
statements of Villers after the disar
pearance when he was asked if he kney
% anything of the whereabouts Of Tromel
- and stated that he did-that Trome
10 had gone west. The most sensations
q testimony of the day a that given b
one Alex Frazier, who testified to hay
"a ing a conversation with Villers, the lai
- ter stating that Tromer had run away
- Villers also stated to him that he ha
heard Tromer and his wife having a
alteration n time, when she ha
" asked him to kill her, Villers stated t
:, the witness at the time that ne woul
- not be surprised if Tromer returned a
any time and killed her and threw be
body in an old we'll. This testimony i
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