Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-29
From the Roy alton Banner.
VIM. MAILING DEAD. :.
Claimed to Have Been Acct
dental, But Foul Play ts
Suspected. p : ~s,%,

A dispatch was received here Tues.
day stating that VIM Walling had
been accidentally killed near Pine
River and that his body would be
down on the afternoon train. 1t did
not arrive, however. until the early
morning train Wednesday. o Frank
Chambers, who came down from
Pine River with the body, could tell
not hing IA to how the accident 0:'
cured. He brought q letter from
Pine River, which told the folio wing
story. Monday afternoon a trapper
was visiting his traps ut Norway
lake w hen he heard a call for help
nearly Il quarter ut n mile away. He
at once started In the direction III
the sound aud soon came upon Wal
ling lying face downward ON the
ground under two logs, one across
his back and the other acrOss his
legs He claims that Walling told
him that he had been there since Fri
day. The trapper rolled the logs
from of him and started ut once for
assist Il nee. going to a tie camp about
thr, -.fourths Of mile away. 1t
seems that he did not Z" back with
these men, and right there he disap-
pears, from the story. These men
went q It once to the place, but when
tl,ry got there he was dead. The
body was taken to Pine River and
sent down from there. When Cham
bers got to Brainrrd tho y. p. uffi-
cials would not carry the body with
our u certificate of death from the
coroner of Cass county. chambers
sent to Lythrop and got the neces-
snry paper and came ON down ON
the next train. Funeral services
were held 1T the M. E, church yester-
day afternoon, Rev. Saunlerson off,
cia ting, and the body was taken
back to Galley's undertaking rooms.
The appearance OF the body, the
different stories told and the uDcer-
tajnty az to the whereabouts Of his
personal property led many 10 be-
lieve he had been the victim Of foul
play. Wnlling was an experienced
lumberman. very cautious man
and one who would nor lie apt to be
caught In the manner described.
One would naturally suppose that
man lying under two logs Tor three
DAVIS and nights without food or
drink, wonld fall away very much
aud show the effects Of the terrible
suffering h. would undergo, yet
most every enc, says the corpse looks
very ma tural and lifelike, az Il he had
died quickly and without pain. tits
said that the log across his back had
been whitfield nearlv half In two
with his pocket knife This Ia hard
~ plausible. A man lying on his
face and whiting at log, could not
possibly do 50 without scra tching
and brulsing his hands quite badly.
but his hands show nOtbilg Of the
kind, There ia u severe bruise across
the right temple. While all the rest
OF the BODY was rigid the neck was
very timber and it was thought by
some that it was broken. A letter
was received from him by the family
last week stating that he would
soon be home and bring considerable
money with him. Whether his
watch, compass an other valua bles
were on hin, when found IL not
known. Elmer Downs has gone up
t" Pine River to look up Walling's
property. The body will be kept for
a few days.
VIM. Walling was about As years
Of age. He was married about IL
years ago to Miss Bertha Downs.
daughtt Oi j.. l.. Downs, who with
two children, Howard and Bessie, Is
left to mourn his untimply death.
League Officers.
At the Republican League club
convention held In Minneapolis this
week the following delegates to- the
national convention and officials
were selected from the Sixth district;
Delegate-at large-GeOrge Rey'
nolds, Stearns. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mcclure. Stearns.
Delegates-J. H. Russell, Morrison;
j. j. Wooley, Wright; s. L. Bean,
Crow Wing: f.. B. Wood. TODD.
Alternates-C.C e. Mccarthy, Itasca:
j. B. Middlecoff. St. Louis, John A.
Sem, Benson and Thomas Martin,
Carleton.
District President-1. w. Bouck,
Morrison.
Secretary, N. H. IngersOll, Crow
Wing.
Treasurer-John Waite, Todd.