Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-12-28
WOMAN ARRESTED.
in the Silk Swindeling Case is
Arrested Today and is Now
in Custody.
Hearing of the Case of Carver and Wife
Continued Today and More
Testimony Taken.
Hearing of the Case Adjourned Until
Wednesday of Next Week when
it will be Completed.

it will be Completed.
The returns from the operations of
the magazine canvassers are still COM
ing. States Attorney Allen this
morning received number of receipts
that were given at towns in the east
ern part of this state and in Mime
sofa. These show the extensive oper-
ations of the gang of canvassers and
prove the case to be an important one
to the country generally as evidence
in the hands of the states attorney
shows that their operations have not
been confined to these two states but
traces of them have appeared in Him
ois, Wisconsin and several other
states. From a letter received from
the Butterick people by the states at
torney this morning a gang of canvas
sers was in operation in Illinois last
April, giving various names. The
Butteric1 people took steps to warn
people that they were frauds. but the
men were not caught. Whether the
man Carver, under arrest here is one
of this same crowd is question. He
denied having been, and said that
prior to his engagement with Burch
he was canvasser for Chicago por-
trait cn1nnanv
Carver was on the stand in the case
this morning and told about the same
story as his vile told the previous day.
He said he had engaged with Burch at
st. Paul, and Burch claimed to be a
general agent of the Butterick people.
A telegram received from the Butterick
company this morning states that
Burch is q fraud, and that neither he
nor anyone else had any authority
from them to offer silk as = premium.
Carver told of the meeting with
Burch at St. Paul. He said he had
stopped at the Merchants hotel but
did not know whether his name was
registered there or not. He said he
oealt with the hotel porter in getting
a room and had not registered him.
self. He said he had done no canvass
ing for this concern prior to Nov. IS.
He admitted having worked Casselton.
and said he had gotten a subscription
from a certain woman, who sent the
receipt into the states attorney. The
name signed to the receipt was Lee.
Carver said he had given no receipt
signed with that signature. He de-
MED that he knew Hawley and Lee
were the same person or that he knew
OF an agreement by which these names
were to be used by the same person
at different places. He also denied
that his wife had used different names
in getting subscriptions.
Carver said he had been deceived by
Burch and that he was willing to use
his best endeavors to get Burch to
come back here. His cross s-eXamina-
tion by the states attorney was close,
but he was wary of names or places he
had stopped, where the fact might be
ascertained by hotel registers of sim
liar evidence He presented at the
opening of his evidence a typewriter
commission as agent for Burch and
the Butterick company which he said
Burch had given him in St. Paul in
November. He denied that it had
been written in Bismarck since his ar
rest. He said he did not know who
typeWrote it, nor did he know why
the name Of the Butterlck company or
the name OF the Delineator were mis-
spelled. He admitted having had his
wife write to Burch and Hawley since
his arrest, but said it was not done to
warn Them to get out Of the state or
to- quit selling the magazine N ques-
ton.
MIS-. Carver, wife Of the defendant
IN the case, was arrested by the au-
thorities this afternoon on the same
charge as that under which her hus-
band is confined, and is now in Jail in
default of bail
The hearing of the case was this
afternoon continued over to next
Wednesday, when it will be completed.
HIGH TIMES AT WILLISTON.