Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-01-12
The TILL CASE.
Matters Presented to the Governor
IN Connection with Application
for a Pardon.
Statement of the Circumstances Upon
Which Till Was Convicted Of
Murder.
Petitions and Letters Sent ON From
Till's Former Home in ,Austro-
Hungary.

TiH's Former Home in Austro-
Hungary.
Governor Fancher has received from
the consul of the Austrian government
at Chicago, transmitted through Sec
rotary of State John Hay, anumber of
petitions and documents in tile case of
Joseph Till, a subject of that govern
ment who is now serving a sentence of
life Imprisonment in the state peni-
Tertiary at this place for the murder
of Adam Miller in Pembina county in
1885. There is a petition from friends
and neighbors of Till at Paks, Hun
gary, his former home, in which is set
forth the good character of the young
man prior DO his departure for the
United States and aScertificate Of the
fact that no crime was ever charged
against himfthere. There are also GER
@tiicates from the priests OF the local
parish as to his excellent character.
n his proficiency in studies. An
other statement is from the captain of
a military company in which Till
served his time as aSoldier, to the same
effect as regards his character. The
belief is expressed in the petition ztaat
Till is innocent and that he is the vic
tim of circumstantial evidence and a
possible plot on the part of some of his
countrymen in the sneighborhood Of.
Pembina to sacrifice him III order that
The real perpetrator Of the crime might
be saved from punishment.
E&E - - fo1 - H FL oxr 49, ~-.-IE. IL LEg
filed with the governor tending to- con-.
troEert or contradict the evidence
given at the trial. Statements have
been made in the case by Attorney
hneeshaW of Pembina county and D.
=. Morden, now of Wahpeton, the lat
Ter OF whom is SO firmly convinced. he
says, OF the Innocence of the prisoner,
that he receives manifestations of ii
IN various ways. He is especially ac-
tive in the movement FOR ii pardon for
Till. 1t is probable that tlle matter
will he settled next week when the
governor will act upon the formal an
%plication for a pardon.
The facts in the case of Till are given
in a statement filed by then States At
torney n. g. Young, and Judge o. 70.
Sauter of the seventh judicial district:
by whom Til was tried. Talis state
ment shows Till ito have arrived in
this country Feb. 5, 1895. in company
with the wife of Adam Miller. a Hum
garian. who had come to the United
States and afterwards sent his wife
money to come over from the old co1l1l-
try. When the couple arrived at New
York they We're detained and Miller
again sent money for the purchase of
tickets from there to Pembina. Till
was a cousin of Miller and when he
arrived he was domiciled at the resi-
dence of Paul Deboes, to which place
Mrs. Miller went after a few DAYS and
remained up to the time of the murder,
I'LL had neither money nor sufficient
cloyning and Miller purchased a sup.
ply OF necessary articles for him.
among them a pair of felt shoe packs
Withecorrugated rubber soles in which
there was defect. There was evil
uence to show that not long before the
murder Till purchased a revolver at a
local hardware store, and had three.
cartridges fitted into it by the dealer,
he having no money to buy cartridges,
and the three having been given him.
On Wednesday evening, Feb. 13. Mil
Ter was seen driving from Pembina to
the Deboe house, as was his usual
custom, and that was the last seer of
him alive. AT the Deboes house on.
the same evening was gathered a NUM-
per OF people at supper, including Till.
supper was had between sever and
eight o'clock and Till. not remaining
TO the meal, got up and left the house,
SAYING ne intended to visit a girl who
lived not Tar away. Heswas CONS so
the testimony showed. from half an
hour to an hour and returned exhausted
and warm. Some time after his re-
turn, one BolaSh, who was 1.-THE house.
looked out of the window and saw
Millefs horse and cutter standing near
the granary. Investigation revealed
the fact that the robe and seat We're
gone and that Miller was nowhere
about. Search was instituted for him.
but failed to disclose anything but
Mlllers cap, which was found. The
body OF Miller was subsequently found
lying between two logs near the gran
ary, with blood all about and a wound
In the head, a post mortem revealing
that a bullet was Embedded in the skull
IN the center of what appeared to be a
knife wound. In the tracing Of the
crime, the tracks of a MAJ apparently
running We're found near where Mil
Ilers cap was found, and the tracks
We're OF, a rubber soled footgear, THIS
shoes We're fitted to the tracks by sew
eral witnesses and the fit was perfect.
The revolver purchased by Till was
also found in the straw banking of an
clubhouse near the Dehoes place. with
three shells in the cylinder, two of them
discharged. This is the chain of cir
elmstaifees upon which the jury found
I'LL guilty, taking only one ballot.
Till is employed in the shoe slrop at
the penitentiary. He is small Of
stature and q mar in whose d
ance there is nothing striking, his face
being rather dull. He makes a good
prisoner, and has served about four
years.
Size doesn't indicate quality. Be
ware of counterfeit and worthless
salye offered for DeNitts Witch Hazel
Salve. DeNitt's is the only original.
An infallible cure for piles and all skin
diseases. e. $. B~eardsley, druggist,
Fourth street.