Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-01-05
BETRAYER KILLED.
PROSPEROUS GAAVALIH, COUNTY
ARMER TAKES Law INTO HIS

PROSPEROUS r CAVALIER COUNTY
.sgs AsRslMER TAKES Law INTO HIS
i OWN. HANDS. ~
One Of the stIangest hlomicides
which has been com mmiittted inE the
State Of North Dakota was committed
Thursday near M lton, b. when
William Barry, d, prosperous farmer,
avenged his sfsbter' 81 wrongs: AS re-;
suit Of the crime Andrew M ellen, her
Sbetrayer. lies dead with a ghastly knife
wound in his $s5 s$@ 5s@5. 5 Ii5 ts
s. It appears that 5Mjellen had been
working for Barry on the formers
farm four miles south of Milton, AfiItoon and
has been making love to BarTys sis
j te1', a woman some 81 s;s55 years of age
That he had onised to marry her
there appears to be no doubt, but after
accomp0is 0ishing her ruin NE refused to
save her from the disgrace The first
that Barry knew of anything wrong
between the two was Wednesday af-
ste1noon, when he came into the house
and found her in tears. R5 He asked
her TO tell him of her trouble and she
informed her brother that she had
been l inlltimalte with Mellen and was
then i'm a delicate condition. She
stalled that Mellon had refused 10
\ marry 1la her and lthis enraged Barry to
such an extent THAT he ait once sought
him at the barn and ait that time did
not find him. When Barry returned
20 the house his; sister was nowhere
to be found, and a search for her was
immed ediately begun. She was found
late at night on THE prairie alone and
with her feet and hands badly frozen.
She was taken home and cared for,
: and Thursday morning Berry went to
the the barn where Mellen was working
and announced that he had come to
kill him. e "a \ = s55 "a
.'$ 5 harry is a Large man and weighs
over 275 pounds and 1T fiss said that
there DIS not a man in Cavalier county
who can match him for strength and
skill in lighting. There was nothing
of excitement in Barry's manner when
he4told Mellen THAT HE had only twenty
minutes to live and advised him to to
spend it in prayer. There was a
struggle in which Barry overcome his
antagonist and held him helpless in
I his powerful grip. s@, U; With a coolness
than That must have been te1rible to witness
he tied a rope about Mellen,s neck
and ATTEMPTED to hang him to q beam
in the barn Failing in / this and
being somewhat exhausted from the
desperate struggle Barry paused and
informed inf his victim 1ullat ne ~ W7olIld al-
low him his choice OF deaths either
q BY han nging or being stabbed with a
knife. Mellen said that If If he must
die he preferred the knife. Barry al
lowed him to pray five minutes and
promptly at The expir tion Of the time
plunge the knife into his, throat, sew j.
I aring the jugular vein, and death re-
sulbed i'm a few minutes. In speaking
of of this part OF the tragedy to the sl1er-
lift Barry said 4: n &
u q held him with the rope about his
1las neck and pllllin out my watch told
:. him hin that would give him lust i've
more minutes ID live. rs He spent the
last minutes in prayer and when tie
! 5tlrlss time was up stabbed him III the
throat and severed his jugular vein.
just @ ,ss
the blow and So far as could see at
9::I2 he was dead IN /, n.
After counn1ittld the deed, /, Barry,
WENT ia LANG ana gave himself
up ho the sheriff and told the whole
story irlalalll Of its terTib ible details. The
Officers went out tto Barry 3 m and
+ found d the 2aead man Just as they had
been told they s,allds he remains;
were ken il charge by the coroner
I and am inquest VIII Be held. us
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