Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-10-23
RaeI Sandal is Shot BY
Albert Davidson
Tuesday Night.
A QUARREL OUER SOME STOCK
Peter Davidson Had taken Up
Some of Sandals Cows and
During Quarrel for Their
Release Daividson's
Son Uses a Gun.
Sandal Receives Wound Which
Caused His Death Wednes-
day at Ten O'clock.

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About IL o'clock Tuesday night DR..
Peabody received q telephone message
asking him to come at once to Rael
Sandals farm, as he had been shot.
On Wednesday morning there were all
kinds of stories afioat, and at last a
reporter went out to the scene of the
alleged crime. 1t is not the intention
of the Reporter and Farmer to try cases
before they 60 to the court, therefore
we viii give the two versions just as we
heard them.
The story of Albert Davidson is as
follows: 1.-THE cows Of Mr.. Sandal
have bothered MS all summer, we had
taken them up two times before, once
of the fax and once from the hay
stack; when they got in Tuesday night
we thought we would make him pay
for them and then he would take care Of
them IN the future. Sandal came over
and wanted his stock. We had taken
up seventeen head and we told him he
could have them by paying damages.
He wanted to know how much damages
and we told him five dollars a head. Rs
said that was too much. He then
started to take down the fence and
father struck at him with a piece of a
crowbar. Sandal then struck father
and knocked him down and commenced
pounding him. / ran to the house and
got the gun to frighten him with. /
never intended to shoot him. ILointed
the gun at him and told him to stop,
and he grabbed the end of the gun and
during the fight for the gun he pulled it
through my hands and it went off. /
never intended to shoot"
The story Of George Twennerrem is:
"Mr. Sandal missed his COWS and found
them over ct DavidscG's. He wanted
to take them but Davidson wanted five
dollars a head for them. Sandal went
home and later in the evening, about
eight o'clock, he wanted me to 20 over
with him and act as a witness to what
he said. Arriving at Davidson's, San
dial told the old man that he had come
for his cattle. He said the price for the
pound was too high bnt they would
leave il to some other parties for settle
ment, or Davidson could sue for dam
ages and he would pay whatever the
justice allowed him, but that the COWS
were mich cows and he was going to
take them home and milk them. With
this Sandal started to take down che
fence and the old man struck him on
the head with a crowbar. Sandal
grabbed the old nan and got him down
and was pounding him when the boy
started for the house. While he was
gone ! told Sandal to let the old man up
and he did. The boy came back with
the gun and the old man told him to
shoot. Sandal grabbed the gun and
while he was fighting to get it away
from the boy, Albert pulled the trigger
and Sandal yelled I am shot, and got
on his horse and rode home. We sent
for Doctor Peabody and he tried to save
Sandals life but he couldn't. Rael
died about ten o'clock"
Sheriff Rich and Captain Denny went
out Thursday afternoon and arrested
both the father and son. The son was
placed in Jail and the father was let out
on bonds until ten o'clock this morning.
DR.. Schenecker, the county coroner
went up to the home of the late Rael
Sandal Wednesday afternoon and after
impanalling q jury held a postmortem
examination. The examination showed
that the bullet fractured three ribs,
went through both sides Of the stomach
and through the colon. The jury found
that death was dine to- bullet wound
made by a gun in the hands Of Albert
Davidson.
The Davidson family are old settlers
OF Day county, having lived on the same
farm for seventeen years. They have
always borne good reputation. The
boy, Albert, that did the shooting is but
nineteen years old and does not seem
like a boy that would deliberately shoot
a man, nor does the father seem like the
man to counsel such an act.
Rael Sandal was born in Bredhein i
Nordjon, Norway, November /, 1874.
He came to America and located in Day
county in 1892, and has resided here
ever since. He has always has had a
splendid reputation as a hard working
and saving farmer. III the fall Of last
year he married Miss Bertha Twenner-
rem, who with a child three weeks old
and a brother survive him. He died
Wednesday, October ~, 1909, from a
bullet wound in the right breast from a
44-calibre rifle, being shot by Albert
Davidson. The funeral services cannot
be held until the corone has held his
Inquest.