Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-10-23
Woman and Her Boy Had Been Doino
Great Deal of THEY
ing.
Seven Yedr-OId Ohnmies Boy Ar
rested for Shooting Shock Boy
in Foot.
Mrs. Dan Ohnmies Alleges that She
Was Robbed of
$269.0O.

Officer Russell unearthed last week
the plant of Mrs. Ohumies and boy who
had been doing a wholesale business
in the thieving line for some time
past. The capture was the result of a
conversation overheard between the
woman and her boy In which the lad
threatened to tell where the stuff was
concealed unless his mother used him
better. Officer Russell searched the
residence, located in the First ward,
and found miscellaneous lot of plund.
er, including bicycle stolen from
John B. Purchase in the Doolittle
block. The woman had not much to
say concerning the affair but the boy
said that he had been taught to steal
by his mother who forced him to take
things under penalty OF being whip
ped.
The administrator claims to have
provided her with money to buy sup
plies.
The seven year old son of Mrs.
Daniel Ohnmies was jailed Monday,
charged with shooting a boy named
Shock through the foot Sunday. The
Ohnmies boy bought the rifle, a %
calibre Sunday. With several other
boys he shot off the cartridges in the
vicinity of Kirk & Aliens warehouse
and COW belonging to J. W. Goodrich
was wounded, in addition to the dam
age inflicted on the Shock boy.
Efforts will be made to have the
boy sent to the reform school and his
mother will be taken before the in
sanity board to determine whether
she is insane or not.
Raymond Ohnmies, the seven-year
old boy accused of shooting the Shock
kid in the foot, was taken before JUS
tice Pearson Monday evening and told
all about the shooting. The lad says
they were practicing with the rifle,
with no idea OF injuring each other.
1t came his turn and he shot in the
direction Of the Shock boy not sup.
posing that he would hit him.
The Ohnmies boy is a bright little
fellow and it seems too bad that he
has not been under better influences
The boy was taken back to the jail
to await further action on the arrival
of Eugene E. Clark, his guardian, from
Courtenay. Mr.. Clark is in charge OF
the property Of the four children OF
Mrs. Daniel Ohnmies and Judge 3. +
Bieelow is looking after the estate
left Mrs. Ohnmies by her late husband
who died on his farm near Courtenay
after many years Of what seemed hard
luck but in the light of recent events,
may have been due toa certain SiniS-
ter influence. OhnmieS lost child
by being poisoned by taking strych-
nine, his barns were burned down
several times and his STOCK perished
in the flames. Finally, disheartened,
he died.
The Ohnmies lad was given a much
needed bath on his arrival in jail and
given new clothing.
No action has been taken in the
case OF his mother who, he says,
taught him to steal and whose sanity
is doubted by the police.
Eugene Clark, guardian of Raymond
Ohnmies, testified regarding the lad
Wednesday before Justice Pearson
According to Clark's testimony the
boy has been rather wild. Officer
Enoch Russell also testified in the
case.
Mrs. Dan Ohnmies, formerly of
Courtenay, who has been temporarily
living over the old Fowler market
building, with her four small children,
states that she had S269 stolen from
her room some time this week. She
claims to have put the money in a box
with bread and other things and has
no idea who got the money. 1t was
given her to pay her expenses to Penn
sylvanic where her relatives reside and
she expected to go the same day she
obtained the money from the estate,
but something prevented. The family
seem to need some sort OF attention
from others qualified to look after
them as Mrs Ohnmies is evidently un-