The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-10-08
hey$rsesuseds work Ard took ogsteal
turkeys ard All kinds otspeoultryi
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Steal CEickena 3 E;vinu.

Steal Ckickena Tor Livinn,
Then came the death of the father.
Wh1chs entirely changed affairss Mrs.5Van
Norr2er sas we'll assthe three boys d
spesn e accustomed 10 having pleESy d
money ~ spend and when the {
ne Iather sscur az ths5 source Of euppiy
there was nothing left for the boys b to
49, 20 work or to crime. Work they would
not, stealing they had long been accus-
toned TO doing Therefore the decided
90 make their-iivclihOod by steaIingsp0ul
try by wholesale and Chipping ltS1o ths
New York n Albany markets. They un-
Bdertook contracts with commission men 70
Supply them EttthMssoy many hundredgc chick
ems and secured all their supplies
from netghborlng hAnrdbstss@SInSthe night
they Stole and thesfew hours5of daylight
Grating md sending away their consign-
Sments OF poultry.
The neighbors did not dare to- protest,
TOE the first one who did so found next
morning the leg Of his favorfte horse
broken or HIS barn fred. and SO they put
up WtthstheS ansWormeFsboys from year
TO year. Finally they grew more reckless,
and Peter AHallenhecl,s,Ssstsr wealthy
uncle, who had protected them and stood
by them always when athey had rot into
some more than usually yicious scrape,
Decided he could no longer put up with
his graceless nephews andgSforeclosed q
mortgage he held on their house. In dos
ing SO he signed his .dsatE2warrant,
Pllsn TO Murder Uncle.
The boys then moved to- Undertook.
where, having to reht a house as well as
secure living expenses, greater exertion
than ever was needed in the poultry busi-
ness. Mounted on fast horses. the5'
secured the Greendaie district az before
md canH a. ~ y n{1,yR
OF poultry Finally they decided It would
be easier to steal money outright rather
than poultry, and planned to murder their
old uncle, Peter Hallenbeck, who besides
being n OF the richest men In the dis
trtct, was known to have a distrust OF
banks and carry large sums Of money
about his person and In the house. Thus,
they argued. at one stroke they could
secure money and revenge for the fore-
closure of the mortgage.
They waited until Christmas eve. when
there was an entertainment at the Green
dale church at which ii was expected all
the Hallenheck family would go except
himself and his old bedridden mother.
Then the three boys, taking With then, an
accomplish, Harry Bruce, who had over
heard part Of their plans and had to be
sllenced by being promised part OF the
spoii. drove m a buggy to Hallenbeck's
mouse: The old maj opened the door
himself and the instant he appeared in
ne doorway one of the Van Wormers
shot him in the face, shattcifng his law.
TIE old man staggered ana CROPPED his
way TO where his shotgun lay loaded but
&ssetore he could reach 1t fell pierced with
nine bullets. Mrs. Hallenebeck, the boys
aunt, hearing the shots, ran screaming
to the attic 5
Try ts Prove Abb.
Fearing discovery from the SHOOTING
and the We ans screams, TIL, murderers
did not hesitate lcager than to snatch a
pag ot money from a secret cupboard.
where the boys knew their uncle had
placed It, and drove at full speed back to
hlndfrhook on their s.riyal they
showed themselves In different parts OF
the town, establishing an alibi. In this
they would have succeeded, as they gave
the Impression to many friends that h
mad been with them all the evening, but
tWo things proved their guilt.
The first was a co,x ession by Harry
Bruce, who, fearing hat he would be
convicted, made a confession duplicating
the three Van Warmer boys, and also
the fact that in running from the Haf-
lenebeck house in such wise as to avoid
be1ng seen from the sttic window by Mrs.
Hallenebeclk they crossed deem snow
footprints which afterward led
largely to thei. conviction. The boots Of
the suspects were found to fit into the
tracks, n this, with the confession Of
Bruce. caused AthAir conviction at fra
hands of a jury.
Inc autopsy will be performed by the
prison physician, DR.. Ransome assisted
by Or. ESptt2ka. the mu.e!! known alienisf
and brain specialist. -