Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-02-26
MURDER IN MCINTOSH CO
Particulars Of the Murder of Chris.
Rott, in an Ashley Blind,
Pig.
Half q Dozen Russians Make Com.
bined Assault and Beat Victim
to Death.
Parties all Under Arrest and Guarded
From the lrate Com.
munity.

From the lrate Com.
munity.
The Kuhn, La Moure County, Mes
senger has the following:
ChristOlph Rott, a popular citizen OF
Kuhn, met a fearful death on Sunday
night in a "blind pig'' at Ashley, to
which place he had gone to collect an
old debt for his employer.
Six Russians carefully planned and
deliberately murdered him, after a
bloody battle lasting for several hours.
An "old grudge" seems to be the only
cause for the awful deed.
On Saturday Mr.. Rott left Kuhn in
the best of health and spirits, perfectly
sober, and with bill for s14o given
him by Messrs. Gackle & Co. to collect
from Henry Heuter, of Ashley.
On Saturday night at 10 o'clock,
Henry Heuter paid Christoph the $l4O
which the latter paid over to the Ash
lev Bazaar. Heuter then calmly sug-
gested that they have a glass OF beer
together, to which Rott consented.
Heuter then led his unsuspecting VIC
tim to the trap prepared for him,
which was the "blind pig" conducted
by a woman named Winter. Within
the place at the time were the pro-
prietress, a printer on an Ashley
paper, and Andrew Schlapps. Gottlieb
Schaffer, John Nagle, Peter Ensmin-
ger and Henry Heuter. AS soon as
Christ. entered the place he recognized
several old enemies among the crowd.
Schaffer started the ball rolling by
requesting the printer to leave. which
he refused to do, and he was knocked
on the head by piece OF board.
Schlapps then knocked the lamp
from the table, and then every man
in the place jumped at Rott, using
beer bottles, clubs, hammers and
hatchets. They pounded the unfortu-
nate man almost to insensibility, and
when he started to crawl beneath the
table and begged for mercy, the cow
ardly Russians yanked him out and
made him promise to treat the crowd
seven times, which he agreed willingly
to do. and also offered to give so to
his assailants to cease clubbing him.
After they had secured the drinks and
the money they started in to finish
\ the poor man, who was now bleeding
from many places on the head and
face. Christ. started for the door, and
at the same time drew his jacknife to
make last desperate struggle for lie,
but his assailants outnumbered him,
and they seized the knife and hacked
his hand to pieces.
Reidinger then struck him on the
head with big club as he opened the
door, and the man, almost dead, fell
forward on his face, exclaiming:
"Oh, my God, Andrew!
Gottfried Gross, of Ashley, saw the
man brought to the hotel, and after
Schlapps had left, he entered the hall
and spoke to the dying man, but re-
ceived no answer. The hotel clerk
then came in, but on account of the
darkness, and thinking that the man
was intoxicated, they let him lie there
and went to bed. But in little while
they were awakened by a noise and
hastened to the side of the dying man
to find him bathed in pool of blood,
with two big gashes in the head from
which the blood was pouring.
A doctor was hastily summoned, but
at 6 o'clock Monday morning Christoph
Rott gave up the struggle and died
from the effects Of the terrible beating
received at the hands of six Russian
scoundrels who hated the man for
some trivial cause, and who calmly
and deliberately trapped him with
every intention Of committing the
murder.
That it was deliberately planned
may be seen from the fact that an
other man-W Wilhelm Ley-had been
asked to meet the crowd at the "pig"
Sunday night with the intention OF
numbering Christoph, but, unfortun-
ately for him, he could not arrive on
time.
Those who participated in the muir
der were Immediately arrested and
carefully guarded from injury. They
were crowd of very scared men.
1t Is expected that they will receive
a quick trial and be carted away be-
fore any outbreak can be made by the
friends Of the dead mani who was well