The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-11-18
A MURDER CASE
BEFORE THE COURT
Two Men Charged With Killing
a Cowboy on the
Rosebud
TO BE TRIED AT ABERDEEN
One Man, Gaver, is Texan, the Other
Is Son of Chicago Commission
Man and Has Seen Roughins
1. in West Some Time.

aberdeen, ) ID, Nov. ii. Judge
opened 4 regular term of federal court
here. The term promises to be one
of the most important held this year,
and the grand jury will have plenty of
work disposing OF the large number
of cases which will come before it.
Perhaps the most Interesting case
to come before the grand jury is that
in which G. L. Cook and Henry Gaver
are the defendants. They are charged
with the murder of Il cowboy named
James Rainbolt on the Rosebud reser-
walton early in october. Cook is said
TO be the SON of a Chicago commission
man and came west for the purpose
of "roughing it, for a time. He was
employed as a cowboy by a cattle com
pany which was grazing cattle on the
Rosebud reservation. At the time of
the alleged murder he was in charge
of a camp of cowboys.
GaNer is a Texan and came To South
Dakota only u short time before the
tragic killing of Rainbolt He was Il
member of Cooks camp. The muir
dered man, James Eainbolt, was em-
ployed as a cowboy by rival cattle
concern, whose cattle We're being
ranged in the vicinity of the place
" here he was killed. on the evening
of the murder Rainbolt rode up to
Cook s camp and stopped for supper
After partaking of supper the cow
boys are said 10 have drunk freely
from IL jug of whisky which Cook pro-
cured that day in a town on the Ne
braslza side OF the line. A fight ensued.
during which Fainbolt was shot and
killed The grand jury will have to
discover who fired the fatal shot.
Editor Nearly Killed.
Another Interesting case is that
against Thomas w. Taubman, editor
of the Plankinton Herald. who is
charged with mailing an issue of his
appeared. He has not yet been in
dicted and the grand jury will be re-
quired TO make some disposition of the
case.
Interest III the case will be all the
greater from the fact that sunday
paper office at Plankinton. Editor
YadbniaM was shot at by some would
be assassin whose identity has not vel
been discovered. A bullet fired irom
a 3S-caliber revolver struck the back
of the chair in which the editor was
sitting, passed through it. inhicting q
slight wound. Had the bullet not
struck the chair he doubtless would
have been instantly killed
Another case of Importance which
will come before the grand jury is that
in which an eccentric individual named
Edward Dalheimer is the defendant
He is charged with mailing objection
able letters to Miss Alice Roosevelt
daughter of the president, and to Miss
Helen Gould. as We'll as mailing u
| threatening letter to President Roose-
/ Welt Dalheimer is AT present an oc.
cupant OF a Jail at Des Moines, Ia
There are a total of about twenty
five criminal cases either to come be
1 fore the grand jury al Aberdeen OF
( ,,i.1 n mont
4 in some of the cases having been re
/ turned at former terms OF the Unitet
States court
Among the twenty-five cases are 8
! niirnber arising OF the Indian reserva
/ tions. or adjacent thereto, in which In
dians are charged with larceny OF
whites living near the reserva tions ar,
charged With selling liquor to Indians
In addition 10 the criminal case;
there ire four or tive civil cases of i'm
4 portance TO be disposed of during the
term