The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-09-10
FRED EAGSTROM IS FREE.
NO EVIDENCE TO HOLD HIN
Arrested aaa Takes 70 wailass on Charge
afKiillng BoaIIsy- hasn wsrs Ensnaaes
nut Evldenss Did Not show EaEutrssa
0nilty.

Deputy sheriffs Elliot and swice-
good returned TO Wallace from the
st. Joe country wiih Fred Eugstrom,
q settler Of that district. who Is
charged with the murder of Ed.
Boulley. 81 alleged claim jumper, on
Marble creek two weeks ago. He was
placed 10 the county jail sud giren 3
hearing before Justice Feaiherstoue
Tuesday
X is said that EnRstrom told the
officers many conflicting stories. Ac-
crording 10 the Deputies be explained
bis presence near the scene OF the
murder at the time the deed was com
nj teed BY declaring that be was lost
10 The mountains. He aud his dough.
ter both have timber claims on Marble
creek. He Ras arrested by the
officers at the home Of bic daughter
AZ Mica Meadows.
Since The murder 81 Bouiiey all the
radius Of ciaim jumpers ia that sec
tiou Of The country have been dyna-
mited.
A link 10 the evidence sRainst
EnRstrom Is that a coat. which il Is
claimed belonged to him, was found
behind The loas from where the hid
den sssasrius shot Bouliey. This
coat Was found When Sheriff Manley
visited the scene Of the mudreF, aud
vas Identified by George Brunu, 8
squatter
After examining a number of wit
nesses in The preliminary hearing.
Justice Of the Peace Featherstone
dismissed the case. holding that the
evidence vas insufficient 10 bind over
The defendant.
Wilmot Lindsey, who was With
Bouiley when be Ess shot from am
bush aud Who was himself wounded,
testified that on the night before the
murder Bouiley told him be bad met
Ensgirom 3 few days before on the
trail between Dead Horse and Mica
According 20 his evidenee, when
Boulley came upon Engstrom The
latter haj his gun levalsd at his
lBoulley'sl dog EBgstrom said:
II will ax you aud your dog II you
don't get out Of my way"
Al this BoulleS Is alleged TO have
replied: ''Yon will, will your and
az the same time pointed bis rife at
EnRstrom, who said sit IL your
turn this time. bat II you ever come
over THE trail again ! will get you. -
Archibald Phillips coFroborated
the testimony Of Lindsey relative TO
the difficulty on the trail. He alec
test lied that al another time be had
eeen Q quarrel between Engstrom
and Boulley. He EWore that on the
morning OF the shooting be Was at
Grifil,h's cabin when Boulley left at
o'clock and that the last thing be
said was: III the Round Head gets
me on this end Of the trail, take me
back to my claim aud plant me- "
Phillips said that by Round
Head Boulley meant Engatrom. lie
also swore that be had been informed
that Eugstrom was president of the
Settlers association, which had been
formed to do away with Jumpers, but
that the members bad qusrreled among
themselves over the manner in which
IL should be done. Some wanted TO
hang the jumpers, others 10 shoot
them, while others favored dynsmit-
ing them.
George Bruub, by whom the state
expected 20 show that a coat found
near the shooting belonged to Erg-
strom, was lamentably weak In his
testimony. He testified that be had
eeen coat within the cabin OF Eng
strom's daughter, which resembied
the one found near the scene of the
murder.
G. A. Hin, . cigar manufacturer
Of Wallace, Who has a homestead on
Marble creek and who was In that
district q day or two before the
tragedy, testified that while coming
out over the trail he had encountered
a number OF armed people, one Of
them q woman with a look Of deter.
mination upon her face. He stopped
and conversed with one Of the armed
men, aud their conversation turning
20 jumpers, = stranger said: The
sea gives up Its dead, but the woods.
never. "
Other evidence was introduced
showing that an association existed
among the squatters, but no direct
evidence ives brought forth to show
that Engetrom or any other member
OF tho association was guilty Of the
murder Of Boulley, go be was released.
Llnsdey testified that he believed
four men did the shooting, for there