The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-08-12
MYSTERY IN THAT GRIP
WHY DID CLEVER LOUIS AuLT.
MAN STEAL 1T?
WHY DID HE TAKE SUCH CHANCE
And Who Was This Dan Dee, OF Den.
ver-What Were the Electric Bat.
teries Doing in His Grip, and Why
Had He Been In Ronesteel2

Had He Been in Bonesteel7
With the shipping of the body of
Louis Aultman, the clever young
crook who was killed in this city,
back to his old home for burial among
his relatives. comes close to
tragic bit of the worlds ways that
has been enacted in Norfolk this
week.
From little things that Aultman
said, as he lay dying on his couch in
the Norfolk sanitarium, it is taken
that the gang of Bonesteel grafters
had planned to work in Norfolk for
about one full day and then to leave
the city On Wednesday morning,
opening his eyes the young fellow
asked of the nurse, What day is
this?"
Wednesday" she replied.
Then the crowds all gone" he
said. "1d give anything if had
gone with them"
1t is presumed that he meant they
had gone on to Devils Lake.
Four hours before he died, the
Boston crook got out of bed and
walked into an adjoining room for
a drink of water. When the nurse
arrived, he suddenly halted and start.
ed as thugh he had just come to his
senses.
Don't you know" she asked, that
you ought not do that when we're
trying to do everything we can for
you?"
Eyes, know that" he answered.
Don't tell the doctor"
One afternoon a stranger came to
the hospital to see the man who was
shot. At first he was refused admit
tance and finally was allowed to en-
ter, merely to look at Aultman.
AS he stood by the bed, Aultman
opened his eyes and looked out of
them at the newcomer.
What are you doing here?" he
simply said.
81 came to see you" replied the
other. do you know me?"
"Why, of course I do" said Ault-
man. At that the conversation was
stopped by the nurse.
1t was thought that the visitor was
one of the crowd of grafters. On
the way out he asked what had been
done with Aultman's money. He was
told that Aultman had but sixty
cents.
you haven't found it ALL" said the
stranger "He should have $4,000
Look in the inside lining of his trous-
ers."
Would Not Die.
Doctor" said Aultman to Dr. F.
G. Salter one day" do you think this
wound is very bad?"
"I'm afraid it's pretty serious"
said the physician.
ooh, l won't die here" declared
Aultman. 81 won't die here"
1t is thought that had the hand
some young crook-for he was
handsome man to look upon, with
black eyes and black, slightly curl
ing hair-realized that he was about
to die, he would have given up more
information in regard to his family,
of whom he spoke only casually.
He wanted his mother to know, but
before he knew that he could not re-
cover, the wound had done its work.
Mystery in that Grip.
A new mystery was brought out
in the coroner's inquest. 1t was a
mystery in regard to the grip which
Aultman had stolen from the man
who gave his name as Dan Dee.
The question arises, Why did a
crook so clever as was this young
Aultman, steal a grip which could
contain no money, and why, when
caught in bit of petty larceny which
could give no more than three or
four days Imprisonment, perhaps,
did he take such desperate chances
to get away from the officer by div
ing out of the second story window
to the street? And by running away
amid a shower of bullets, realizing
that he might be shot any moment,
when by halting and facing the
charge of small thievery, he could
have saved his own life?
And again is the puzzle, Who is
Dan Dee of Denver?
In the grip which had been stolen
from Dee by Aultman, was big
bunch of electric batteries, tied to-
gether in a gang, which had been
used for something or other in Bone
steel When Dee got his grip from
the Norfolk House, he took out those
electric cells and requested the land
lady, Mrs. Wagner, to toss them out
the back door. She refused to touch
them.
Now what were those electric bat
teries, and why did Dan Dee want tc
get rid of them at that particular
time?
Another point is this: Dan Dee
in telling of what had happened, sait
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