Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-08-05
TIT DAHL CASE
q
MAN
NAN WELL KNOWN HERE
MIXED UP IN IT.

In the accounts given Of the murder
Of n. o. Dahl at Curing, north Of
Black Duck, mention E=i is made of Paul
Fourier. who worked on the boom
here last year, and was we'll known
in the city. He was under parole from
prison at the time. He and man
named Caldwell have been arrested
under suspicion. The Crookston Jour-
nal Of Sunday says Caldwell and
Fourier were given preliminary
hearings late Friday night and their
final hearing set for August 18th. The
man Fourier remains silent, but
Caldwell has told many stories and
shows signs of severe strain which he
is under. He is evidently weakening
and the officers are hopeful of con-
cession.
The impression also seems TO be
quite general that the girl Is still liv-
ing and that James Wesley, for whom
the authorities have been looking for
some time, has not left the country but
is in hiding and has taken Miss Dahl
to a cabin in the heart of an almost
inaccessible swamp in the Battle river
country. This theory is not supported
by any very tangible evidence, how
ever. A resident cf the Qairin, coun-
try makes the statement that Wesley
is somewhere in that vicinity. He
claims to have this information from
others. who are working on the case
with view to obtaining the reward
aud are not telling what they know
until they believe the time is ripe to
give out the information.
A dispatch from Bemidji to the
Pioneer Press states:
The body Of. Aagot Dahl, the
daughter, has not yet been found, and
it is supposed to be in what is known
as the choose Wallow," spot in a
swamp near During that never
freezes in winter and that is very
deep.
"The clues as to the choose Wal
low was furnished by one of the
men under arrest. The sheriff S
officers intercepted letter that Cald-
well attempted to send to his wife
after being placed under arrest, and
this letter tells the wife to take the
team and turn over certain stump
near the cabin Of the missing girl
Blackduck people put in the FORE
noon at the cabin of Miss Dahl with
team overturning stumps in an
effort to locate the body.
The only scrap of evidence directly
available to lend color to the theory
that the girl was taken away from
her home alive is found in the fact
that a piece of rope was found cut
from the clothes line. It is claimed
that the same piece of rope was found
on the road to the Battle river coun-
try. It is also claimed that a double
bitted axe has been found and home
steader is claimed to have this and the
piece of rope in his posse ssion. Every
body seems anxious to secure the
reward and to this end everyone who
can is putting in every minute of his
available time on the case. As re-
suit it is highly probable that the
whole matter viii be cleared up in q
few days.
Concerning Caldwell and Fourier,
who are held for the crime at the
county Jail In Bemidji. people have
little to say. Caldwell ia known as
very laxative and unreliable and has
told number of conflicting stories.
Fourier is said to be bad man with
a record. He was sentenced to the
state penitentiary for highway rob.
berry and served three years Of five
years sentence, when through the in
duential friends Of J. G. -Sodini, the
notorious Columbia theatre man, of
Minneapolis. he was pardoned. He
has been in that vicinity for q number
of years.
Caldwell and he have been quite
intimate and much of the talk that
Fournier is bad man seems to have
its foundation in the fact that Cald-
well claims that relative of Four
nie1's named Sayers told him that
Fourier had planned the murder Of
the government paymaster on his last
trip to the Red Lake Agency. He