The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-09-08

had just gone to bed. A number of
Hecla people, who were in the hotel at
the time, commented on this but none
seem to have thought of notifying
the deputy sheriff, Wilmsen. In the
morning, however. Wilmsen WaS told
of the man in the hotel and arrested
him on suspicion.
WENT TO CAKES
All five of the men who left the
freight train went on to OakeS on the
passenger. There they joined the
others and heard of the murder.
They were held there for witnesses
and Wednesday morning two of those
who remained in the car were taken
back to Hecla, where they positively
identified the man under arrest there
as the man who did the shooting.
This seems to make a clear case
against him and unless later develop
ments tend to disprOve this he will be
held to a charge of murder in the first
degree.
CONDUCTOR WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN
When the train arrived at. Ludden
a number of people were at the depot,
including James Leathert and Thcs
Faus OF the revenue office of this city.
who had been up there on a shooting
trip that day. The station agent had
received word of the robbery and
when the train pulled in the men who
had been in the car were we're ues.
toned. They were all badly brighten.
ed. They declared, though, that
they had left the car where the
murder was committed and had mott.
fed the conductor of the train OF
what had happened. The conductor,
they said, refused to go neal the cal
or make an Investigation. When the
train arrived at Ludden he would not
look into the Ear but sent for the vii.
lage constable, who was asleep at the
time, and routed him out of bed tc
look into the car. This he did, but
considerable time elapsed after the
train arrived before any one saw the
wounded man.
FRIGHTFUL APPEARANCE OF DYING
MAN,
The dying man lay on the car floor
in a pool of blood. The shot had
severed some of the nerves in his head
and his eyes had fallen from theil
sockets out onto his cheeks. His
throat was cut from the blows of the
revolver and his head and upper part
OF his body were a mass of matted
blood and dirt. He managed to gasp
II am killed" and relapsed into I'm.
consciousness. 1t was impossible tc
do anything for him in Ludden but
Cakes was notified and after a ii me
the train got under way again and he
was taken to that town. Here a doc.
tor was awaiting him and he was at
once taken to DR.. Boardman's pri.
vate hospital where he was given all
the attention possible. The doctors
realized that his life could not be
saved but they revived him sufficient
ly so that he told his name and said
that he had a wife and child at his
home in Morrisville, Missouri. He
also said that he had been Sc nding
his earnings home to his family and
That he had only about $12 when he
got on the train. OF this amount he
had some silver money left, just how
much this paper could not learn. He
also told Of having visited in Bloom
ington, Illinois, recently. where he
had relatives. His name he said was
Lee Nooks or looks. He died Tues
day at about noon.
COUNTRY BEING SEARCHED
The authorities are determined to
overhaul the robbers and murderer
they possibly can. The sheriff's Of
fee in this city was not notified Of
the commission of the crime until.
heard of it, they called up the
Hecla deputy, Wilmsen, and asked
him what he had done. This was at
10 O'Clock Tuesday morning. Wilm-
sen had, it seems, arrested the one
man and notified States Attorney
Campbell but had sent not a word of
information to his chief in Aberdeen
nor had he taken any steps to have
trains south bound examined here or
The criminals had lots of
time to get a start of the officers be-
tween dusk of Monday evening and
forenoon of the next day. The train
was searched at Qakes but no one was
found who answered the description
IF any of the four men. Such men.
however, would not remain on a train
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