Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-09-21

was present when the physician dressed
Bryant's wounds and his evidence was
that the wounds were three in number
and were the same as before stated in
this article
Witness Brown testified that Alberts
had told him that Bryant had said
he would shoot him (Alberts) on
sight the night he caught him holding
his daughter on his lap.
Witness Anders testified that Alberts
told him thats he wonld shoot Bry-
ant if he ever got in his way again.
Witness Mccormick testified that he
overheard conversation between the
two defendants since they had been in
the Jail and the man said to the woman,
you'll get out all right, but I'll have
to stay here until February The
woman replied, II know, but what will
l do all that time. | can never go back
to father"
Bella Davis testified that she was
twenty-five years old, that she was the
daughter of A. S. Bryant although he
had never been married to her mother.
The last time she had seen her father
before coming TO Dakota was when she
was thirteen years old. She was mar
ried and had daughter three years
old She received several letters from
her father during the past year urging
she and her husband TO come TO South
Dakota and make their home with him
Met Alberts about ten days before he
left Michigan at Mrs. Raymond's
where they were both working. There
at the breakfast table one morning she
said she was going to South Dakota.
She did not know Alberts was going to
her fathers place. She did not leave
Michigan for South Dakota until she
got letter from Alberts saying he was
at her fathers farm. Her husband was
some place in the northern part of
Michigan. Her father never wrote TO
her that he would leave her everything
if she would come and live with him,
but had told her that after she came.
She arrived August l6. Her father was
not at the depot to meet her. She got a
livery and drove out to his farm. She
did the homework and Alberts worked
in the field. Father came in with a
lantern in one hand and gun in the
other and found her sitting on Alberts'
lap rubbing his sore hand and arm.
Father was going to shoot Alberts but
stood between them and father could
not shoot without shooting me. He
sent us both to bed and ordered Alberts
to leave the place the next morning and
told me the monkey" business must
stop Father left check for Alberts
the next morning and he took it and
went away. Saw Alberts several times
after this in Andover just to pass the
time of day, and once at the farm. Did
not run away from her husband with
Aiberts year ago. The girls story
aud that of her father were almost the
same about what happened on the day
of the crime, up to the time Of the
shooting. She says she was in the house
and heard only one shot fired. She
went out doors and met her father and
Alberts right at the corner of the house
Her father said, ST am all shot to pieces
get me something to wrap my arm up
in" The girl stepped in the door and
got down the towel and Bryant took it
and wrapped it about his arm. Father
then showed her the wound in his breast
and the hole where the bullet went
through his pants into his les. The
girl then went into the house aud got a
lantern and went down to the barn and
assisted her father in Harvesting and
hitching mp the team. Her father asked
her to get the baby and go to town with
and she told him that she did not think
she could as she felt so faint. Father
got in the buggy and drove away and
Alberts was following behind the buggy
Thinks she must have tainted then for
when she came too she was lying on the
ground and when she reached the house
| it was half past eight Said she did not
see Alberts again until he was brought
there by the sheriff. She did not know
that Alberts was at the fam until she
saw him with her father after the shoot.
ing. Did not know that Alberts had
been in the cellar. DID not know that
Alberts was going to shoot her father
She remained right at home until the
sheriff came for her and she gave to him
the money which her father had given
to her.
Charles Alberts said he worked fol
Bryant and that the old man refused Il
pay him all he owed him. Drove hin
away because he found Mrs. Davis sit
ting on his lap rubbing his sore arm
He went to Pierpont bought revolver
and fifteen cartridges, went back to And.
over and laid around until the day Of
the shooting when he went to the Bry
n Il