The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-25
M|Ll|NER STABBED
BY A JEALOUS
LOVER
Real Live Sensation at Beau
dette Woman in Duluth
Hospital.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Duluth. May 25.-As result of a
stabbing affair in Beaudette last week,
Mrs. F. Flett, Duluth milliner, is
lying critically wounded in Beau!
dette hotel, and John London, a log
ging superintendent, is lodged in the
Beltrami county Jail, charged with as
sault in the first degree. He was taken
before Beaudette justice of the peace
Immediately after the ARRAY but
waived examination and was bound
over to the grand jury. Sheriff Bailey
took him to Bemidji.
The story Of the tragedy includes a
mans jealous rage, the terror and
Hight OF a woman, the pursuit, and
finally, In the dining room of a public
hotel, while the victim was eating sun
per and the room was crowded with
other guests, the stabbing. The knife
entered the woman's back and only a
slight movement on her part as the
stroke was descending saved her from
a fatal wound.
A peculiar air of secrecy has been
thrown about the whole affair. Until
now not a word about the stabbing
has appeared in print outside Of a
short account in the Reaudette paper,
although 1t took place week ago last
Saturday.
Not a dispatch has gone out of that
village over the wires. and the sheriff
has maintained the. most sphynx-like
silence. Yet there is nothing to sup
press. It is merely that the little vii
lage to the north. where the tragedy
quite accidentally took place, does not
want the advertising.
London and Mrs. Flett left Duluth
several weeks ago and were first heard
of In Fort Frances. just across the Dor
der from International Falls. A week
ago last Friday an International Falls
policeman was startled by the sight of
a woman rushing toward him, evil
IDENTIFY in the utmost terror.
Tell me place where can hide"
she pleaded. There is man after
me and he wants to kill me. He has
threatened to do so many times"
According to the officer. he pointed
out house where she might feel safe
and thought no more of the affair.
But the woman did not stay long in
International Falls. She appears to
have suspected that the man she feared
knew of her whereabouts, and SO,
crossing Rainy river to Fort Frances
under cover of darkness. she took the
train for Beaudette. She arrived in
the latter village some time Saturday
morning.
London learned of her fight and fol-
lowed. He arrived in Beaudette soon
after Mrs. Flett and at once set out
to find her. Where they first met is
not known. but one of the hotel keep
ers tells of putting the couple out of
his place early in the day because
they were quarreling and making too
much noise.
lat supper time Mrs. Flett was eat
ing at one of the tables in another
hotel. At the same board were two or
three men. Suddenly London burst
into the room. He held a large pocket
knife in his right hand. and without
saying a word walked up close to the
woman. She had not seen him ap-
preaching and when he seized her
roughly by the shoulder she half
sprang from her chair. But Just then
the knife descended and the blade was
buried in her back directly under the
left shoulder blade. With cry and a
Siodu Iue StlCIlu lell llOH Hor Seat anu
lay bleeding on the floor.
At the first sign of violence the men
at the table jumped up and had the
man fast before he could do further
violence, had he so intended. The wo-
man was carried to room in the
hotel. The sheriff was not called I'M
til later, and when he returned to
Bemidji he was accompanied by the
man and three witnesses. Mrs. Flett
was too badly wounded to he moved.