The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-21
NORTH DAKOTA
RECALLS FALL OF
A TRUSTED CLERK
ACTION TO RECOVER SETTLED AT
- GRAND FORKS.
Union National Bank Robbed of $4,000
. ny an Employee, Prosecutes for
Many Years the Men In Whose
Gambling Establishment It's Funds
Were Said to Have Been Lost.
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Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 21,-A case was
settIed III this city today that recalls the down.
ian or trusted clerk of the Union National
pahk thirteen years agO-When wine women and
carus We're the causes that were assigned for
'ne emDezzlement OF nearly S., 600, the largest
part OF which went over the gaming table in an
East Grand Forks resort wv
The bank clerk was Karl Nelson, and after
ne .had run his brief race Of high life the hirh
est point always being attained in the across
the-rlver city, 1t was found that in order TO
pay gambling debts he had stolen nearly S. OOu
Inc story told at the time, the minute particu-
tars or Which have somewhat faded from the
pubic mind, was to the effect that after :
Dlght OF heavy losses Nelson was accompanie,l
to this side of the river by someone connected
WIN the gaming room, when he would enter
the bank, abstract enough money to cover his
losses OF the night, and then fix his books so
that discovery was for some time DELAYED
Inc place IN which Nelson did his gambling
was conducted by Henry Fabel who died few
years ago In the insane hospital at jamestown,
and William Doll, who for ten years has been
resident Of Cripple Creek, Col. ~.-.
Sued the Gamblers.
The Union National bank brought an action
against William Doll to recover the amount of
Nelson's defalcation, and secured Judgment for
$4,ls61O. That was in this county, and ter
another Judgment was secured in Polk county.
Minnesota, for SIS, 331.4S.
These judgments were assigned by the bank
10 H. Amerland, a resident Of Fargo. In Au-
gust OF last year new Judgment was rendered
IN favor of H. Amerland and against William
Doll in the sum of 9,O504S.
Lawyers who were engaged learned in some
manner that property standing In the name of
Henry Fabel in both Grand Forks and East
Grand Forks in reality belonged Jointly to Fabel
and William Doll, and some time ago, when
p. B. Fredericks secured a decision in the fed
eral court allowing him to redeem certain Third
street property standing in the name of Henry
Fabel on a claim that he had an oral agree
ment that the time for redemption would not
stang stang IN the way of Fredericks' paying his
indebtedness and securing his property, the
amount of the Judgment, something like S., 900,
was paid to E. J. Lander as administrator Of
the estate of Henry Fabel, deceased. 1t was
promptly garnished.
One in Minnesota.
Then arrangements were made to start suit
In the United States court of Minnesota against
Philip Fabel, the father and sole heir of Henry
Fabel, setting forth the claim that William
Doll and Henry Fabel were Joint owners of all
the property In the two cities standing in the
name Of Henry Fabel and by will belonging to
Philip Fabel, and it this suit that was
settled yesterday. W. j. Mayer and George 4.
Bangs represented Mr. Ameriand, and the set.
t!ement was made thru E. j. Lander, who was
directed as to the terms by those directly inter-
ested In the settlement Of the estate.
Bruce, Convict, Hopes for Pardon.
1smer Bruce, sentenced to seventeen years in
the penitentiary two years ago for being i'm
pllcated in the holding up of five men in
Charles Hirshs soft-drink establishment at
Niagara desires to secure pardon
a man named Carlson was also convicted of
the crime, and Bruce asserts that Carlson has
made a confession to his mother since his in
generation, telling her of the details Of the
crime but failing In any way to 1mplicate Bruce
IN the deal, altho another man was named as
his accomplice. -.-... .
Bruce has so far not made any formal appli-
cation for pardon. but, depending largely on
his term cut down so that he will have some
show of getting out Of the prison before he is
an old man. 49,
Commissioners Appeal Case Heard.
BY far the most important case argued at the
present term or the supreme court which ad-
journed at noon today, was that of the state,
respondent, against S. S. Richardson and L. R.
Carroll, appellants.
The appellants were members of the board
OF county commissioners Of Ward county, and
on Dec %, last. County Auditor ]. w. Fabrick
Tiled an accusation against them in the distric,
court setting forth twenty-eight different
charges OF misconduct, and prayed that they be
removed from office. On a trial of the case
before Judge 3. B. Goss all but three Of the
charges were dropped, and these, the de-
PENDANTS We're found guilty, Judge Goss making
an order removing them from office.
One OF the charges which they were coll
victed was that Of illegal bills for a trip to
Minneapolis to confer with officials Of the 500
Railway company. These commissioners charged
the county 81 day during the time they were
absent and mileage at the rate Of cents a
mile.
Another article Of the accusation sets forth
the charging Of illegal fees for services rem
dered the county, and covered about fifty bills.
The commissioners themselves commended that
they were entitled to pay per diem from the
time they started from their homes until they
returned and that in cases where committee
work and travelling took up the most of the
night they were entitled to an additional day.
Freak Marriage Proposition.
The other charge is that the two commission
ers unlawfully and corruptly approved and al
lowed claim Of the Mnot Optic for court cal
endars, amounting to $685.. 30.
John =. Greene argued the case for the county
commissioners, and the state was represented
by States Attorney George A. McGee and Rob
ert H. Bosard.
The Weber Steel & Concrete Chimney company
engaged In the construction of 2O0-foot con-
crete chimney for the Grand Forks Gas & Elec-
trio company. has offered prize of $500 to the
couple who will be united in marriage on tho
extreme top of the huge stack reached by a
narrow ladder running up the inside. The offer
has not yet been accepted.
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