The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-29
LONE STAR KID IS
WANTED FOR
MURDER
Description Of Suspect Sent
Out by Barnes County sher.
if Received Here.

q . y y 8 = = = = 8 = 9 = . . . . 9
. $500 Reward. Arrest man known .
- Ms Blackie or Lone Star Kid, age =
. about y years. 5 feet 9 inches .
y tall. high cheek bones, dark com. 8
y plexiOn, sallow, black hair, dark 8
y suit. black hat. dark shirt-quick y
= In speech. Smokes cigarettes .
8 which he rolls himself. Killed =
8 policeman here last night. Signed, o
. Hans Oppegard. .
y Sheriff. =
. = = . . . = y . = . . . . . . . .
last evening by Chief of Police Lowe
and pertains to the tragedy at Valley
City yesterday when an officer was
shot down and instantly killed by some
unknown party who subsequently
made his get away.
1t is not considered at all likely that
the man came this way. In fact the
most natural thing for him to do. It
Is advanced, would be to join some one
of the many threshing crews in the
state and thus hide from the officers
of the law. At the present writing no
clews have been obtained of the where
abouts of the man wanted. Excite
ment runs high at Valley City accord
ing to word from there today and 1t
will go hard with the perpetrator of
the crime If taken by other than Of
ficers of the law for it is said there is
an element stirred up in that vicinity
which will not bide any long wait for
the laws course.
Dan Moore gave the Valley City
Times-Record the following account Of
the shooting: I'VE came down the
track from the station and met the
train. We followed along the train.
Personals and myself on one side and
Chief Burt and Swanson on the other
side. We were on the south side and
near the head of the train we arrested
a man. l held him while Personius
proceeded down the train. He had
gone probably four or five car lengths
from where stood when number of
shots were fired in rapid succession.
The man was holding exclaimed to
me, they are having a regular battle
down there" There were four or five
shots fired in rapid succession; in fact
they were fired SO rapidly that l am
not sure just how many were
fired. 1t seemed to me that two
parties must have been doing
the shooting. 1t Is probable
that as the officer walked along he was
shot at by two men. The shooting &C.
CURED on the south side of the south
track just in front of the creamery.
1t was at the top of the grade that
Personals was killed. was up toward
the station east some four or five car
lengths. saw no one and have no
idea who the men were, how many
there were nor where they went.
Chief of Police Burt said: Il know
little II anything of the shooting. l
was aroused about 1880 and told that
there were men on a freight in the
yards who had held up train at
Sanborn. put on my shoes without
stockings OF lacing them and minus
shirt, hurried to the yards. We
proceeded from the engine toward the
rear of the train, was on the north
side. We captured man and shortly
heard number of shots on the other
side of the train. When we got to
the point opposite the creamery, we
found Personals badly wounded.
Il notified Mayor Wood. His phone
was not working and L sent man up.
l do not see what good it would have
done to have aroused the town. AS 1t
was, there were several strong threats
of lynching the men we had arrested.
l believe If had aroused the town,
that the two men we had under ar
rest would have been lynchei.