The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-04-08
JURY SECURED In The
FOURHIER CASE
Continued from first page.


money en- deposit in a Crookston
bank. .-'.
Then followed description OF
the circumstances surrounding
their nearest neighbor, Fourn-
Ter and his companion Wesley.
Another neighbor, Kruger, goes
to Bemidji and leaves his gun
with Wesley and Fourier. The
latter also goes to Bemidjl about
same time by the way OF Buena
Vista, and returns day earlier
than Kruger. On the night
which has been fixed as the time
of the crime Caldwell and his
wife hear the. dogs barking fol-
lowed by scream and shot, mid
way between their and Fourn
ier's place. Caldwell judges it
is about half a mile away.
The next day Cald we'll, while
hunting for strayed cattle, goes
by the Dahl's cabins and finds no
one at home, Tut sees tracks in
the snow as if a number of peo-
pie had been walking back and
forth. The same day he goes
over to see Fourier and Wesley,
finds them both home, and
Kruger, who is after his gun,
with them. When Kruger takes
gun to go home he finds a long
blond hair on barrel, strong
circumstance connecting the de-
PENDANT with the crime as Miss
Dahl is the only woman in the
neighborhood who has long, light
hair.
The coroner's report shows
that the skull of Miss Dahl had
been crushed with a blow that
could be caused with a rife
and the hair incident is a coinci-
dence that fits nicely with the
borrowing of the gun, the shoot
ing and the crushed skull.
We all have hobbies ard super
stitions. Fourier has one in a
marked degree and that is when
he commits a crime in a room
where there is a looking glass
he turns the looking glass to the
wall. We will prove that he has
told about robbing a camp and
holding man up with gun,
and turned the looking glass in
the camp toward the wall. When
making a search of Miss Dahl's
cabin, after the disappearance,
the first thing that met the eyes
of the searchers was the looking
glass turned toward the wall.
The only persons in the neigh
borhood who did not search for
the Dahl's after the mysterious
disappearance were Fournier
and Wesley.
Shorty saw people begin to
hunt for the missing and skipped
out. Fourier went to Red LAX a
to work, and when he came back
was much interested IN learning
if the bodies had been found.
Caldwell put it up to himself,
Paul or Shorty to tell what be-
came of the Dahls and Fournier's
face turned purple color.
A day or two before the MUIR
der Fournier was in Buena Vista
broke. When be returned from
Tamarack river drive he had $50
or $50 more than he had earned.
We will show how much he
earned and the surplus money
tallies with the amount taken
from old man Dahl.
We will show that the motive
was robbery. We will show that
Fournier and Wesley often spoke
Of getting the old mans "plant."
We will show a pair of overalls
With red paint on them found
near where the body of the girl
was discovered, and we will show
that there was no red paint in
the neighborhood except at Mar.
tindale's where Fourier and
Shorty worked. We will also
show a coat found in Fournier's
cabin showing the same marks of
red paint.
We will show that Wesley and
Fourier knew of the old mans
money, and that N. o. Dahl was
murdered for money.
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