The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10
BOCHE GIVES HIMSELF Up
SAYSHE WASDOPD ANDROBBB)


he says farmer suggested that they
take a trip into the redlight district.
Says He Did Not Want to Go.
81 told farmer that would not go
with him." said Boche today. Il told
him that had too much money in my
pockets and that 1t would be unsafe
for me to go. farmer demanded that
| | get into hack and said he only
wanted to go for a minute. Finally,
after he had coaxed for some time
but still against my will, / got into
the hack with him. Shortly after the
hack had started out, | felt my head
begin to swim. believe was doped
Says farmer Felt Of His Pocket.
while still in the hack | noticed
that farmer kept trying to feel of my
pocket with his fingers and | told him
| t. keep his hands away from me.
: W farmer Grabbed at His Pocket.
or we reached the house girls
n. III, zee asked me to buy bottle
of i, didn't mind the dollar so
| boue 80 lie and later drank more.
While &c. re farmer came over
| to me, 5, 'ct| beside me and
grabbed my u ,cket"
Boche says ~ recalls little else of
| tnat nights dissipation until he left
the house with farmer. He says he
: remembers feeling for his purse and
it was gone. Then he wanted to go
home but says farmer insisted that he
! get into the hack and return to town.
Il told farmer | was going home,
but he said, No, by -, you're not
going home,'" Boche declared today.
At This Oath, 8oche Shot.
AT this oath and at the moment
when farmer declared he could not go
home, Boche says he remembers that
he shot his revolver; how many times,
or that it had killed a man, he did
not know until he was told.
3s-Calbre Gun.
Boche still had his gun when he
gave himself up today. 1t is a 49,
calibre English bulldog revolver with
two loaded shells still in it's chamber.
From the moment when he fired the
gun until he awoke that night in a
pig pen only short distance from the
place where the tragedy occurred, Bo-
che recalls nothing. When he did
awake he says he started down the
river towards his own farm. At this
time he had no definite idea of what
had taken place. He did not even
know that the officers had been search
ing for him all that day, nor that a
murder charge had been placed against
him.
He took Lehman's boat and crossed
the river and finally reached his own
farmyard.
Hid in the Buggy Shed.
Half realizing, though, that some
thing had happened, and family re,
calling that he had shot at farmer in
a quarrel, he did not go into the house,
but hid himself in the buggy shed
Then the dog barked and his wife
came out and spoke in German. He
answered her in German.
Did Not Know What Halt" Meant.
Then darklantern's glare flashed
into his eyes and blinded him A |
mans voice-he did not know what
man-cried out, Halt" But Herman
Boche did not know what the word
halt" meant, he says, and his first
impulse was to run away. So he ran
and four bullets from the sheriff's re. |
volver closely followed him, one i'm
printing slight but painful wound in |
his right hip and another perforating
his trouser leg and grazing him just
below the left knee, on the inside.
AS result of this hip wound, Boche
keeps his hand on his back, as though |
in pain, almost constantly.
Stayed in Woods That Night.
That night and every other night |
since then, until Monday, Boche hid
himself in the woods near the rivers
edge in the vicinity of his own farm.
On Monday night he went to the farm /
of his brother-in-law, Carl Sorg. His
own son works there. He told his SON |
to get him something to eat and while |
he ate the food his boy told him that |
he had killed Frank farmer and that
officers were searching for him to put |
him under arrest.
Wanted to Give Self Up Then.
Boche says that the instant he |
found out that he had killed farmer
he wanted to give himself up. He |
asked that his wife be sent for but
she had gone to- Wakefield to hunt |
for him. And so he slept in the hay
loft at the Sorg farm that night, with |
his mind made up to surrender at the |
first possible moment. He said that |
he had wanted to give himself up all |
of the time and he would like to have |
surrendered the night the sheriff shot |
at him, had he known it was an Off |
Ger and not some avenger who was
after him, and had he known the |
meaning of halt"
Asks to Have Suspense Ended.
And so when Tuesday morning
dawned Herman Boche was ready and
anxious to surrender. Toward even.
ing he ventured over to his own home,
where he found his children.
The father, worn from his long