The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
BOCHE BACK ON HIS FARM
SHES AND RUNS AWAY AT
QUERIES ON SHOOTING.
RODE A NEWS MANS BICYCLE
Glad to BE Free From Jail and Hand.
cuffs, Boche Sat on His Farmhouse
Porch Sunday Afternoon and Dis.
cussed the Crops and Weather.

Porch Sunday Afternoon and Dis.
cussed the Crops and Weather.
tFrom Mondays Dary.l
Herman Boche like many another
man before him has lived to learn that
liberty is very precious thing. Four
months in Jail has spelled freedom"
in capital letters to Boche.
Herman Boche Saturday afternoon
stepped from the Jail cell into the
free air of the countryside. 1t was
a big step, that transition from the
cage like Jail at Madison to the farm
by the Elkhorn.
Saturday Boche again became the
head of his household When bond
and court instructions were brought
into Madison Saturday afternoon
Boche went out of the Jail corridor and
| found wife and son waiting. He was
driven at once to his farm south of
the city.
Sunday made a new man out Of
Boche. One day out in the air with
no jingling handouts went far to-
wards wiping from Boche's face and
mind the record OF his life since that
May day shooting.
Boche back on his own farm Sun
day held his head up. His face seem
ed to put on new flesh and q smile
crept into his eyes.
Boche is no man Of words but he
smiles at the green fields and says
that 1t is good to be loose. For seven
days after the May day tragedy
Boche lived the life Of wild thing
hunted in the wood One night as he
crept towards home the light of the
sheriff's lantern flashed in his face and
bullets from the sheriff's revolver rang
by him and plowed two holes in his
clothes. Four months Boche was be-
hind the bars at Madison. For two
months, following the attempt to
puncture Sheriff Clements anatomy
with a pitch fork, he has been in close
confinement broken only recently by
short walks but always with the
special deputy and the ever present
handouts. Handouts are dismal things,
disagreeably suggestive, and Boche
when he stepped into freedom Satur-
day found pleasure in poking his
hands whittier he pleased.
Shy Concerning Shooting.
If you had gone to the Boche farm
Sunday you would not have had the
hospitality of the place thrown at
your feet but you would had had a
decent, civil greeting. You would
have found Herman Boche happy to
be surrounded by his family and will
ing to shake your hand. You would
have sat by his side on the steps and
been frankly assured by Boche that
he wouldn't kill you, that you were
safe in his farm yard. You would
have discussed the crops, the weather
and the roads and had your questions
answered You would have touched
on the murder charge and seen Boche
rise in an instant and vanish into
the house. And If you had still sat
on the steps Boche would have come
back to your side and again plunged
into the house at any question or
reference that was pointed
"How does it seem to be in the
to any man."
open again" Good, just like it would
"And what OF Madison?" "Glad to
be out, just like any man would"
"And the boys have kept up the
FARM" "Of course, haven't l been
away all the timer
Boche won't talk" Don't talk
Don't talk. Don't talk" The words
of his lawyers ring in his ears.
Rides Bicycle.
But Boche is not uncivil and if you
had ridden wheel out to the Boche
farm as a News representative did
Boche would had mounted your wheel
and ridden 1t around the barn yard.
Boche can ride bicycle and found
some pleasure in little spin Sunday.
Boche's small grain is cut and his
The Boche farm is we'll known to
Norfolk people in years past as fish
ing resort. 1t stands back from the
roadside and is reached by a narrow
jarry sort of road that runs between
two corn fields and throws you un-
eXpectedly into the Boche yard by a
sudden turn. It's just an ordinary sort
of a farm house. Close by are the
waters of the Elkhorn. In the yard
Boche is sitting with a friend or two
and some of his family.
BOche on November rs will leave
the farm again for his December trial
at Madison for the staying of Frank
farmer. But until then he will stay
on the farm. 81 won't run away"
Boche said Sunday.