Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-03-14
w STATE NOTES.

eight hours, it is alleged violated every
law governing Indian reservations
except those relating TO assault and
forgery. The two lads were students
of what is known as the Grand River
government boarding school. As the
initial act, it is alleged, they stole a
team Of horses belonging to the govern,
ment boarding school. With the horses
they secured two saddle blankets, but
no saddles. Mounting the stolen ami.
mails, they fled fran the vicinity where
the school is located. They had not
proceeded far when they met two
small Indian boys who also were
mounted upon ponies. The small boys,
it is alleged, were held up by the two
older lads, who forcibly removed the
brides from the ponies ridden by their
victims. Then Cadotte and New Earth
rode to the Grand River mission, where
their horses were hid in a log church
From a flagstaff on top of the
church al American flag tioated, and,
it Is said, they stole the flag with the
object of using it for a muller for their
ears, the weather being quite cold at
the time. 1t is further charged that
they then ven to the home of the
father of Cadotte. where after breaking
in a window they entered the house and
stole a saddle, and from the home of
Cadotte's father they rode to the dwell
ing of Mrs. Little Bear, an Indian
woman, where they stole another sad
die. After nus fitting themselves out
they went to the cabin of the Indian
policeman whose duty it is to keep
peace Ill the neighborhood, and STAN
ped-d the policeman's horses SO he
could not chase and overhaul them.
But at the boarder town of Evarts the
sheriff of Walworth county, by a clever
ruse succeeded in throwing them off
their guard and arresting them. In the
Jail the boys found a boil. Heating
this in the stove which provided warmth
for the Jail, they burned the lock off
the Jail door and made their escape.
They succeeded in making their way
to the west side of the Missouri river,
where they stole other horses, saddles
and brides, after which they headed
for the interior of the Cheyenne river
Indian reservation. In the meantime
their escape was discovered, and the
sheriff whom they had given the slip
took their trail and after an exciting
chase of a score or more of miles, sue.
ceeded in overhauling them and nee
more placing them under arrest. They
were turned over to the United States
AS the result of their pre-
liminary examination before a United
States commissioner, the youths were
held for appearance at the regular
April term of the United states court in
Sioux Falls.
Seeking for a divorce from his first
wife, in order that he may be legally
married to the woman whom he sup
posed he had married twenty years ago
appearing in the courts from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast, beaten
each time, either by a combination of
or by the fact that he
could not raise the necessary funds for
the finishing of the case, and
broken down at last in his
Did age, is the pitiful story of Albert Il
Duel. From Deadwood he has gone to
Denver, the change having been made
by the feeble condition of the
he is trying earnestly to marry
Duel's story began in 1885,
when in Washington, d. c., he applied
or a divorce from his wife. Being
a decree, he married the
woman now known as Fannie Duel.
But his first wife succeeded in having
he decree set aside. Duel consulted a
in Chicago, who, for a small
Ium, pretended to secure a divorce for
him. 1t was not long however, until
he found he had been made the victim
If a fake decree. In the meantime he
lad dritted west, and tried III San
Francisco TO secure a divorce from Mrs.
Duel No. l.. An attorney represented
in court and the court ordered Duel
o put up the necessary amount for her
ttorney's fees. This he was unable to
10 so the case was thrown out OF court.
Time passed on and he came to the
Black Hills TO try nee again to secure
freedom he wished and to do justice
o the woman who had remained
through all so loyal to him. His case
up in a term of Deadwood circuit
ourt Friday and his wife was again
epresented by an attorney, aud again /,
id the court require that Duel should
ay sufficient for her attorneys fees.
he matter will hang over a few days
ntil Duel can be heard from. The
is an old soldier, having served
the war wife a Pennsylvania
egiment. He is 70 years Of age, and
be wife from whom he seeks the
ivorce is So. He worked for o time in /
he machine shop at Deadwood, butli