Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-16
odd SHOOTING CASE
PECULIAR CRIMINAL CASE IN DIS
TRICT COURT AT WASHBuRN
ON TRIAL. ~ ~
PEACE OFFICER CALLED TO CAP.
TURE BURGLAR-sHooTs
GIRL IN NECK.


| morning the trial of C.. o. Paulson
was commenced in district court. 1t
| seems rather queer story as out
| lined by the state attorney in his
opening remarks. The scene is laid
at Martin, Mclean county, and the
time was the early morning of Octo-
| Der 10, 1906. The Breitzman live
! in six-roomed frame dwelling
! house on Heer avenue, in Martin. Mr..
Breitzmann was away, but the rest
OF the family had retired for the
night
Miss Sophie Tureck, a sister-in-
law of the Breitzmanns, occupied a
bedroom of the kitchen. Her door
was open, the door leading out from
| the kitchen into the yard was lock-
ed when they went to bed. About
O'Clock she woke up and saw the
form of man against the sky line.
which showed through the open kit
chen door. She Immediately jump
ed up and closed her bedroom door,
screaming vigorously the while.
The noise awoke Mrs. Breitzmann,
who also started to scream. Two
men came rushing into the house
and went into the kitchen and with
out asking any questions or making
any explanations, started to shoot
through the bedroom door leading
into Miss Tureck's room. One bull
let struck Sophie Tureck in the neck.
woundfng her severely. Ill
Richard Atkinson has confessed
to being guilty of shooting with in
tent to do bodily harm, in connec-
ton with this case. He was the
night Waterman at Martin that night
and came to the house in response
to Mrs. E,eitzmann's cries for help.
she was at the window and he
came up with another man and ask
ed what the matter was. Mrs.
Breitzmann informed him that there
was a man in the house and told
him to go around the back way. He
did SO, and, with the other man, af-
forwards identified as Paulson, went
into the kitchen through the back
door .@
Meanwhile poor Sophie was in her
bedroom holding the door shut tight
with both her hands, the lock be-
ing out of order SO that she could
not lock the door. Quite an inter-
val o. time had elapsed from the
time she first saw the man in the
kitchen until the rescuers arrived
upon the scene.
With loud noise and shouts of
| We'll get him, we'll fix him, we1l
kill him. with frequent eursing and
much tramping upon the floor, At
kinson and Paulson rushed into. the
kitchen and up to sophie's bedroom
door, and shot Sophie. &Ss,> :
At noon the state rested its case
as far as Paulson is concerned
though there is more or less mys
| terry about the case, yet the state
i has simply shown him present whe1
!. the shooting occurred, and in thu
role of a would-be rescuer In tn,
opinion of many persons there i
nothing in the case so far to justif.
, a verdict by the jury of guilty 0
shooting with intent to do bodil.
harm, though there might be som
element of rank carelessness on tn
!, part of the defendant. ~
MarohI Acquitted.
I After being out an hour in tn
case against Emil Marohl, for sell
ing mortgaged property, the jujr
. brought in verdict of not guilty o
> Thursday afternoon, and the d.
a PENDANT was released. .... +
Pigger Nabbed.
Thursday Judge Winchester issue
;, a bench warrant for the arrest of e.
Davis, of Turtle Lake, North Dakot;
for blind plugging. The sheriff arreste
him thereon and he was brought mi
: court yesterday. As the offense wa
. alleged TO have been committed du
: ing the present term Of court it wi
not be necessary to have a preliminal
hearing, and the defendant can
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