The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-05

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foundation Tor when II, lust ~. mems.
, the door 1t was 70 ANA my father sAr,
4 and sound In his b,J liza wns ms
: awaklng. reused by our cries and ~,
begged HIM Ia get uu. telling hitn via
much agitation that something terri.
bile had happened. ius, exactly whu, a,
wher we could not parficulartze HI,
declared tina, We had heard no such
cries, 1t WAS overworked %aginatt
etc. From my fathers room We RIM 10
the bedroom OF my two Younger sisters
70 see II the evil thing had happened
there. But no: we found them both
sleeping soundly in spite OF tho com
motion. We decided IT was best to let
them remain in Ignorance of the cpl
sode for the present at least. and ac-
cordingly tiptoed ont OF tina room and
closed the door. We had as n sort OF
the village school teacher. and by this
time he, too, had been by the
unwonted excitement at that hour and
had joined my father with Inquiries as
to the cause OF 1t all. He had his watch
In his hand, and as he remarked at the
moment, Why. it is only ten minutes
past 6 O'clock" he, too, declared he
had heard no such cries as we de-
scribed.
We all dressed ourselves hurriedly
and went down into the sitting room,
where. with much agitation, we told
just h we had heard. We had
heard the death cries of two women.
we insisted. One OF them, judging by
her voice. was an old oma the other
a Younger woman. The old woman had
been struck first by Just what instru-
ment we did not know, but we both
agreed in describing it as heavy iron
implement. our reason for so charac-
terizing it being the peculiar little
%crunching. soughing sound which ac-
companied as a sort of mute under
tone each of the cries. The old woman
had Deer struck twice by this instru-
ment. We declared. This we knew, be-
cause had we not heard with our own
ears her two sharp cries Of agonyo
The second blow had sent her Keeling
to the floor or wooden partition. when
the. younger woman was struck by the
same weapon. The latter received
three such blows. uttered three cries.
and then she, too. had fallen on the
same floor or against the same parti-
ton.
My father. a coldly scientific man and
one loath at all times to scott at va
carries of the feminine imagination. was
nevertheless much Impressed bv the
only too evident agitation; likewise the
school teacher.
To satisfy us they went out with
lanterns to make a search of the barn
n the rounds. leaving my mother
and myself waiting in the sitting room
expecting that every moment 1bav
would return to the house with fur1her
Testimony regarding fba er,slv tra..edy
\. light snow. the arst of the year. had
fallen the night before. and so ii
would not be difficult. we reasoned. to
trace the whereabouts of the victims
in case the tragedy had taken place AT
hand.
But at the end of fifteen minutes
they returned declaring taat they had
found not so much as a footprint IN
barn from ground floor to havmow and md
had naGe a thorough investigation of
the hedge and the densely grown
in the garden ~
We'll. we declared. If it did NOT ham
oen rirst here # coy, ai n,v u'u mn ,u' zap
occurred elsa IN tho ViCinitvl
Accordingly, after eakfa aided w
practically the entire yillare to Wbom
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search was instituted and the sly snS
rounding country TOR q radt,,s ef se,,-
srai miles dilirsntIv ]c,nvassed oara-
fnI inn,irics being made oe avarhndv
as to whether he had heard anr ovnI
erias or bad seen anvthinn aaS suen
the commission OF anv s,sh cuinsa as
descrihed Saturallv ano'.eh t,a a.
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