The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-07

and z O'Clock, or thereabout. Adam
Miller was seen on the street in Penn
bina after that time and the killing
could not have been done by Till at
that time. If the supper hour was
later-say at 8 O'Clock or thereabout-
then Till might have been absent on
mission of death to Adam Miller.
For this reason, so the attorneys
claimed, the witnesses in the case at
the trial sought to put the supper
hour at later time, to permit the
theory that Till went out to kill Mil
Ter.
Miller is supposed to have been
killed at distance of half mile from
the Bedose house. He was shot
through the head and the wound was
afterward incised with knife. as If
to give 1t the appearance of an acct
dental injury. His body was then
carried or driven to a place back of
granary near the Bedose place,
where it was found between two logs.
1t was claimed that Till could not, in
the time he was gone, have gone to
the place of murder, killed Miller, car
ried the body to where it was found
and gotten back into the house by the
time he did.
Mrs. Miller testified that she heard
sleigh driven up to the house about
o'clock She thought it was Mil
Ter and noted the time. He did not
come in and she awakened one of the
household who went to search for Mil
Ter. The sleigh. the one in which
Miller had started out. was empty.
Till was awakened and went out to as
sist with the search. Miller was not
found until the following morning,
when his body was found as hereto
fore stated.
First Accusation.
At the coroner's inquest Mrs. Bedose
first connected Till with the crime.
She said she though he had committed
the murder, because she had missed
a knife from her cupboard for a day
or two before the murder. There was
evidence given to show that Till had
knife. The attorneys stated that
this evidence was manufactured by the
conspirators against Till. 1t also ap-
peared that Till had bought a revolver
from store in Pembina. Till first de-
MED this, but afteArward admitted it.
But he said that a man named Smith
gave him the money to get the gun
and afterward gave it to man named
Jacob Martin. But witness named
Kane, then in Jail in Pembina, testi-
fled on the stand that Till had told
him that he bought the revolver him
self with money given him by Miller
as loan. This gave the lie to THIS
story that he bought the revolver for
Smith and Martin. Subsequently to
the trial, Kane made an affidavit that
if he made such a statement it was not
true and that Till had always insisted
to him that he bought the revolver at
Smiths request, and that it was given
to Martin. Peculiarly enough, Martin
was one of the men who found the re-
volver hidden after the murder and
delivered it to the officers and there
after helped find the knife, claiming
to have found 1t in plain sight in the
snow where the officers searched un-
remittingly for it without success.
the attorneys for Till directed the fin
ger of suspicion strongly at Martin.
1t was claimed that he feared Miller,
who had threatened to expose him for
stealing wheat from Miller's employer.
That he made the remark that "that
black dog would not bark after Ora
Der (Miller's employer) got back" and
that he said when he got the revolver
that the Bedose family were interested
in putting suspicion on Till to shield
Martin.
Another peculiar thing is that Mar
tin made an affidavit number of
years subsequently to the trial tend
ing to clear Till. and then left the
United States. His present where
abouts are unknown.
Away From TILL
D. e. Morden, who was a deputy
sheriff in Pembina county, was among
those present at the hearing. He is