Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-04
COURT AT LAMOURE
CHECK RAISER GETS FIVE YEARS
AND MAY HAVE MORE
TROUBLE.
HUSBAND SUES FOR $4,000 DAM
AGES FROM WlFE's LOVER
GETS $500. rs

4 LaMoure, N. D., August o., 1907
The La Moure term Of court was
adjourned Friday, August End, with
out finishing the calendar, but Judge
Winchester did not feel justified in
keeping the farmer jurors away from
their work any longer. This is the
busiest time OF the year for the farm
ers and every day spent in court
meant large financial loss for the
most Of the jurors. !. u;
A number of cases were settled and
some of them continued. There were
two criminal cases tried, the case
against Gotfried zundell, for rape,
resulting in an acquittal, and the
case against Frank Norton, for forg-
cry in the. second degree, resulting
in conviction. 4. Y s5s !
frank Norton was accused Of rails
ing three dollar check to twenty
three dollars, and OF trying to pass
it upon merchant in La Moure.
This happened during the term Of
court. The check was written by
Mr.. David Lloyd, banker at La
Moure, one of the wealthiest men in
La Moure county, and was in pay
ment for work done for him by the
defendant. .S.5.s5 &,
Norton went into Charles Crum's
store, put On a pair of shoes and pre-
sented the check to the merchant
in payment. Mr.. Crum noticed i'm
mediately sthat the amount 8on the
check had been raised and called the
attention of the defendant to 1t. Nor
ton seemed surprised, but. took back
the check and, after taking off the
new shoes, left the store. MT. Lloyd
was notified and had the defendant
arrested. He still had the check in
his possession, but the amount had
been changed to the original amount
at this time, the erasures being very
evident. ..Ss 4 n &. 5sss .ss .ta
During the trial the defendant was
shown q picture and asked IL he ever
saw it before, or if he knew whom
it represented. He denied all know
ledge of the picture. 1t was the pic
ture of a man wanted in California
for the murder Of a deputy sheriff,
man for whose apprehension there
was reward of $1,000 outstanding.
The resemblance to the defendant
sWas very striking, which, together
with the testimony of the defendant
himself that he had been in Californ-
ia, raised a strong suspicion that it
was the same person. In the absenc
Of other proof, however. the matter
was dropped for the present. The
sheriff will, no doubt, try to trace it
up further. #
The jury was out about fifteen
minutes and brought in a verdict Of
guilty Of forgery in the second de-
gree. He was sentenced to Ave years
in the penitentiary, the minimum SEN
tence and will be taken to Bismarck
in a day or two.
OF the civil cases one was borught
by CASTOR Lee against the Northern
Pacific Railway Company for the
loss Of a horse and he was awarded
$3.50 damages. The Northern Paci.
| f1c also brought two condemnation
cases against Fred. A. Cornwall and
William Reisbeck, and the jury al
lowed the defendants $3.50 in the ag
gregate, the extreme amount demand
ed by the defendants being $1,000.
/ Andrew Lundkrist brought d $40,
600 damage suit against C. A. Main
| for alternating the affections OF hi,
1 wife. The parties were all Swedes
| In 1904 Lundkrist came to Americ,
| and went to work for Malm. With
| in three months and with the he'll
4 OF Malm, who was a bachelor, Mrs
4 Lundkrist was brought from Swedei
with her family of four boys AM
went to live with her husband an
Malm, doing the cooking for til
household. In December, 1904, Lnnt
krist left and has been away COZ
tinuously ever since, returning d
short intervals to the Main hom,
where Mrs. Lundkrist remained .
housekeeper with her children
Lundkrist never seemed to be abb
to establish home elsewhere II
his large family. Trouble common
ed brew between him and Main an
yet the arrangements continued I
before.
In September. 1906, another bal
came. Of which Lundkrist insists |
is not the father. Even after th,
Mrs. Lundkr.st remained ali an 4
mate Of the Malm household, h,
husband seeming to be unable
4 make q change.
Il The damage suit resulted and Wi
1 bitterly fought. Mr.. Cole, Of Farg