Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-11-13
HELD FOR
MURDER
Gunder Tangen Faces
Charge of Murder
for Killing Bond
THE JURY'S VERDICT

THE JURY'S VERDICT
I'VE, the jury in the inquis-
ition over the body of Will
Bond, find that said Will Bond
came to his death on November
as the result of shot fired
from single barrelled gun in
the hands of Gunder Tangen,
and that the shot was fired
feloniously. We recommend
that the said Gunder Tangen
be arrested and dealt with ac-
cording to law
The coroner's inquest over the
body of Will Bond who was fatally
shot by Gunder Tangen last week
Tuesday was held last week Thurs
day, it requiring about five hours
to complete the examination. E>essa
The chief witness was Mrs. Rob-
ert Mcintyre whose husband is
the proprietor of the livery barn
where the shooting occurred. In
substance she told the following
story.
Tangen came to her house in the
afternoon of Tuesday and asked for
a longlegged man who worked lin
the livery barn At the same time
he used a large amount of profane
language, and told her that Bond
had eight dollars which he had
given him the evening before to
keep. He stated that he would
get" Bond, and with these words
left the house.
Some time later he returned to
the barn and Mrs. Mcintyre saw
that he carried a shot gun. She
ran to tell Bond that Tangen was
coming, and she was telling him
this when Tangen came into the
barn and the two men stepped into
an addition.
Mrs. Mcintyre was unable to
see what the men were doing but
could hear them talking about the
money. After a time she heard
the shot and Bonds scream for
help. She turned with this and
ran away.
1t appears from the general
trend of the testimony that Tangen
had been sleeping in the barn the
night previous to the shooting and
had on his person about So. This
money he had given to Bond to
keep for him during the night.
Testimony pointed to the fact that
several persons saw Bond give Tan
gen back his money the next morn
ing.
Testimony also showed that Tan
gen had been drinking the night
before and that on the afternoon of
the shooting he was just recovering
from big drunk, was i'll of humor
and had made several threats on
the life Of Bond.
The gun which did the shoot
ting was introduced in evidence,
and several witnesses swore that
this was the one which had been
purchased by Tangen during the
day and the one which was used
lin killing Bond.
The testimony Of DR.. Dickinson,
who made a short statement to
the jury before it retired. showed
that the man died from the shock
of being shot, rather than from
the effects, of the wound itself.
Sheriff Henry Wiersbeck in
whose custody the murderer nov
/ is, said while in conversation with
a reporter fos the Saturday News:
Tangen has just commenced to re-
alize the enormity Of his crime.
He asked me the other day how
Bond was getting along and when ]
told him Bond was dead his eyes
filled with tears and he commenced
/ to sob bitterly He has retained
Glass & Snyder to defend him. 7
Tangen has a pretty hard case
against him and he will no doubt
Iget life Imprisonment or possibly
the death penalty for his brutal
and cowardly crime.
The body Of the murdered man
was shipped back to his home at
Mount Chambers, Mich, at the re-
quest Of his aged mother.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
pills are lad u 1, y, rns,