The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-28
Moorhead Department
FOR
$1,000 REWARD
JUDGE TAYLOR OPENS A HEAR
ING FOR VARIOUS CLAIMANTS
FOR REWARD IN FRANKHAusER
CASE THIS MoRNINo-PRoPos-
ED SETTLEMENT OPPOSED.

Following the inability of the score
or more claimants for part of the
Frankhauser reward to reach a settle
ment, Judge Taylor in the district
court this morning commenced a hear
ing in the matter.
The score or more claimants for the
FTankhauser reward could not come TO
an agreement as to division so the
matter is now being tried by Judge
Iaylor in the district court, the case
being called shortly before noon.
OF the twenty claimants there is
| one dissenting to the agreement which
Is supposed to have been reached and
that is Detective Delaney, livestock
claim agent of the Great Northern,
who is represented by Atty. d. F. Iy-
ons, of st. Paul, and there is now an
intervenor, Detective Batten of the
Northern Pacific, represented by AT
torney Sharp These claimants saw
they have not had a part in the confer
ence at which basis for the division
of the reward was agreed to.
United States District Attorney q
e. Houpt who represents certain claim
ants told Judge Taylor that there were
eastern
western. and the majority of them had
agreed to division of the reward of
tered by the railroad company. IS. 600
as follows, SIS per cent to the eastern
group and 40 per cent to the western.
out there was one dissenting, Attorney
Lyons, who represented MIR. Delaney.
Among the attorneys variously rep
resenting claims for the reward were
Messrs, Houpt Lyons, St. Paul: Mar
den of GAINESVILLE. Mcdonald of Spo
kane, Nye, Witherow Sharp. RUSSELL
and Adams of Moorhead,
Delaney on the Stand.
After considerable cross firing and
statements fixing the status of differ |
ent parties to the case the first witness
was called, Detective Delaney who was
examined by Attorney Lyons and the
witness was i'm he chair at the time
of the noon adjournment.
There appeared to be truth i'm the
statement made today in the district
courtroom by a local attorney who is
reputed to have long head-and . |
wise one, He said it is very easy for
parties interested to offer rewards for
the arrest and conviction of persons
W iio nave COAliLlllLSu WFOHg, out 1t is |
quite another matter for the parties
to collect the reward. and
just as likely the man or men who
really earned the reward are left out In
the cold.
The remark was brought in connect
ton with the scramble there is for
the reward of several thousand dollars
for the arrest and conviction of George
Frankhauser, who was implicated in
the holding up of the Oriental Limited !
train of the Great Northern road in
the fall of 1907. The express car was |
robbed of considerable money and the !
mail car was interfered with Ulti- |
mately Frankhauser was arrested on a |
farm in the southern part of Clay
county short distance from the town
of GAINESVILLE, tried and convicted in
Montana and is now serving a life SEN
Uence
In reality there is $1,000 in rewards |
for the arrest and conviction Of Frank |
hauser, made up as follc Great |
Northern Railway Co, $50 United |
States government, $1,000 insurance
company, $1,000 The LAST two items |
will be distributed among the claimants
in the same proportion to the division
of the larger sum decided upon by the
court.