The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-16
ANA EVA FAY
KNOWS RUSSELL
LIVES IN MELRosE, MASS, WHERE
DAKOTA DAN" RUSSELL IS
WAelNG A FIGHT FOR A FOR
TUNE - TELLS OF RussELL'sI
STANDING THERE.

Anna Eva Fay, the nnted mind reader
who is appearing at the Grand theatre
this week, lives at Melrose, Mass,
where Dakota Dan" Russell is waging
a judicial fight for an estate Of $3.50, 600
At her hotel this morning she told a
representative Of The Forum something
about the fight as it is seen at the
4 fighting ground.
Il The people Of Melrose," said Miss
Fay, "are for Dakota Dan. What ]
mean by the people is that there are 95
per cent of the citizens Of the city OF
/ Melrose who have taken the side OF
the North Dakota citizen and are firmly
convinced that he is the legal heir co
| the estate for which he Is fighting.
The evening that it was announced
that the verdict was to be rendered in
the case, arrangements We're made for a
Dig celebration In Dakota Dams honor
A band was hired and a big banquet
was prepared in honor of the man who
had won the peoples confidence To
the people of the city who had heard
the evidence and knew the case from
head to foot there could be no other
verdict than one in favor OF Russell.
With all this preparation, you car
imagine how dumbfounded the people
were when they learned that the YER
dict had been given against Russell.
1t was inconceivable. 1t stunned the
people of Melrose and they could not
realize that such verdict could be
possible.
Instead of celebration, the people
gathered in the public square and
burned effigies of the Judge and the
principal people fighting Russells
claim. They were indignant over the
outcome of the case. And then, worse
vet, Judge Lawson denied Russell the
right of a trial by jury
1T was conclusively shown in the
trial that Dakota Dan was the man
he claimed to be. His boyhood friends
and schoolmates knew him and many
of the old settlers of the city recog-
nized him. Why, IL would be just like |
you or me returning home after an |
absence There would be our former |
schoolmates and friends who would |
naturally know us, and this is the case
with the North Dakota man, although |
the judge of the court could NOT see it |
in this light and rendered a verdict
against him.
Russell Is now. growing a mustache |
and beard and his resemblance to his |
father Is wonderful Old settlers in the
city who knew his father say there is
a great likeness between the father and
son since the latter has grown beard.
1T Is now rumored that there will
be settlement of the case outside the
courts. A new trial has been granted,
but this has been put off until next
spring, and 1t is thought that in the
there will be an arbitration ]
Of matters. IT is known that Dakota ,
Dan has been In conference with his !
opponents and arbitration is much il
talked or
AT Melrose 1t is whispered that the /,
'eason for the outrageous decision from
Judge Lawson was because that he was
mixed in with the defendants of the I
,ase. There are a number of the most I
prominent citizens of Melrose who are
financially interested in the suit and I
re very anxious to have Dakota Oar III
tut of the way h
There is not shadow of doubt but c
What he will come out the victor in t
ime." G