The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-11-24
FIRE MARSHAL GETS SUSPECT
Party Arrested May Have to Answer
in Another Serious Matter

StAS SNoNC Il L Z AlutD q. SIHl
Of Mitchell. in Sioux Falls yes e a.
caused the ARE of Cha les Bag nola
either an Italian or a Sy ian, up n {
charge OF arson, and, the p oof o.
gul t, now in the possession of tn
fire marshal. is so strong at tn,
convtst.on of the accused man is con.
sidered ce tain.
And another charge, which might
be laid at the door of BanunCla is tt al
OF alternating the affections Of the
wife of the man for whom he wCrke1
and whose buildings he is accused O
lgnit ng in order to promote his own
suit for the love of the woman in the
case.
Mr.. Craft has been at work on this
case since the 2Gth of August last and
a devious trail, which he had consid-
cradle difficulty in following, fina ly
brought him to Sioux Falls, as tie
home of the bait whi,h fate had WOW
en- into a web for Bagunola. md
where, yesterday, he ca ght Bagu =
ola, who had come all the way f m
New York to see the woman, W o g
farm home he is suspected of having
wrecked.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Hanson former
ly lived on a farm near Loyalton, Ell
munds county.
They rented the place and were get
ting on famously, when Bagun la APP
peared on the scene wanting work. POO.
He was employed and was treated
with that hospitality and howelv
courtesy, which has given rise to the
frequently used expression t! at "em-
ployes are treated like members OF
the family"
Bagunola discovered his i~nfatua-
ton for his employers wife very soon
after he accepted work at tie place
and with the chara"te istic iTpe u0s-
ity of his race, decided that it was
intended in the divine plan hat they
should belong to each other.
And State Fire Marshal Gait as
serts that it was in flu therance of that
plan to have her all his own, that
Bagunola set fire to the ia IN build
ings, feeling that if the buildings on
the rented farm were destroyed, the
Hanson family would be broken W
and that he and the woman would find
fewer difficulties in the path, he fe't
he could persuade her to tread with
him.
On the night of the 26th of August
last, Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson and a. o
BagunOla, attended a dance two miles
from the Hanson farm.
Mr.. and NJ S. Hanson left treir
place before BagunOla did, leaving
him to reach the dance Late ard it J.
believed that after thew let the farm,
he set fire to the structures.
At any rate, after the country dance
vas over and they rea he'd the rented
farm, the house and barn and SEED
were found to be hca~s of glowing
embers and smoking ashes.
State Fiie Marshal Ora t was notified
the fire and began an investigation
Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson left Edmurds
county, he to get a new start in the
and she, ostensibly to wat 70
his success.
He went to Hanson comfy and
found work as a farm hand and is
there now picking corn.
Mrs. Hanson came to Sioux Falls
and found work in a restaurant.
Bagunola went to Chicago and then
east, from which points he
wrote letters to the woman. urging
her to join him in the east, but she
would not go and that vas what
brought him back to this state.
Marshall Craft learned of the infat-
of Bagunlo for the woman and
felt that earlier or later the man
would come to Sioux Falls to see her
He posted sentinels to watch her and
day before yesterday was advised,
while at Mitchell that a man answer
ing the description of the accused, had
this city.
Bagunola early yesterday morning
presented himself at the Benton res
on North Phillips avenue,
where Mrs. Hanson was employed.
They were to have gone for a ride,
but something inte~fe"ed and an
other appointment was made to occur
later in the day.
In the meantime MI. Craft had ar
rived and located BagunoIa. wnose ar
rest he caused.
Then he went to Mrs. Hanson, told
her what he knew and she agreed t.
tell him what she knew OF the alleged
She was taken in an auto to the
home of her parents, who live in the
west part of the city, there she made
statement. laying the charge OF ar
son against Bagunola, admitting her
own connection with the affair and as
that she had been t ighten"d
INTO her associations with Bagunola,
by a fear that he would kill her and
unless she acIuiesced in his
desires.
Letters from Bagunola. re eived by
Mrs. Hanson. were turned over to the
state fire marshal. Eagunola is in he
county Jail, awaiting the
of Edmunds county officials
md Mrs. Hanson is at the h"me o.
her parents. She is the mother OF
.wo children.
Had Close Call
Huron-Jameg ID McNair of this