The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-10-07
am quite shot myself. Lately he
acted as though the gun was his.
Hall Felt Desperate.

| acted as UnOuSH CIie gun was MS
Hall Felt Desperate.
| ''The first day that father came back
| Hall began to make trouble about it.,
and the second night, in the last days
| of June, Hall went out in the front
yard with the gun and got behind a
tree from which point there is an I'M
INSTRUCTED view in to the window of
! the room that father occupied. He
| fired the gun in the air, and when Mr..
Lamm spoke to him about it, he said
that he felt like doing something des-
perate.
"Ilall irritated me to a great de-
gree. He set on my nerves all the
time. He had a slurring way that l
could not stand, and called me many
foul names. One day we had phOno-
graph on the kitchen table and he
danced a two step back of my chair,
and / suggested that he sit down. He
came up and placed his hands around
me and l got angry in minute and
stood up and struck him hard blow.
This made him very angry, and the
next evening when he came home /
| was sitting on the porch and he sat
on me and tried tc, crush me, and
would not get up until my mother,
| fearing that he would injure me, took
| his hands and pulled him off. He then
struck her in the face and tore the
skin on one cheek open with his finger
nail. Mother always treated HIM
right
Shooting Unjustifable.
Marshal Neary states that there
was nothing to Justify Halls action.
'IIe drank good DEAL" said the mar
shall in discussing the case, "and got
drunk often and then was ugly, espec-
Tally around his home. / arrested him
twice before last night. The first time
was three years ago, when he attended
a dance and was drunk and created
a disturbance. He was locked up over
night and allowed to go. The second
time was last March, when he came
up town with his gun, and it waa
feared that he intended to shoot some
one That was on Saturday night
and he was locked up until Monday
morning, when he paid a fine of SIC
and costs"
In the pocket of one of Halls coats
hanging in his bedroom, was found q
pint bottle half full OF whisky.
Mrs. Hall is very prepossessins
lady, but has the appearance of hav.
|, ing seen q great deal of trouble
Everyone in Madison Lake speaks wei
of her, and the shooting of her hus
band has caused great shock. Their,
was an excited crowd on the street
Saturday night until Hall was removed
to this city, but there was no talk Of
violence. When Hall was being taker
to MankatO in the automobile h,
shouted out 'Good bye" as he was pas
sing his former home. This grated
, harshly on the ears of the woman
whom he had just made a widow anc
he daughter from whom he had takel
a father. There was no RESPONSIVE
sentiment but one of eXecration.
i Heard Halls Threats
Otto Lamm, who resided almos
across the road from Hall the pas
Sour summers, states that ne had beel
Expecting something like this to hap
pen. On numerous occasions Hall con
fded to him his enmity for Crook an
his determination to "get him." o.
each occasion Mr.. Lamm strongly con
] 1emned his statements and advise
him to behave himself. The night tina
u Hall shot in front of the house, MI
Lamm was afraid that trouble woul
ensue and gave Hall talking to.
Hall yesterday sent word by tn
e Free Press reporter to his niece tina
he was sorry for any sadness that h
e had caused her. for he felt that tn
e loss of her husband would make he
: sad When told this message Mrs
r Crook received it in a way to show he
deep feeling of resentment against tn
act of her uncle in depriving her of
2 beloved husband, and she asked "Wha
j am | going to do now? Here l an
. without my husband, and with a $40
mortgage on the place. He is re
e sponsble for all this"
Hall also sent word that he woul,
!, like to have his niece call and see hin
, at the jail, but she said that sh
e would never call and sec him there.
i would do no good that she could sec
\ and she had no wish to see the slayc
t of her husband. She enquired whethe
= there was any doubt but that n
e would be hung, and seemed dsappoint
ed when the reporter expressed doubt
: as to this.
:. Shooting Not Unexpected.
1 Many Madison Lake people were
/ found yesterday who said that the,
t had expected such thing to happen
r and they wondered why a man VIII
had made threats rs he had done ha
t been allowed his libert.7. Marsha
;. Neary said that he had no
n personally heard Hall make threat
i against Crook, but that it wa
} common report that the man had mad
: such threats in the village, repeatedly
e No one could be found in the villag
0 who took the part of Hall, but friend
e of his from elsewhere were heard t
e express sympathy for him, saying tina
y he had been Unanswered out of hi
t property and then cast out. Thi
e seems not to have been the case, how
n ever, as he had agreed to give hi
n niece the house and lot for taking car
of him, but broke the spirit of tn