The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-10-27
JAMES P. DYGERT is ARRESTED
At ARCTANDER, MIMI, AFT.
Err MONTHS HUNT.
IDENTIFIED BY VCTIM'SH HUSBAND
Neighbors and st. Paul Pawnbroker
Says He Is Much Wanted Jim"
Accused Brought to Jail in
Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Oct. 13.-James P. Dy-
CERT. arrested in Arctander. Mimi. by
Sheriff BOnde of kandiyohi county,
was identified as the missing Jim
sought by the police to explain the
mysterious double murder of Mrs.
Amelia Bolton and Frank Edward
Rhodes on the Bolton farm e Wyo-
ming. Anoka county. Sept. II.
S. T.. Carlisle. neishbor OF the Boil
tons, living neal Wyoming, John
ReiouX, s%torekeeper at Wyoming. and
Morris Effan, proprietor OF a pawn
shop in ST. Paul where Jim" pawned
the Bolton mandolin the night of the
murder, and Walter f.. Bolton, hus.
band of the murdered m identi-
fled him in the city jail.
Dygart was brought to Minneapolis
from Willmar by Sheriff Bonde. He
was met at the train by Sheriff John
Casey of AnOka. Carlisle, Etfan, ReiouN
and Bolton.
AS Dygart stepped from the train,
Sheriff Casey approached him. laid his
hand on the mans shoulder and said
Hello. jim, where have you been all
summer"
Il worked for that man. replied
Jim" pointing to Bolton.
Dygart admitted he had visited Ell
fans pawn shop and had pawned
something but would not admit that it
was the stolen mandolin that had be-
longed in the Bolton home. He told
a conflicting story as TO his movements
after he left the Bolton farm Tuesday
afternoon. Sept. -. the day on which
the crime is thought to have bee com
mitted. County authorities from Anoka
did not place a formal charge Of MUIR
der against Dygart and it "a only
through snatches of conversation over
heard on the train when he was being
brought to Minneapolis that Dygart
knew he was wanted for murder Cool
and apparently unru1fled he talked to
reporters and Sheriff Casey as TO his
movements after he lefl the Bolton
farm. His story conflicts in many de.
tails with the theory of his movements
held by County Attorney Pratt and
other Anoka authorities. They say
their theories have been Substantiated
with evidence that will be used at his
trial
Dygart told Sheriff Bonde of Randi
yOhi county. who arrested him, anC
Sheriff Casey that he Ven to work
for Stene. the farmer at whose house
he was arrested, Sept. 10. two days
before the murder. Stene told Sheriff
BOnde that he went to work Sept. Is
six days after the murder and fou,
days after the discovery Of the bodie:
:. of Mrs. Bolton and Rhodes.
., His father, Andrew Dygart. he says
J. lives in Spencer, Wis. Dysart say
he was reared there. He was born il
what was then Holland, Wis.,, nov
: changed to EScatOn. He knew VariOu
people known in Spencer by Sheril
!. Casey and newspaper men, and coul
I no, be shaken in his story OF the plac
I he CLAIMS as his home.
The peculiar scar on the left side c
f his neck heralded over the country tn
? day after the discovery Of the bodie
= on the Bolton farm led to Jim
p. arrest.
ne IlUit'I " Ali =. Ibcllo!i tilIu Tx
cousin, Frank Rhodes, was discovere
Thursday, Sept. IA. NeighbOrs hear
s cattle lowing in the yard and went
e see what the trouble'Was, as he o
n acted as ii they had lot been fed ft
o some time. The house was locked an
t. neighbors broke in Il door. At the be
e tom of the cellar stairs lay the body
Mrs. Bolton, a bullet wound in h,
s. back. Blood was on the kitchen floO
n An hour later, Fisher Carlisle. son
le S. E. Carlisle, discovered the body
Rhodes in a dead furrOw in a p
Of tato patch across the road from tt
[e farm house. Jim" was missing. I
or was seen last at the Bolton hon
Tuesday noon. by two boys who h;
W gone there to take a dog Mr.. Bolt'
e. had sent to Wyoming. Jim" to
of them Mrs. Bolton and her cousin HI
I'd gone to Minneapolis that day. TIL
In was at noon. Two hours later he W
ed seen going into Wyoming with t
IS mandolin in his hand.
e. Mrs. Bolton and her cousin we
killed with a high power rifle,
property of the husband of the de
Four shots were fired il
Rhodes and two bullets had pei
trated Mrs. Bottoms body. An emf
us cartridge shell was found in the va
and one loaded shell in the rifle. No
Sc ing that would give the surnam
ee Jim" could be found in the hou
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