Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-10-13
MISSING 2" JIM"
MURDERER, FOUND
JAMES P. DYGERT is ARRESTED
AT ARCTANDER, MIMI, AFT
Err MONTHS HUNT.
IDENTIFIED BY VICTIMS HUSBAND
Neighbors and st. Paul Pawnbroker
Says He Is Much Wanted Slim"
Accused Brought to Jail in
Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Oct. Thames 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 near Wyo
ming, Anoka county, Sept. II.
S. e. Carlisle, neighbor of the Boil
tons, living near Wyoming, John
Reioux, storekeeper 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 E. Bolton, hus.
band of the murdered woman, identi-
fed 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, Effan, Reioux
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"
II worked for that man." replied
''Jim" pointing to Bolton.
Dygart admitted he had visited Eff
fans pawn shop and had pawned
something but would not admit that it
was the stolen mandolin that had be-
1onged in the Bolton home. He told
a conflicting story as to his movements
after he left the Bolton farm Tuesday
afternoon, Sept. IL, the day on which
the crime is thought to have been com
mitted County authorities from Anoka
did not place a formal charge Of MUIR
der against Dygart and it was 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 unruffled he talked to
reporters and Sheriff Casey as to his
movements after he left the Bolton
farm. His story conflicts in many de-
tails with the theory of his movements
held by County Attorney Pratt and
their theories have been substantiated
with evidence that will be used at his
trial.
Dygart told Sheriff Bonde of Kandi-
yohi county, who arrested him, and
Sheriff Casey that he went to work
he was arrested, Sept. 10, two days
before the murder. Stene told Sheriff
Bonde that he went to work Sept. 10,
six days after the murder and four
days after the discovery of the bodies
of Mrs. Bolton and Rhodes.
His father, Andrew Dygart, he says,
lives in Spencer, Wis. Dygart says
he was reared there. He was born in
what was then Holland, Wis, now
changed to Escaton. He knew various
people known in Spencer by Sheriff
Casey and newspaper men, and could
not be shaken in his story of the place
he claims as his home.
The peculiar scar on the left side of
his neck heralded over the country the
day after the discovery OF the bodies
on the Bolton farm led to Jim s.
arrest.
The murder Of Mrs. Bolton and her
cousin, Frank Rhodes, was discovered
Thursday, Sept IA. Neighbors heard
cattle lowing in the yard and went to
see what the trouble was, as the COWS
acted as If they had not been fed for
some time. The house was locked and
oh bNrc hrO1yo Hnnr bo hot
tom of the cellar stairs lay the body of
Mrs Bolton, a bullet wound in her
back. Blood was on the kitchen floor
An hour later, Fisher Carlisle, son of
S. E. Carlisle, discovered the body of
Rhodes in a dead" furrow in a po-
farm house. Jim" was missing. He
was seen last at the Bolton home,
Tuesday noon, by two boys who had
gone there to take dog Mr.. Bolton
had sent to Wyoming. Jim" told
them Mrs. Bolton and her cousin had
gone to Minneapolis that day. That
was at noon. Two hours later he was
seen going into Wyoming with the
mandolin in his hand.
! Mrs Bolton and her cousin were
killed with high power rifle, the
property of the husband of the dead
woman Four shots were fired into
Rhodes and two bullets had pene-
trated Mrs Bottoms body. An empty
cartridge shell was found in the yard
and one loaded shell in the rifle. Moth
ing that would give the surname of
Jim" could be found in the house.
Mrs Bolton had been assaulted after
death, the coroners investigation
showed