The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-15

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wanted for the abduction Of Miss
Price. was seen this morning near
Snowflake. but was able to get away
before an alarm could be made. He
evidently spent the night in grain
shock close to the old Snowflake
school house. The searchers now
number about 200 and are making ev-
cry effort to locate the man.
Miss Prices Story.
Manitou. Man., Sept. 15.-Miss
Prices simple but dramatic story of
her thrilling experiences on the Penn
bina hills is as follows: II sent my
only pupil away at 10 O'clock" she
said. "At about II the door opened
and a man entered with gun In his
hand. He told me II I did not do a.
he asked me he C "
he asked me to he would shoot me.
and I said Shoot but he put his gun
down and struck me on the head
twice with bottle. Then he wound
my clothes around my head and drag
ged me behind the school where he
Kept me for awhile. Then he carried
me quarter Of mile east of the
school. He had three fiasks Of gin
with him. but, he left the bottle he
had struck me with near the school,
We went up to the hills. and stayed
there till 8 o'clock. When we were
there I saw Frank searching for me
at the school and heard him whistle.
I tried to answer, but the man choked
me. We were then only eighty rods
from the school, as he had gone by
q round about way to get q horse he
said he had standing out in the bush,
We stayed all night in the bush and
1t was sold cold that I asked him to
light fire. which he did, starting it
with an envelope had. Then I put
on some big sticks, hoping to attract
notice. but he saw what intended to
do and choked me again, and hit me
with q bottle. I told him I would put
on as big q fire as I wanted to-. but it
died out and morning came. The
bushes were frozen, everything was
frozen and I tainted at first badly.
but he had no matches, and he want
ed to smoke. so he drank instead ev-
cry fifteen minutes, and was ugly. We
heard the sound of rig and he said,
You'll call out, won't you?'
Il said. No. but he would not be-
lieve me, and gagged my mouth with
his handkerchief and tied it. He left
me like this. Then he told me he
would let me go at 6 o'clock, so 1 put
in another hour, but noticed that the
sun was high and he told me my time
was fast. He told me a lot of things
when he wasn't ugly. He said he
name was Bill Miner, and that he and
his two partners had held up train
on Friday, but his two partners had
been killed. He had got away with
$4,000, however, and he had it hidden
In a stack behind the school. He said
he would. give me a hundred dollar
bill, but l said that money was no
good to me as wanted to 60 back,
SO he said he would give me a thou
sand dollar bill, but would have to
change 1t In Ontario. believe he
was from Ontario, becausehe didn't
know anything about the states. In
the afternoon we stayed an hour or
SO two miles from the school in a
poplar bluff on hill, and I saw some
little girls driving cattle home.
Had Been Roamer.
HE wanted to cross the river, but
would not go. He said he would
take me over. or shoot me, and said,
Shoot but he did not shoot, and we
stayed on the side Of the bank. He
told me he was 46 years old and that
he had been roaming the universe for
twenty-three years and stealing.
Then asked him to let me go,
and he said, Go and be a good girl;
take the creek and you will get on to
the open ground; goodbye
$50 said goodbye to him, and
started out. He called me back, how
ever, and when I went he didn't seem
to know me, he was SO drunk, but he
wouldn't Let me go till evening. so at
last ran away, and he followed me.
A thunder storm came on and we were
both drenched to the skin. The light
ming was dreadful and it struck some-
whore near US, but l din't care. He
was chilled and cold and wanted
matches to smoke with. Sc we NOV