The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-18
Ed DAVIS may
STRETCH HEMP
FOR HIS CRIME
Death Penalty lssy Be 1naict-
ed For His Di1s:.s Out
rage on Woman Fer,
TELLS The F|EnOISH DETAILS
Of HIS DABOlICAL DEED

eV sWo St6SOsVU O6uUu6V
Of HIS DAb0lICAl DEED
Disgusting Sang Froid Of Criminal
When He Left Langdon Officials to
Face Hearing For His Crimes in
Canada-Many Charges.
Morden, Man., Sept. 1917 Miss
Price can substantiate her story that
she told to the press and the police
after the outrage Of last Monday, and
the jury at the October assizes at
Morden believes her, then the maxi
mum punishment under the Canadian
law is death for her abductor and
ravtsher. The minimum penalty is
fourteen years.
Chief Elliott of the Provincial po-
lice and r. B. Graham, deputy at
torney general arrived here Sunday
night with Ed Davis, alias Henry
Wilson, who is accused Of abducting
Miss Price near Snowflake.
Davis decided to waive extradition
since being taken in North Dakota.
The preliminary hearing will take
place just as soon as the authorities
have gathered the witnesses and 1t
is not exactly known what the charges
will be.
The Identification by Miss Price In
the county Jail in Langdon of the
prisoner was dramatic. The prisoner
was not made aware Of the fact that
the girl whom he had abducted and
80 brutally mistreated was in the
prison corridor when he was summon
ed to the door Of his cell by Sheriff
Drury and Canadian oflicer. AS he
stepped forward he looked up and
there within few feet was the pret-
ty little school teacher.
Chief Elliott contends that inas-
much as Davis was arrested on a
Canadian charge and the California
matter came up after his arrest, that
the Canadian police were entitled to
have the prisoner turned over to
them ...-. ~, .esi !, a ~ ~. ..-..
Miss Price. when interviewed by
the Evening Times correspondent In
Langdon, seemed to have regained her
normal health. When asked her feel
Ing at Davis arrest, she said:
"Of course am awfully glad he
has been caught. There was always
the chance that he might get away
and try to carry out his threat that
he would come back and kill me IL I
told on him. I shall sleep much
easier tonight" Continuing the little
school marin showed her true metal
when she said: II wish they would
reopen the school. am ready to go
back there and start teaching again
tomorrow If they should reopen it. +"
Taken From Langdon.
Langdon, N. D., Sept. 18.-Ed Davis.
confessed abductor and assailant Of
Miss Eleanor Glady Price, the Penn
bina Valley, Man., school teacher. was
taken at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
to Morden, Man., and will be held
there pending preliminary examina-
tton on the charges lodged against him
by provincial authorities.
His decision to return to Manitoba
without the necessity of extradition
was reached when he learned that
VIM. Adams, the Snowflake, Man,
hotel proprietor whom he shot last
proof Of that fact was furnished to
him In person, Adams coming to
Langdon Sunday afternoon at the re-
quest Of the Canadian officials.
Identification Of the man as the
Saturday night, after he had made
damaging admissions, by Miss Price
herself. Miss Price was brought here
from Manitou for that purpose. and
when the prisoner suddenly found her
standing in the jail corridor, only a
few feet distant, he appeared startled
and said good evening"" to which
the girl family replied and turned
away.
Supposed He Was Murderer.
Davis confession that he was an
escaped convict from California was
made, he said, on the supposition that
Adams had been murdered by him.
He said that he had been told that the
hotel man was dead by someone last
Friday, and he declared that he would
much rather go to California and do
time than to stand trial for murder
in Manitoba, as he supposed he would
have to do.
Cavalier county officials were in a
quandry as to what action to take, but
finally acceded to the wishes of the
Canadian officials, inasmuch as he
was arrested on Canadian warrant
and Furthermore that there was only
his own uncorroborated statement
that he was an escaped convict from
California.
Waived o Goodbye.
When the prisoner left here he was
- n
cial Police Elliott, Assistant Attorney
General Graham. and Sheriff Drury of
Cavalier county. At Morden he was
at once placed in Jail. He waived a
goodbye to local officials.
More Information concerning Davis
unusual career was secured here when