Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-24
SAYSDUMASUSED
MARKED MONEY He
G0TOF "YEGGMAN'
off in connection with the Eemidji

= off in connection with the Eemidji
cses.
Word comes from St. Paul that both
Charles Kellar state fire marshal, and
Deputy Fullerton, left St. Paul last
night. the surmise being that they will
join the postoffice inspectors at Grand
Forks or some other North Dakota
town, where an important arrest will
be made.
Mrs. Behan, wife of the man who lies
wounded in the Beltrami county Jail.
arrived in Bemidji, this morning and
is stopping at the house of friend.
Mrs. Behan will say but little except
to affirm that so far as she knows
the attempt to rob the postoffice and
store at Puposky was the first time
her husband had been implicated in
such crimes.
6ehan has a Lawyer.
No inkling comes from the Beltrami
county Jail of any further information
being given out by Behan, who has ap.
parently stopped all talk since he EN-.
ployed G. NJ. Torrance of this city as
his attorney. The officers state, how
ever, that ey have all the informa-
ton from Behan that they desire, as he
said much to Detective Fielding just
after his capture and since then has
talked to some of the people at the
JAIL
There are two APPLICATIONS for selec-
ton as county attorney to succeed
Henry Funkley. who has rendered his
resignation. John l.. Brown and G..
w. Campbell, both of Bemidji, are the
applicants. 1t is said that J. P. Rus
sell to this city will also make appli-
cation for appointment and that he
stands a good chance of being named.
Thayer c. Bailey, local attorney, has
been named by the attorney general
as assistant to that office in hand ling
the Dumas cases.
couny Attorney Quits.
Funkley "a friend of Sheriff Hazen,
sent in his resignation to County Au-
ditor J. l.. George yesterday.
Fungley accompanied his resignation
with brief statement that he could
not get along with the officials con-
Quoting the Dumas investigation.
Funkley has been kept in complete
ignorance of the Dumas case. Thayer
Galley Bemidji attorney, has been
hired as special states attorney to
conduct the prosecution of Dumas
This was done without Funkley's
knowledge When the arrests in
connection with the case were made
bailey swore out the warrants and
Court Commissioner Simons issued
them without consulting the county at.
torney.
All this has angered Funkley and he
declared after he had handed in his
resignation that he would have some
startling charges to make against the
officials who are conducting the in
vestigation. He styles this as a part
of the gang and hints that there
may be some connection between the
men under arrest and the officials who
are conducting the probe.
Davis Not Found.
With the return to Bemidji this NOR
ming of rielding, intense interest in
the Dumas affair is divided between
St. Pull and other points and Bemidji.
Mr.. Fielding admitted that nobody in
authority knows where Davis is, al
though they have clues that indicate
that he is much nearer the scene of
the recent attempted safe blowing
than has been thought during the past
few days.
Mr.. Fielding this morning said:
"The majority of the story given out
nv Hndror1On tho st atiOn apont at Phi.
posky, relative to the fight at Pu.
posky, is tommyrot- Hodgedon could
not possibly have seen the postofice
store from his house. The facts Of the
matter are that Hodgedon went half
block with but little on outside his
shirt, and was so frightened that
his teeth chartered when We found
him. He never saw the entire fight
at Puposky. It would have been an i'm.
possibility, and that part of his state
ment is about as true except what was