Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-09-08
1f;TEREs rIN.4 ACCOUNT or WO.
MAN AT ROLETTE WHO FAR.
ADED AS MAN.
WENT WITH HER loRMER FrAU,
WHO STOLE TEAM FROM HER
HUSBAND AND SKIPPI D.
Hired Out in the Harvest Fields BIT
Feared Her Sex Might Become
Known, So Skipped for Canada
Told Husband of Affair After Her
Return Home.

Rolettc, N. d., Sept. 1.-Dougal
Johnston was picked up by Albert Ben.
son Wednesday in the vicinity of Over
ly and taken to Rolette on the charge
of having stolen $25 from Bclmore
Menserud, with whom he slept at Hotel
Rolctte .on Tuesday night, and in con-
nection with this affair comes one of
the most interesting stories heard in
this part of the country.
Belmore Monserud lives near Glare
in Stutsman county. He is a married
man and last July had a hired man
named Billy Barnes, who had been one
Of the most ardent suitors of his wife
crud went to Claire to get some money
I; for his wife who had planned to 90 to
Canada to visit with her sister. When
Mr.. Monserud returned he found the
hired man and his wife missing and al
so team Of horses. They had left to-
gethcr and nothing was heard from
them and nothing was known Of their
whereabouts until about a wee kago
when the erring wife returned to her
husband, having come from Cana7
where she went after leaving Billy
Barnes. She is said to have told the
whole story Of her romantic adventure
over a period of a month or more and
this explains why Belmore Monserud
arrived in Rolette Tuesday night on his
way to the home Of Dan Mcclure, who
Lives seven miles northwest Of Overly,
where Billy Barnes was said to be
working with the missing team of
horses Albert Benson took Mr.. Mons
erud out in his auto Wednesday morn
ing but only got as far as Overly when
Barnes was found in town driving one
of the horses which he had brought
from Stutsman county. Mr.. Monserud
walked right up to his former hired
man and put the proposition up to him
that he might as well settle up OF
there would be action taken to prose
cute him to the full extent Of the law
The matter was settled up in some way
and Mr.. Monserud wcNt out to g"s his
team from the Mrrune far:l
While returning Albert Benson ran
across man who CALLED with the de
scription of the man wanted for rob
bing Mr.. Monserud in his room dur
ling the night Benson arrested him AM
took him back to the M,:Cu,.s fam fol
Identification. AS he was tn" night
man he was taken to Ro! 1T" wl'rr lt
confessed to the charge and claims il
was due to drink, as he was quite bad
: lv intoxicated when he committed the
deed.
When he left in the morning he die
not take his hat or shoes and walked
0 to Fonda barefooted where he bough
t pair of shoes and hat.
t One Of the most sensational feature
in connection with this story is tn
n claim that Mrs. Monserud cropped he
j. hair short after leaving her husband
t and dressed in mems clothes so tina
y during most of the time she was wit
G Billy Barnes she was masqueraded as
: man. The couple drove the team fror
d Stutsman county and in their travel
n stopped at Rolette, where they registe,
ed at the hotel as two men. From her
G they went to Dunseith where the
l. stopped for short time and then wen
IS west and hired out at the McCune farl
G as laborers. After a few days Mr.
q Monserud feared that her sex might be
f come known and she managed to &C
l. away and went to sister in Canad;
V From there she went home and told he
husband what she had been doing an
where he might find his horses.
!. On his trip to Roctt, Mr.. Menst
rud met Dougall johnson of Iced
They became friends and as Johnsto
was without funds Mr.. MonserL,l pal
his expenses upon the untlerstandin
u that Johnston got money from hom
&c which was telegraphed for at the e!
u Dense of Nlonserud.