The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-29
Ran Minneapolis Hotel.

died there.
Ran Minneapolis Hotel.
= Beginning at a point back in the
early 9O's,- Brandt unfolded the story
of his life, life featured by trag.
edy, and told how he had worked or
the Great Northern, Omaha, Santa
:Fe and other roads. How he came
back to Minneapolis and worked TO,
his father lin his grocery store al
1881 Washington avenue north
that was in 1897. How in 1898 he
had established the Saratoga hote]
in Minneapolis at 422 Hennepin, had
run it for three years under his right
name of Brandt; had sold it and es.
tablished the Market hotel, at First
avenue north and First street; how
he had returned to railroading in
1902 for the Brooks-Scanlon road
and had been injured and spent: some
time in the Scanlon hospital being
treated by DR.. Harrington.
" Parts With Wife. -
From Scanlon Brandt said he Went
to Duluth and during the winter o1
1904 lived with his wife atE24C
West Fifty-frst avenue. He said he
was married in 1898 and was di.
vorced five years ago. -.
81 lived in Superior until got into
trouble" said the witness.
: when was that" asked Attorney
Spear # .47ss=ssssssss: 49,:
: when the defendant there was in
JAIL" replied Brandt. sss...:
) "Did some one tell you to say
that?" demanded Mr.. Spear.
Met O'Neill in Waupun.
The witness said no and an objec.
tion to the question as to what kline
of trouble he got into was sustained
by the court, but few minutes later
Brandt said he had been sent up fol
forgery. He said he was in Waupun
two years and. that it was there that
he first met O'Neill. He told of hav-
ing knocked about North Dakota
taking in the towns of Grand Forks
Fargo, Jamestown, Valley City and
other places and that he ,"didn't do
anything''. but lived on $1,000 re.
ceived from the railroad for his in.
juries and that he had some money
of his own. ...,
Got Back to Duluth. !.
In September of 1908 Brandt said
he again went to Duluth and thai
soon afterward was sent to Stillwa
ter for forgery: Upon his release
in 1910 he returned to Duluth ant
worked for the Bethel Society unit
March 1S of the present year, ant
that since that time until employed
by the state he had been idle.
''Still living in affluance on tha
$1,500 from the railroad?" queried
Mr.. Spear. .<e asT.. :
Begins Work for State.
Brandt said he began working fol
the state in September but was no,
permitted to answer a question as tt
what; he did. He said he first came
to Bemidji in February of this yeal
at the suggestion Of Mike Davis anG
that, while still working, for thu
Bethel society, he1spent one day with
Davis here and that he did not come
back until March %, when he me-
O'Neill at Cass Lake and thatsit wa:
on this date that he witnessed the
Gearlds money transaction.
The witness said he came on thai
date in response to a letter writer
to him by O'Neill who owed him SIT
and that he wanted to collect tht
money. He said upon arriving here
with O'Neill that they .swent. dow1
the line which he explained meant
that they had visited several saloon.
in the vicinity Of the Rex hotel. anG
that. they had several drinks. Afte1
this that they had gone to the rec
light house west of town; had me-
a .lady Dorothy Arlington by name
whom he had known in st. Paul. HI
said they had three or four more bot
ties of beer in this place and tina
they then came back to, town ant
went to the Gearlds place betwee1
9:3O and 10.
Knew But Two Here.
sNow. the only people you knew
in Bemidji at that time were thi.
queen of beauty andzo zo'Neill? % asked
Mr.. Spear. z
..Yes,,' replied Brandt.
'.You were intoxicated?" persisted
the cross examiner.
Twas able to take care Of my
self,