Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
THE. DISTRICT: COURT
vanase Convicted Of Arson
-.-Manslaushter Case
Now on Trial 8 .g

lcted by the grand jury x for arson IN
the third degree was found guiltys<sby.
the jury which Brought In "a verdict
Wednesday morning at - o'clock saftef
being ont since $50 q. mas at which:
time the case. had been given TO tten
by the court. ~. j. s ss:s.
Defendant was charged with having.
set on fire and burned barn ID Ripley.
town belonging. to Mrs. Adele Root
OF Ripley: The, motive. for the
crime it was alleged was that defen-
dant was angered because he had been
discharged from the lady's employ
mont and sought revenge. * {
:. Vanase was taken before the courS
yesterday morning to receive his SEN
tence, and in answer to questions put
to him by the court stated that he was
81 years of age and lived in Crow
Wing county, where he had seven
brothers and sisters residing, and that
by trade he was a carpenter ana
painter. He was sentenced at Lara
labor at the state penitentiary at Stiff
water, his past record and behavior
at the state prison to determine the
time he is to serve there according to
| the provision Of an act of the last legisla
ture. He and Theodore Martin, who is
,, sentenced to life imprisonment, wiR
| be taken to Saltwater either tomorrow
or Monday.
Sylvester S. Durham of Clough, in
| dicted for man-slaughter in the first
| degree, is at present on trail before
the district court for the killing of his
Clongh, on the 18th of September last,
1 ho fol
and the work of impanelIlng q jury
twelve jurors selected to try the case,
country. are as follows: Peter WIRING,
Little Falls; Theodore Coenen, Swan
vile; John Lisle. Royat!on; VIM.
Koenen, Buh Jos. Hortsch, Buckman;
Paul Noe, Dell Leblanc and A. j.
Getschell, Little Falls; L. J. Smith,
Scandia Valley; Clyda Litka, Morrill,;
Morril Bryant and AL. Cormier, Little
Falls.
Eber NJ. Clark and John Fuller of
Clough were called as witnesses by the
state Wednesday evening and yester~
Gay morning and testified to the
quarrel and trouble at Budde lake
along much the same line as was pub
| lSllcu IN Gu0S0 COLUMNS lOJlO"lux UuS
killing; that Fuller had got into 8
quarrel with Louis Mccormick OF Ex~
cs1sior; seshen the tsss-5er hit the other
IN the eye that Gourd had interferre5
intending to pacify them when Nc
1 Cormick and him became engaged in e.
quarrel; that defendant had then at.
tempted to restore peace between the
latter two, whereupon Gourd had
picked up long stick and struck
defendant, breaking the stick in half;
that Durham had then picked up q
piece of the broken stick an in turn
struck (iourd. telling him; and that
Gourd had died the following day
John Tindell of Ft. Ripley, another
member of the camping party, was
called to the stand yesterday morning
and afternoon. A large number OF
witnesses are still to be heard.
The penalty for man-slaughter in
the first degree has been a sentence of
not less than i've years and not more
than twenty years at hard labor at
the state penitentiary, but under az
act passed by the last legislature the
minimum penalty is annulled, and it
depends on the past record of the pris'
! oner and his conduct in the state pri-
+ son how long his term will be.