The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-10-03
|HAzEN GOES ON STAND
AGAINST DIR. DUMAS

Mr.. Funkley took place at the Funk
ley home last Saturday night, and
that he had been called there over
the telephone by Mr.. Funkley, and
that he did not know that he was to
meet Mr.. Lane.
Sheriff Hazen gave a description of
the Puposky affair on the night of
June Is. He said he had gone to
Puposky on Thursday, June Is, with
his deputy, Mr.. Helmer, and an un-
named Pinkerton man, and that he
was driven off Thayer Bailey.
He told how he with the other Of
fcers had camped in a small room
in the rear of the postofice building,
and that they had cut false door in
the side of the wall. He said he was
armed with two shotguns and a re-
volver, and that all officers were
armed.
The sheriff explained that they all
remained in their places until Sat-
toned at peep-hole in the rear room
to watch for the coming of Davis
and eBhan. He explained that he
han arranged nail on the end of a
cord in a tin can to be used as
signal. He said that about midnight
Saturday night, two men came to the
front door, ratified around awhile,
and were gone for twenty minutes
They then came back, and one man
entered the store and started back
to the postofice safe toward where
the sheriff was located.
"He came directly towards me, to
within four feet and flashed light
The sheriff told how this man,
whom he knew to be Mike Davis, put
something down on the floor. and
that just about then one of the de-
| tectives came to him tnen and whis-
pered, ,"They're inside" and that he
told the man to go back to his sta
tion and that he would give the sig
nal when to. go after the victims.
In trying to get back the detective
knocked a box Off an oil tank, "And
this flushed the game" said the sher-
if.
Davis then ran out of the store,
"and,' said the sheriff, "after the
shots had been fired. l run out and
saw two men about six or seven rods
away running into the brush.'
'Were you armed at that time?"
asked Attorney James.
Il was, and l fired two times from
my shotgun with No. shot-that's
the kind of shot they all had.
81 think these men I saw running
were the same men at the store for
it was bright night. 1 heard some
one cough and spit in the woods.
Then the second man came to ap-
parently within two rods of me but
1 didn't shoot him, I couldn't see
him."
did you then go after the man
who was wounded?" asked Mr.. James.
"No," replied the sheriff, 81 went
back to the store and then we went
back and I hollered three times 'hel-
TO- and the last time Behan an
swered, and l asked him if he had
any firearms, and he said no, and I
told him if he tried to do anything
we should have to shoot him again.
oh ho, fO11 of 10 ri
han to the hotel at Puposky, and later
bringing him to Bemidji on a special
train which. he thought, had been
arranged for by Mr.. Fielding. He
said that Behan had bee wounded
from the hips down and that at the
county Jail he was given medical at
tention.
The sheriff then told of his ride
on the morning of June IT,, by auto
mobile to Cass Lake where he found
DR.. Dumas had gone to Hibbing, and
that he called up Chief of Police Ring
and told him to place the doctor un-
der arrest.
Rex Warner, a bartender in the ho-
tel at Puposky, was another witness
at the afternoon session. He said
that he had seen Davis and Behan on
the afternoon of June 16, and that
he had been told of the plot and
that about midnight he heard about
IS shots and ran to the store and
assisted in taking care of Behan.
At the morning session William
Kirchhof, who testified yesterday af-
ternoon, was recalled to explain
some property transactions with DR..
Dumas.
George Denley, captain of the Be-
midi police force, was called and told