Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
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yanase Convicted Of Arson
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slcted BY tho grand jury: for a1sou
the third degree was found. gpiltY s
the jury which brought IN IS verdict
Wedneeday morning 1t -. O'clock afte 8
being nf aance $50 / q. massat which !
time thanase. had baen given TO tl,0ll !
:by the court. *..ss ~. :s. q: 80
charged with having
set on e and burned aeharn - RDleY
6slonginA ITO Mrs Adele Root
sot Ripley.. The motive for the
crime itsMas alleged was that defen
dalt NAg angereds because he had been
discharged from the lady's employ
smept and sought revenge :s
!. Van1ee was taken before the court
yesterday morning to receive his sen-
5tence, and in answer to questions put
to him BY the court stated that he war
62 years Of age and lived in, Grow
Wing county, where he had seven !.
brothers ana sisters residing, and thaf
by trade he was carpenter and
painter. He was sentenced at Lara
labor at the state penitentiary at Still
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, Wiz
be taken to Saltwater either tomorrow
or Monday. - - ~.
Sylvester S. Durham of Clough, In
dicted for man-slaughtee-in in the. first
degree, is at present on tyail before
the district court for the killing of his
hrother-in.law, Frank l.. Gourd of
Clongh, on the 18th of September last.
The case was taken UP Wednesday
| and the work of impanelllng q jury
was completed that evening. The
twelve jurors selected to try the case,
six being from town and six from the
country, are as follows: Peter WIRING,
! Little Falls; Theodore Coenen, Swan
Vile; John Lisle. Royatlon VIM. :
Koenen. Buh Jos. Hortsch. Buckman;
| Paul Noe, Dell Leblanc and A. j.
Getschell, Little Falls L. }. 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
day morning and testified to the
tquarrel and trouble at Budde lake
along much the same line as was pub
lshed in these columns following ths
killing; that Fuller had got into Z
quarrel with Louie McC cCormick OF Ex-
fcsisiOr; shen tie nor hit the sother7
IN the eye that Gourd had interferre6
intending to pacify them when. Nc
Cormick and him became engaged in
quarrel; that defendant had then at
:, tempted to restore peace between the
latter two, whereupon Gourd had
picked up a long stick and struck
defendant, breaking the stick in half;
that Durham had then picked up: 9
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, waE
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 sentence of
not less than i've years and not more
than twenty years at hard labor at
the state penitentiary, but under an
act passed by the last Legislature tho
minimum penalty is annulled, and it
depends on the paet record of the pris.
oner and his conduct in the state pri-
son how long his term will be. q a
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