The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-01
Generally Understood That Liberty
r is Mostly Reward for Giving
: States Evidence.
sPooNER HINTS PERSECUTION,
Says Effort to Entangle Dumas With
Federal Authorities is Blow
Planned by Enemies.

Two dramatic events characterized
the Dumas case during the past "a
hours; one, the release of Martin Be-
han, the wounded and self-confessed
Puposkys robber and the other, an
assertion by Gus. H. Beaulieu, editor
of the White Earth "Tomahawk,"
that Assistant Fire Marshal Sam Full
lerton told him he had arranged with
Governor Eberhart to pardon Behan
and Harry Hunter, a Saltwater con-
vict, who is reported by the detec-
tives to have made confession i'm
plicating DR.. Dumas and other per-
sons: l.
State Fire Marshal Keller, Mr..
Fullerton, and Detective Fielding
went to St. Paul last night.
Judge Spooner on the Job. -
81 presume they are going down
to spring some new persecution
against DR.. Dumas" was Judge
espooE ar's comment, who went to st.
Paul on the same train. sGuess I
will go down and do some skirmish-
ing myself. The attitude of Mayor
Dumas enemies is shown in their
trumpted up federal charges. DR..
Dumas is held under $4,000 bail
he is sure not to get away and still
they insist on dragging in the fed
eral officials"
Pc. Behan at Liberty.
Behan, captured in the battle at
Puposky on the morning of June II,
was released from the county Jail
late yesterday afternoon on a bond of
$4,000 signed by his wife and J. B.
Meyer. The arraignment of Behan
was arranged by Fire Marshal
Charles Keller and Assistant Fuller
ton. The bail bonds were passed up
on by Thayer Bailey, who appeared
for the state and accepted by Court
Commissioner Simons, before whom
the proceedings were held.
Behan, who is in serious condition
from his wounds and tuberculosis of
the lungs, probably will be taken to
Wisconsin by his sister and wife.
State Purposely Easy.
1t was generally understood that
his release at this time is in meas
ure a reward for having turned
states evidence which implicated DR..
Dumas at the preliminary hearing of
the mayor of Cass Lake Thursday,
when he was bound over to await the
action of the grand jury under bonds
of $4,000. Persons representing the
state do not deny this.
eve do not want to be guilty of
killing the man, and he would die,
say the doctors, if cooped up in JAIL"
was Assistant Fire Marshall Fuller
tons comment following the appear
ance of Behan in couft late yester-
day afternoon.
Case Goes Over to Oct. II.
Behan asked that his case be con-
tinued until his health was improved
and Commissioner Simons put it over
until October II.
X. E. Smyth, owner of the entered
building at Puposky, whose signed
statement was given to United States
District Attorney Houpt in St. Paul
by Postoffice Inspector Ormsby, is not
in Bemidji, having left here this af-
ternoon for Puposky. His father
lives here and he is here much of the
time himself He has persistently
refused to talk for publication.
Beaulieu Springs Bomb.
! In column write-up of the Dumas
case, Editor Beaulieu includes this:
During a recent trip to Bemidji
we met Mr.. Fullerton with whom
we had no previous acquaintance,
and he informed us of many of the
circumstances of the case in which
Doctor Dumas is implicated, and he
expressed much sympathy with VIM.
Behan, the yeggman who was shot
and severely wounded at Puposky
who he said could not live more than
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