Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-12-14
SHERIFF MOODY'S
SLAYER RUN DOWN
INNATE OF STATE INSANE
HOSPITAL 4
Particulars of Thrilling Chase
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Wahpeton, Dec. 1.-THE intense
excitement caused by the murder of
George S. Moody, Saturday after
noon, has subsided now that the
murderer was overtaken and his life
paid the penalty of the crime. Sher-
if Moody started to serve some pa
pers on man known as John Welde-
meir. The sheriff was shot on the
farm of U. S. Marshall Shea, seven
miles from Wahpeton. The sheriff
found that the man who was to be
evicted from the farm house, had
taken possession and entrenched
himself against the officers. The
sheriff drove up with team.
Weldemeir answered Sheriff Moody's
order to "come out" by shouting
through the front door, "I'm John
Weldemeir. I know who you are,
you're Sheriff Moody"
Three Shots by Slayer
Without a moments warning, the
man appeared around the corner of
the house, from the rear, and fired
three shots. The first entered Sher-
if Moody's side, just above the waist
glanced up and through the heart
and came out at the shoulder. The
} second bullet went wild, while the
third hit George Moore, Moody's
driver, striking him a glancing blow
on the back, knocking him down,
but inflicting no more than flesh
wound.
The bandit then approached the
sherift's team and forced Jake
Steifes to get out. Covering Stene
and Deputy Sheriff Ben Flathers with
his 38-calibre rifle, he urged the
sherin's team into run and made
OF to q southwesterly direction. The
shooting occurred at about 4 o'clock.
Deputy Flathers rode to Wahpeton
and spread the news of the murder
of the sheriff. Posses were organ
lied and Co. of the state militia
was called out with orders to bring
back the murderer dead or alive.
The fleeing bandit was reported over
the telephone by farmers who had
seen him pass along the road to
South Dakota. He was driving the
sheriff's grey team at run sitting
in the buggy with rifle across his
knees, with his pursuers behind
him. Shortly after o'clock on Sun
day afternoon he was overtaken.
Killed in Field
The bandit was killed in field
seven miles southwest of White
Rock, s. D., by militiamen of Co. I,
who followed him 80 miles.
The fleeing bandit was headed of
as he approached this city by Deputy
Sheriff o. j. Radde and Frank MUIR
ray, justice of the peace, who shot
one of the horses. He then jumped
from the buggy and made across the
field. Before he could reach shell
ter Of buildings on Nat Paul farm
the militiamen came up and the bat
tie was on.
Guardmen Fell Slayer
,Weldemeir was we'll armed. He
had 38 calibre rife and fifty shells.
Seeing that he could not reach the
buildings, where it was supposed, he
intended to fortify himself, he turn
ed and opened fire on his pursuers.
They returned the fire and the mill
tiamen quietly took up positions a.
round the field. Before he had fired
many shots he was felled by bullet.
He was shot through the head and
died instantly.
All Night Race Ends
All through the night the militia
men of Company and deputy sher-
IFS of Richland county, the home of
Moody, followed the slayer in his
dash for the South Dakota line.
Several times they met farmers who
reported the fleeing man was but a
short distance ahead. Horses were
whipped up and the race was kept
up in dead earnest. There was lit
tie hope that the man would be TAX
en- alive, but the members Of the
posse were determined that the slay-
ing Of Moody should be avenged.
Dead Bandit Identified
A dispatch from Hankinson. says
that the man who killed Sheriff
Moody is Charles Moline, an insane
man who escaped from the State
Hospital for Insane at Jamestown
October sth. Moline and hts moth