The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-13
DUMAS ITO PRISON
MUST WORK OUT PENALTY FOR
CONVICTION IN PUPosKY
RAID AT SALTWATER.
A JEKYL-HYDE DRAMA.
Bemldji Courtroom Is Final Scene
Former Cass Lake Mayor
Protests Innocence to
the Last.

Bemid1i. - Continually protest
ing innocence and asserting through
his attorney, George Spear of Grand
Rapids, that he has been prevented
from ever telling his side of the story,
DR.. D. F. Dumas, until last spring
mayor of Cass Lake and one of the
most successful physicians in North
ern Minnesota, was sentenced in Dis
trict Court here before Judge w. S.
McClenahan to hard labor at Still
water on the charge of attempted ar
son in the third degree.
This charge grew out of the Pu.
posky raid of June in 1911, when Mike
Davis and Martin Behan were trapped
in the Postoffice Building while in the
act of attempting to rob and burn the
building, according to evidence pro-
duced by the State. Testimony also
went to show that DR.. Dumas had
planned this expedition and that he
had been a confederate of some of the
country's most daring and desperate
criminals.
DIR. Dumas left here under the per-
sonal guard of Sheriff A. B. Hazen,
to enter the prison at Saltwater to
begin the daily routine of a convict.
The maximum penalty is sthree and
one-half years. -..
Attends Patients to Last.
DR.. Dumas spent Tuesday forenoon
attending to his patients in Cass Lake,
prescribing for eight persons. He
closed up his Office at noon and came
to Bemidji. He previously had sent
his wife and infant son to relatives.
Assistant Attorney General Alex
James, Deputy Fire Marshall Sam Full
lerton and Attorneys Thayer C. Bailey
and e. E. Mcdonald, both of this city,
who acted as special prosecuting at
torneys, were in the court room and
only Attorney Mcdonald spoke for the
State, and then only briefly making
formal demand that sentence be
passed.
Let the prisoner stand forward"
ordered Judge McClenahan, and DR..
Dumas, smooth shaver and well
groomed, quickly arose from his seat
beside his attorney and faced the
court He told the Judge that he was
born April 4, 1879; that he had lived
in Minnesota all his life except the
time spent in Chicago graduating from
the Medical Department of the Uni
versity of Illinois; that he had lived
26 years in the city of Minneapolis,
had practiced medicine there and that
for year was house physician of the
MinneapoliS CITY HoSDital
Attorney Speaks for Him.
Dr. Dumas made no other statement
and Judge McClenahan inquired if he
had anything to say. Instead, Mr..
Spear, as his attorney, addressed the
Court and reviewed at some length
the proceedings which were about to
terminate with the imposition of SEN
tence. Mr.. Spear said that the eX-
pense of the case had proved severe
financial strain not only to DR.. Dumas,
whose means were exhausted, but also
to his father, Minneapolis business
man who had come to his assistance,
and that when it appeared that the
motion for a new trial would have to
be based upon technical ground and
that heavy expenses would accrue in
the event of an appeal, DR.. Dumas
himself determined that he would not
allow the case to proceed further;
that the defendant had been unwilling
to place additional burden upon his
father and had made up his mind that
it would be wiser to end the uncertain
ty and suspense which would attend
upon further proceedings.
This explanation, the attorney said,
was made to advise the Court of the
good faith of the defendant in obtain
ing stay in order that the motion for
new trial might be made.