Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-27
BLAKE EPISODE
At DICKINSON
Detailed Account Of the I'm.
fortunate Affair Given by
Local Paper There
Opinion Seems To Be Divided
Over Charge Which Holds
Blake to Court

Dickinson Press: William Blake OF
Jamestown, state humane officer and
! and juvenile officer for most of tine
counties of North Dakota, got into 4
difficulty at Dickinson the first Of the
| week which, to say the least Was very
! unfortunate.
Mr. Blake came to the city Monday
! night, arriving here soon after mid
| night, May 20, having in his charge
Mrs. Wilson and two daughters, aged
| 10 and II, from Bismarck, and Dora
Joslyn, nearly IS, from near Steele in
Kidder county. He went to the kim,
| registered as BLAKE and family"
taking rooms and 4. The rooms were
up stairs on opposite sides OF the hall.
Dam urra", might clerk, took the party
to the rooms. He swore positively
| that Blake told him he wanted two
singles and that he had his wife along
| Mrs. Wilson and daughters were put
i'm room and then Blake and the
Joelyn girl were shown into and
then the clerk was introduced to the
girl by Blake as Blake's wife. They
shook hands. Blake's grip was put in
the room. MIR. Murray the invent back
! to the Office He says that Blake did
not ask for double room or say that
he was going to sleep somewhere else.
Blake got some water for both Mrs.
Wilson and the Joslyn girl, 1T appears
| and went to the N. p. depot, where no
| met his friend Fred Schwader, the
! railroad policeman.
In the meantime Jerry Dryer, Frank
Roquette, Ed4 J. Hughes, C. C. Turner,
S. L. Carol, Arthur Pagenkopf, Val
demar lessen, Walter Junkin and
| others became suspicious that things
were not as they should be. Mr.. Ro-
quette, as county commissioner, knew
that Blake was being allowed trans
| portation for his charges, etc. He
went with Jerry Dryer to the room
of Mrs. Wilson where they asked care
fully about the Joslyn girl. Mrs. VIII
son did not appear to know anything
about her more than that they had
come from Bismarck together Every
timing was all right so far as she knew.
The men went to room 4, expecting to
| find Blake and the girl there. This
was probably nearly l O'Clock, a half
hour or more after Blake had been
| shown the rooms. When Dryer
| knocked the girl opened the door.
She had already retired and as the
men testify was evidently expecting
Blake back His grip was there and
the girl at first animated that she
was 'Blake's wife, and later said that
| she was not Ed. Hughes and others
visited the room and all testified to
finding the grip and also a bottle of
beer. The girl testified that the beer
was there but she did not know how
lit came there. Blake in his testi.
mony did not know anything about
| III.
Blake it appears, accompanied
Schwader to his sleeping room in the
N. p. freight house where they had
glass OF beer. Blake testified that
he had accepted an Invitation to bunk
| with SchwaIder as had been his Gus
tom at different times in Mandan
where the railroad policeman was
stationed last tall. tSchwader testi-
| fed to the same thing and said that
he had invited Blake when he stepped
off No. 5. Charles Johnson swore
| that he heard Schwader give the invi-
tatiOn.
From the freight house Blake and
Schwader came back to the depot.
Blake testified that some unknown
person rushed up to him and told him
that some fellows had been to the
girls room in the hotel. This was
about / o'clock, and he ran across the
street through rain and mud and up
to the girls room to see what was
doing. He said the girl was up and
told him that some men had been
there. Blake testified that he took
his revolver out of his grip in the
room and went down stairs where he
found a crowd of men. He said,
whats the trouble, boys?" And
some one answered. there seems to
be plenty of trouble"
The complaining witness, Ed. J.
one of the men in the crowd that the
girl was his wife. Sine Carol then
pulled Blake around by the shoulder,
saying, do you mean to say that the
girl i'm the room is your wife," Blake
then answered that he had nothing to
say. According TO several witnesses
Blake made no attempt ITO explain the
matter. He was arrested by Dryer
and taken to Jail. Claude Turner, al
SO a deputy, went along. The depu-
ties say that Blake protested on the
way to Jail, saying that it was an out
rage and that he did not think the
boys of Dickinson would use him that
way, but he did not offer any explana-
ton.