Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-04-10
nORDERER | R MAY
STAND trial
r IN MINNESOTA
Brutal SpearmaD Murder at
Shakopee, Minnesota, 10
Limelight
Old Man, Aged Woman, and
Innocent Little Boy We're
ASsaSsi0ated
Remington II ParoIed May
Be Arrested as ae Leaves
Penitentiary

twenty-five years ago an old man
was sitting beside the kitchen stove
in his little home down in Minnesota
He had gone to Minneapolis that day
and returned to his home town with
Z $4,000 in money which he deposited
in the First National Bank. While in
Minneapolis he had visited with a son
and so8in- law! These two young
men knew of the amount OF, money
their father had in his possession
when he left for home. But to re,
turn to the old man by the stove.
The Message Of Death.
It was late at night. He was just
resting and getting warmed up bit
before going to bed. His wife was
up stairs with their little grand son
watching for the sand man to come"
He was at peace with the world. Sud
denly there came a little sickenlng
spat. The sound of something hard
tearing into human flesh. A bullet
had crashed into the back of the old
mans neck. A report was heard from
outside the old mans house. The
old mans wife anxiously started
downstairs to discover what the
trouble was. Too late. The little
leaden messenger of death had per-
formed it's function too well. The
grandfather was dead.
Murder of Aged Woman and Little Boy
AS the frightened wife was coming
down the stairs calling to her hus-
band a second bullet snuffed out her
life, and her lifeless corpse. toppled
in a heap into the lower hallway.
The little grandson, terror stricken,
pulled the covers over his head as he
lay in bed trembling with fear, too
frightened to move. A third bullet
put an end to his alarm, and he Joined
his aged grandma and grandpa in the
realm beyond the skies. The fiiend-
ish criminals whose hands were
stained with the blood of innocents-
a feeble old woman, an aged man, and
a little boy, ransacked the house
from top to bottom, evidently seeking
the money which they thought the
old man had hidden away. They
found nothing, and made their escape.
Found Guilty.
Shortly after this diabolical deed a
man was murdered at Fargo, North
1Dakota. He was killed in almost pre-
cisely the same manner as the tired
old man in Minnesota. Suspicion
pointed to a certain young man. He
was arrested and charged with mur.
der. When captured he said There
were three of us in it, but l didn't
do the shooting" He did not know
until later that it was the Fargo mur-
der he was charged with. He was
found guilty Of this latter crime and
sentenced to life imprisonment in the
state prison at Bismarck.
Joe ReminQton's Identity.
Now the yoong man who was found
guilty of the murder of the man at
Fargo, and the young man who was
the son in law of the old man IN
Minnesota were one and the same
person. The young mans name was
Joe Remington. The Minnesota mur-
der was committed at Shakopee. The
name of the murdered family was
Spearman. The Spearman triple mur-
der was one Of the most brutal and
cruel pieces of fiend's work ever re-
corded In criminal annals in the west.
Was the Spearman murder In Rem
ington's mind when he made the state
ment credited to him at the time OF
his arrest? Remington WITH William
Spearman, the vl(timls son, knew
that their father had large sum Of
money when he left Minneapolis for
his home. Whoever the murderers Of
the Spearman family were, they
searched the house from cellar to
attic evidently looking for that mon
ey. But evidence at the coroners
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