The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-17
Pulled Gun to Emphasize Authority
and the Automatic Was Dis
charged Twice.
SHOOTING OCCURRED THURSDAY
Victim Died in the Hospital Friday
and Action was taken in the
Case Monday.

H. A. Ryberg, the marshall of
Spooner, has been bound over to the
grand jury on a charge of man.
slaughter in the nrst degree. Ry-.
berg shot John Harvey, a homestead
er near Pitt, last Wednesday and
Harvey died in the hospital fifteen
hours later. Manslaughter is killing
without malice or generalization.
The following account of the shoot
ing is taken from the Northern Newa
published in Spooner:
'The accident was due to a series
OF circumstances perhaps due to an
order given to the marshall by
member of the board to arrest Ger
tain notorious character, Frank
kyle, who that day struck the city,
after just completing ninety day
sentence at Bemidji. When sentenced
from here kyle made the threat
ito get even with some of the officials
here and knowing the character of
the fellow the marshall was instruct
ed to take no chances with him but
to prepare himself for emergency.
"Ryberg in consequence put an au-
tomato revolver into his pocket and
coming out of his office from the Au-
ditorium he saw two men, who later
proved to be John Harvey and ].
Sischo, Jr., Of Pitt, on the sidewalk,
apparently in a questionable act.
demonstrations of the marshall star
ted a controversy which resulted in
the officer drawing his gun to en-
phasize his authority In pulling the
weapon out of his pocket it in some
unintentional manner DISCHARGED
groundward.
The rebound of the gun evidently
threw the officers hand upwards and
in his attempt to prevent such he
gripped the weapon more firmly only
to discharge it again. Unknown to
the marshal the gun was at this time
pointed directly at Harvey and tho
ball entered the upper part of the
abdomen and came out above the
hip.
'Realizing his error Ryberg rush.,
ed Harvey to the SpOoner hospital
for attention and treatment and word
was at once sent to his relatives, the
Patton family at Baudette and to his
fcr w Of
made to probe the wound but was not
successful in determining the extent
of the injury. The patient was Civ
en- optiates to ease his sufferings
while at the same time the outward
flow of blood was stanched and de-
velopments awaited.
"The patient was admitted to the
hospital at about p. m. and from
then on until the following morning
he steadily sank, expiring at about
8 o'clock. At the bed side, during
the night was his wife, word of the
sad occurrence having reached her in
time to arrive on the night east
bound limited. Following the death,
Coroner Johnson took charge of the
remains and called an inquest at
which G. R. Middleton and S. M. Koe.,
fod, attorneys, represented Marshall
Ryberg and George E. Ericsson rep
resented the state. b.
Harvey came here from Michigan
last July and was followed the early
part of August by the family. The
wife and three younger children have
until recently been making their
home in Baudete. About a month ago
Mr.. Harvey and family moved on to
a quarter section of land southwest OF
Pitt and the day he was killed he
had come into the city relative to
some land matters. He is survived by