The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-25
MURDERER HAS
CONFESSED DEED
Wanted in Indiana on the
Charge of Killing Wealthy
Merchant.

tlcials and held for Illinois authorities.
has confessed tn the murder of Wade
Robinson of LandcsNille, Ill. Broom
also has given Information which may
lead to the detention of w. q. .Alli-
son. whom he say did the actual kill
Ing of Robinson.
Robinson was killed. il is claimed.
by Broom and Allison. who entered
his store as masked robbers. There
was another man in the store at the
time, but Robinson engaged n of
the rohhe in a hani to hand fight.
IN December IS. 1911. a murder
was committed in La~ndesville, Ind.
" parties We're suspected as tho
murderers. Ralph Broom and VIM. o.
Allison. The murdered man was n
prominent merchant in ~Landcsville,
and circulars describing the suspected
murdcrcrs with their pictures. and of
fcring $500 reward wore circulated all
over the United States. Sheriff Tel
gen received II of thcsa circulars.
and as Broom WAS a former resident
of this county nea Brazil. the sheriff
naturally has beer keeping his eyes
and ears open with a view of captur-
ing the murdcrcrS.
Last week Monday he got onto a
clue that Broom and Allison. both.
were In the state in the vicinity of
Caringtor. Sheriff Teigen at once
started for that town, found Broom
had left Darlington, but tracked him
to New Rockford. After slcuthinS
around that town. the sheriff mean
dered down to the banks of tho Jane
river. where he found five hoboos
camping. Broom having IL big scar
on his face and large. rr%otrudins lips.
Sheriff Teigen easily decided he had
discovered his man. Broom was
washing his underwear in the liver.
Teigen approached, pulled out his
gun and ordered him to throw up his
hands, which he did promptly. He
was then searched. but no weapons
were found on him. Broom was then
taken to the Jail. temporarily, where
When Broom was first captured he
asked Teigen ii he was the sheriff
from Darlington. Teigen replied that
he was a sheriff from Indiana. Broom
turned pale and trembled Upon re-
oeiving this information. He had pre-
viously denied that his name was
Broom but when the sheriff showed
him the circular offering the reward
for his capture, and asked him if that
finally confessed that Broom was hi;
name.
Sheriff Teigen then started out TO
capture Allison, the alleged accom-
plice. Broom had old the sheriff that
Allison had been With him until May
IA, when Allison left New Rockford
for Grace City, a station on the New
Great Northern Farso-Surrey CUTOFF.
When the sheriff arrived at Grace
City. the bird had flown, but MAS trac-
ed TO the next station east. Brantford.
Here all trace of him was lost, and
after securing the country for MANY
miles in that part of the state. Sheriff
Teigen decided to give up the chase AT
tina time, and bring the captured
Broom to Rugby. He arrived with
him Friday on No. 4. at s in the NOR
ming. and landed him safely in the
county Jail TO await the sheriff from
Indiana with a ~requisition to take him
back to the scene of the murder.
Broom is about 20 years old. and is
q hard looking customer. He had liz =
ed i'm Brazil township on a farm for
two or three years until the latter par
of last November. when he quietly
disa rpeared. There were a number of
cases of wheat stealing in that vicinity
just before his departure that fall. and
he had been suspected of being impli-
Gated in the thieverT.
Broom admits having been in Lam
desville. That he arrived there on
Christmas DAY and left there Decem
Der 81. the day before the murder.
story of the Crime.
The following narrative of the crime
is taken from the Daily Chronicle of
Marion. Ind, of which Landcsvillc is
a suburb:
Wade Robinson. a merchant at Lam
desville. a few miles east of Marion,
for many years. and a citizen highly
respected by everybody who knew
him. was shot down in his store or the
night of Decemhr IS. last. when ht
resisted two masked robbers. said To
be Ralph Broom and William q. Al
lison. who demanded that he throw
up his hands and Surrender his ono
James Yarger. d citizen of 1.Andes-
willie. was the only witness to the foul
murder.
Yarmger was in the Robinson store
when the tN" masked bandits enter
cd and with drawn revolVers demand
ed that Yarc"r and Robinson throw
up their hhn'is.
Covered With Gun.
on" "f the men covered the store
kcer"r With a hig gun and the second
ono ''i~!cd a pistol in Narser's face.
My Ger was sitting near a stove in the
i1a"!; part of the store and Robinson
Va standing behind the counter near
thn front part of the store when the
bandits entered.
Yarger obcyed the command Of the
armed men. but Robinson refused 10
surrender.
Instead of throwing up his hands
Robinson srapplcd with the robber.
who attempted to cover him with the