The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-01

the Schif house. from which he had
been discharged shortly before. having
been a valet to Mr.. Schift. there seem
ed to be a grave suspicion Of injus-
tice in the long term Of Imprisonment
to which Brandt, a first offender. had
been sentenced by Judge Rosalsky. ad-
mittedly friendly with the Schiff fam
lily.
Brandt had served five years Of his
thirty-year term and Mr.. Whitman adj
vised the governor that in view Of this
and also OF the doubt that existed as
to whether Brandt had really commit
ted any crime. q pardon seemed to be
advisable.
Gov. Dix, to everyhody's surprise.
refused the pardon and ordered all
the papers in the case sealed. intimat-
ing that he believed Brandt was mere
lY piling up n mountain Of lies to
squirm out Of just punishment for Il
crime of which he had been duly con-
victed. having. pleaded guilty.
legal squabble in which Brandt be-
came a mere fgurehead. the real ele-
ment in controversy being a public
demand for an investigation to deter
mine whether or not the great wealth
and social influence Of the Schiff fam
lily had been used to send to prison
and keep him there a man whom the
ISchiffs did not wish to see at liberty.
Hardly an official Of high rank. from
all the ranks of Judges and prison Of
ficials. but was dragged into Or pro-
jected himself into the Brandt case.
Grand juries sat. bar associations met,
public meetings were held, and long
judicial opinions were written to deal
with Brandt's troubles.
Justice Garard in the supreme court
upheld a writ Of habeas corpus on
the ground that Brandt had been IL
for q brief period Brandt was out Of
jail. under heavy bonds.
Roosevelt Bohs Up.
But soon the pendulum began to
swing the other way. Prophesied in
dictments failed to materialize and
Brandt was taken back to Danne-
mora. where he still remains. Cover
nor Dix. the Schiffs and the courts
unbosomed themselves Of lengthy
screeds to prove that Brandt was a
heinous villain who ought to be thank
full that he had been sentenced when
he might have been sent away for
life.
Finally the court of appeals settled
Me whole discussion by deciding that
Eandt had been duly convicted and
that It was too late to interfere With
his sentence, except by the exercise
of executive clemency.- Whereupon
Brandt was speedily and officially In
formed that as long as Governor DIX
The whole political pot had beer
simmering meanwhile. Theodore
Roosevelt had let 1t be. known that he
vas not and never had been q can
didate for the presidential nomination
in 1912 and then he. had written to
the :'seven little governors" telling
them that he was aud. would he a can;
didaf4.S My hat, Is .lnNthe ring" ne:
exclaimed dramatically. s'and Presf.
dent Taft proceeded to kick said hat
all over the place. 4
Colonel Harvey and Colonel Waiter
son. two Of Governor Wilson's most
energetic supporters. suddenly saw a
new light and Colonel Watterson
came out in .perfervid de~nunciations
of his quondam friend, whose pros
poets of a nomination on the demo-
cratic side promptly sank to low tide.
whereat Champ Clark and Bryan
laughed heartily. ~
Other things were stirring. too. The
investigate the steel trust got started
on its horrendous way; the coal min
ers Of England went on general strike;
the federal government began its
prosecution of the sugar and beef
trusts, both of which, so far as h
criminal proceedings were concerned,
proved abortive, and the never-to-be-
ended subway sQuabbles went merrily
on.
One little noticed event Of the
Ispring is recalled by the recent de-
cision OF the United States supreme
Ecourt-it was the beginning of the
suit of the federal government to de-
clare the merger of the Southern Pa
cifc and the Union Pacific railroads
illegal.
Blown tn Death by Bomb.
While the Brandt case was agitat-
iing the town. several bomb outrages
occurred that caused much public
feeling. Miss Helen Taylor, a woman
on opening a package hat had come
to her through the mails. Her COM
panion, a youth named Dickinson.
was arrested, but discharged at the
coroner's hearing. The mystery Of
her death was new solved.
But while the police were still fol-
lowing battling clues to the murderer,
another bomb of very similar construc-
ton and addressed and mailed in iden-
at the home Of Judge Rosalsky,
whose name had figured prominently
in the Brandt case as the Judge who
had sentenced him. Judge Rosalsky.
wary Of h mysterious parcel. sent
for an inspector of the bureau Of
jcombustibles, Owen Eagan. Who un-
dertook to open it. It exploded and
MANNED n Of his hands.
A week later another bomb came
but this proved to be a clumsy. pract-
ically harmless contrivance. But the
efforts Of the police were redoubled to
catch the person was had successfully
sent 1--WE bombs through the mails
without detection. Nothing. however.
has yet come to the police activity in
this direction.
The Maine was raised in Havana
harbor and sunk in open sea. Amund-
son sent word from the Antarctic that
he had reached the South Pole and
was on his way back to civilization. A
band OF outlaw mountaineers In Vir-
ginia, invading tho courtroom at
Hillsville, Va. where one of their
number. Floyd Allen. was being tried
for murder, shot down the Judge, the
prosecuting officer and sheriff In the
courtroom and decamped to their ma
tive hills. That vas on March IL, and
in a few weeks the entire band Of out.
laws was captured and brought to
trial.
Few great cities have ever been the
center OF such worldwide interest az
was the little mo%untainside village of
Hillsville for a few days. The lack Of
either telephone or telegraph connec
ton accentuated the peculiarly iso.
! lated situation of the scene Of this in
famous crime.
The Titanic Tragedy.
April Id there came through the
| ether the first inklinR of the Rrea fest