Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-08
Was Dismissed 10 Judge
CaSSeImaD'S Court Sat-
urday Afternoon
Last Night at Instance Of
Acting States Attorney
Sheriff Arrested nlm
Gives Reporter a Long Story
Of the Affair...HeafiDg
Arranged Today

AT sthe instance of Acting States
Attorney Koffel and through 4 war.
rant issued by him, Sheriff Barnes
arrested Peter Mossbrucker last night
and locked him up in the county Jail.
On Saturday night OF June 2S,a M0ss'
,brncKer. was arrested hy the p0iic1s
after nieghbors in his vicinity had
made complaints as to a nuisance
he was maintaining. When the po.
lice appeared they said there We're
in the neighborhood of 70 men in the
barn. Seven bottles Of beer were
taken by the officers, who also found
three casks of empties on the prem.
ises. ....
His final hearing in this first case
occurred Saturday in Judge Cassel.
mans court and Mossbrucker was dis.
missed. Yesterday, however, Acting
States Attorney Koffel heard of the
matter and had Sheriff Barnes rear.
rest Mossbrucker and his hearing will
be arranged some tine today in Judge
Perrys court. d., ...-,~ ,.
A Tribune representative saw Moss
brucker at the county jail right after
he had been arrested by the sheriff,
and he said that his second arrest
was cetrainly33A surprise to. him.
He related his story of his two ars
rests and said that on Saturday night
of June 2S, the police, came to his
barn in the alley between Second and
Third streets and told him that they
wanted him." and he was locked up
~. the city ial, On the following
DAY, Sunday, he was taken before
Judge Casselman about noon and the
judge told him that he had better en-.
gage Attorney Mockler to defend MIN.
M0ssblucker says that he was some.
what reluctant about having Mockler
for his attorney, but finally consented
and that after 'Mockler arrived at the
city Jail Mossbrucker says that Mock
Ter offered first to take his case for
$lC0, but with that he went out to
the front Office of the jusice rooms
and hen came back and said that after
looking over the long list Of witnesses
that he thought he could not take the
case less than 5000, Mossbrucker says
that he told Mockler he did not have
that much money, neither was he sure
that he could raise that amount, and
that it vas finally arranged to con
tinue the case till Tuesday, and that
Mockler guaranteed Mossbrucker's
appearance in cOur THAT day, where
upon MOssbrucker was let 20.
Mossbrucker says the $G3 he had
on his person which the police took
away from him in the city Jail the
Saturday night he was first arrested
was then taken back to himpa and he
turned it over to Mockler.aQa 5!tIsas
MOssbrucker says that he then went
to Glen Ullin to see his brother there
about helping him out with the bal
ance of the money, but he found that
his brother was on his way to Bis.
marck at the same time. and that he
missed him on the road. He then
went to Hebron, where he has
nephew, but that relative was unable
to assist him and he came back to
Bismarck. T.nc
After reaching Bismarck, Moss
brucker says, he paid Mockler SIS
more, and later gave him note for
sou more. On last Saturday, he says.
he raised $50 more and abou. noon
went to the police magistrates Office,
and by throwing in a shack valued at
SIS more he made up $2OS, which al
together he paid Mockler and his case
was dismissed, and he supposed end
cd, till the sheriff read him the war
rant last night, and at the Jail last
night he was anxiously waiting for
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