Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-03
Ugly Rumors Atloat as 10
Why Certain Witnesses
We're Left Ont
One Of the 1eSlIfIers IS Now
In Jail Under q Charge
Of Perjury
fah|gren May Bring Suit
Against Bangs for Defam-
atory Remarks
BY George Weatherhe ad.

Washburn, n. D., June 3.--FeelIng
over the result of the recent murder
trial held here, when Walfred Ander-
son was declared. not guilty Of the
murder of Banker Funk, is still ex.
ceedingly intense. and criticism over
the manner in which the prosecution
of the case was conducted is now
more profuse than it was right after
the trial ended.
So intense is the feeling that the
matter OF calling the grand jury is
now being agitated. 1t is runored
that the reason why so many import
ant matters were left out of the case
in the way Of Offering testimony OF
what was thought important witness,
es was that it might involve many
matters that had better be left un-
touched. Therefore, the idea OF hay-
ing a grand jury summoned will be
to thoroughly investigate local con-
ditlohs" here. Word mas gone ont thar
there is at present no small amount
OF corruption in public affairs at
Washburn that has caused blot on
the name Of what has been in past
history one of the best towns of the
Slope, and the citizens are hopeful
that grand jury investigation would
return to Washburn once more the
good name to which it is really enti-
tied.
Ludwig Peterson, the pool hall pro.
prietor, who is now confined in tho
county Jail with a charge OF perjury
lodged against him, is still without
bonds, and so far all efforts to Sc
cure sufficient sureties have failed,
though there have been some ener.
getic efforts made in his behalf. 1t
is said that Walfred Anderson made
an offer to put up a cash bond in the
sum of $1,000 to secure Peterson's
immediate release from the county
Jail, but Peterson IS said to have
spurned this offer, as he feels that An
derson is in no way under obligations
to him, and he also claims to have
told the truth when he testified in An
derson's behalf during the trial.
Attorney J. e. Nelson, who was one
of the attorneys for the defense, up
to last evening had exerted every et-
fort at his command, and at one time
had sufficient number of signers
for Peterson's bond, but at the last
minute two of them withdrew their
names, and it seems now that il Pc.
terson is in hurry to leave the
county Jail his only chance to secure
a bond will be to accept the cash o.
fer made him by his friend, Walfred
Anderson.
Not only has Peterson been arrest
ed for perjury, but there are rumors
that more witnesses may yet be ar
rested for offering false testimony,
and then, too, there are more rumors
that the attorneys for the defense
nay cause some arrests because of
false testimony.
Together with these rumors, comes
the report that Carl Fahlgren, the wit
ness for the state who testified that
on the Saturday before Funk's death
he was in the bank and heard Ander-
son pass some defamatory remarks,
will bring suit against Attorney Ira
" Gangs in the sum of $4,000. Dur
ing the course of his argument at the
close of the trial Mr.. Bangs referred
to Fahlgren as "damnable perjur-
err and said further that his testi-
mony had been bought" and that he
could almost point to the man who
bought him." In his argument, Mr..
Bangs also said that ,Fahlgren had
come into court and as soon as he had
spit out his vile venom he ran
out of town"
Fahlgren is farmer, living some
0 miles from Washburn, and hts
friends. here say that his veracity has
never been questioned, and in view !
Of the fact that the defense made no
'ffort to impeach his testimony at the
time he offered it in court, his friends
are urging him to hasten his action
against Mr.. Bangs.
Feeling over the outcome Of the