Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
BARNES. co, H0LD-UP
men GO TO pen
LEADER OF SMALL GANG GETS
EIGHT YEARS-HIS NERVE
AT HOLDUP GAME.

a party of Barnes county officials
consisting of Assistant Atty. Ols-
berg, Clerk Olsby and Deputies Kel-
ley and King appeared in Judge Cof-
fey's court Tuesday whit three prison.
ers convicted of crimes at the re-
cent term of court in Barnes county.
TwoIof the men were convicted of
robbery of men in box car at the
500 depot, and one was blindpig-
ger. OF the two former VIM. L.
Hance representing himself to be
from Bismith City, South Carolina,
pied guilty to robbery in the second
degree and was sentenced to two
years term in the penitentiary.
The second man and leader of the
two, Richard G. Young, claiming to
be from Oklahoma and also from
Missouri, pied guilty to robbery in
the first degree, and was sentenced
to eight years in the pen. He was
still weak from wounds received at
the time of his holdup, and was
scarcely able to stand in the court
room, being just out of the hospital.
He had received four bullets at the
hand of 500 railroad watchman,
one in the hand, one in the arm, in
the chest and one in the hip. The
watchman firing at the robber, ran,
but Young with a grim determine
ton to complete the holdup job, held
up three more men in the car, Sc
cured a little more money, and af-
terwards made good his escape for a
time. The fourth bullet which lodg-
ed in his breast still remains there.
The story of their capture after re-
turning to Valley City has been told
heretofore. This penitentiary SEN
tence temporarily stops the career of
one Of the most desperate holdup
men who has operated among hobos
and harvest hands for small amounts
in this state.
The third sentence was awarded to
W. IN. Gardner, formerly from Fra
zee, Mimi, convicted of selling H.
legal booze in Barnes county. He
pied guilty and! was given the usual
80 days sentence.
Awarded Possession of Child.
A hearing was given during the
morning on a writ of habeas corpus
in which the applicant, Mrs. Jennie
Griffin Of Iowa, is seeking to obtain
possession of her little four year old
daughter, from her husband, I. c..
Griffin, now working for farmer
near Darlington. He was formerly
a Dunkard minister and held servic-
es in this state. The grounds on
which the return of the child to the
mother were asked are that the hus-
band had surreptitiously taken the
child from it's mother at Manchester,
Iowa, and had the little one living in
tent on the farm on which he was
working. The court gave an order
that the child be turned over to the
mother for proper care and custody.
Mrs. Griffin Is reported to be well-to-
do, able to care for the child, and is
music teacher by profession, while
the father has no means to rear and
care for the child. His litigation
rights, however, still exist regarding
the possession Of the girl.
A motion was argued to dismiss
the case of Greawatz vs. the West
ern Union Telegraph Co. The plain
if was represented by Murf1n &
Doane OF LaMoure. and the DEFEND
ant by Walton & Young of Fargo.
The motion was to dismiss the case
or to make the complaint more spe-
cific.
States Atty. Haechelhohfer OF
Richland county, Attorneys Charles
Wolf and A. q. Divet, appeared IN
the court on the matter Of increasing
the bond Of H. p. Torgenrud Of Rich
land county. charged with adultery,
the case having been transferred to
the Barnes! county court by Judge
Allen, from his district
The cases Of the two holdup men
charged with robbing harvest hand
John Smith, at the recent James,
town carnival. who was killed in q
fall from a wagon near sharlow, has
not been taken up as yet, but it is
possible that the death Of Smith,
who was the principal witness in the
case, will result in the dismissal OF
the men charged with the crime, as
no other direct proof is alleged
against them. Had Smith lived
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