The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-07-10
BLOODHOUND IS
SENT TO SCENE
OF Wife MURDER
County Dog Is Taken from the
Search Being Made for Carl
Anderson, Missing.
VIRGINIANS ARE STILL
SECURING THE WOODS
Trails Followed Yesterday Re-
veal Nothing New and Hunt
Is Resumed Today.

veal Nothing New and Hunt
Is Resumed Today.
In response to an appeal from the
sheriff of Grow Wing county, who,
with a posse is combing that district
in an effort to locate Eli Vallencourt
a laborer, who is accused of numbering
his wife, Sheriff Meining Of Duluth
yesterday ordered his bloodhound,
"Sport" to be taken to Crosby to as
sist in locating the fugitive, who is
said to have taken to the woods short
lv after the crime was committed.
"Sport'' has been in Virginia the
past several days in charge Of Deputy
Sheriff Evans of Duluth, assisting in
the countrywide search for Carl An
derson, As years, the demented labor
er who ran away from his boarding
house in the Scanlon addition last
Saturday night. All yesterday morn
ing and a part of the afternoon the
bloodhound was sent over various
trails that lead off from the highway
between here and Gilbert, but no trace
Of Anderson could be found. The trail
near this road over which "Sport"
made such fuss on Tuesday evening,
was taken up early yesterday morn
ing and followed for several miles
back into the forest, but the chase was
futile.
This morning crews of men and
boys left in various directions in the
hope of either locating Anderson or
learning if he had shown up at any
dwelling in this part of the county.
The search of the Mud lake district
yesterday, which was conducted under
the supervision of Patrolman Flood
of the local police, brought no salts
factory results.
Hopes of finding Anderson alive
is now rapidly fading. In weakened
condition when he left, without funds
and only a handful of clothing to
cover his nakedness, it is believed by
the authorities that the exposure to
which he has been subjected must
have made great inroads on his al
ready depleted health fund. There
have been several heavy rain storms
since the unfortunate man fled and,
it is probable, that he was out in
every one of them.
The murder at Crosby was one of
the most revolving that has ever been
perpetrated in Grow Wing county.
Mrs. Vallencourt was murdered in her
home about o'clock yesterday morn
ing, all of her seven children Witness
ing her gastly deed. The children say
that their father, who had not been
living with their mother for sometime,
came home from Cloquet Monday and
started row.
On numerous occasions, the children
saw, the father had made threats
against their mother. They told the
authorities yesterday, that their faith
er came home drunk Tuesday night
and that. about 3 o'clock in the morn
ing started abusing Mrs. Vallencourt.
The quarrel ending, the say, by his
taking a knife or razor and slashing
her throat from ear to ear.
An officer, who had been placed on
duty near the Vallencourt home the
previous night, saw man fleeing
from the house about the time the
crime was committed. He says he
thinks the man was Vallencourt.
Late this afternoon it was learned
that Vallencourt had been captured
by sheriff's posse but not until he
had cut his throat. The wound is not
dangerous and Vallencourt was rush
ed to a hospital where he received
treatment.
The bloodhound that was taker
from here was stopped at Carlton. Just
whether he will be brought back tt
Virginia is not known.
Chief of Police Gately stated thi:
noon that all effort sto find Carl An
derson alive were about dispelled
The men who searched all day yester
day found no trace Of him and wer'
so tired from tramping through tn
woods that they had to take an en-
forced rest today.
It is now believed that Anderson
must have jumped into one Of tn
MANY lakes that abound in this par
of the country.
Occupy New Store Soon.