Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-03-18

BILE first started between Rouse and
his wife, and the story that is told
relates that he got up from the table
and started after Mrs. Rouse with an
upraised hatchet in his hand, when
Chester, who is the oldest of family
of five, closed with his father and
threw the latter to the floor. Both
put up a nearly equal struggle, the
one to overpower the other, their
fighting ending in the yard outside,
between the house and the barn.
Rouse finally got to his feet, when he
noticed that his younger son, Elmer,
about fifteen years old, had started to
run to the house Of neighbor. less
than a mile away. Appearing to
realize what the boy was after he
took a horse from the barn and fol-
lowed, but the boy reached there
II, O. Rouse, whose home is on a
farm in the northeastern corner of
Trier township, between Munich and
Clyde, lies at the point of death and
if he should die as the result of four
wounds made by bullets fired from a
revolver, the charge of murder will
then overhang his eighteen year old
son, Chester Rouse, who since yester-
day afternoon has been mere in Lang
don in the custody Of Sheriff kelland
at which time the sheriff and States
Attorney Crimson returned to the city
from making an investigation of the
affair
The shooting Of H. 0. Rouse by his
son, Chester, appears to have been
the bloody climax reached in family
quarrel, which took place It the sup
per table Of the home on Monday
evening. 1t is alleged that the trou-
without being overtalzen, and was
found hidden in the cellar when his
father discovered his whereabouts
after searching the house Rouse and
the son finally returned home, the
father on horseback and the boy
afoot. AS they neared their own
| place it was seen that the older boy,
Chester, was standing by the barn
awaiting them, and it would appear
that while they We're gone he had
entered the house, got his revolver
and had she'll in each Of the cham
bers Of his seven shooter. AS the
father came up near the barn the son,
Chester, fired The shot hit Rouse,
but apparently it was not dangerous
wound. AS the man slipped off the
horse to the ground the boy fired
again and this time brought his father
down to a sitting position. He con-
tinued shooting until all Of the shells
in the revolver had been discharged,
and 1t was later shown that four of
the bullets that had been fired by the
son had found a mark in the BODY of
his father. Rouse was carried into
the house, Chester helping his mother
and brother, after which the latter
was dispatched to Clyde for medical
aid and notify the authorities Of what
had taken place. A medical eyamina
tion of the victim showed that two
shots hit the man in the back, another
In the left arm at the shoulder, shat
tering the bone, while the fourth
passed through the flesh of the right
upper arm. The doctors have been
unable to locate two Of the bullets
that entered the body from the back,
and from these it is feared that the
shooting may end fatally. He is still
at his home, but if possible will be
taken to the hospital at Calvin.
H. O. Rouse is man of about
forty-five years and in addition to
farming three quarter sections of land
has for years been the agent in this
county of the Rawleigh Medicine Co.
Before removing to the western part
OF the county about five years ago,
Rouse farmed on rented land east of
Langdon, the family in the first place
coming to this county from Pennsvl-
vania about ten or eleven years ago.
He seems to have got along all right
with his neighbors but was a quarrel
some man in his own home.
Chester Rouse, the eighteen year
old son, who is in the custody of the
sheriff for this deathly assault on his
father, will have his case taken up
before Judge Kneeshaw and in case
that the father should not die it will
be disposed of in the juvenile court,
which has jurisdiction in cases when
the defendant is minor and the
charge is not one of murder. If the
father dies however the case will have