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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-29
Haunted House Murder Secret
May Be Buried with It's Victims
Motive of Crime by Hired Man, Who Cropped Through
Dark House Twice Reloading His Deadly
Weapon, Wells Staying in Mystery.

the gun, three chambers still loaded, in
his stiff hand, black ring Of powder
burn on his temple.
County Physician Edwin Carroll held
an autopsy to-day. The coroner's jury
inspected the bodies tonight
"They will be buried tomorrow"
Prosecutor W. Z. Florance said. at
was necessary for the jury to see them
at once. You see. they had lain where
they died since Wednesday night. or
perhaps even Tuesday night. 1t was
horrible" he added with a grimsce.
Until to-day the names Of the two
farmhands were not known. Little even
of the family itself Is positive. They
were bound together by Hebrew ties OF
clannishness and associated little with
their neigh bors. On looking over papers
at the farmhouse to-day Mr.. Florence
discovered memoranda from the Liberty
Employment Agency. at 107 East Fourth
Street. Manhattan. These showed that
Ganas had come to Weitzmann on No
vember II, 1915. Petrucha, the mur-
derer and suicide, came on November
9. To his slip was attached the phrase,
Eighteen per month, clear money"
Missing Girl Sought.
Robbery was not the motive Of the
killing. In a glass box on the bureau
used by Mrs. Weitzmann the prose-
cu.or's men found several diamond or
naments, valued at $500. An old safe
in p corner Of the parlor had not been
touched.
Some weeks ago the Weitzmanns dis
charged a servant girl, who has IN
sisted since that they refused to pay
her her wages. The police are now
looking for her, that she may be able
TO throw some light upon the condi-
tions which led up to the murders
Samuel Kigner, brother Of the mur-
dared man. was arrested to-day, and
{. held on a charge OF trying to make
NO, With several articles belonging 10
tho dead. He went to the farm thls
morning and opened the safe, IN the
nresence of the county detectives. Later
il was found that mortgage on .he
farm, indorsed with an authorizs'i11n
for cancellation, and deed 10 the
nronerty were missing, as well as
diamond ring and s6 bill-the only
mnnav found on the farm. The two
last were recovered. The others, klg-
ner said, had been sent away with ms
cousin. Max Kigner, his father, heid
the mortgage against Weitzmann; l''
cancellation had not been recorded
In the dusk Of late afternoon To-Day
the farm house seemed deserteu'
Farl;er in the day morbid sensation
seekers had journeyed TO It. AS eve
ming came on they vanished. Only the
Guards set by the prosecutor remained
and thew did not appear TO re!ish IN me
tboueht of their all night vigil, Inc
air was cold and the brown helds ana
hare trees looked dreary in the hall
light. but they only served as a Mt set set
IN t;6p for the "haunted house" NO
smoke came from its chimney, and its
windows were dark, except those tow
ard the west. The sunset cleaning
through bare brt inches hushec these
with the color Of blood.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-29
T. RS COMPANION CAPTURED
British Hold the Rev. Krieger, Sus-
pecting He Is a Spy.


Hartford, Conn, Nov. 28.-One OF
Colonel Roosevelt's hunting compan-
ions. the Rev. Frederick Krieger, has
been captured by the British on SUE
picion Of being a German spy In British
East Africa. lie is being held In a
concentration camp in India pending
investigation.
Mr.. Krieger Is an expert big game
huntsman, and while stationed at a
Nairobi mission accompanied Colonel
Roosevelt. who admired his ability with
a rife. He was captured while on a
government hunting expedition. The
minister was born in Germany and was
not naturalized here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-29

New Brunswick, N. j., Nov. 28.-A
lonely little farmhouse stands bleak
and empty tonight. three miles from
here, on the winding dirt track known
as Georges road. The family of four
and the two hired men who until
Wednesday were its inhabitants now
lie in the morgue in this town, killed
by revolver bullets fired by Joe Pc
trucha, Pole, one of the hired men.
"Weitzmann's Place." they have been
used to call the forty-odd acres of land
and barns and dwelling where Samuel
Weitzmann, his wife, his son-in-law.
David Kigner, and his wife, all
Hebrews, lived and worked and -four
ished by their dairying and trucking.
From now on the farmers Of Middlesex
will know 1t as the Haunted House"
Already they are referring to It by that
title and II has earned its name.
Poe might have written fttingly the
details of the tragedy. He might have
pictured them. No one knows them.
The secret Of what happened on the
little farm some time Wednesday night
lies with the bullet-torn forms In the
New Brunswick morgue. A quarter mile
from the nearest dwelling, no sound Of
the sextuple killing reached a neigh
bors ears. All Thursday, Friday and
Saturday farmers plodded or drove past
the homely dwelling, while behind It's
old-fashioned windows and unlocked
door six stark bodies lay, while starv-
ing cows lowed in the barns and q
frightened cur whimpered and chewed
at the front door to escape the house
of horror.
Twelve Shots Fired.
Only the still forms In the morgue
know, and until their tongues are
loosed, what transpired last Wednes-
day night must remain a mystery. Six
ablebodied persons lay down to sleep
in the house that night, and one o.
them was able to rise and go from
rom to room, shooting dowu the other
FIVE, apparently uninterrupted and with
no positive sign Of resistance. II is
hard for the authorities to construct a
motive for the slaughter. 1t is doubly
hard for them to see how the crime
was possible.
The murderer had .3S-calibre, FIVE
chambered revolver. From 1t he fired
twelve shots, not all Of which took ef-
feet This means that after the Arst
fusillade he must have paused twice 70
reload. Perhaps the others were panic
stricken. Perhaps they slept until the
end came. Perhaps they covered in
their beds, helpless with fear, and
heard the maniac stumbling toward
them through the dark house.
Kigner alone did not die in his bed.
He was found in thc loom with tho two
bodies of the hired men. He lay wound
ed in the chest, forehead and chin. John
Ganas, the other hired man, and Pc
trucha lay on their cots, the latter with
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WEATHER

RAIN TO-DAY; FAIR AND COLDER
TOMORROW.
Yesterdays Temperatures;
High, 81; Low. ss.
Full report on Page II.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24

Mrs. Ed. Godfrey and two little
sons went north Tuesday for a short
visit to the farm north of Wales.
Hats, flowers and ribbons at cost
until the present stock is all sold.
Mrs. E. w. Quick's millinery store.
Mrs. Len Frye is among those from
Langdon who are attending the cele-
bration which is being held at Milton
today.
Mrs. H. E. Fay is being visited by
her mother, Mrs. John Hannah, who
came down from her home at the end
town on yesterdays afternoon passen-
ger.
Jan Kyncl went down the line Sat
urday for a visit over the week end
with his brother, Frank Kyncl, at
Mimic, and old friends in western
Walsh county.
Murray Dickson left on Saturdays
trim for Dickinson, N. D., to assist
his father, Register w. B. Dickson,
of the U. S. land office, in unpacking
and fixing up the new home of the
family at that place.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24

Mrs. Frank Green Jr., left Thurs
day for a visit with friends in Grand
Forks and northern Minnesota.
Richard Wand was a county seat
visitor last Friday from Milton with
the assessors returns of East Alma
township.
Sunday a little daughter was a well
come arrival at the home of James
Green, whose home is in the Farview
addition.
For life insurance that insures,
insure in the Northwestern Mutual
Co., of Milwaukee, Wis. w. A.
Farrell, Agent.
Prof. H. Halla, principal of the
Hannah school the past year, has left
to spend the summer looking over land
prospects in Saskatchewan.
VIM. Plummer, wife and family
autoed over to Bathgate and spent a
few days of last week as visitors Of
Robert Morrison and family.
Good fence posts and plenty of
them. Oak and white cedar in all
sizes. Come in and see them. Cava-
lier County Lumber Company. 42tf
Austin Reid came up from Bis
marck last Friday and before return
ing will spend several weeks in visit
ing with friends here and at Hannah.
Clement Tourand was able to be out
and around Saturday for the first time
since his recovery from an attack of
pleurisy which laid him up for over
a month.
A. O. Void and family since their
return to Langdon in the past week
have moved into the residence proper
ty north of the Presbyterian church
on Fifth street
Revs. McArdle and Theill were
passengers Monday to Fargo, where
they will be in attendance until the
end of the week at the annual retreat
of the Catholic clergy of the diocese
of Fargo.
John Cameron and wife were Calvin
visitors here Monday on their way tc
Hamilton, in Pembina county where
they attend the Red River Valley
Baptist convention as delegates of the
| church at Calvin.
Miss Kathleen Mahoney and younger
brother who have been students the
past year at the Academy of St. Mar,
of the Lake, were arrivals Saturda,
from Devils Lake to spend the sum
mer vacation here with their father
]. J. Mahoney.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24
DrS. Smith < Hughes
DENTISTS
OFFICE Hours: Every Day Except
Sunday: From 9 to FL O 6
Donovan Block

j.. F. Ramage received a car of
Ford automobiles on the freight which
went north yesterday and has a large
corps of assistants helping to assem-
BILE the cars with all possible dispatch
for customers who are waiting to
take them out.
VIM. Pease, who represents the
International Harvester Co., in its
collection department in this county,
has become a Langdon resident within
the past week, his family arriving
Thursday from Fargo. They have
moved into the residence property OF
Miss Annie Kelly on north Fourth
street.
Langdon made a shipment of one
carload of horses and two carloads of
cattle and hogs on the stock train
which went south over this branch
line Saturday. That looks as though
Cavalier county farmers we're raising
something more than wheat, barley
and oats that go to make up the
income off the farm.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24
+ Local Happenings &
40 "a
Smoke ''Council' cigars.

Smoke ''Council'' cigars.
Send us your Kodak finishing. Opie
Photo Studio, Langdon, N. D. 4t6
Joseph Power is at Fargo this week
in response to a subpoena as a witness
in U. S. supreme court.
For health and accident insurance
that protects your salary insure in the
Aetna. W. A. Farrell, Agent.
Mrs. w. Ewart- Dudley arrived
Tuesday from Lakota and is visiting
at the home of her father, M. Liebe-
Ter.
A. Backus, of the Cavalier County
National Bank, returned Tuesday
from a vacation trip of a month to his
home hear St. Paul.
Blacksmith J. C. McComb's shop
has had the roof overhauled and other
improvements added by Carpenter
Jhanke during the past week.
Mrs. j.. H. Mclean returned Mon
day to Hannah after making a few
days visit here with her sister, Mrs.
Jas. Carson and many Langdon
friends.
John Sehrt came up from Milton on
Friday and went to St. Paul on the
Saturday morning stock train accom-
panying a car Of horses shipped from
here by Jas. MCLAUGHLIN.
F. J.. Schwartz was a passenger
Friday to St. Cloud, Mimi, where he
visited over Sunday at the home of
their daughter, who since removing
from Grand Forks has been living in
St. Cloud.
Miss Marie Dorval, the youngest
daughter Of Judge Dorval, was among
the arrivals of Saturday, coming home
from Winnipeg, where she has attend
ed the academy at St. Boniface since
leaving home last fall.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24

Miss LaBelle Mahon took Mondays
train to Grand Forks, at which place
she joins the special train of the
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority delegates
who are attending a reunion from all
over the United States to be held at
Observation-Disclosures, Ore. Miss
Mahon is one of seven North Dakota
delegates who are making the trip and
before returning she will take in the
Panama exposition at San Francisco,
expecting to be away about five weeks.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24
Smoke Council cigars. -

DR.. S. G. Gibson was here yester-
day from Osnabrock between trains
transacting business.
Louis SLENDER, jeweler with A. o.
Void Co., returned yesterday from a
months vacation trip to his home in
Minnesota.
Fred Schulke was among the arri-
walls of Tuesday returning from St.
Paul, where he has spent nearly three
weeks receiving treatment for trouble
with his sight.
Mesdames Moran, Winter and Sulli-
van left Monday for Grand Forks,
where they represent the Langdon
lodge of the Rathbone Sisters at a
meeting of the grand lodge being held
this week.
John Weber, assistant cashier of
the Cavalier County National Bank,
returned Monday from his trip to
Georgetown, Mimi, where he was
called recently by the death of his
grandmother.
Mesdames c.. E. Johnston, G.. w.
Price and T. Finerty composed an
auto party of Langdon ladies who left
Tuesday for Hamilton, where the an
nual meeting of the Red River Valley
Baptist association is being held this
week.
Postmaster Sam Cross was an Olga
visitor here Tuesday for a short time
on business and found time to visit
the institute and renew the acquain-
lance Of many of the teachers with
whom he has mingled during the in
%stitutes of years gone by.
William Shelley left Monday for
the old family home at Darwin,
Mimi, where he was called by d mes
sage announcing the death Of his
sister, Miss Ellen Shelley, who for
some time has been a sufferer from
rheumatism and recently has under
gone a course of special treatment in
a hospital.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24
Dr.. Judd II. kirkhdm
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
House Phone No. iO9 Office No, 1872

There's a general exodus of Lang
don people headed toward Milton to-
day to attend the Mortimer reunion.
S. R. Montague is here from Grand
Forks for a short stay during which
he is placing monuments in both of
Langdon's cemeteries for local parties
whose orders he took while here
earlier in the spring.
Robert Scheonbechler, the eldest
son of Blacksmith and Mrs. L..
Scheonbechler, returned to his home
in this city Friday from Collegeville,
Mimi, where he has been attending
St. Johns college since leaving here
last August.
Druggist Tom Qually went north to
Hannah Friday after a short stop-over
with Langdon friends. He expects to
remain at the end town for a month,
taking charge of the Rexal Pharmacy
during the absence of Druggist Chard,
who has gone east on a months trip.
Quite a party of Langdon young
boys left IN Monday for Fish Lake, in
the Turtle Mountain region, where
they are spending the week in camp
ing, boating, fishing and bathing.
They were accompanied by Rev. Hib.
bard and are expected to return to the
city the end of the present week.
Carl Dahlvang was in town on
Tuesday. from N%umedahl, accompanied
by Mrs. Marking, his wife's mother,
who underwent a minor operation for
the removal of a diseased bone from
her thumb, which will require her
remaining in Langdon for the balance
of the week under treatment.
Our city hall now boasts of a flag
pole, which along with other needed
repairs and improvements have been
attended to during the week. 1t is
presumed that the outlook for a new
city hall, n of the public improve
ments which many of our citizens have
long been hoping for, is now farther
away than ever.
Mrs. E. A. Farrell, who has been
visiting here at the home of her son,
Will A. Farrell, deputy county trea-
surer, since arriving from Los An.
geles, Calf, recently is planning tc
leave during the week for Fargo,
where she will keep house for hel
son, Eddie, who has a position there
with the Rumely Products Co.
Jas. Walker has opened up a shop
in the corner store building of the
opera house block, which he has
equipped for the purpose of making
tire repairs and other work connected
with the automobile trade. Mr.. Wal.
ker's experience as a machinist shoult
come in handy in building up a trade
for the tire repair shop he ha.
opened this week in the opera house
block.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24
Today's wheat-$1. IA.

Today's wheat-$1. IA.
Langdon had a double header of June
weddings Monday.
Several fields of barley in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Langdon will be
headed out this week.
Langdon's fire department is send
ing to the state fremen's tournament
at Wahpeton this week, w. A. Scott
and Ernest Zeiper as delegates.
Tuesday mornings warm rain which
cleared off early in the forenoon
added another quarter inch to the
total of u generous June rains.
In the last issue of the Hampden
Guardian is chronicled the birth of a
little daughter on the 18th inst, to
Com'r Sam Iverson and wife of Stor-
lie township.
The premium list of the Cavalier
county fair of 1915 is being distribu-
ted this week. The aim is to place
one in every home in Cavalier county.
Did you get one?
Remember Hicks hits it once in a
while so there may be hail to damage
crops in July and August as he pre-
diets. Anyway a little hail insurance
against the unforeseen would be a wise
%precaution.
Last Friday wheat touched the low
point of $1.O9 on the local market,
recovering to 81. IA the following day.
There has been a gradual decline in
price quotations since it reached the
top price of 81. SO last spring.
Langdon's Eastern Star delegation,
comprising of Mesdames Work, Nc
Dowall, MCLAUGHLIN Crimson and Nc
L%auchlin, returned on Saturdays train
from their trip to Gran! Forks, where
they attended the sessions of the
grand lodge.
Yesterdays mail brought word from
Will E. Holbein, who is secretary in
charge of the North Dakota building
at the Panama-Pacific exposition that
Clearance Smith, of Langdon, N. D.,
is among those who have registered
there within the past week.
Chilly Benefits Big Show will
be here Monday, the 18th, giving two
performances, afternoon and evening.
The Bennett shows carry a first-class
concert band, have visited Langdon
for several years and have always
given n of the best shows on the
road put on under canvas.
Tomorrow, Friday, evening there is
"a special feature at the Electric
theatre, at which time Manager Wal
dron presents over 4, 600 feet of fine
films showing "A Trip to Norway
with Governor Hanna The attrac-
= ton comes at a time when the teach
ers of the county attending institute
are enabled to see the pictures.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24
COMING EVENTS

June 21-s6-County Teachers Institute
June 24-Norseman Reunion at Milton
June 2T-Walhalla Chautauqua Opens.
June 29-Stock Show at Sarles.
June 30-Byron Farmers Picnic
July 5-Picnic Celebration at Dresden
July G-District Court Convenes,
July 9-Farmers Club Picnic at Langdon
July 80 Farm Boys Encampment
July 1S-Opening Day of Chautauqua
July 21-2s-29-Cavalier County Fair.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24

Attorney w. A. Mcintyre and
Manager D. w. Baldwin, accompanied
by their wives left Saturday for St.
Thomas, in Pembina county, where
Mr.. Baldwin has farming interests.
The trip was made in the new Buick
car of Mr.. McIntyre's.
Messrs. Albert Carer, Arthur
Gratten and Henry Beauchamp of
Olga, formed a fishing party who
spent several days at the junction of
the Pembina and the Red rivers this
week fishing. They had a tent and
cooking outfit and enjoyed the outing
to their hearts content.-Pembina
Pioneer Express.
Mrs. w. B. Gordon left last week
for the bedside of her sister, Miss
Jennie Stewart who is quite seriously
i'll at her home in Killarney, Man.
Miss Stewart has many Langdon
friends who hope soon to hear that her
condition is gradually bringing about
a restoration of her former good
health.
7. E. Burke returned to the city
Saturday from Fargo, being detained
there v e a week as a juror in U. S.
federal court. Since his return Mr..
Burke has been busy arranging for
the Burke insurance agency opening
an active campaign in the writing of
hail insurance policies on the crop of
Cavalier county grain growers.
f. j. Schwartz has visiting with
him this week his aunt, Mrs. Rose
Diemert, and her daughter, Miss
Caroline Diemert, of Fargo, who ac-
companied him on his return from St.
Cloud, Mimi, where he was called to
the home of his daughter, Mrs. B.
Fandel, whose husband is laid up and
suffering from an ear trouble for
which he underwent an operation some
little time ago.
Hon. Nels w. Hawkinson, who is
engaged in the lumber, farm machi-
merry and hardware business over at
Rock Lake, was a visitor with Lang
don friends on Tuesday. Mr.. Hawkin-
son has represented his section of
Ramsey county in the state legisla-
ture of the past two sessions and in
the years ago used to be the travelling
salesman through this territory of the
John Leslie Paper Co., of Minneap-
oils and naturally was quite a familiar
figure in all the print shops over this
part of the state. The Democrat
acknowledges a pleasant call from
| Nels.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24

Smoke Little Council cigars, Sc.
Dance tonight at the Odd Fellow
Hall.
Postmaster w. T. Reilly was here
Monday from Milton, boosting for the
big celebration being held in his town
today.
Miss Ella Bleakley returned to her
Langdon home Monday from a few
days visit with friends at Grafton and
Park River.
Dan Mcdonald. who operates the
barber shop and pool hall at Dresden,
was a visitor with Langdon friends a
couple of days last week.
E. L.. Foy is out this week touring
the county making an official inspec-
ton of weights and measures as a
deputy of Sheriff Kelland.
Henry Windemuth returned Tuesday
from his trip to the South st. Paul
stock market, where he sold a carload
o. cattle and hogs this week.
In five years every progressive
farmer will have at least one silo.
Get yours now Low prices, easy
terms. Cavalier County Lumber Co.
E. A. Wadsworth was among yes
terday's arrivals, returning from a
trip through Minnesota and Iowa in
the interest of his Cavalier county
farm lands.
Register of Deeds McGauvran is
numbered among those who have
added to the attractiveness Of Langdon
homes by the adornment of fresh paint
within the past week.
S. j.. A. Boyd, field deputy Of the
office of county superintendent of
schools, came down from Hannah on
Monday to assist G O.. S upt. Reher in
the activities of institute week.
Frank Green, Sr., and wife were
arrivals on yesterdays train, return
ing to Langdon after an extended stay
on their homestead in the timber
region of northern Minnesota.
Attorney E. E. Fletcher was a pas
senger on Mondays train to Red Lake
Falls, Mimi, where the wedding of
his sister, Miss Lou Fletcher, was
scheduled to be quite a high society
event of yesterday.
Miss Mildred Terrett of Fargo, is
here this week and for a few days
stay is the guest of Miss Daisy
ALERT. Miss Terrett and Miss ALERT
were school mates at St. Mary's
academy at F~aribault, Mimi, some
time ago.
The Democrat acknowledges the
receipt of a very neatly gotten w
catalogue and program of the variou.
sessions of the Walhalla chautauqu;
assembly, which opens Sunday of thi
week and continues for eight day
until the Fourth of July.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-24

CHARGES EXPERT Work
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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-06-25
GlaciervieW News

Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Farrow,
east of Roman, are enjoying the
visit of their children. Mrs. DR..
Rice of St. Louis, Mo-, just ar
rived. Mr.. Guy Farrow of Can
ada arrived last week. Mrs.
Jack Downey of Portland ar
rived from San Francisco after
a four months tour Of the state
of California and visiting the
Fair. Their son Edmond visited
them six weeks ago and returned
to San Francisco.
Mrs. A. L. Miller was a visitor
in the neighborhood last week.
The Ladies' Civic club will
give a picnic the 4th of July at
the tunnel. *"