The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1915-04-30
Farmer Wanted For i.
elb t| - A a. aue -
!, . Cruelty To His Spouse

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sheriffs of two counties and the en-
tire police force of both Minneapot
lis and St. Paul. are engaged in<an
exciting man hunt for one E. b.
Bullock, UP until a few years ago
a. prominent and well-to-do farmer
living near Englevale in the west
ern part of the county. Bullock
is wanted on charge of assault
in the first degree. ,f
- Bullock, who has been making
his home at Laurel, Mont., escaped
the authorities and together with
the woman he has been passing as
his wife and his 12-year-old son,
.. made a wild dash by automobile
after he had held his lawful wife
a captive for more than three
weeks in a dark; room and subju-
gated her to inhuman treatment,
but who finally escaped to the
home of near neighbors and told a
wierd tale of how she had been
helh by the fends.
Letters in Bullock's effects gave
the Montana officers the informa-
.tion. that Bullock was former
resident of this county and at the
present time. was trying to nego-
SsgaSte real estate loan through
a Tisbon agency, wired Sheriff
Craig to be on the lookout for the
parties, as they might possibly
come this way.
Sheriff Craig got his first clue
in the case when they passed Grand
Forks and Immediately $ wired the
police of Minneapolis to make the
arrest when they arrive there.
The police succeeded in getting the
woman and boy but Bullock had
left the train before reaching Min.
neapolis and the entire police de
partment are searching for him,
and his arrest is expected at most
any minute.
- Mrs. Bullock's story reminds one
CT the stories told in the Arabian
Nights, She relates how they,
were married in Iowa nineteen
years ago and later moved to Eng
vale, where they bought "a farm
and both worked hard-sto pay :forz
it, Her health failed and they
moved to Minneapolis, where Mr..
Bullock secured employment with
street car company. He soon
lost his job, she became i'll and
was taken to the hospital, where
she remained five months. About
March I, Bullock took her to Bill
ings, Mont, where she remained
two weeks, and then in the night
conveyed her to- Laurel. Since
that, time she has been kept in a
darkroom and never permitted to
leave. She was kept! in bed g.
greater part CT the time and when
strong enough to get up was thrown
back again and given some medi-
cine, which,, she declares, was
morphine. The only thing she had
to 9at was dry bread ana coarse
food and she declares. that her hus-
band was attempting to starve her
to death: Z
At intervals she overheard their
conversation of how her husband
and his alleged sparamours were go
ing to make a. trip sto2 the noun
ltains and throw her over the cliffs.
She made her escape while her
}captors were out of the house, run.
ming for a nearby house barefoot
ed and in her night clothes. Bul-
lock Followed and tried e to make
the parties who had befriended her
believe that she was his crazy sis
ter. y; 4. as@. H., ;,. /
4 Since moving to. Montana Bullock
has assumed several aliases, going
under the name I Of Wheelock ati1
Laurel, where he was living. At.
Billings, where he had. his corre-
Sspondence mailed { from the parties
In this county, he went by the l
name Of Bullock ,s:... ...,s: d;
Bullock and his lady friend are
wanted on first degree assault and
lie \ captured face ia afong: term in
stha Deer Lodge penitentiary Il, 4,