The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-05-25

could be found within the build
ing, but there were signs of mud
'on a leather chair, but of course
could have been there before. 10
the east of this building about one
hundred feet stands the Blatz
Brewing Co.'s ware house and
around part Of this in from! a
long side of the road is a fence
covering about a 1OxiO #. space
and within this fence was found
this mans hat end a razor. Also
"n the grass were several pools
of blood. The southwest corner OF
this fence was torn away from the
building and the marks showed
that it had been done within IA
very short time previously. The
grass marks also showed that this
h'an had either rolled around in
the grass. or that there had been
hard struggle. From this fence
to the building where he was
found upon the steps and even the
door knob showed no traces of
blood. 1t had rained hard during
the night at intervals and this
might have been the cause of the
disappearance of the blood trail.
DR.. Hammond of Breckenridge
reports that this man came into
his office Sunday morning and
pleaded with him to write him a
prescription for some trouble that
he was having with his nose which
the doctor diagnosed as erysisplis
and that he had only twenty cents.
The doctor informed this man
that he might get the prescription
filled for ii, and this man proceed.
ed down to PaSko's drug store
with the prescription which Mr..
Pasko filled for the twenty cents.
On this theory that he had
spent his last cent and that he
was a despondcnt looking charac-
ter. he had committed suicide and
also that the cut in his throat had
not severed any important blood
vessels. But when the represen-
tative of this paper on the case
'eoi eSA q eouI VI tHc RESTAURANTS
to find out if this man had eaten
any meals in any of them, and
whether he had displayed any
money or not, the representative
came across Charley Bangs and
he informed this paper that he
had eaten breakfast at his place
Sunday morning, and that he paid
for in with five dollar bill, and
not having that much change in
the till, the young man behind the
counter, John Tocian, had asked
him whether this was the smallest
he had and he pulled out several
more bills and replied yes, it is.
We Immediately interviewed Mr..
kocian and he gave us very near
description of the dead man after
not having seen him since the
morning before. What made him
notice this man was through his
queer actions and that he had the
index finger on his left hand cut
nff. With this informtiOn we start
ed out to- find a man who had
heard amy noise in this spot dur
ing the night at any time and up
on inquiring who had been over
to breckenridge on the usual Sun
day night social call we find that
one of our younger men of this
city had stayed later than usual
and even missed the Aberdeen
train. In walking over from Brcck
cnridgc he states that when he
got in front of the BlatZ Brewing
Co. Ii" could hear several different
voices and that he stopped to lis
ten and to see what was going ON.
Just as this moment an engine
drew up to the coal shed and load
ed up with coal. The noise of the
engine loading up coal drowndcd
out every hit of the noise he had
heard previously to this and get
ting somewhat frightened he beat
it for home. This young man also
told us that even before he had
learned of the tragedy he had told
some people about the noise he
had heard that night and when in
formed Of this tragedy. he knew
right away that he had just bare
ly missed something.