The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
SAWYER MAN SHOT
DURING ROW
Dispute Over Use Of Boat Led 70
Fraeas In Which Several
Were Injured

Anamoose, Aug. 21.-Sunday
afternoon Adolph Kimpel, a
man about thirty years of age.
of Sawyer, n. d., was shot in
the upper part of the leg and
seriously, but not fatally,
wounded by Deputy Sheriff G.
F. Foster of Turtle Lake, and
number Of other men, includ-
the officer mentioned, were
badly wounded as the result of
a mix-up occurring at Straw
berry Lake, summer resort
about forty miles southwest
of here and few miles south
of Ruso.
Shortly after noon Kimpel
with a number of friends and
relatives, all men and seven in
number, were found by two
other men, whose names have
not been learned, but who
were described as and appear
ed to be respectable and peace
abiding citizens, to be in pos
session of boat that the latter
had rented for the afternoon.
Those in possession were asked
to turn over the boat to the
persons who had rented it, but
Kimpel and his party refused
to do this. .".
1t seems to be clear that
those in possession of the boat
were considerably intoxicated.
Mr.. Foster, who was with the
two gentleman mentioned also
asked and directed Kimpel and
his friends to give up possession
of the boat. Thereupon Kimpel
and party attacked Foster and
the two men with him. The
deputy sheriff, however, man
aged to leave the scene at once
and returned a few moments
later with his revolver, which
he had taken from his autono-
bile. Upon his return he found
the other two persons in irni
mediate danger of being killed,
for the attaching party, now
half crazed, were mercilessly
using their superior strength,
oars and other missiles which
had come to their hands on the
other two men, The deputy
sheriff endeavored to arrest the
aggressors, and order d
hands up" At the critical
moment he was facing three
of the Kimpel party, including
Adolph Kimpel. Two out of
the three obeyed the order
hands up" but Adolph Kim
pei rushed at the officer and
the latter, when there was
nothing else to do and when
Kimpel was almost on top of
him, opened fire and wounded
Kimpel as above indicated.
Whereupon the assailants turn
ed practically all of their ef-
forts toward Foster. He was
soon relieved of his gun and
badly beaten and cut up, and
that he was not killed during
those few moments is won
der.
BY this time people from
places along the lake began to
arrive and probably due to
their presence the Kimpel
party did not finish the horri-
BILE work they had begun. How
ever they endeavored to put
Foster in their own automobile,
and according to their own
intimations and statements,
do away with him when be-
yond the crowd. The officers
wife had come up by this time
and stood between the Kimpel
party and Foster in the at
teirpts of the former to hurry
away with her husband. She
pleaded with men. who num-
bered several scores, in the
crowd, to protect her husband,
but for some time there was no
answer to her appeals. A most
distressing scene was at it's
hoi oh< Kivano1 low ~ tho
ground moaning and groaning;
women were shrieking and
crying; the Kimpel party was
trying to force Foster into an
automobile, cursing, threaten
ing and yelling, and alternat-
ingly holding a gun in the face
of Foster and his wife in an
effort to force Foster into the