New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-27
OLSEN SUSTAINED
BY SUPREME COURT
EXECUTORS OF PFENNINCER
ESTATE MUST PAY CASH
TO HEIRS.
ORDER OF LOCAL JUDGE IS
AFFIRMED BY HIGHEST
TRIBUNAL.

Last Friday the Supreme Court of the
state handed down several decisions
which are of general interest and one
which is of local interest. One defendant
convicted of murder in the first degree
is granted a new trial and Frederick T.
Price, convicted Of the murder Of his wife.
will have to spend the remainder of his
lie IN the state prison, the highest
tribunal having affirmed the decision of
the lower court in which he was convicted
OF the crime OF murder in the first degree,
In the appeal in the Jacob Pfenninger
estate from this county, Judge Olsen's
order directing the executors of the
estate to turn over to the residuary heirs
the sum of over $4,000 was affirmed by
the Supreme Court. A bootlegger is
granted new trial, an anti-factory law
is held valid and woman is granted
divorce for cruel and inhuman treatment
altho no blows were struck.
New Trial for Solem.
Ole 0. Solem, convicted in Jackson
county Of the murder of his mother-in-
law, Sigri Halderson, it being charged
that he gave her poison November %,
1914, causing her death eight days later,
is awarded new trial On his appeal to
the state supreme court. The court
reverses the lower court after finding
that, while the evidence sustains the
conclusion Of the jury that the death was
caused by poison, it is insufficient to
sustain finding that Solem administered
it.
Price Must Stay in Prison.
Frederick Z. Price, convicted wife.
murderer, was del2ied q new trial by the.
state supreme court Friday.
In the decision, written by Justice
Albert SchaIler,, the supreme court held
that the evidence against Price was
sufficient to sustain a verdict finding him
guilty Of the murder Of Mary Fridley
Price on the evening Of November 2S,
1914.
All assignments Of error, alleged by
the defense in its appeal, We're overruled
and Judge Fish was affirmed on all points
in his decision denying a new trial.
Price faced trial January 5. 1916. The
trial occupied two weeks. The state
relied principally upon the testimony Of
Charles D. Etchison, Prices companion,
to show that Price had hurled his wife
over q cliff near st. Anthony parkway,
and later, when he found her dying be-
meath the roadway, had crushed her skull
with a Jagged rock.
Harold Provencher, convicted Of sell
ing liquor in Thief River Falls, a dry
town. under county option, was granted
a new trial in a supreme court order
reversing that OF the Pennington county
district court, Judge Oscar HaIlaIn dis
sentlng. Provencher, a hotel employe,
claimed that he purchased the intoxicat-
ing liquor in good faith and as agent for
q detective who furnished the money.
IN this case, the supreme court gives the
opinion that the purpose Of the local
option law follows the general policy OF
the liquor statutes making the seller
criminal and not the buyer and making
the agent Of the seller liable, but not one
acting in good faith for the buyer, except
in the case OF q sale to a minor.
F. .s.
Building Restriction Upheld
Ordinances prohibiting the erection Of
factory buildings in residential districts
are valid unless applicants for BUILDING
permits Show that the character OF the
factory intended to be built is not danger.
Gus to the public safety or likely to be-
come a public nuisance, according to a
decision fled in district court Yesterday
by Judge Molyneaux.
The decision was fled in the case Of
Simon Meyers against James C. Hough-
ton, building Inspector Mr.. Movers
purchased a site for the building from
Mrs. Anna Louis King at 1853 Universe
ty avenue southeast Minneapolis, With
il residential district. Mrs. Killing had
already started the foundation for fiat.
building. Mr.. Meyers applied for
permit to erect q factory, but declined
TO explain what the nature Of the factory
was to be.
Judge Molyneaux held that Mr.,
Houghton was justified in refusing the.
permit unless the character Of the factory
was established.
Faultfnding Worse Than Blows.
T On the principle that an unvarying
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