The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
CONFESSES ROBBERY
NEAR REYNOLDS, N. d.
Police Say He Admitted
Leaving Victim For
Dead In Raid
HOLDING GIRL AS
CHIEF WITNESS
Officials On Trail of Alleg-
ed Remarkable
Tale Is Unwound

The IaVishing of rings, gold watches
and jewels on . Moorhead young
girl, with whom he is said to have
been in love and who is now held as
q "star" witness, hold-up and rob-
berry in which one man was struck
. over the head with butt of a re-
voivery his skull split and the victim
left to die, were startling revelations
made by Chief of Police Louis Dahl
gren this morning in relating cir
eumstances leading TO the arrest of
a man held for the killing of George
Sheffield in Moorheady Wednesday
morning, Sept. 19.
For the first time since the police
OF Fargo and Moorhead announced
they had made an arrest, and that
the man had been positively identi-
fled as the one who killed the night
operator in the Great Northern sta
tion in MoorhRad, the name has been
made public. Fred Anderson, said to
have been a waiter in several Fargo
restaurants, and known as "Okla-
homa Red", is accused Of the crime
murder in the first degree. He Is
about "a years old.
Absolute Evideenee."
I'VE have absolute evidence
against Anderson connecting him
with the crime" stated County At
4nrnav @. G.. Dosland Of Clay coun-
! ty, GO aEnpF - Ahs kenNnR
early this afternoon Besfd w.
have i large amount of circls stan
tfal snEridence.1
lin ated a "a the delay in arr
raignin Ia prisons the @eountys at-s
storney stsfed that other ma tsrs
eEe nn Investigated, indicatin1
aak The authoFftles havN cues Which
may lead to the arrest of tne alleged
aceomplice. q
Further de- Iopments in connec-
ton with the case, il was stated, are
expected within a few days. Neither
the county attorney of Clay, nor
the CHIEF Of police Of Moor
head would give the name OF the
girl being detained as the chief wit
ness for the state.
DahIaren Makes Arrest.
In police annals, the credit for me \
arrest az the Alleged murderer and
bandit will 80 to Chief of Police
Louis Dahlgren OF Fargo, who had
the man in his custody "a hours after
the shooting and the killing. 1T was
several days later. on Saturday after
noon. Sept. %, after evidence had
been SO closely knit against his man,
that the Fargo chief turned him over
to Chief of Police Peter Malvey Of
Moorhead, and Sheriff Dan McDon-
aid of Clay county, with the an
nouncement that an arrest had beel
made in the case. The prisoner
could not have been held in the Far
90 city iail any longer without a
preliminary examination here. IdenA
tifcation made by r. r. Lesser, night
operator in the Moorhead station at |
the time of the shooting and killing,
is said to have been such as to war
rant the police in announcing that
the man they had under arrest had
been positively identified as the one
who did the shooting.
Following closely on the arrest
OF the alleged murderer, Chief OF Po-
lice Dahlgren and Chief of Police
Malvey of Moorhead, went to the
home Of a young girl, whose parents
live in Moorheads and upon whom
the prisoner is said to have lavished |
jewelry. Her story was such as to |
connect Anderson with the Reynolds |
robbery in Grand Forks county, on !
Sept. IL when something like $500 in !
jeweIry was taken and to which he |
later made a confession.
Girl Held as Witness.
The girl. who is between 19 and |
20 years old, is held as the chief |
witness for the state. Three or four l
other girls, who IL is believed receiv-
ed gifts from the prisoner will be
introduced as witnesses, Ii was said /
by Fargo police.
Disclosures made public by Chief /
Dahlgren and Sergeant Morton sgd
ness show that Anderson and a COM
panion. committed the hold-up and
robbery in the Larksgaard store. nine i
miles east of Reynolds, N. D.. about /
8 O'Clock on the evening of Sept. ~, 1
and escaped with about $500 in
tewelry and other articles, such as
cleft Man as Dead.
At the point of gun, l.. X. LarlSs-
gard. owner OF the store, was COM
nanded TO obey their orders.
I.arksgaard was struck over the head
by one OF the men, 1t is said, and
fe1led, and according to an alleged
by Anderson the two men
left him for dead" Following the
hold-up, the two are
thought to have come to Fargo, and
worked until the morning of the
Moorhead murder When faced by 4
the evidence, taken from the girl and
from his room on Front street where
the arrest was made, Anderson. did
not hesitate In confessing to the
Reynolds robbery
as revolver. Iver Johnson make
was found In his room besides cloth
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