The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-08
BROTHER OF MICHIGAN MURDER
TRUNK MYSTERY VICTIM LIVED
IN BISMARCK DURING SUMMER
Walter Tabor, Whose Sisters
Embalmed Body Was Found
After Four-Year Disappear
ance, Left Many Bills Unpaid

Walter Tabor, arrested Friday in
California in connection with Michi-
gans murder trunk mystery involving
the death of Tabor's sister, whose en-
balmed body was found in a trunk at
Lawton, Mich, last week, was for
merly employed in the local offices OF
the 500 railway and left this city with
a string of unpaid bills behind him.
Tabor together with his mother,
Mrs. J.. A. Tabor, arrived in this city
abouv July IL this year, coming here
from Superior Wis, in an automo-
pilc. A day or two after his arrival
here, Tabor was given employment in
the 500 Offices on his claim that he
was an accountant and former serv'
ice man.
For a short period Tabor and Mrs
Tabor lived in a tent on the edge
of town that being part of the equip
mcnt they carried in their car. In
September he made a trip to his for
mer home in Michigan where he had
certain property Ghere believed to be
the place where the body of his mur-
dered sister was found a few weeks
later transferred from his mother S
name to his own.
Leaves Hurriedly
On October 3 he told his employers
at the 500 offices that he was going
on a hunting trip and that he want
cd to try out his new car which he
had received in exchange for his old
one. He and his mother were seen
in the car driving in an easterly d.
rection but later in the day were seen
driving westward.
The local police authorities state
that Tabor after leaving Bismarck
motored thru Montana where he is
supposed to have posed as a Red
Cross worker and to have cashed
checks at various banks without hay
ing funds in the bank. The police
also assert that at Superior, Tabor
was employed by the 500 railway
there and that when he left that city
he also left a number of unpaid bills.
Tabor is about Al years old and is
separated from his wife. One Of his
children, Malcolm, is years Of age
lived in Bismarck with his father and
grandmother and then went to Cali
fornia where he was employed in a
lumber camp. After passing thru
Montana and Idaho, Tabor headed for
California intending TO join his son
there. ...
Dog Causes Arrest
Accompanying Tabor was a big vel
low dog and the sheriff at Weed
Calf, was notified by wire to look
OUT for man in a Ford with big
yellow dog as he was supposed to
have been passing bad checks. When
Tabor rolled into Weed in his ma
chine, the sheriff Immediately identi
fed him as the man with "the big
yellow dog" and took him into Gus
tody. 1t was then discovered that
Tabor was the brother of Miss Maude
Tabor, the Michigan trunk murder vic
tim and he was Immediately sent to
Michigan to give the authorities there
an opportunity to question him as to
his knowledge of the murder.
When Tabor was informed of his
sisters murder he was considerably
surprised and said that he was un
aware of her death until that time
atho Miss Tabor is supposed to have
disappeared four years ago. Tabor
said he was raised in Lawton. Mich
where the murder was committed and
that in 1916. the year of his sisters
, death, he was working in Glendive
Mont.
Is Wanted Here
Tabor made practically no friends
during his stay here. 1t is said by
the police that he ran up bills with
the butcher, baker, mlkman, grocer
and that he even got away with 50,
borrowed from the Red Cross. De
mands will be made for his return
to this city to answer charges Of pass
ing worthless checks it is said
| SHORTAGE OF FISH
ALARMS HAWAIiANS