The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-03-24

That WilleC Olson acame to his death BY gun shot
wound from pistol freddy and in the hands Of VIM Je1
SON. was the verdict returned by the counrys jury at
Oson who died early Thursday morning after being shot
through the base Of the heart supposedly by Policeman
Jenson .
The coroner's jury was composed Of Frank White
banker G. w. Hanna superintendent Of the city public
schools and Henry f. Nelson, banker. =
Five witnesses called in the inquest They were:
Drs. a. W. Mcdonald and a. C. Mcdonald, who attended
the victim after the shooting; Alvin Burchil Charles
Davis and Myron Personis who said to be eye wit
nesses of the affair. sk%@, #&@y
According to States ATTORNEY L. SsB Ritchie the tes-
mony given by the latter three practically the
They stated that Jenson had taken Paul Featherstone
into custody and was taking him down Third street. when
to isen to reason words to that effect Jenson it is
claimed turned around andstod Kernkap that he would
take him along too In some or other, the two
|spped down the ice some other substance the
sidewalk into the gutter The noise had attracted the at
tenton of several bystandes among them being Olson
who walked down the street to where the three o.
so mis- said to have been standing the pair and Davis
and Burch nearby Olsoh it sad stopped and at
the same instant the shot was fired that killed him.
States Attorney Rtche told the TimesReco that he
will prefer,a homicide charge against Jenson for the
state but did not know whether would be
murder He prefers to question few witnesses
before making definite charge.
Jenson will perhaps be given preliminary hearing
this afternoon or tomorrow.
The preliminary hearing of Policeman VIM. Jensen
took place before Justice IL Moe at this afternoon The
state through States ATTORNEY L. S Rit6hie filed com
plant charging the defendant with manaughter in the
first degree The defendant represented by Attorney
Paulson who announced to the that reading Of
the information would be waived and also that the defend
ant would waive preliminary examination. The court
hereupon bound the defendant to the district court
the judge of the district court having the power to fix
the amount Of bond Judge Engert will be asked immedi
ate to fix the amount Of bonds and is presumed the de-
will soon be able to give bond and regain his lib
erty until the day Of trial in the district court which will
be some time in June Vp to the hour of going to press
the AMOUNT Of bonds had not been fixed This charge of
mansaughter in the first degree are told until
Gently not balable ofense but recent statute en-
acted gives the court the power to allow defendant his
liberty under the discretion of the court who fixes the
amount Of the bond.
Judge NJ J. Englert hxed the bond of Patroman Will
liam Jensen, held in the county jail charge Of man.
slaughter in the first degree at $4,000 last Saturday. This
was acceptable to both the defense and the state
Several prominent business Of the city, about ten
in number today but up the necessary bonds which will
be ffd with the court late today Jensen will perhaps
be released TODAY if the court and states atOrneV accent