Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-12
LIFE SENTNCE
GIVEN KALLEL
Found$Guilty Of First De.
& gree Murder; Goes to
s Prison Saturday.
(Herald Special Scryicc.)

Cavalier. y. D., Jan. t2,-Sam
kallel. convicted last night Of
murder in the first degree, this
afternoon was scntencrd by Judge
=: w. Buttz to imprisonment for
I hallcl took Ills sentence
\ calmly and silently. informing the
court that hc had nothing to
say. TIC will be taken TO tho state
~pcnitcntiary Saturday.
Cavalier. \. d.. Jan. t.
't'Aiisy'Of murder in tho frs. de-
Erce". WAS tho, ycrdica rctut ned
at 9:56 Wednesday night by tho
: Jury. headed by former Governor
Lynn j. Frazier. In the case OF
sam. Klilel, Syrian pcfdlcr.
ctlarENl with the killing Of Anna
! ssfGry, 1'~-year-oEd girl II Ley
Mn on the morning Of Now,
1891.
The Judge completed his
charge to the jury about S
8 O'Clock in tho afternoon. The
Jury reached a verdict in four
and a. half hours. Sentence will
be pronounced, sometime today,
and a{tSsrding to the north llA-
.kota law. will be life term in the
pcnitcntiary.
History Of tho Case.
The tale Of the murder CT Anna
Story was first told by the mother OF
the girl, Mrs. John Story who lead
ing her eight-year-old son by the
and arrived in the town of I&yden
at an early hour in the morning.
arousng a storekeeper and asking
him to call the sheriff at Cavalier,
The woman had apparently been
shot in the face and was in q serious
condition. |
Sheriff f.. II. Hamilton and DIR. l.
j. Molder went Immediately to the
STORY home, a mile and n half from
1eyden where the girl was found
dead In bed from a.. bullet wound in
the body. The peddier, Sam Kallel
was found on a cot in the kitchen
with his throat slashed and exhaust,
ed from loss OF blood Both the
mother and the two small brother.
of the girl testified that Kallel hao
done the shooting, and had slashet
his W throat.
The preliminary hearing was helt
at Cavalier some days \later when tht
peddler and the woipan had re
covered from their wounds. Kalle
was held OH a charge Of murder il
the first degree. +.
TriaI Arouscs Interest.
The trial which began last Frida.
with States Attorney Harold Thomp
Q conducting the prosecution ant
j, f.. Carney Of, Cavalier acting a
counsel for.<the defense, aroused in
tense interest in this part Of the state
The chief witnesses for the STAT
were the mother. brothers and 7th'
father of the dead girl. while the Nde
PENDANT, himself was the only wit
ness called by the defense aside iron
two L1eyden business men who testi
fed briefly relative to the reputa
ton OF Mrs. John Story.
Made Startling Charge.
The most sensational. feature of tn
trial was the attempt on the part o
the defendant to place the guilt @,
John Story the father of the girl. Nj
Story is Said to have had difference
with his wife and the other member
Of the family. Mr.. Story was Gale
to h stand by the state and ap
parently proved to the satisfaction q
tho Jury that he was at Daulphir
Manitoba. at the time of the murde,
Judge G.. w. Buttz who. presided q
liz. trial will leave here toda
re-. his home. He will pronounc
scr. cnce upon kallel before leaving
NOONSHINING DOES NOT PAY.
Bismarck, n. D., Jan. 11.-Moon
shining does not pay in North >Dakot
il The law catches one.
In pleading guilty to m~oonshinint
L.nu Ichel. Mclean county residen
admitted he had made $3.50.