The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-15

BY NEA Service
Eau Claire, Wis, Dec. 15.-Edward
J. Sailstad has come back from the
grave to add still further and brand
new complexities to the age-old
eternal triangle"
No novelist ever unraveled a more
weird plot than the. one wherein
Sailstad, debonair young inventor
and former president of phono-
graph manufacturing concern here,
has played the "fead."
Yit bysbit; t slowly has been un-
folding itself since that night three
and a half years ago when mans
charred bones were found in the
ruins of Sailstad's summer cottage
on Nebagamon Lake.
The climax was reached with the
arrests at Napa, Calf, of Sailstad
and his confidante, pretty Dorothy
Anderson, once his secretary, with
whom he fled from the specters of
that night Of ghoulish horror.
Innocent Victims
Other characters in this strange
drama are Sailstads former wife,
who, believing him dead, has mar
ried again, and her present husband,
Ross r. Richardson.
They are the innocent victims.
Sailstad's unexpected resurrection"
has broken up their home.
The law DEGREES them no longer
man and wife. So MIS-. Richards, or
Mrs. Sailstad, is looking to the
courts for a divorce from Sailstad
to enable her to resume her welded
bliss with Husband Mp. 2.
Shortly before dawn on the morn
ing of Aug. 26, 1920, neighbors dis
covered Sailstad's cottage in flames.
At first no doubt existed but the
man who had "perished" was Saill
stad.
Balk Insurance Payments
Yet little by little, contrary the
cries came to light. Insurance COM
panies held up payment of policies
totaling $4,000 made out to Mrs.
Sailstad.
A federal court jury returned
verdict in Mrs. Sailstad's favor.
The insurance folks, however, carried
it to higher court. Only a partial
settlement has been reached.
Nearly year and half after her
husbands death" the "widow" mar
ried again..
Detectives. dissatisfied with evil
dences of the death continued
their investigations. Recently they
reported having definitely establish
ed that the body discovered in the
burned cottage was not Sailstad's.
Instead, it was that of his friend,
Allen McPhee, who had died just a
few months beforeI they said.
Sailstad, according to- confessions
authorities both here and in Cali
foraia say he has made, admits steal
ing the corpse from its grave and
'planting" it in the blazing pyre, to
simulate evidence of his own death.
Impending financial ruin and in
fatuation for Miss Anderson, who be-
fore she became his stenographer
had been an !. actress ins Chicago,
prompted his-act, he declares.
Immediately after the fire, Sail
stad and the girl took flight. First,
they went to Duluth. Then to St.
Louis, Kansas City and Dallas, Tex.
Like Rowing Gypsies
Since then they have roamed prac-
tically all over the country, with
the >restlessness 81 escaped crlmi-
nails.
1T was hell" says sailstad. ~
was afraid to read the papers
afraid I would 60 crazy unless l
tried to forget.
"It, seemed like everyone = was
watching US. We thought every
stranger carried. a warrant.
.There was that constant dread OF
arrest. We wanted to be on the 60
Just anywhere"
In Business
q Their infathation grew, they lived
solely fors, each other. The girl
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