The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-08
INBZ GONTKA, n,
CONCEALS BODY
IN FARM CREEK
Shotgun Murder Follows Par.
ent's Order to Unload Wagon
Of Bricks
TELLS STORY OF CRUELTY
Mother Notifies Officials AZ.
ter Daughter Makes Cons
plete Confession
eyes. I killed hin, !"

Eyes, / killed him."
And Z 17-year-old girl sobbed ont
the confession she had killed her
father by shooting him twice with
= shotgun, put the body In . wheel.
barrow, and dumped it in q creek,
while . terrified 16-year-old sister
watched the crime.
Inez Gontka, IL, confessed the
patricide Friday to her mother. Mrs.
Gontka called Emmons county off,
cials, who heard the girl sob. out her
story. The girl was arrested and 10
being held in the county jail ct
Linton.
Monday Charles H. Gontka, about
so, drove q wagonload Of bricks to
his farm nine miles southwest Of
Hazelton. lnez was working In the
yard. The father ordered her to un.
load the wagon. When she didn't
obey the command promptly. the
father beat her.
Enraged, the girl found 4 shotgun
in the house. She loaded it. Then
she ran into the yard and fired .
charge into her fathers back. She
fired . second charge @ her father
staggered around to face her. He
died instantly, the girl said.
After the shooting, driven By fear.
she loaded the body In q wheelbor.
row and wheeled it to Z creek $50
yards away, where she dumped It in
deep pool.
Search Started
Tuesday morning when Mr..
Gontka failed to appear 1t the farm
Mrs. Gontka noti4ied Hazelton of,
ficials, who Immediately started
search for the miSlihg man.
Finding . spot Of blood on the
ground and the vhAelbarrow tracks
leading to the creek, Stats's Attor.
ney Charles Coventry and Sheriff
Andrew II. Fischer Of Emmons
county. Tuesday .4ftsrnoou. discovered
the evidence Of murder. -'s''s-'
They found the body Thursday.
after dragging tho creek.
Friday morning the girl coolly
confessed the crime to her mother,
who Immediately called the officials,
to whom she repeated the confes-
sion.
He always beat me, and mother,
and the other kids" she said in her
written confession. II was xettiue
tired Of his cruelty. Monday he came
home with . load Of brick, and when
! wasn't in the farm yard 1t onca
to help him unload It, he beat me.
When I got away from him I ran
through the barn and around 10 the
house to get his shotgun. and
Sister Watched
"Then ! ran out in the yard again
and he didn't sec mo coming. shot
him in the back. He turned around
and shot him again. think he
died right away. Then ] put him in
the wheelbirrow and took him down
to the creek, where dumped him in.
He was oil bloody. My little sister
Eula is the only one who saw me-
do it. Mother and the little kids
were in Hazelton. My three broth
ers, Charles, Fred and Floyd, were
in the fields working. ! am awfully
sorry I did it."
Inez was arrested yesterday By
the Emmons county states attorney
and sheriff. She was brought 70
Linton shortly after ,. m., and u
being held in the county Jail there.
saying nothing, pending the outcome
OF the coroner's inquest, which va
still being conducted this morning
by Coroner A. L. PortS.
Just what charge will be placed
against her is not yet known, Sheriff
Fischer said today. He doesn't think
it will Be first degree murder. She
will probably not be given Q trial be-
cause she has signed Z written con-
fession Of the deed. Just when she
will be brought before. either OF the
two district judges, Charles 3. Wolfe
or George N. McKenna, is not known
by officials.
Gontka. : farmer Of German de-
scent, was shot in the back and ia
the breast just above the heart.
The coroner and DR.. George Nom
teith, Hazelton physician who CON
Quoted the post-mortem, say that he
died almost instantly. after the shot
had entered above his heatt.
Goutks was missed Tuesday. and
= group Of Ha1elton citi5ehs toean
. search for him, which 1ndod about
8 p. n. Thursday when they. found
the. body in tho creek ! short dis
tance from the farm house. 7
Suspicion Raised
Sheriff Fischer and StAte's Attorp
ney Coventry wore on tn 48xn
Wedpesday afternoon, when they a.
termined b. their invotti atioms that
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