The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-04-29
Hummer
Shot Through Head
AS He Lies Asleep

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said, and . preliminary hearing will
be arranged as soon rs possible. =. J.
runke. Minot attorney. has been re-
tanned as defense counsel for Miss
Hummer. Weber is handling the case
in the absence of States Attorney
Nels johnson, who Is III In q Miuot
hospital.
Anna and her mother both were
historical at times after Weber ar
rived at the Anamoose home at Z
o'clock last evening. he said. and he
did not question them infinitely. be-
cause Of their condition.
Weber said that he gathered from
his questioning Of the RUNNERS and
neighbors at Anaynoose that Hummer
had been more or less Of q ''tyrant'
to his family before his tntlmely
DEATH.
Reputed Rich Farmer
Hummer, the acting states attor-
ney said, Is reputed to be . wealthy
retired farmer. owning . section Of
land In Sheridan county IL miles
south Of Anamoose. He retired from
active farming many years ago and
had been living at Anamoose since
that time.
The shooting victim had been mar
ried twice, having two children by his
first wife, jake, living at Anamoose,
and Mrs. Minnie Teft, Detroit, Mich.
BY his second wife he had four chill
dren. Mrs. Pauline Pagel and John.
both living at Minot. and Emil and
Anan, both at Anamoose. Anna Is the
youngest Of the family. Emil had not
been living with his father and moth
cr. <'
Funeral Rites Not Set
Funeral arrangements for the man
had not been made at noon today.
Though Anna had not finished high
school. she is regarded by neighbors
as q bright girl" She attended q
rural school near the Sheridan coun-
ty farm before moving to Anamoose
to live,
The Anamoose case appears similar
to the Inez 0ontka patricide neal
Hazelton Sept. 3, 1928, but the act
was not as gruesome. Miss Qontka
shot her father with q shotgun and
hauled his body to q nearby creek in
q wheelbarrow. She was acquitted Of
q charge Of first degree murder last
fall by . district court jury at James
town.
Girl Valves Examination
The girl waived preliminary exam
nation when arraigned today before,
T. E. Fox, justice Of the peace. On q
first degree murder charge. and was
bound over to the McFIenry county
district court under $4,000 bond.
The girls mother and her brother
John. who came here from Minot.
said their sympathies In the case were
wholly with the girl. Speaking
through an interpreter, Mrs. Kum-
mer said: 1T was either to be him,
Anna or myself"
On Sunday night, Mrs. Hummer
said. Hummer had threatened her
with q knife and Anna locked her
mother In a room to protect her from
her husband.
Yesterday, Mrs. Hummer said, she
and Anna went to a store and on
their way home Mrs. Hummer told
the girl that she intended to leave
Hummer because she could not stand
It any longer"
John Hummer told authorities that
his father had been q heavy drinker
and that even when he vas sober he
had mistreated his family. He said
his brother Emil, living on the Kum-
rner homestead southwest of Ana
moose, has a crippled arm as the re-
suit Of a beating administered by hts
father when Emil was q boy.
The RUNNERS had been married 80
years. They came to America from
Russia about 80 years ago and settled
near Anamoose. Six years ago they
moved into the village.