The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-11-12
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MINNEAPOIIS-Mrs Genevieve Clark Foshay
juror who is charged with contempt of court, told
the acquaintance that she simply praying to
serve" it testified today.
Mrs Irene M. Passer, of Olivia the acquaintance.
appeared before Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye and
Judge John g. Sanborn in federal court and testified
that Mrs. Clark made the remark to her the day
the mail fraud trial of Wilbur B. Foshay and six
associates started. Mrs. Passer testified that she
and Mrs Clark sat in the of the court and
Mrs Clark said she had worked in the Foshay build
ing and afraid that they might dsqualify her.
She said she was simply praying to serve and that
she had special reason for desiring to be on the
jury, Mrs. Passer testified.
In her answer returned Mrs. Clark admitted she
had worked for the Foshay company for two weeks
in 1929 but she never knew Foshay any of the
either defendants until she saw them in the court
Sigurd LELAND, her counsel said the government
attempting to prosecute her for her failure to
convict Foshay and his associates"
Mrs. Clark, dressed in black, sat back of her
counsel and fingered a lace handkerchief.
GRAND RAPIDS-John Kangas, 40. well known
farmer, of Trout Lake township, is dead, and his
son. Waino youth 20 years of age is in the Itasca
county Jail charged with killing him. This is the
outcome of drinking party at the Kangas nome
Monday evening, when John Kangas the father, pur-
sued members of his family with open knife in
his hands, and made threats that he would kill
them.
AS near as the story can be reconstructed from
evidence given at the coroner's inquest several
neighbors to the Kangas home in the
evening, time after o'clock. The father
became intoxicated, and renewed threats which he
had made at other times regarding members of his
family Waino who had been away at the home of
neghbor, came home when members of the family
telephoned for him. When he drove into the garage,
his father came after him with knife Waino Sc
cured rifle, upon which his father also started to
arm himself with rifle which in the kitchen
of the home All the other members of the family,
terrified by the quarrel and by the threats had gone
out into the road.
Upon seeing his father arming himself with a
rifle, and reaching for cartridges, Waino fired
through the window at his father Five
shots fired, four of them taking effect. Three
of them would have proved fatal. The father
struck in the head in the neck, in the back and in
the right elbow. AS the rifle was what is known as
1920 calber, the wounds made were large and fatal
at
AITKIN-Trying to adjust log chain while driv-
ing truck led to the death of Theodore vezine, a
young man living in Wright township near Aitkin
The young man operating a truck in hauling
cedar posts One end Of chain came loose and
opening the door Theodore reached out grasp the
chain It wound itself around his wrist and pulled
his body from the running board under the wheeIs
Of the truck A companion had been asked to steer
the truck while Vezine endeavoring to fix the
chain The unfortunate young was dragged
stop the truck.
MINNEAPOLIS-For the first time in the his
tory Of the state bids were received today when
the time for opening bids for the s4000O0 Of high
way bonds came.
The bonds were to have been sold to provide
money for refunding to Hennepin county for work
on trunk highways as well as for the general high
way fund.