The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-10-15
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OLIvIA-One man is dead, another is in the
hospital and third is in the county fall result
Bird Island. near the Melville town hall Saturday
night.
All three men are Mexcans and It appears they
mad been drinking heavily before venturing out for
and in the tip over one of the occupants killed
and another seriously injured. Sheriff Heaney and
Coroner Passer were called and they had the in
jured to the University hospital in Minnie
apols, and the driver of the placed under
The driver of the car, who is held in jail here
is known Joe Padron He worked during the
summer on the A. Keiffer farm east of town in the
beet field, and, except for his drinking habits,
rated high among those workmen. The county at
torney has been investigating the accident with its
attendant circumstances and may decide to lodge a
charge Of manslaughter against the prisoner.
ST. CLoUD-Inez Mckay aged 10. student at
the st. Cloud Teachers College, found dead in
the kitchen at the home of DR.. and Mrs. N T. All
manu. 397 Fourth avenue SOUTH at $50 o'clock this
morning. The kitchen was filled with gas, which had
caused her death. Gas jets were open
The fire department called and an inhalator
was brought to the home, but the student had been
dead for some time. Two notes were found which
she had scrawled paper. One for Mrs. All
mann in which the girl explained that she had put
paper in the keyhole and about the door the gas
would enter other rooms or the mousse. Inc otner
note explained that she Respondent because she
could not master her studies at school,
DR.. Amman made the discovery OF the deed He
Immediately notified police authorities, and DR.. M.
J. Kern, coroner, was called.
FERGUS FALLS A. Delendrecie, head of
large department store in Fargo is banned from
fishing in Minnesota for one year. And the fishing
up in North Dakota is pretty slim, it looks
though the merchant will have to go quite distance
after the finny tribe in 1882.
Delendrecie pleaded guilty in municipal court
here to wanton destruction of fish, He was arrested
last week with "a large bass in his possession. The
legal limit is u. He said he was planning big fish
Local residents purchased the confscated bass at
public market here IN addition the authorities col
lected 5000 fine from the Fargoan.
ST PAUL-Kidnappers who feared that their
victim, Morris Rutman. St Paul, would die before
ransom could be delivered, threw him from moving
truck near his home
Rutman, suffering from burns as the result OF
the pouring of hot alcohol over his shoulders and
back by the kidnappers made his way home where
he collapsed. At st. Luke's hospital, where he was
Immediately removed, it was announced that his con-
dition was serious, Ruttmans release followed by
less than II hours demand for $4,000 ransom
made to his wife and family.
The kidnappers were apparently amateurs, 1t
was believed emboldened by the initial success of
the kidnapers OF Leon Gleckman They chose Rut.
man as their victim believing him wealthy. The
torture devices they used were Tor the purpose OF
forcing Rutnan to reveal where he had money hid.
den and to force him to sign checks on his bank
account. When the kdnappers discovered that the
money they sought might not be forthcoming and
that their victim in danger Of dying they be-
came panicky and threw him from the truck. There
number of burns on Rutman's feet as though
from matches held against them.
Eight suspects were arrested within few hours
after Rutman tossed from the truck James
Edward Lynch, Is, former guard at Saltwater state
penitentiary was arrested in the ST. Paul loop TWO
letters in Rutman's handwriting were found in
Lynch's pocket police said.
After Lynchs arrest police raided the Golden
Slipper Inn north of wildwood amusement park, and
made additional arrests.
Although Rutman was in serious condition from
burns on his back and shoulders and on the soles
of his feet police pieced together story from the
suffering man.
SEDAN-By decision of the board of directors at
p. M Wednesday, the First State Bank, OF Sedan,
suspended business closed the doors of the in
stitution to await advice of the commissioner OF
banks" according to notice appearing on the door
Ter, cashier.
The suspension of business and closing of the
doors due TO general financial condition OF the
community" the notice read.
Jas Ponsford is president of the bank, and II.
NJ Hakenson. vice president. The closing was vol
untary.
ST. PETER-Two buffalo skulls, with horns and
teeth intact were fshed of the dry bed of Swan
Lake over week end by hunters according to re-
ports given the Herald H. j. LaDue Is one OF the
hunters to fnd a fine head and the other Is George
Mackenzie of Gaylord. The two specimens We're
found about 100 yards apart imbedded in the mud
They were in portion of the lake bed near the
Chester Nelson farm near Block Island and the spot
was covered with water last year. The hunters found
the horns protruding through the ca&ed mud The
heads were identified those of buffalo by George
Mackenzie, ST., of Gaylord pioneer pIatnsman who
has killed many of the beasts. The elder Mackenzie
estimated that the heads upwards of 20 years OF
age as it is long since the last buffalo was seen
about the lake How the heads got into the lake
is matter for surmise. They may have been
thrown on the ice by Indians, dragged there by
dogs or wolves, or the beasts may have plunged
through the thin ice and drowned The two hunters
plan to restore the skulls as felics.
ELBOW LAKE-vernon Trip. youngest SON of
Mr. and Mrs. George Trip, Of Pelican Lake town.
ship was killed by carbon monoxide gas poisoning at
an early hour Sunday morning His Ifeless body was
found part way out of the door of his Ford coach
in the garage at the Trip farm Monday morning at
six o'clock by his mother who had gone in search
of him.
Mrs Trip called her son in his room about six
o'clock Monday morning. There was no answer SO
she went outside the house. She noeIced the garage
door was swinging in the wind ana could see part
of the car. She went out to the garage and found
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