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ed in j is as welt represented there will be an able assemblage.publicier at itly ateman* of a-storysome'clockplete-f the dara-about i Dr.OSB OF DELL MOOSES FEEAKS,Hbw He Played the Grantor i* Dakota, rSiartaagjed Hia Property and Then Sold It, Leavtaff in tho Imrch An Innocent Purchaserj Who Commits Suidds.“TlP INOOaaTANT MOON.”rstow .m of anted sc it. better i has rntingailing sorial abr'e t re-js on ty isictingrail-iV is n the j 150 louse largei.Almaiffklolinoid on^ two 1 the o be id to TheKpos-: theQSDeputy United States Marshal Cobban, of Dakota, who visited the city this week, disclosed to the News a new and unwritten chapter in the history of the notorious Dell Moon, ijow lying in jaii here, and one which, were all the facts in detail given to the public, could not but be of intense interest to certain parties in this city.The facts as learned are as follows: In th8 spring of 1883 a man calling himself “Bussell,” and having in hie posse esion a couple of good teams and wagons, came to Howard, Dakota, rented » farm near that place, and spent the summer in the peaceful manner of a granger. In the fall he left there with the avowed purpose of visit-r 1mg Wisconsin. Later in the season a party bearing in his own name a power of attorney from “Bussell/' said instrument drawn and acknowledged in Eau Claire, arrived in the village of Howard and in behalf of “Bussell” sold the teams, wagons, etc., left there.Still later on certain chattel mortgages held by parties at Osseo and the Case Wagon Company of Eaeine, were placed in the hands of Mr. Cobban, then, as now, sheriff of Miner county, for foreclosure on the property left by “Bussell” and sold by his agent; Since the*original sale, however, the teams had changed hands ouce or twice, and only one of them could be found. This one had but recently been re-sold by one (Jbas. Wagner, a German butcher of Howard, and when it was taken on the mortgage Wagner was compelled to'refund the price of the team. Being a poor man, and having himself originally paid for the team to parties he could not recover the money from, it placed Wagner in such close quartet's financially that in order to continue his business he was tempted to obtain money in ft questionable manner, for which ha was0f subsequently “wanted” on a charge of,rercdthat llietli st o : fall.roadva,—thewillm aLF thei was) the ports n thei andd aidil-ot-. A ated. d is Richi! is0,000doneroad I fin'f notobtaining money under false pretenses; but when the warrant was placed in the hands of the officer it was discovered that Wagner had flown. He was tracked by Mr. Cobban to Omaha, where all trace of him was lost. It now transpires that Wagner took his loss so much to heart that it affected his mind, aud his subsequent transactions are mainly attributed to that fact. Last week the poor fellow, in abject poverty and misery, arrived in tho town of Salem, only twenty miles from Howard presumably on his way back to “ face ihe music. ” But here a change of mind to-ik possession of; him and the morning following his arrival at Salem he was found hanging by the neck stone dead.t“RUSSELL” AMD MOON.tg ofAfter the departure of the power-of-attorney man who sold “Russell's” mortgaged property, it was learned at Howardthat “Russell” was none other than DeJl Moon, of Wisconsin fame, and it. now transpires that the power of attorney was .given by Dell Moon—under the name of Russell—while he was lying in jail in this city, where he has been in confinement for a year past; and it is presumable that .the party act-\f\t1 1: e c a c t c 1. a e a4i;b*t;vhwe,fi20nni!yni*H«Padanx- hig ^ “Russell's” afpnt, os well as thealloyse if id In than sur-earlvJ M.l\\ tMlJ iiiii'M 11 u:notary acknowledging the inslrumenr, were familiar at least with the fact that Moon was Moon and not “ Russell, ” even if he was a “rustler.” Marshal Cobban visited Dell Muon at the county jail here Timrudav, and the identification of Dell Moon as one and tho same person aa “RusselI” was placed beyond doubt. Moon acknowledged that he had spent the summer of 1883 on a Farm near Howard and had been a par-iy to tie transactions skated and in thecapacity detailed above.niibubait]uPEb*ft)o;v;eltroiiyfaPhi1!ordc
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Eau Claire News
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jan 24, 1885
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