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• Ijing!i?Ato*Y..OA-rftB-trnt, l ofr of ph Ini*e,i e i im-th% toth*ft-ite*1 , t*e loo i b*in run |av» nr.' ht,, iteu ion. ic*l an 1 beU 41Jit i -thr^pr**tfl1 up, ?TACauiyfe,an-:Wi)»:n.ri*hthtrl* % S»r: b..} not self, le c f real, ir.Pid A CANDIDATE FOR HEMP !COLD-BLOODED MURDER NEAR RAPID CITY.Detective Foster Arrests the Prisoner and Lands Him Safely in the Brandon Jail,The city wilt; »t»rtlel on M01 d»-aftermot. when it Lai b*cu le.irmd tiiH' Mr. fo-ej li Henry a w« ll iu wn Br-iml nice had beeo {.ttally -hot u**ai Kapiii City. 1'be krai lutfclliLuocc vr* leleiiraui lo Mr. P lnlou, of i’urioa .v Sai«rt, who wbh a brothtr-iu-U* t the decenamL Detective Fu.nter *a-aho t notifi* d ami acconipauitul I. I)e ec'.ive B y I they imuitiiiatt Iv yv« to the nceue ot the murder. Frum wtm can b‘ !• .ru i it, -wins that Heury operatiue a well borer on the farm David Jack-on in »»-15-20, 1*! milr « ^oith-w* Hi of Hapid City in winch 1-* an aaaintea by Arthur Gerholi, youug 111 au 20 yearn of a^ie iu lliu em ploy of Jack-on. O.i Saturday la 1 •-bile iltnry and Gerhard wer • wotki .; t gethtr aluue — Henry ordt-reJ (i r nold to do Hoiueibiug wbicb, ml b in. djne at once, and as required, proceeded to abuHe the youu^ man h Kicking him aud knocking him arouud. G.rholti saya that knowing IKury’r temper he refrained from «ihow:-.,g ti -lit hut dettrmiued withiu him*. !f r g» t even with birr. at *omo other turn ami m Home other way hatoi.tav night an i Sunday night the two m a roomed together in the attic but be lt;1 no cc uveination of any kind. Uu Mji,-day m jrinug all awoke and g t u, except Henry who remained 111 bid asleep. They all went to the lower barn except Gerhold who went to the stable near the hojao. Tina was aboutR. UA nI jury returned a verdici of upai h by *ho« ting, through eome cau-e unknown to the jury.On the arrival of Detective V ster, he once made carefulen lt;juines And swear-m\i Trice enough to warrxnt th*» arrest of tr 1 young nmu Oerhold, bringing him to Draud i), where He was brought before I*. M. Campbell and remanded until MomUy for preliminary investigation.Kr in what Detective Filter ban seen, the particulars a* to how the sljmitiDg 1 ccurred i* supposed to be as b-dows :1 he gun was kept in a cupboard otl the krchei. , it was taken from there by ihe primmer, who had to open four door 4 and go up two flights of stairs before became to where Henry sleeping. ihe gun was a single-barrelled Winchester shot gun and contained two unused shells in the magazine. ^ hen he g l t » the laat going up to the attic, he e idouely cocked the gun eo aw be ready, and wlit*ii he stepped on the first step of tha iafti stairway the muzzle of the gun struck the top jamb of the stairs iy and went oti. the contents going into the w all. He then re-’oaeed and proceeded Uj» the lt;%*: ^ ayHeury, who had been awakened by the hot, raised himself 111 bed b\ hi' hands and looked out « f a window which was fight at trie head of his bed, to ascertain where the noise was from. While in t^is position, the piisoiier, who hid Ad v meed far enough up to see him. aimed, and shot him 111 the lelt side oi Uie face, completely blowing utf the fr« ti part of his tiead and scattering 1 eyes and hrains on the wall. He the i adeaueed up the stairs, and goinu t waids the bed placed the gun partly under it -» is to uiase it apfH.ar a cast? ot s ucidt*, but while he was doing this, H»-*nry, who was not dead, fell out ui t iu tloor, spat • ring blood all arouud, some of 11 u un ; on the prisoner’s overalls and jack* t he was wearingIn the victim s death struggles there was not a fool of the room but was meared wuh blood, and when the h niggle elided he had fallen - a feet from the landing of Hi# stair*.While Jackson was away for the doctor, Henry, who was not yet dead, by v-otue nitaii* or other struggled around iu Mich a marner as 10 fail do \n the stairs into a small sewing ro »ui, whe * lie bled more freely and expired, aj p*i ntly living two hours trlt;»m tha time of the shoot-logWhen Gei hard was arrested he ©E* claim lt;1 : **It has come to this down to
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Aug 20, 1896
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