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OSE OF BELL MOOS-S FREAKS.Kow He Played tha Gtamitor i* Dakota, Hiartgatced iTin Property and Then Sold It, Deairtns In tho Lurch An Innocent Purchaser, Who Commits Suicide.UTH’ INCONSTANT MOON.” -Deputy 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, now lying in jail here, and one which, were alt the facte in detail Riven to the public, could not but be of intense interest to certain parties in this city.The facts aa learned are as follows: In the spring of 1883 a mac calling himself “Bussell,” and having in hie possession a couple of good teams and wagons, came to Howard, Dakota, rented a 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 visiting 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 “Unwell” sold the teams, wagons, etc., left there.Still later on certain chattel mortgages held by parties at Osseo and the Case Wagon Company of Racine, were placed in the hands of Air. Cobban, then, as now, sheriff of Miner county, for foreclosure on the property left by “Russell” and sold by his agent; Since the-original sale, however, the teams had changed hands once or twice, and only one of them could be found. This one had but recently been re-sold by one Cbas. 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 quarters financially that in order to cod tin ue his business he was tempted to obtain money in questionable manner, for which he was subsequently “wanted” on a charge of obtaining 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 hia loss so much to heart that it affected his mind, and 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 hia arrival at Salem he was found hanging by the neck stone dead.“ BUSSELL ” AND MOON.After the departure of the power-of-attorney man who sold ‘'Bussell’s” mortgaged property, it was learned at Howard that “Russell” was none other than Doll Moon, of Wisconsin fame, and it, now transpires that the power of attorney was .given by Dell Moon—under the name of Bussell—while he was lying in jail in this city, where lie hua been in confinement for a year past; and if. is pros uni able Lhat .the party acting as ‘'Bussell’s agant, as well as the notary acknowledging the inslmuiont, were familiar at least with tho fact that Moon was Moon and not “ Bussell, ” even if he was a “ rustler. Marshal t-obbau visited Dell Muon at the county jail here Thursday, and the identification of Dell Moon as one and tho same person as “Bussell” was placed beyond doubt, Moon acknowledged that he had spent the sum mar of 1883 on a farm near Howard and hud been a party to te transactions stated and in the capacity tic tailed above.Council M(‘p.tlitf1-.
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Eau Claire News
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jan 24, 1885
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