SAY DRINK WAS POISONED
Opium tablets, supposed to have been given in liquor, caused the death of Harry Freeze of Edmore. Dick Bendeke and George Moriarity are under arrest, held pending an investigation. Freeze became ill while at Lawton. He had accompanied the Edmore baseball team to that city. Physicians found traces of opium poisoning and notified Coroner Gilbertson, who took charge of the Inquiry. The dead man was given notoriety several years, ago when he was arrested in connection with the shooting of Dan Brennan of Devils Lake. He was a pool hall proprietor in Edmore. The Wahpeton Times Thursday July 24, 1913

White Slavery
Devils Lake. — Roy Richardson, about 25 years of age, who gave his residence as California, was arrested at the Lockwood hotel by Patrolman P. Q. Timbo on complaint sworn to by a woman giving her name as Pearl LeMay. She charges Richardson with white slavery, claiming that he has lived off the earnings of her life of shame. Richardson bears all the earmarks of a bad man, and when arrested was packing a gun big enough, as the police put it, “to drive into with a load of hay.” Dice, marked cards, etc., were also found in his possession and altogether he sizes up as a very undesirable citizen. The Ward County Independent November 21, 1912

 

 

 

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