Saturday, November 18, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 18

*November 18, 1902 – While peacefully sleeping off the effects of last night’s bender, Joseph Moran, a juror in the case of the state against Charley Riley, who is being tried in district court for grand larceny in the first degree, was arrested in bed at the St. James Hotel about 10:30 this morning on an attachment issued by Judge Dibell. Moran was held in contempt of court at his 11 a.m. hearing, and was sentenced to three days in the county jail and to pay a fine of $25. In default of the fine he will have to stay 25 days in jail. A stay of execution of judgment was ordered by the court until after the case now on trial is disposed of.

When the Riley case was called in Judge Dibell’s room this morning at 9:30, 11 jurors responded to the roll call. The trial could not proceed without the full quota and after waiting an hour for Juror Moran to appear, the court finally issued the attachment for contempt of court.



St. Louis County Courthouse, Duluth, Minn.1

Deputy Sheriff H. N. Randall served the attachment and found the door to Moran’s room at the hotel locked from the inside. Efforts to arouse the inmate of the room from the outside did not work, and the officer finally gained entrance through a side window. When Moran was awakened he was still under the impression that it was night and the officer had hard work making him understand what was wanted.

When questioned by the court, Deputy Randall said Moran’s breath smelled strongly of liquor, and he was a little unsteady on his feet.

Juror Moran, who is a homesteader residing about ten miles north of Hibbing, pleaded in extenuation that he overslept this morning and the hotel clerk did not awaken him according to orders. Questioned further by the court he admitted that he had visited several saloons last evening.

Moran told the court that the only excuse that he had for drinking was the fact that he only came to the city at long intervals, his testimony showing that the strenuousness of city life was a little too much for him.



The Big City of Duluth in May 19022


He claimed that he was sober enough to sit with the rest of the jury and hear testimony, but this was demurred to by the county attorney and the counsel for the defense, and the court was not inclined to punish the rest of the jurors by bringing them in proximity with the erring juror’s breath, although the offender claimed it did not bother him any.

Court was adjourned until 2 p.m. when the trial of Riley was to be resumed providing Juror Moran was in proper condition.

Duluth Evening Herald; “A Juror Has a Jag. John Moran Is Given a Stiff Fine For Contempt. Failed to Show Up In the Riley Larceny Case. Court Was Adjourned to Allow Him to Sober Up.”; Nov. 18, 1902; p. 2.

1http://zenithcity.com/archive/lost-architecture/st-louis-county-courthouse-1883/

2https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ef/4f/2b/ef4f2b91e1a76b142c87d53fbceb3031--duluth-minnesota-north-shore.jpg

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Friday, November 17, 2017

On this Date in Minnesota History: November 17

November 17, 1863 – Winfield Scott Hammond, the 18th governor of Minnesota, was born on this date in Southborough, Massachusetts. Hammond had been in office only eight months when he suffered ptomaine poisoning on a trip south and died of a stroke, aged 52, in Clinton, Louisiana. He died on December 30, 1915, the second governor to die while in office.

http://www.mnopedia.org/thisday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott_Hammond




Gov. Winfield Scott Hammond
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 16

November 16, 1906 – It was announced today that the sawmill of the Winona Lumber Company will not open again next season, having been closed permanently when the last log for this season was sawed on Wednesday. This is the third Winona sawmill to close in the last few years, and there remains only the mill of the Empire Lumber Company, which will remain in operation for two or three more years.


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The reason for the closing of this mill is the lack of log supply owned by the proprietor of the mill. Practically all of their own logs are used and they find it too expensive to operate the mill on logs purchased in the open market. The Youmans Bros. & Hodgins Mill was the first was the first to close for this reason some years ago and the mill of the Laird-Norton Company was shut down last fall.

The exhaustion of the log supply was hurried forward several years by the great forest fires in Wisconsin some years ago. If the millions of feet of timber that burned could have been saved, the mills of Winona and others along the upper Mississippi could have been kept in operation a number of years.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Winona Sawmills Close for Good. Three Concerns Will Not Open Again Next Season. Lack of Logs Is the Cause of Suspension. Great Forest Fires in Wisconsin Hurried Death of industry.”; November 17, 1906; p. 3.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 15

November 15, 20101 – Seventeen-year-old Michael Swanson of St. Louis Park, Minn., steals his mother’s Jeep and credit cards, drives north to the family cabin in Bigfork, Minn., where he takes a gun, then drives south to Iowa and murders two convenience store clerks; one in Humboldt, and the other in Algona.

1http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/11/michael_swanson.php

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/124427454.html

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/12/michael_swanson_1.php




http://article.wn.com/view/2011/06/21/SWANSON_TRIAL_Testimony_has_begun_in_the_first_murder_trial_/

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

On this Date in Minnesota History: November 14

November 14, 2012 - Born in Little Falls, Minn., Native American author Louise Erdrich won the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction on this date for her novel “The Round House,”1 about a “teenage boy on a North Dakota reservation who tries to solve the mystery of his mother’s brutal rape.”2

1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Erdrich

2
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/202879531.html



Author Louise Erdrich

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/erdrich.htm


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Monday, November 13, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 13

November 13, 1984 – Princeton benefactor and convicted cocaine smuggler Casey Ramirez was sentenced to 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Edward Demitt. “Ramirez received a $50,000 fine in addition to the prison term on one count of conspiring to smuggle cocaine and a second count of conspiring to possess and distribute the drug in the United States.”

St. Paul Pioneer Press; “Ramirez gets 20-year term in drug use”; November 14, 1984; pp. 1A & 4A.



Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain January 15, 2015,
as long as acknowledgement included.
 

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Sunday, November 12, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 12

November 12, 1969 – Minnesota Twins’ Harmon Killebrew was voted American League MVP on this date.

http://www.onthisday.com/events/november/12




Harmon Killebrew
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