On This Date in Minnesota History: December 11

December 11, 1912 – John Harvey of Pitt, Minn., died in the Spooner, Minn., hospital today from two shot wounds inflicted by Marshal A. H. Fryberg of Spooner. The shooting took place in front of the village auditorium last night. The deceased leaves a widow with four children. Marshal Fryberg is under arrest.

The marshal had been instructed by Mayor E. W. Koefed of Spooner to take a billy and a gun from, and arrest Frank Taylor, an alleged bad man. Koefed went with Fryberg through the different saloons and Taylor was located. Fryberg was outside on the lookout. When he saw a man he supposed to be Taylor come out, the marshal is said to have cried, “You are under arrest,” and fired the first shot. The supposed Taylor was actually John Harvey. Harvey walked off until the second shot was fired; he then fell.

The marshal said it was the first time he had used his new automatic gun and he had fired as a bluff.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Innocent Man Is Slain. Spooner Resident, Taken for Alleged Desperado, Killed—Officer Arrested.”; Dec. 12, 1912; p. 1.

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