Crime News in Bonner County, Idaho
Two Shot To Death
A slender gunman who wore a white handkerchief over his
face killed two young men outside a roadhouse near here early today
after they had knocked him down for insulting one of their women
companions. James Turpin, 30 years old of Sandpoint, was killed
instantly, James McFall, 25 of Priest River, died an hour later. The
killer fled.
The slayings were outside Nita's roadhouse and beer parlor a mile north
of Sandpoint shortly after the roadhouse closed its doors at midnight.
Several patrons still were inside. Sheriff Warren Rapp said the bandit
made a pass at one of the women. Turpin and McFall remonstrated and
then attacked him. Knocked down and cursing, he opened fire. The shots
and the screams of the women attracted the late patrons in the
roadhouse. The killer was pursued for a short distance but disappeared.
Source: St. Paul Dispatch, April 25, 1939
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
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First Negro Is Hanged Today
Boise, Idaho - Nosh Arnold, negro, was hanged at the Idaho state
penitentiary at 12:20(?) o'clock this morning. Arnold paid the extreme
penalty for the murder of William Crisp, Hope, Idaho. This was the
first negro hanged in Idaho and the first man hanged since 1909.
(Note: Though this notice says "Nosh Arnold", when I checked out the
Penitentiary records I found that there is a Noah Arnold listed and no "Nosh Arnold.")
Source: Sheboygan Press Telegram, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
December 19, 1924
Contributed by Shauna Williams |
Undesirables Deported
George Palmer, who served a 20-day sentence for petit larceny in the
Bonner county jail last winter, and Mona Lathon, involved in a white
slavery case, were taken from the county jail Thursday morning and
deported from the United States in the care of immigration officers
from Porthill. Palmer will be taken to Australia and the Lathon woman
to Liverpool, England. -- Sandpoint Review
Source: Idaho Statesman, April 22, 1913
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis |
Had No License
SANDPOINT, Idaho -- For fishing without a license, Nels Ratliff was
yesterday sentenced to 30 days in the county jail by Justice A. K.
Bowden. Ratliff was arrested by Deputy Game Warden Jack Bennett. Mr.
Bennett stated that rules were stringent concerning the shipment of
whitefish out of the state. A report has been current that large
quantities have been reaching Spokane.
Source: Spokane Daily Chronicle -- March 21, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
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