Payette County ID Archives News.....Harry Helmick Acquitted December 11, 1903
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Payette Independent December 11, 1903
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, December 11, 1903

HARRY HELMICK ACQUITTED

Payette Boy, Accused of Attempting to Wreck Train, Proves an Alibi.

Caldwell, Idaho, Dec. 5—Harry Helmick, a former resident of Payette, was 
brought before Judge Hodson Friday for preliminary examination on the charge of 
attempting to wreck a passenger train on the Oregon Short Line Railroad, on 
October 24, 1903, and was acquitted.

It was brought out on cross examination that under the circumstances testified 
to the obstruction must have been placed upon the track between 4:25 and 5:20 
o’clock and Mr. Helmick had no trouble in proving that he was in Nyssa at that 
time.  He testified to the fact that he walked down the track from Nyssa to 
Parma in the early afternoon on the twenty-fourth, and that he wrote and left 
along the track a note written on the back of an old envelope addressed to him, 
which note shows for itself that it was not intended for or addressed to the 
railroad officials, as supposed and reported when he was arrested, being as 
follows:

“Just tell ‘em that you saw me and that I’ll cash their beans some other time.  
H. E. H. “

Helmick gave the reason for writing this note by showing that he was decoyed 
into a poker game at Parma and lost, but he refused to cash the chips, and as 
one participant in the game lived below town and was in the habit of coming up 
the track, he left this note that if it might be found by him.  There were foot 
prints of three men found along the track where the obstructions were 
discovered and the parties who made them may have been the same who did all the 
devilish work.

Young Helmick was defended at the preliminary examination by Ira W. Kenward of 
Payette, assisted by Judge H. E. Wallace of Caldwell.


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