Jerauld-Davison County, SD News.....Held to answer December 8 1885
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Mitchell Dailiy Republican 
Young Solomon Bound over for Murder

H.C. Preston, Esq., returned from Wessington Springs Sunday, where he has been 
for the past week assisting in the preliminary prosecution of Logan Solomon 
for the murder of Rohbe.  The trial was hotly fought on both sides, every 
effort being made by the defense to get their man discharged.  He was put on 
the stand in his own behalf and told the same story as he did before the 
Coroner's jury.  He claimed that he acted in self-defense, and showed a cut on 
one ear and a gash on his head where Rohbe struck before he shot.  P.J. Brady 
and Frank Adams, of Mitchell, testified for the defense, showing that the 
murdered man had a quarrelsome disposition and that there had been trouble 
between the two men.  The evidence was not quite satisfactory to the examining 
Justice, and Solomon was held to anaswer to the charge of murder.

A Republican reporter had a short talk with the father of the accused last 
evening, and was given the facts as to the statement made in the papers that 
his son had killed a man before.  Several years since, during Mr. Solomon's 
absence, burglars entered his house and were discovered by the son, then just 
out of college. A desperate encounter followed in which one of the burglars 
was killed. A coroner's jury examined into the facts and decided that the 
killing was justifiable.

Mr. Solomon was about to start for Washington on a political mission when the 
news of his son's misfortunes reached him.  He is a man of fine address, and 
feel deeply the trouble that has come upon him.

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