Jerauld-Aurora County, SD News.....Enor Bjelland May 16, 1884
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Wessington Springs Herald
Enor Bjelland, a Norwegian, from Jerauld County, who eas brought down from
Wessington Springs not long since, and place in jail here, charged with an
assault with intent to kill his father-in-law, attempted to take the life of
deputy sheriff LaFollette last Friday evening with a case knife, but was
promptly knocked down by that official and ironed. Drs. Boynton and Brown
examined the prisoner Tuesday and pronounced him insane, the former having
examined him four years ago in Benton county, Iowa, and issued a certificate to
send him to the asylum, where he was confined several months. Bjelland raves
continually and imagines that he owns all the railways between New York and San
Francisco. He will probably be taken to the asylum at Yankton in a few days. -
Plankinton Free Press.

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Vol. II, No. 8, p. 1, column 4

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