KARL ARMSTRONG ACQUITTED
OF MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
('Anchorage Times.)
After a trial in the federal district
court which has engrossed the atten
\ion of Judge' E. Coke Hill and a jury
since November 24, Karl Armstrong
was acuittcd last night of man
slaughter in connection with the say
ing of Eric Dahlberg at Kodiak on ■
^eptpmhpr 13;. 1928. The case was
concluded about 4 o’clock yesterday
afternoon and the, jury retired. About
11 o o ast night Judge Hitt was no
tified a verdict had’been reached and
court reconvened to hear the jury’s
report. Following the reading of the
verdidt of not guilty and the other
l£gal formalities necessary, the jury
was dismissed) and court adjourned.
Armstrong was- indicted by grand
jury at Valdez on November 2.7, 1929v
fpr murder in the first degree. On
J.une 18, 1929, at Seward a jury found
him not guilty of murder in the first
degree and. not guilty qf murder in.
the second' degree, but found him
him guilty of manslaughter. The de
fendant was represented ah' the Sew
ard trial by A. J. Dimond of Valdez
and Joseph Murray of Cordova.
Judge E_ Coke Hill sentenced the de
fendant tn fifteen, years at McNeil’s
Island penitentiary.
The defendant’s attorneys appealed
the case to the; circuit court of ap
peals foe the Ninth circuit on the
ground that the defendtnfe, did not
have h fair and’ impartial trial.
Attorney Dimond journeyed to- San
Erancisco and. argued the appeal. The
circuit court of appeals reversed
Judge Hill, with, instructions to grant
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a new trial.
At the Anchorage trial L. V. Ray
of Seward and Harry F. Morton of
Anchorage, at the request of Attor
neys Dimond and Murray, associated
themselves with counsel for the de
fense and.it was decided by all the
associate counsel that Mr. Ray would
lead in the defense at the trial..
The indictment of Armstrong grew'
out of the shooting and killing Eric
Dahlberg at Kodiak, on September 13*
1928. The shooting took place in
Armstrong’s yard just in front of his
residence, about 8 o’clock in the even
ing. Armstrong and his wife had
been separated on account of Dahl
berg, and Mrs. Armstrong had insti
tuted divorce proceedings against the
defendant.
The defendant claimed that he and
his wife had been reconciled on Sep
tember 10 preceding the shooting;
that in the preceding April he had
called on Dahlberg and warned and
commanded him to stay away from
defendant’s residence, and that Dahl
berg had made an insulting reply and
stated he would go to Armstrong’s
home whenver he edsired and
threatened defendant that if he and
defendant should meet at Arm
strong’s home, Armstrong would need
a “wooden overcoat.”
0n September 13, 1928, when Arm
strong and Dahlberg met at Arm
strong’s house, Armstrong claimed
Dahlberg attacked him in his own
front yard and he sho^ in self de
fense. It was the prosecutor’s theory
that Armstrong laidin wait and shot'
Dahlberg as the latter came out of
Armstrong’s house.
The uryj, after nearly seven hours’
deliberation, found that Armstrong
had acted in self defense and acquit
ted him.
Karl Armstrong was born in Fay
ette, Mo., December 9, 1873. In his
early boyhood he left Missouri and
went further west, fo several years
riding the range in and around Mon
tana. Lured hy tales of wealth in
the Northland, he came to Alaska,
arriving in Juneau on his 21st birth
day. In 1897 the rush started tomard
Dawson and Armstrong loaded his
portable possessions on his back and
took the old Dyea trail, one of the j
most difficult trails of the early days. J
He was in Dawson almost two years j
and then went to the city that is now;
called Nome—it was then called An-j
vil. Armstrong went on all the gold.
rushes that amounted to anything,
working with Tex Rickard part of
the time;.
j Pay dirt becoming scarce, Arm
! strong went to Kodiak and accepted
| the position! of deputy U. S. marshal
for that district early in 1909, con
tinuing in that capacity until he re
signed in 1923 to take care of his fox
ranch on the island of Cherikoff. The
island lies about 150 miles southwest
of Kodiak and has a herd of some 400
cattle on it. The cattle were left
there over forty years ago by the
company that owned the island at
that time for the use of the caretaker
and numbered about half a dozen.
They have not been fed or touched
from that time to this and the herd
has multiplied unhindered. Arm
strong now has three trappers on the
island, working it on a commission
basis.
Armstrong said, after his acquittal
last night, that he was going to re
turn to Kodiak and resume his busi
PREHISTORIC FIND OR
DERED TAKEN TO PORT
JUNEAU.—Regional Forester C
H. Flory of Juneau has issued in
structions to W. J. McDonald, super
intendent of the Chugach national
forest, to investigate the finding on
Glacier island, near Valdez, of a '12
foot fur-covered lizard-like animal.
McDonald was instructed to take
take charge of the find and transport
it to Seward if possible, where it is
to be kept in cold storage pending a
scientific investigation.
NEW YORK.—The creature found
imbedded in the ice near Cordova
may be “one of the smaller whales,”
Curator Bernard Brown of the Amer
ican Museum of Natural History, said
today. He says he does not believe it
as old as thought by W. J. McDonald,
although he said it undoubtedly was
of considerable antiuity. The de
scription given convinced Brown it is,
amarine creature, perhaps one un
classified as yet.
CORDOVA.—W. J. McDonald, su
pervisor of the Chugach national for
est, and a party of seven others, ex j
amined the animal entombed in ice
on Glacier island in Prince William
Sound and found the head measured 1
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Tavern Roadhouse ____ 1714;
Knight’s Roadhouse .. 2314
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse _ 58
Diamond Roadhouse . 76
Roosevelt .. 89
Lake Minchumina ___ 115 .
Trappers’ Cabin ... 132 j
Lone Star Roadhouse .. 150
Telida Roadhouse ... 169^4
Slow Fork Roadhouse.... 187
East Fork Roadhouse _) 206 I
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse. 22714 '
Big River Roadhouse .241
McGrath ... 26S
Takotna .... 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse ... 291
Ophir ...... 300
MeCafferty . 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin . 318
Fritz shelter cabin . 338
First Chance shelter cabin _ 346
Schermeyer R. H. ... 360
Iditarod ....... 376
Flat ....... 384
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Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
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BRIDGE OF LAND ONCE
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WASHINGTON.—Scientists of the
Carnegie Institute said slabs of
heavy gray shale brought from St.
Lawrence island this year by the
coast guard cutter Northland prove
beyond doubt that a bridge of land
once existed across Bering Straits,
connecting Alaska with Asia.
The shale is thickly covered with
impressions of leafy twigs of sequoia
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Dr. Ralph W. Chaney of the Insti
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vised Statutes of the United States.
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: 1930.
Last publication, December 27,
• 1930. 21
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