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Statement Of Ernest And Matilda D** Regarding Initial Proceedings In Stepp Case, February 10, 1919, Ernest D**, Matilda D**
Statement Of Ernest And Matilda D** Regarding Initial Proceedings In Stepp Case, February 10, 1919, Ernest D**, Matilda D**
William Langer Papers
This document, dated February 10, 1919, is described as "statements by Mr. and Mrs. D**" regarding the initial proceedings in the case against Hiram J. Stepp, whom the D**s accused of raping their daughter and fathering her child. It was sent to Attorney General Langer by Luther Frank Hinegardner - a blacksmith in Sarles, North Dakota, who had previously visited Langer in person about the Stepp case. The statement describes how F******* D** was put under oath in front of her mother Matilda D**, States Attorney Gudmundur Grimson, Director of the Fargo Children's Home F. R. Hinkle, Judge W. J. …
Letter From G. Grimson To Attorney General Langer Regarding Initial Proceedings In Stepp Case, January 18, 1919, Gudmunder Grimson
Letter From G. Grimson To Attorney General Langer Regarding Initial Proceedings In Stepp Case, January 18, 1919, Gudmunder Grimson
William Langer Papers
In this letter, dated January 18, 1919, from States Attorney for Cavalier County, North Dakota (ND) Gudmundur Grimson to ND Attorney General William Langer, Grimson provides a chronological account of the steps he took upon hearing the D** family's accusation that Hiram J. Stepp of Sarles, North Dakota had raped and impregnated their teenage daughter F******* in February 1918. Grimson describes his initial interviews in December 1918 with the D**s, Stepp, and Stepp's nephew Larry who was also a person of interest in the alleged crime, as well as the events that led to Judge Kneeshaw's dismissal of the case …