Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Minnie Nordlund had put up for years with a drunken and abusive husband, so she came up with a creative way to get relief. She sued the Stockholm Bar, where her husband got his liquor, for $5,000 in damages.

She said that he was always coming home drunk from that saloon and sometimes he “grabbed me by the hair and pulled me around.”

The Stockholm’s attorney tried to establish that she was mistaken about which saloon her husband frequented. Yet Mrs. Nordlund said she often saw him through the window “with a whole bunch of men who worked with him on the sewer, drunk.”

The judge had not yet ruled on the case.

From the fugitive file: In a Wallace courtroom, James E. Taylor and J.R. Dupont were sentenced to hard labor at the state penitentiary for their daring attempt at escape earlier in the spring.

The duo broke out of the Wallace jail and fled into the mountains. They were caught after an incident in which they injured a deputy.

Taylor was sentenced to three years of hard labor and Dupont (identified in earlier accounts as M.J. Brown) was sentenced to five years.

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(From the Associated Press)

1943: The federal government began withholding income tax from paychecks.