Today in History revisits the Friday, October 3, 1913 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on a man was found murdered in a harvest field near Milbank, S.D. A sale slip from Milton, North Dakota, a card, and a note led investigators to believe the victim was Clyde H. Hall. Authorities investigated if the murder is connected to a similar Milton case.
Query successful That the body of the unknown man found by workmen in a haystock near the corner of Oak street and Ninth avenue Wednesday morning with two bullet holes in his head may be that of Clyde H. Hall, representative of the United Engine company of Lansing, Mich., with headquarters at Independence, Ia., developed yesterday when a chain of clews, the results of the finding of a card case near the gas tank on Washingt