Musician Addicted to a Beastly Crime

Was it really that beastly?

This is one of those stories where I just want to find out more, but the documentary record just isn’t in a giving mood. This isn’t to say that I found nothing, but that it wasn’t enough to dig out anything other than his (likely) street address. Nor were the newspapers forthcoming with much other information.

The sentence in this case was certainly light: ninety days, suspended on condition of leaving town. Yesterday, I wrote that Elmer and Ellen Shaw were convicted to a year in prison for sodomy in 1917, but maybe North Dakota was tougher on sex in 1917 than Minnesota was in 1887.

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