The bludgeoned body of 82-year-old Thomas Friet was found in his one room home at Scenic, S.D., Saturday. Scenic is near Rapid City, S.D. County officials termed the death murder but they were without suspects.
Mr. Friet was born in the Miltona community and left about 30 years ago for South Dakota. He has two brothers, Joe and Fred Friet, and one sister, Mrs. A. J. Abbott, who still make their home in the Parkers Prairie area.
Funeral services are being held at Parkers Prairie Saturday with Rev. Edor Larson officiating. The rites will be held in the funeral home in that village. Interment will be made in Kinkead cemetery in Alexandria.
The aged man, a bachelor, was last seen about 9 p.m. Friday when he left a group of men after watching television during the evening. His body was discovered by a man who went to Friet's house to deliver a watch for repair. Friet was proprietor of the Agate Shop, a souvenir and lapidary shop at Scenic at the edge of South Dakota's Badlands. The aged man was beaten severely about the head, presumably with some blunt instrument, but no likely weapon was found inside the shop. Friet's body was found lying partially off his cot, propped against an old sewing machine. A welding iron was on the cot beside him but there was no blood on it and no indication it was used in the beating. Friends said Friet took the welding tool to bed with him as protection.
(Park Region Echo, 19 Jan. 1956)
Mr. Friet was born in the Miltona community and left about 30 years ago for South Dakota. He has two brothers, Joe and Fred Friet, and one sister, Mrs. A. J. Abbott, who still make their home in the Parkers Prairie area.
Funeral services are being held at Parkers Prairie Saturday with Rev. Edor Larson officiating. The rites will be held in the funeral home in that village. Interment will be made in Kinkead cemetery in Alexandria.
The aged man, a bachelor, was last seen about 9 p.m. Friday when he left a group of men after watching television during the evening. His body was discovered by a man who went to Friet's house to deliver a watch for repair. Friet was proprietor of the Agate Shop, a souvenir and lapidary shop at Scenic at the edge of South Dakota's Badlands. The aged man was beaten severely about the head, presumably with some blunt instrument, but no likely weapon was found inside the shop. Friet's body was found lying partially off his cot, propped against an old sewing machine. A welding iron was on the cot beside him but there was no blood on it and no indication it was used in the beating. Friends said Friet took the welding tool to bed with him as protection.
(Park Region Echo, 19 Jan. 1956)
The bludgeoned body of 82-year-old Thomas Friet was found in his one room home at Scenic, S.D., Saturday. Scenic is near Rapid City, S.D. County officials termed the death murder but they were without suspects.
Mr. Friet was born in the Miltona community and left about 30 years ago for South Dakota. He has two brothers, Joe and Fred Friet, and one sister, Mrs. A. J. Abbott, who still make their home in the Parkers Prairie area.
Funeral services are being held at Parkers Prairie Saturday with Rev. Edor Larson officiating. The rites will be held in the funeral home in that village. Interment will be made in Kinkead cemetery in Alexandria.
The aged man, a bachelor, was last seen about 9 p.m. Friday when he left a group of men after watching television during the evening. His body was discovered by a man who went to Friet's house to deliver a watch for repair. Friet was proprietor of the Agate Shop, a souvenir and lapidary shop at Scenic at the edge of South Dakota's Badlands. The aged man was beaten severely about the head, presumably with some blunt instrument, but no likely weapon was found inside the shop. Friet's body was found lying partially off his cot, propped against an old sewing machine. A welding iron was on the cot beside him but there was no blood on it and no indication it was used in the beating. Friends said Friet took the welding tool to bed with him as protection.
(Park Region Echo, 19 Jan. 1956)
Mr. Friet was born in the Miltona community and left about 30 years ago for South Dakota. He has two brothers, Joe and Fred Friet, and one sister, Mrs. A. J. Abbott, who still make their home in the Parkers Prairie area.
Funeral services are being held at Parkers Prairie Saturday with Rev. Edor Larson officiating. The rites will be held in the funeral home in that village. Interment will be made in Kinkead cemetery in Alexandria.
The aged man, a bachelor, was last seen about 9 p.m. Friday when he left a group of men after watching television during the evening. His body was discovered by a man who went to Friet's house to deliver a watch for repair. Friet was proprietor of the Agate Shop, a souvenir and lapidary shop at Scenic at the edge of South Dakota's Badlands. The aged man was beaten severely about the head, presumably with some blunt instrument, but no likely weapon was found inside the shop. Friet's body was found lying partially off his cot, propped against an old sewing machine. A welding iron was on the cot beside him but there was no blood on it and no indication it was used in the beating. Friends said Friet took the welding tool to bed with him as protection.
(Park Region Echo, 19 Jan. 1956)
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