SHOT TO DEATH BY COUSIN

Paul Fournier Slain in Row at Quiring, Minn.

Bemidji, Minn. March 15
Paul Fournier, convicted for killing N.O. Dahl near Quiring, in this county, in the spring of 1907, and who began serving a life sentence for the crime and afterwards was found "not guilty" by a jury at a new trial, was shot and instantly killed at Quiring by his cousin, George Cyr. The latter voluntarily surrendered to John Morrison, Jr., deputy sheriff, in Red Lake agency.

Fournier had been residing with Cyr and his wife. Cyr claims that Fournier became enraged and rushed at Cyr's wife, flourishing a dirk and saying that he had killed two in the woods at Quiring and would kill two more.

Cyr grabbed a gun that was hanging on the wall and shot Fournier, instantly killing him.
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1870 Census: Jean B Fournier (50) born about 1820 in Maine, was living at Madawaska, Aroostook, Maine. Occupation - farming. He was married to Vitoline Fournier (46) born about 1824 in New Brunswick. Children: John (19), Julia (20), Olive (17), Ubald (15), Syprien (11). Laurent (9), Eliza (7), Paul (5), and Modeste (2).

1880 Census: Baptiste Fournier (59) born about 1821 in Maine, was living at Madawaska, Aroostook, Maine. Occupation - farming. He was married to Vitaline Fournier (54) born about 1826 in New Brunswick. Children: Laurent (19), Eliza (17), Paul (14), and Modeste (12).

1900 Census: Paul Fournier (34) born January 1866 in Maine, was living at Red Lake Indian Reservation, Beltrami, Minnesota. He was a lodger at the Red Lake Motel. Occupation - laborer in lumber woods.

1905 Minnesota Census: Paul Fournier (39) born in Maine, was living in Unorganized township 154-30 in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Occupation - farming.

1910 Census: Paul Fournier (44) born about 1866 in Maine, was a jail inmate in Bemidji Ward 2, Beltrami, Minnesota.