Murder for Christmas

In December of 1907, on the Manitoba border, a boy killed his friend with a hatchet for a hundred dollars. Arthur LeClair, an eighteen-year-old fireman on the Great Northern, came home to Neche, North Dakota, with fourteen months of hard-earned wages in his pocket—one hundred dollars for his parents on Christmas Day. By morning, he was under the ice of the Pembina River.When the town threatens to ...