Dakota Datebook

The Motive was Revenge

by Dave Seifert

October 25, 2021 — A terrible tragedy took place on this date in 1913 near Ray, North Dakota. Three people were brutally shot down. The motive seems to have been revenge.

The Dillon family farmed near Ray, in Williams County in western North Dakota. It was the second marriage for Mrs. Dillon. She earlier was married to Maurice Culbertson, who Mrs. Dillon divorce…