State v. Hetland

Ladd, J. —

The accused was the pastor of the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Belmont. His wife was away on a visit, and while in Des Moines he employed Senna Oldund to do his housework, stipulating to pay her railroad fare to Belmont and $4 per week for her services. They reached that place in the afternoon of April 12, 1906, and she was assigned to the east room of the upper story of the house, to which her trunk was taken. After the evening meal, which she had prepared, defendant’s son departed with a neighbor’s boy to stay at the latter’s home over night. Prosecutrix completed her work and *526was…