Article: An election struggle tangled up in a blood bath; The mysterious murder of a mother and son near Anoka baffled authorities for months. And that led to a sheriff's election that dragged on from November until March.(NEWS)

Byline: PAUL LEVY; STAFF WRITER

The Minneapolis Tribune called it "one of the great criminal happenings of the century." But 109 years later, the murder of a farmer's wife and young son near Anoka is also remembered for a sheriff's election that took nearly five months to settle.

Sound familiar?

More than a century before Minnesota's ultra-marathon 2008-09 Senate election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, and decades preceding the 1962 gubernatorial election between Karl Rolvaag and Elmer L. Andersen that wasn't decided until the following March, there was the 1900 Anoka County sheriff's race, in which a winner wasn't declared until ...

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