Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-12-25

home all day and all night; we went
home together, and slept in the same bed !;
he was all the week at home; slept with
him every night for q month.
Cross-erananed-He was at home,
hauling rails, the day before election the
day before that was Sunday the day be-
| fore that we were piling rotten logs; I
slept about month with Meyers before
that, [ slept up stairs with the boy !; [
worked there nine months; slept with
Meyers because his wife told me to as
long as | have been there, he and his wife
did not sleep together; / was subpoenaed
a week ago last Thursday and [ told
Meyers about it. #@ H} :
Question-What did he say? - rs'Ss
Objected to by attorney for the state.
| Objection overrued. 7f@' A#a
Answer-He said $50 you must go 70
Portage" he said nothing else; he did
not act very good since then; he was too
much sick. e. ".i5 .#.saH
John o. Common, recalled for the state
II think the last time [ saw Movers,
was a week ago Wednesday; he came to
borrow kettle; he wanted to kill hogs
he was very Eighty; he said something
was the matter with his head before that
time, at my field, he told me there was
something wrong in his head that
''Those id doctors have killed me-: he
said that, one day, some doctors came to
him, and asked him how he was, and he
bought some medicine of them, and he
feared he would do something [ under
stood him to mean do something to him
self; he said his head was wrong; he
handed me two ten-dollar bills, and wish
ed me to keep them and say nothing
about having it of him. but, if anything
happened to him, to use it to have masses
said for his soul; once he was in buggy
with me, but got out and said he would
not 90 to Watertown, as those fellows
there would hang him ! he Afterwards did
90 with me to Watertown; / told him
| if the medicine hurt, him, to throw it
away he said he would, @a jasw z
Cross-eraneined--I had an idea that
Meyers and Schnepf were not on good
terms; it might have been week ortwo
before election that he left the money
with me it may have been five or six
weeks ago thought him insane then,
and told my wife and others So he told
me, on the day he gave me the $40, that
some one in Watertown said he killed
! Schnepf, that it was talked there !;
never heard it talked ..- ~ .... .
The state rested, and the court adjourn
ed to tomorrow morning at 9 o clock. .z,..
1t is just possible that, if Charles
Schnepf and Frank Meyers should walk
into the court room Tomorrow, ..arm-in-
arm, the bewilderment might be some
what increased, but nothing short of such
a 2eaouenseat can. have such an effect.
Fiction is nowhere, and Sylvauus Cobb,
Jr., ought to be ashamed of his feeble
Imagination, which is broken down old
hack, badly "distanced." IN. ..a
PORTAGE CITY, Wis, Dec. 10.
The court opened promptly at9 A NJ,
and the announcement was made that the
testimony was closed on both sides.
[ ARGUMENT OF MR., WEYMOUTH. h..
| Mr.. Weymouth, on the part of the
state, opened the argument. He explain
ed to the jury-in answer to what Was
said, in opening the defence, as to the
vast responsibility resting upon them as
jurors-that, capital punishment having
been abolished, their verdict could not
result in a wrong SO irreparable to the
prisoner as it might have done at ii me
when the death penalty was the law oil
the state. He illustrated the difference
between direct and circumstantial evi
dence by the case of hunter. IF he
, sees the game, the evidence of its being
there is direct; if he sees only the
E track, it is "circumstantial' evidence Of
its having been there but just as
satisfactory. lie commenced upon the
testimony as showing a constant under
current OF passionate haze, on the part Of
the prisoner, against his father that, al.
though the father never came to hate the
son, but only to have occasional bursts
OF passion, they We're treading upon q
volcano In which the fires were at v bite
heat and liable to burst out at any mo-
ment, as they probably did at the last
difficulty, which resulted in his death.
The counsel commended at length up
on what be characterized as the constant
efforts Of the prisoner to mislead those
engaged in searching for the remains, by
taking them away from the place where
they really were, and his anxiety to sell
property, upon his pretence that his faith.
er had gone to WATERFOWL, and then tc
Germany; that he had money; and upon
the pretense Of having been told by his
father to burn the pile at that unusual
time, although, in fact, it was not near
the fence fol the protection of which II
was said to be burned. He characterized