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

| "S up from brush, ard r8-
luge, decayed wood, to big wood" to
nara wood to very hard wood TO-
/ " cord-wood. = es-E 4 ~.
! Where is the axe Where il. ,be MALI
Never alluded to by the dissric, st,orn.v
That mall speaks loudly of fraud, Of false.
hood, aud perjury. Dr. Spsulding .vors
to having examined it carefully, and gave
the result; but it comes here brisslinp With
hairs, long and short, and coarse and fne.
and male and female How came thew
there ? Who is determined to secure the
conviction OF this boy? And the axe.
! do you know what those spots were ? s
Why did not their medical man apply
some ties. He was employed asa skill
full witness. And the end of tbs sawed
OF log IN the hands of tee prosecution
where lsit, with It's drizzIing blood spots7
Crest God !does the state 20 need a vic.
tim that all the power of the country s
must be brought to bear to convict tbis
boy upon d made up case. worthy Of ths
suggestion of the district attorney to ssnd
this boy to the penitentisry, and, ifFhs,
should prove..e be asmnocesty perhaps the s
governor willlet him ou,,7 -
n God d,d not kill Cain for his crime; be
branded him as a criminal, as q greater
punishment. The state prison is not
school Of INSTRUCTION. for the executive
conscience, nor is it a lodging place for
American citizens swsiting the develop.
ment of crimes. or the action Of guber-
material perceptions Lawrence Stsrne,
! travelling in France. heard in his native.
tongue the words. Let me. out let ms
tout p It was the wall Of an English
starting for liberty - :
Imprisonment is nothing; but imprison-
ment for such crime IS this Is worse
kthsn death. ''t'i.s' 5 es@t
Tbs district attorneys lsudations Of the
mother and sisters is deseryed;I echo IL; :
and if they told the truth, as we both be-
/ lieye, it is apostolic that the prisoner can
be guilty.sS II rs inconceivab 10 that he
,ud that long night, have loft the house,
worked over that fire, fed BY his fsther'.
blood, and come in the morning, without
/ furnishing evidences of the occupation.
1t is wholly impossible.
/. The case shows no motive Of property,
I.-,hat remained, as before, in the mother:
none of money.-there was none. That
! be wanted 10 manage the property, 10 not
peculiar to him;t is general, when tha
tather is wastef ulfo or incompetent. i Whet-a
stone swears to seeing the axe raised, and g
what was said, so rods away. 1t is false.
| viii rot dignity It. by the name of par !
| jury, as doubt his capacity TO commit il.
. Al $50 a recess was had to, 7:3O; NJ
which time Judge Orion continued his
| ,rnuap,opf Ho Aacl.ro2 tI,o Ant ~r -
defendant in swapping the pistol asjusnd- p
able and commendable, and IN no way surs 2
nishing motive for murder ,--thus lsav.ss
! ing the act wholly without motive. a'
Hair WAS found upon both the beetle
land AK. did he kill his father with both :?
Just as Reasonable az TO say that lie used
either. Another evidence Of being mada
up case. Some skilled and INSCRIPTIONS
i hand had been working at il. If the good
stats Of Wisconsin had not, through liz e
devlish agents, mutilated the testimony
there would have bsea-a- full defsncs.xg-
l. The body must have been carried, ac-
cording toaleory ofthe prosecution, from
/ where they split wood, eight or ten rods. :
10 the brosh heap Why carry it there. :
aud 10 pain sight, when, right W here they
were working, was anothef pile just as
large? vi he tan pounds OF incomhuslibe
portions of bone, only three were found.
Where is the remainder ? The DISTRICT
Asattorney says the prisoner hid them. The
Testimony shows that the pile was un.
touched until the discovery, and the bones
\ particularly I,eanDet conceive of hn.
man body being reduced to, three poun Dis
in one night, with all the fuel onthat lot. a
Is Schnepf may sedeed be in Germany.
These bones DO not speak his name; they
Erise up in no way as proof Of indemnity.
] You DO not even know il .hey are the
bones Of male or female, man or boy. The
letter to his mother,- pundered from her
Il by the sheriff. was the result Of. ahatur~H
!, thought to send letter 10 .Gernsny, ia
he hopa-o obtaining information OF his
+ father. - Si.t e.& s3l4-.ts ,Hs0}e
i Oh 1.-The vat chasm ofdistanee betweern
+ burning a-(sther on that fearful night, and
the writing of those affectiouate, loving
let ers. They could not both bsswroupht
by the same hand. fA.A-k@SA
If Mrs. Kneizel saw Charles Sehnenf
on-.the Bid of April there ias@sss the dis
trIct attorney says-an end of this case.
Did she see him? She either saw him or his
f ghost; L H net say which It was: r know
: not; buts as the spirit left The body, its
d shadow, fell upon this world. I don't sag
4 she saw him; there's doubt about it, YOU
, doubt; then you must acquit, even upon
that doubt. .lt+Al.-- = #tt G.35#
AT noon of the day Of the murder, Joe