Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-31

was lying on the bed; the additional part
was signed the second time; it was all read
over to him by the justice; Mr.. Buck was
not present the first day.
The declaration was read by Mr.. Buck and
put in evidence and the case rested for the
The Defense.
NJ. ]. SEVERANCE
opened the case for the prisoner by an elo-
quent and mastery address, foreshadowing
the line of defense: He lightly touched upon
the circumstances leading to the deed and
| spoke IN the most bitter and denunciatory
despoil the
| CHASTITY OF CHILD
10 years old, making the statement that he
as father would follow such villain to the
altar of his home and even beyond the river
and shoot him in Abraham's bosom. He re-
ferred to the Mortified tragedy and the hunt
ing down of the desperadoes as laudable
act, and expressed the thought that to stamp
out viper who would destroy the ornament,
the beatifed of young girls life was a
deed to be proud of. He spoke for nearly
| two hours.
CORA CRESSWELL,
very pretty, rosy-faced, plump girl, of over
IA years, and stout and large for her age,
with very intelligent appearance. was then
called, and gave her evidence in straight
forward, unhesitating manner. She said
My name is Creswell: live at Madelia; know
| when s. Ash was shot; was at home; saw
him when [ went to salt the colts with my
little sister; George Murphy's sister and lit
tie brother were with me; the man came
down the track; when he got opposite to us
he put down his valise and coat and asked
us the name of the river and who lived in
the houses around; we told him;
he said he did not hear, and
asked us again; when he came down be
side the fence; wanted to know if we came
all alone to salt the colts; he thought it
long ways to come alone; then wanted to
know if we all belonged to the same family;
l told him all except George Murphy; want
ed to know if two men were shut up in Jail
two days ago; said no; he said there was
and he knew something about it; he then
said
Hers witness stated the improper over
lures made to her.
He said he would give us so cents; said he
would if he could catch one of us; jumped
over the fence and run after us; we screamed
and run down to the river; could not run
fast, the grass was long and had my little
brother; he unbuttoned his pants and run
after u.s. and then went back to the railroad
again; he run back as fast as he could,
picked up his coat and valise, and started on;
we got in the brush; when he got opposite
to us he told us to come out and come up on
the railroad with him; he said come up out
of there little, girls, did not mean to scare
you; I only saeant to have little fun; we
went on with him till we got to path by
the mill, and wanted to 60 that way; he said
come this way; we did not want to go, but
was afraid he would shoot us, 50 We went on
with him; he said he only said that for our
benefit, and said never to let any one know he
said knew more about it than the other
children, they were SO small; we were almost
near Mr.. Murphy's, he told us not to say
anything about it, he did not want to get ar
rested; he asked us if were afraid; we
were; he said you need not be, he would not
hurt us for anything; we told him we would
not be afraid if he went on and we walked
slow; then he went on singing and whistling;
when got to Mr.. Murphy's we watched
him and saw him at Mr.. Gilbert's; he turned
around and saw us and put on his coat; we
waited at Mr.. Murphy's and then we went
home; I went with father to find the man.
Mr.. Glispin took him, it was the same man.
CROSS EXAMINED BY MIR. BUCK.
Have been talking the matter over since I
came; repeated it over to MIR. Severance and
Mr.. Murphy; George was there; I told it the
same at Madelia.
Mr. Buck, in a gentle, kind manner, ques-
nod horr {l,o
ments here and at the preliminary examina-
ton. She commenced to cry, and denied
many things contained in the evidence taken
at Madelia.
The cross-questioning damaged witness
evidence materially, In answer to Mr..
Buck she said she was going on Is years old:
she knows Mrs. Flora Bradford; did not talk
with her that day; did not tell her the man
only spoke.t her; did say a few words to
her; did not tell Mrs. Bradfagd he was talk
ing to me only, and not to che little girls;
did not know if he meant all of us or not;
Mrs. Bradford did not ask me if he said any
thing to the other children; said did not
know if he was talking to the others; I said
thought he was talking to me.
GEORGE MURPHY,
bright little girl, years old, testified next,
repeating nearly the same tale as the last
witness, scarcely varying in a word in the
first place. but considerably from her state.
ment at Madelia.
BARNEY KEMPFER, SWORN.
I lived in Madelia Aug. Is; saw Capt.
Murphy that day; saw the shooting of Ash;
was stacking grain that day; Cora Cress-
well came to me; from what she said I went
to town to look after the man whe had in
suited her; looked through the cars on the
track; went to town; told the sheriff; he
went with me; Cora said he was in the Jew
elry store; l went there; he had been there:
looked for him on South street, to Glispin's
house; we found him at Mr.. G. D. Ash's
gate; the boy asked me if 1
was looking for him; asked if
the girl was my daughter; said
he supposed he had insulted her; the sheriff
came and he gave himself up; he wished to
compromise the matter; went into saloon
and Charles Kemfer came and said Murphy
wished to see me; went out and saw MI.
Murphy; asked me how it was about these
little girls; said such men as you ought to be
shot; Glispin said better let the law take it's
course; Murphy replied, 81 think so, too;''
! there might be something else said; think
there was; Mr.. Murphy said, show would
you like to look into the muzzle of gunp"
or ''did you ever?" or something of that sort;
Immediately the muzzle of the gun came up
and it exploded; Murphy was standing on