Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-19

quainted With Montgomery, Pettis and
Clement. They were all in cell togeth-
or. He heard conversations between them.
CLEMENT said she had to let his toe nail
grow long and had lost it shucking corn in
June" Montgomery sage, "You conldn't
lose it shueking corn in June" Some
one read from paper that Miss Bonds
uuderclothes were torn. Clement said sit
was lie, they were not torn," and Mont
gcmery said, "shut up, what do you know
about it, At this point Judge Thornton,
for the defense said: Attorneys for the
prosecution, you may just as we'll rake hell
for witness, as to take them from the
penitsntiary. The introduction of wit
nsssess convicted of one of the highest
crimes to testify against the man of good
standing, is infamous and such testimony
is wholly incompetent" He moved TO OK
clude the whole testimony.
After an hour and half argument the
court overruled the motion. The Cross
examination of witness elected nothing
Important. Chas. Meyer, life convict
for murder, from the same prison, was the
next witness. He was in Taylorville jail
fourteen months; was there when defen-
dants were brought In. After the ofiaers
left them they had private conversation,
part Of which / heard. Montgomery
said. we must all tell the same story. We
havs to understand one another ROW.
Montgomery laughed over DR.. Inin's, fit
ting the pairing of a COTE to his toe nail.
Clements had lost the toe pairing. eyes,"
said Montgomery, ST suppose you lost it
husklng corn in june Clement read
from paper about Miss Bonds clothing
being torn, and Pettis said it was q lie.
Cross examined. Witness said, 81 first
told this story to Judge Vandorer,
nay counsel, when tried for murder. Did
net tell Joseph Peysan, another prisoner,
Judge Vandorer promised nae mercy if
learned semsthirg usieh would fas.en the
guilt on defendants. Judge VaAaorsr did
not promise haercy bat intinatsd would
get it il l obtAined testimony against
Montgomery and others. Adjourned.
At the afternoon session the cross ex-
animation of Meyer was continued. Judge
VanDorer had approached him but once
and then he said that il he (witness) could
honorably tell what he heard defendants
say, it would be of great use to the prose-
cution. II would do him no harm, but do
him good. He denied that during his trial
he had said the prosecution was pushing
him hard and he was sorry he and Burnett
had made up the story on defendants.
He never said he had put up the job on
defendants. Jerry Ferguson testified that
he was member of the grand jury trial,
which indicted The defendants.
Tia. before the jury met he had
a conversation with John Montgomery in
which the letter asked him for Miss Bonds
statement in writing in consideration of a
sum Of money. On cross-examination the
witness said he never received money from
Montgomery; also that Montgomery uses
the right hand more than the left. o. Har-
land testified that Clement did say during
the preliminary examination that he was
nat guilty. but,hs knew who was. q, Isaac
Ward testified that John Montgomery told
him he vas at the school house the day of
the outrage and that ne and his father
stood there.
A recess was thsn taken to allow counsel
for the state TO consult concerning further
action, after which, at o'clock, the prose-
cution closed its ease.
After the prosecution CLOSED, Judge
| Thornton, for the defense, made two
Eaotiong, ORG 50 exclude from the jury all
testimony OF Heinlein, tending to show
! esnfessions on tho part of Montgomery,
the other to exclude the testimony as to
Clements and Pettis. Ths motion was
argued at length at the night session. The
matter will be taken up again to morrow
| morning.
SUSPECTED SUICIDE.
ST.. Louis, Dec. 1S.-W. j. Pearson,
postmaster of Batesville, Ark, was found
dead in his room at a hotel in Barnum,
last night. It is supposed he suioided, bat
the autopsy to-day revealed nothing lead
| ing to that conclusion. The postofioe
authorities here say he was some $4,000
short in his accounts, aud that his where
abouts have got been known for week
prior to the finding Of him dead there.
THEY WISHED TO POISON HIM.
DENVER, Col, Dec. 1S.-On last Sstur-
day Marie Kofford called on DR.. Rose, a
prominent dentist in Leadville, and made
the startling request that he furnish her
with poison which could not be detscte
by an autopsy, and offered $500 as con
Pensation, reluctantly admitting that she
wished to get rid of her husband, Hans
| Kofford, and that her husbands brother
of whom she was enamored
and herself might together
enjoy the insurance OF $4,000 which hel
husband carried. After making an ap-
pointment to meet both at his Office lasi
evening, the doctor arranged with the po
lice and several interested insurance mer
to be present, bat concealed, at the inter
view. The whole diabolicel plan was made
known, and they were Immediately arrest
ed and jailed. The youngest brother il
sixty years of ago and the woman thirty
five.
THE BOY MURDERER.
PAoLA, Kan, Dec. lS.-Georgs Orr, tb'
boy who killed the old blind man Mauris,
Trimble, near here, week ago, was ar
rested a. Columbus to-day, after desper
ate struggle, by Depaty Sheriff 2. Fish
He was brought here this afternoon b!
Sheriff Long and Deputy Gano, and wa
met at the depot by large and angr!
crowd, but the officers safel,
lodged the prisoner in jsil. Or
con fesses to the crime, an,
says he shot Trimble IN self-defsnse, tn
old man having raised a heavy cane t.
strike him. Then he beat old Mrs. Trim
bic because she attempted to shoot him
Robbing the house was an after thought
to obtain money with which to make hi
escape. This is one of three stories the
boy tells, and it is not believed.