St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-10
OF DECIDED INTEREST
New Revelations Coming Out
in the Defense in Bar
rett'S Trial.
A Portion, at Least, of the
Ground Cut From Under
Reddy.
The Testimony Of the One
Eye Witness Receives
Strong Confederation.
A Story That Tallies With the
Disclosures of the "Cy-
clone Detective"

Outside of an unintereSting discussion
between the attorneys, the entire time
of the Barrett trial was occupied yes
terday in taking testimony relative to
the number of shots fired at the murder
of Tollefson. The defense has scarcely
gotten under way yet, and Peter Bar
rett has not been on the stand. Four
witnesses, above reprOach, have teSti-
fled that three or four shots were fired,
instead of two. as stated by Reddy Bar
rett, while two of the witnesses
say two men ran away after the
last shot, which also contradicts
Reddy. Another witness saw
three men near the scene of the muir
der, one of whom he thinks was Reddy;
but none of them Pete. His deScrip-
tiOn seems to tally with that given by
the ''yonng cyclone detective" Reid,
of the man he saw talking with Reddy
at Minnehaha. The defense is begin
ming to show its hand and the case
looks decidedly interesting. For the
first time some Of the ground seems to
be cut from under Reddy, and the wit
nesses are people who will readily be
believed.
THE EYE WITNESS AGAIN.
When court opened yesterday morn
ing the cross examination of Julius c.
Heyn was continued. Mr.. Davis eX-
amined him vigorously without effect
ing any particular change in his direct
testimony. When he was asked if his
testimony at the cOrOner's inquest was
not published in all the papers,
Mr.. Erwin objected, and pro-
tracted discussion ensued. 1t will be
remembered that it was claimed bv the
defense that they did not know of this
witness at the time Timothy was tried
saying at the Gore house, Jan. 8, that
there was one witness that the state
could not buy, and that the defense had
not subp9naed. who was of the utmost
importance to the defense. Mr.. Davis
objected to two points; first. that the
defense should affirm that they could
not, in any other way than by the eX-
preston of Henry, know of the witness,
Julius c. Heyn. Second, that, as in
timated by the supposed words of
Henry Barrett, and repeated by Mr..
Byrnes, in his opening speech, the
state should require proof, Mr.. Davis
pointing out that if testimony was
bought by the state, he was the one
who bought it.
The argument upon both sides was
elaborate. The court listened with i'm
patience. Finally the judge gave his
decision to the effect that, whether on
the one part there had not been due
exercise of diligence, or whether on the
other such disclosures had not been
made as were just and proper, were not
questions with which the jury who tried
this case could by any means be bur-
dened, inasmuch as the facts were per-
tinent only to the last trial of Tim Bar
rett. In regard to the point made by
Mr.. Davis that he should at once. in
this trial, be cleared of any suspicion or
accusation of improper practices, the
judge said he hoped the jury was of
sufficient intelligence to decide between
what was evidence and what was not.
Mr.. Davis then asked the witness a
number OF impeaching questions. The
effect OF them was to make the witness
deny that he had given Policeman
Krumweide and Mrs. Desper different
accounts of the affair soon after the
murder was committed. The counsel
then got into another argument, which
no one seemed to understand but them
selves. Mr.. Heyn said that he talked to
the crowd at the turntable, but to no
particular person, and that he was sure
that he told them there was four shots
fired, and that there were at least two
men who ran when he came toward the
car. Mr.. Heyn was then allowed to
leave the stand, having been examined
ten hours.
MORE NEW WITNESSES.
Patrick Mclaughlin was then called
26th of July at the corner of Thirtv-sec-
ond street aud Twenty-first avenue
south. left there and went to Hopkins,
where | am working now. | was in the
army during the war and belong to the
q. A. Il. l was at a meeting of the c.
G. Washburn q. A. r. post on the even
ing OF the 26th of July. l stopped at
Browns saloon on the corner of Cedar
and Franklin avenues and got glass of
beer, and went out Cedar avenue on nv
way home. l walked out on the left
hand side of the avenue. When |
got to the turntable 1 went
across the prairie toward my house,
and met three men between the. band
stand and the turntable. They were
coming toward the turntable and |
passed close by them. l had been at
Henry Barrett'S saloon several times
and knew him, and think he was the
man in the middle. One of the men
was taller than Henry Barrett.
He said: what is the id fool look
ing for" one of the others said ''shut
up" l am sure Peter Barrett was not
one of them. The man who spoke last
was the man who looked like Henry
Barrett. His voice was also like his.
After leaving them l went home, and
after taking off my coat l lit my pipe
and sat down on the doorstep to smoke.
My wife came and sat down beside me.
After sitting there short time a wagon
passed by the house and soon after
heard four shots fired; the last three
shots were almost together, mixed up
with howls like dog.
CORROBORATES HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. Gertrude Heyn was then called.
She testified: l was born in New York !:
l have been married twelve years;
lived at 3009 Cedar avenue on the 26th
of July: went to bed about O'Clock:
we occupied the up stairs of the house :;
Mr.. Heyn'S brother lived down stairs:
When / went to bed my husband was up
town; l was awake when he came
home; he took Off his coat, hat, vest,
shoes and stockings and went down
stairs to the back yard; after he had
been gone short time l heard three
shots and bowling like dog; |
thought some one had shot dog; after
waiting WHlle anu my nuSDanQ not
coming back, went to the door and
called him. but got no answer; 1 then
came back and put on a wrapper and
my shoes and went out in the back yard
and called him, and not finding him
started over towards the corner of Lake
street and Cedar avenue because the
sounds of shooting seemed to come from
that direction. When l got as
far as the band stand my little
girl who was with me commenced to
cry, SO went back to the house and sat
OH the steps until the clock struck l. l
became frightened then and woke up
Mr.. Heyn's brother. He went over and
got Mr.. Storey and Mr.. Erickson and
we went over to the turntable. We
found Mr.. Fassett there, he said my
husband got on the street car. Mr..
Storey had lantern and we walked