St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-03

taken out to Mud lake and dropped into
the water. Before goin out to Mud lake
some enc raped at the door of the
house, and Pete said he would go and
wait on the man who had knocked,
while Tim and Henry should take the
box out to the lake and throw it in. lie
and Tim remained at the lake, distrib-
uting parts of the box and the car
checks in different parts of the lake.
Il arrived at the house about 2
found several people there at dinner"
When freddy" was shown the re-
volver taken from Tim, and shown the
initials ~. b." on the under side of the
barrel, he said that he and Tim cut the
initials after the shooting several days
after, he thought. Peter was not present
when these marks were made. After
few more questions Mr.. Davis turned
the witness over to Mr.. Erwin.
THE INSTRUMENTATION.
Mr.. Erwin opened by asking Henry if
he was a brother of Tim and Pete, and
if it was his father and mother who sat
near Peter. Freddy" replied in the
affirmative. The early history of the
family was asked for and given by the
witness with good deal of heSitancy.
freddy" in answer to question by
Mr.. Erwin, land have lived here now
some five or six years. Pete was then
fourteen years, and | did not see him
again except for ten days, until | came
here. The same is true with regard to
Tim. My father and mother separated
about that time. About the same time
Tim was sent to the penitentiary. [This
answer was stricken out as not bearing
upon the case. Peter and Tim came to
Minneapolis May 20, and lived at my
house about month. They then went
back to Iowa, and came back here about
been arrested and convicted l don't
know how many times for keeping a
"blind pig" at 2SS0 Fort avenue.
MIR. Erwin attempted to show that
Henry bore ill-feeling against his
brother Oh account of being driven out
of the place at $3.50 Fort avenue by his
mother, who gave the place to his
brothers, but Henry swore that he had
never been driven out, as he had never
been in possession.
II now live at 740 Third street south,
and am not under guard. Levi Cor
man La deputy sheriff. has lived there
for some time, but l do not
think he has had me under guard
L
was not allowed to talk to me unless
Mr. German was present. My father
called and talked to me alone. My bills
at this place are paid by the county, 1
understand, and | guess the county will
have to pay Mr.. Gomran, too. Cannot
state for what purpose Mr.. German is
at the house, but guess he is there to
kind of watch me. went to see my
father once at his hotel, but Mr.. Davis
told me not to go again. Mr.. Jamison
called on me once, and Mr.. Davis and
Mr.. Hidden for the purpose of cOnsulta-
ton with me.
Capt. Hankinson, of the police force,
called to see me once, as did also In
spectors Howard and Kinney. l did not
ask to see Mr.. DOnahue because / did
not consider he was worth seeing. NV
wife'S sister, Chloe Belts, is at the place
where | am stopping, but do not think
she is detained there, After the killing
of the street car driver l lived at 29O1
Chicago avenue and then at Mortified.
Then | came back here. was sentenced
to sixty days in the county Jail for il
legal liquor selling the Goth of Septem-
Der and was released on the Goth of
November. / first spoke about this
murder the night of my release. Then
l told Mr.. JamiSOn about it. To secure
lily release L ndQ 10 pay the whole
amount of my fine. l saw Mr.. Jamison
at my house, having told the turnkey of
the Jail that | wanted to see him in re-
gard to the murder. l asked Mr.. Jami-
son if l would be protected if l told
what knew, but he did not tell me
that l would.
Since then 1 have been told that l
would probably not be prosecuted if
made clean breast of the whole ma t.
ter. BeforeI told anything about the
murder, Mr.. JamiSOn did not know i
was connected with it at all. l was led
to believe that, in case did tell, would
be protected, however"
Ibid you make any arrangements for
leniency for Peter in making your con-
fession?'
No, sir, there was not.''
"WaS there any arrangement made
whereby your wife was to get any por-
ton of the reward?"
mo, sir. When made my confession
to Mr.. JamiSOn | told him would never
claim any of the reward offered"
The court here took a recess until 9
o'clock this morning.