St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-05

going to testify against them?" asked
Mr.. Erwin.
mo, sir. I did not hide my name be
cause was afraid it would be proved l
was one of the murderers."
Mr.. Erwin interrupted the witness
with another question, and got in re-
ply:
''If you will keep your mouth shut a
moment, Mr.. Erwin, L will answer your
question. l did not suppose there was
any secrecy in keeping me there, as it
was only done to save Inc from unpleas-
ant interviews. Tim had pretty good
chance of knowing what my testimony
would be, and there was also cOnSidera-
bic published in the various papers.
i had talked with reporters in regard to
the case before the tIial. But this mat
ter was withheld until my testimony
had been given"
WAS Tim given any opportunity of
knowing what you would swear to be-
fore you went OH the Stand?',
HE was. / had an interview with
him at the central police station. Tim
and i were in the cell. There were Off
GERS outside. The county attorney nor
his assistant were not present"
Were you not sent in for the pur-
pose of getting Tim to tell something's
purpose went in to see Tim"
MIR. Erwin wanted the court to make
Henry tell, as he desired to show, he
said, that Henry had only gone into the
cell for the purpose of entrapping Tim
into a confession.
''He does not come here to simply ease
his conscience" continued Mr.. Erwin,
"but he comes here to get revenge on his
brothers, and for that purpose he en-
tered Tins cell, with detectives on the
outside to hear what Tim would say, so
that his (Henry's) story might be corrob-
Grated. L claim it as my right to know
why this man went into his brothers
CELL"
DID NOT HAVE TO ANSWER.
Mr.. Davis objected, and then Mr.. En-
win roasted Freddy" most numerically.
calling him a detective informer" and
other names until he was checked by
the court. During the discussion of the
point freddy" sat with folded arms.
gazing steadily at Mr.. Erwin, his face
wearing troubled look. Judge Loeb
rem decided that the question had no
bearing upon the trial of Peter, while it
would have had in the trial of Tim.
MIR. Erwin again demanded that the
county attorney produce the written
confession made by Henry, but the
court refused to grant the demand.
"Where did you get the money with
which you paid your fine when you Sc
cured your release from the county
jail?" asked Mr.. Erwin.
We'll, had all of it, but borrowed
S.. 70 from Deputy Sheriff Johnson to
make up slight discrepancy"
This ended the examination of Henry.
and sigh of relief went up from the
audience as the strange man stepped
down from the witness stand and left
the court room.
Lottie WEIGH was the next witness
called. She went On the stand with
smile and shipper. She lived, during
July, she said, in the next house to the
Barrett place. Her story was a repeti-
ton of the one told at Tins trial. She
had seen the three boys leave the house
On the evening of July 26, she said, and
went on and told all she knew in regard
to the matter. Mr.. Erwin endeayored
to make the witness state that she was
mistaken in saying she had seen the
boys leave the house, but failed.
John McKinnOn was recalled and re-
peated what he had told when he was
first sworn i'm this trial. He was driving
a street car on the night of the murder,
and had seen three men standing by the
car tracks near the Hastings IL Dakota
tracks at late hour. He told of strik-
ing planks on the track, and having his
car thrown off. and of meeting Toilet
son with his car and getting him to help
lift the ear back on the track again.
Then followed the story of finding Toll
LESSONS car with a man standing in the
doorway. He said after his car had
been thrown from the tracks and he had
gone back to the barn he felt alarmed
for Tollefson's safety because it was an
unusual thing to see men standing near
the tracks at that time of night, and be-
sides his suspicious that something was
wrong, lie having his car thrown off by
plankS placed on the tracks. Then
again the boys all felt somewhat afraid
of the extension at night. j. C. Heyn
was the man, he said, who was standing
in the door of the car when it came
along with Tollefson'S dead body. Mr..
Erwin tried in every way to shake this
mans testimony, but failed at every
point. The witness gave
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION
of the finding of the body of the muir
dered man, and said he had not looked
for any blood on the car. He would
have seen it, he thought, if there was
any on the car. When the body of
Toliefson was found, McKinnon con-
tinued, there was col0red man named
Mitchell present. Mr.. Erwin had a
subpoena issued for him. A subpoena
was also issued for a MIR. Despair, who
was said to know something about the
case. Then followed lot of testimony
relative to how the turntabie, at which
TollefSOn was killed, worked, the ap-
parent idea being, from Mr.. Erwin's
questions, to make it appear that there
were five or six persons at the turn
table, instead of four. This closed Nc
Kinnon'S testimony, and court adj