Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-11-22


IBID you soc P. O'sallivan the next
day, May Az"
''Yes, sir. At about 10 or II O'Clock at
night he came in and got drink"
wv hat time did they go awsy:''
Inc accidental they" was significant
"They went away about 1915 O'Clock.
| washed up the glasses and shut up and
it was Il O'Clock then.
This is important as contradicting
O'sullivan's declaration that heSwasn' t out
Of the house the night of May 4.
ssWas anybody with hims''
Eyes There was one tall man, light
complexion, with mustache. There was
a little man with them who stood by the
ward the far end Of the bar.''
''Io you observe those two men in court
now"
There was long pause.
"Well, wouldn't swear that they were
the men, he SAID, hesitatingly.
The strain was intense. Coughlin's ewes
glared at the witness from under beetling
brows. kunze was still pale with a corpse's
pallor.
docs the tall man resemble the one you
saw with O'Sulllvan that night.''
81 wouldn't swear it was Mr.. Cough
lin," said the witness. 'for saw him only
once. But lie looks just like him.
Pressed for his judgment he said: SAC
c2rding to my best Judgment, think Dan
Coughlin is the tall man,
"About the smaller man, did he speak
with an accent"
could see he was not an American. II
"What was his accents''
HE spoke plain English''
ooh, he spoke plain English" said For
rest, loudly.
eyes, but he spoke as German
would,'' testified Nehman.
"What did O'Sullivan and the tall man
do?'' -N'-N
S'They stood about two feet from the
bar, with their heads as close together as
they could get. 1 coulln't hear a word of
what they said. They stood there and
talked low to each other twenty minutes
The tall man did most of the talking. He
made motions with his hands sou And the
witness used Dan Coughlin's very gesture
when he is in dead earnest and is laying
the law, so to speak. just then Dan
whispered to Forest ''That man knows
me, F" and the lawyer nodded his head.
s'Did the little man join in the talk
ing?''
''No; he stayed over by the end of the
barr
"After this what did they doY'
s"Ihey went out together. -
You can't say what they did after they
went out9"
''No sir, can't''
500 you in your opinion see the little
man in this COURTROOM"
''A pause, in which Nehman's ewes were
upon Kunze, and tho little Germans upon
the witness.
81 wouldn't swear to it, but my judg-
ment is that John kunze is tho little man
saw there that night
Paul Hoegg, desk sergeant at the
Chicago avenue station, testified that he
delivered two telephone messages to Dan
last one might have been the list or I'd of
May.
"What did you tell Coughln when you
delivered the messages
81 told him that Mr.. O'Sullivan called
him up from Lake View and wanted to
| see him at his house. He said: sAll
! right: that's O'Sullivau. the iceman.'n
/ Robert Montgomery, desk sergeant at
the Chicago avenue station, heard Cough
lin telephone several times during the
months of March and April to man
| named O'Sullivan.
/! Officer Kalvelage who cut the flooring
/ from the bedroom in the Carlson cottage
| June l, identified the boards On the
| boards are footprints. as though made by
naked foot in fresh paint.
| Alfred Kettner. matchmaker, has
known Dan Coughlin for four or five
| left home about o'clock to deliver some,
work. He is positive that it was May 4.
81 will ask you if you saw Dan Cough
| lin on the 9TH Of Maya
eyes, sir; saw him OH Lincoln avenue
q couple of houses from North Ashland
avenue. He was walking south with q
man much smaller than him. was on a
street car and when 1 saw Coughlin
saluted him and he saluted me-"
| 'sHow was Coughlin dressed?''
ssHe had on Prince Albert coat. The
small man with him wore some kind of a
short Jacket. l used to know Coughlin's
partner, Lcwensteiu, and l thought the
man with him was his new partner.
noticed his face and he had small black
| mustache."
Glow 90 you know it was tho 4th Of
May?" queried Mr.. Forrest.
81 got two watches to repair that day
| and the entry was made IN my book.h
Joseph Hunkler, a Lake View police
man, was travelling the beat in the vicinity
Of the Carlson cottage on the night of
May IT, About 1890 o'clock he was
walking along North Ashland avenue and
saw two men lettering around the corner
of Roscoe street, about 100 feet from the
cottage He ordered them away. Then
ne passed on by the cottage and saw a
light burning inside. Twenty minutes
later he met Officer Robinson and they
passed the Carlson cottage about o'clock.
There was no light in tho cottage then and
the two men on the corner had disap-
peared.
Gerhard Wardel, gardener at 1920
North Ashland avenue, testified. in re-
ply to Mr. Mills questions, that Oh
Saturday, May 4, he left his home about
z o'clock in the evening and went to Matt
Jung's place on Lincoln avenue. He
started for home at 10 o'clock or little
after. He walked home on the east side
of Ashland avenue. 1t was about 1880
when he reached the corner Of Otto street
and Ashland avenue. Here he noticed