St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-23
Witnesses for the Defense in
the Cronin Case Are
Forgetful.
They Fail to Remember Any
thing That Would DAM
age the Suspects.
Attorney Forrest Winees at
the Bad Showing Made
by His Pets.
indications That the Taking
of Testimony Will Con-
clude To-Day.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-The first witness
called i'm the CrOnin murder ease this
morning was DR.. Andrews. but Mr..
HyneS Tot being present to conduct the
examination, Mrs. HOertel, the German
woman 1who gave such damaging evil
denee against the defense. was called TO
the witness stand. Mr.. Forrest eX-
planned that he wanted TO show that her
story of having been locked out of her
house the night of May by her hus-
band was very improbable If not I'M
true. Owing to Mrs. HOertel'S inability
TO speak English, about all Mr.. Forrest
could get out of her was that she did
not see the lock; that she had not
bought any key, and that her husband
told her he put on new lock, and that
she could not get in. Mr.. Forrest
finally gave up trying TO make her I'M
derstand. The state did not cross -eX-
anime. Mr.. Forrest then called August
SalZman. This witness said that in May
last he rented and lived in the first story
of Hoertel's house, and he remembered
helping Frank HOertel put 4 new lock
on the front door. He was sure it was
after May s that the new lock was put
on. Attorney Mills then took charge of
Witness SalZman, and then put him
through
MERCUESS OSS-ENAMINATION.
The witness SAID that the lock could
not have been put on before May s, be
cause. if such were the fact, Frank
HOertel would not on that day have
talked about intending TO get lock.
He was asked if he had spoken 10 EStel,
the salOonkeeper, about the lock. This
had arrested several times for selling
jiou TO her husband. The witness
said he went to the saloon of his own
accord. and had never spoken To the Sa-
lOOnkeeper before. He spoke TO him of
the lock then, but to no one else except
hOertel since May s. and not even to
Hoertel after May s. This admitted,
Attorney Mills dipped his probe into
the past of the witness, and sought to
test the quality OF his memory by aScer-
tanning the names of the various men
for whom the witness had worked prior
TO last May. But, alas for the
witness, he could not recall the
names. Moreover, he could remember
little which had occurred before that
time. because he had not written down
the events. Attorney Forrest WINGED
at the poor showing of the witness, and,
fOrgptful of the excellent memory pos
seSSed by Mrs. HOertel when she first
told her story, objected to the court al
lowing pool German TO be submitted
to such a severe crOSS-eXaminatiOn. The
court did not deign ruling on
THE LAME OBJECTION,
and Attorney Mills continuing brought
out that the witness was told by his
DrOther-in-law that the attorneys for the
defense wanted him. "WhenT' asked
4 80 TNrr-n Tntrc of II
talked with SaiO0nkeeper EStel, re-
piled the witness. All" calculated
soto voce the spectators in the front
row. After asking a few more queS-
tons about incidents surrounding
May 4, and getting no definite reply,
Attorney Hynes asked if the incl
dent of the look created at the
time, any particular impression on his
mind. The witness replied that it did
not, and was Immediately excused. As
an antidOte to whatever excitement had
been caused by the testimony, DIR. Ed
mund Andrews, professor of surgery at
Rush Medical cOllege, was called and
contributed to the store of expert teSti-
mOny, by saving that in his opinion it
would be impossible to tell the cause of
the death of a man Oh whom were
found wounds such as were discovered
on DR.. CrOnin. On the crOSS-eXamina-
ton. however, he admitted that the vlO-
lence of the blow making the wounds
might cause conclusion of the brain, and
this would result in death. Policeman
Stiff then appeared to correct state
ment made on his direct examination,
relative TO the time be issued the order
to hunt for the white horse, by saying
that it was on May 6, instead of May 5.
Then eX-Detective Jake LowenSteln,
Of oh hot
terested mOtivesprOmptnd John Clarity
to testify against COughlin, Swore to the
EXISTENCE OF AN ENMITY
between the two. OccasiOned by Cough
lin having frequently, when on the
force. arrested him. This over, Attorney
Forrest said that excepting the evidence
of Thomas Lynch Jr., which, owing to
Lynch's illness, would be taken during
the noon recess by deposition, the case
of COughlin. OSulllVan and Burke was
closed. The announcement created con-
siderable surprise, as it had been sup
posed that fully week longer would be
required by the defense. At the OPEN
ing of the court this afternoon Attorney
Forrest requested that the jury be asked
to retire. Tn done, he said he desired
to bring to the notice of the court the
abuse to which one of his witnesses had
He then related that Louis Budenben-
der, his witness, had been arrested on
a subpoena during the noon recess; that
violence had been used, and that the
affair was contempt of court. Buden-
bender then took the stand and told his
story. He said he was asked to accom-
pany an officer to the states attorneys
Office, but explained that, as he had al
ready agreed to be at court at o'clock
this afternoon, be preferred to wait and
go then. This did not suit the officer,
and he grabbed the witness by the arm
and threatened to call a patrol wagon.
Rather than ride in the wagon the wit
ness said he would go, and did start.
just before the states attorneys Office
was reached, however, Attorney Qua
ley, Forests partner, came up. and.
grabbing hold of him, told him not to
go. The officer sought 20 pull one way
and the attorney the other, and between
both the
WITNESS CAME NEAR CHOKING.
At this juncture another officer came
up, and, pulling Qualey, the whole
party went to the states attorneys Of
fee. The states attorney was not in
his Office, however, and Budenbender
was permitted to depart. Officer Lin
del, who served the subpoena, then
lOIU Ills SIOly. W luC cuoCb Illd6 DuuOu-
bender was agreeable to the service and
was coming along of his own free will
until Qualey interfered and began to
kick and thump the officer. Witness
strOve to shove the young attorney
away, but until brother officer came
up and assisted him he was unable tcdo
so. Inside the states attorneys Office,
the witness said, Attorney Qualey
Jumped on him again. Then Lewis
Harris, Attorney Forests clerk,
stepped into the witness box and cor
robOrated Budenbender. Before the
stand the states attorney put him
through croSS-eXamination that showed
he had been summoning witnesses for
the state and getting them to the Office
of Attorney Forrest upon a representa-
ton that the states attorney wanted to
see them. Judge Mcconnell said he
thought the arrest Of Budenbender was
not contempt but the result of ignOr-
ance on the Tart of the officer. who
imagined the subpoena should be
served as a warrant. He characterized