The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

Thursday, according to appointment
and also conferred with Attorney Gen
eral Clapp and County Attorney Mad
igan in regard to the petition for COM
mutation. Mr.. Wilson went over some
of the points presented in his brief be-
fore the supreme court-the circum
stantial nature of the evidence, and the
fact that the jury dispensed with the
usual summing up of counsel. Mr..
Wilson also claimed that citizens
passed along Bridge street, where
Dodge's body was found, at a time in
the evening after Holden had put up
at the Exchange hotel, and that these
had not seen the dead body nor the
dog which was found guarding it at a
later hour. In support of this posi-
ton he presented the following aft
davit:
State Of Minnesota, Redwood County--ss:
Willis Geraldson, being first duly sworn says:
reside in Redwood Falls. Redwood county,
Minnesota, and havs been . resident In said
Redwood Falls for and during the last eight
years; am seventeen years old. That on the
night of Nov. %, 1888, passed up Bridge
street in the village Of Redwood Falls and
went along the street near the old creamery
within fifteen feet Of whore the dead body of
had two dogs with me, and it was as late IS
A4r <Sn1N
place where the body was found. 1t was q
light night, the moon shone very bright, and
at the time passed the spot where the body
was found I am certain that there was no
body there at that time. l was where the
body was found on the morning Of Nov. "a,
1855, so know where it lay.
WILLIS GERALDSON.
Subscribed aud sworn to before me this 7th
day Of March, 1870.
I'D BALDWIN, Notary Public.
lNotarial ssal.l
Governor Merriam took no action on
the petition further than to say that
he would give it ample consideration,
and that he would consult with the
Attorney General Clapp and his as,
sistant, Mr.. Childs, who prosecuted
for the state, and Judge Weber, the
trial Judge, intimating that he would
be influenced largely by the views OF
the latter.
Much has been said about the evi-
dence in the Holden case, and we fee
justified in printing most of Mr.. Mad
igan's statement of the evidence, AZ
presented to the Governor
The defendant Holden is guilty, A confess
ing defendant 10 the best witness. That which
Holden admitted at the time the sentence wa
pronounced upon him established his guilt
although fully proven guilty before.
Evidence shows that deceased and Holder
left Morton In . top buggy drawn BY tw'
horses, Dodge driving and sitting on rfgu
hand side of buggy. at half past seven o'clocl
p. n, of I'D day Of November, 1888. both b
and defendant stating they were going to Red
wood Falls, six miles distant, between which
places there was q very good road. Abou
half way between Morton and Redwood Fall
Dodge and Holden were met BY the Mile
boys and Dodge aud Miller boys talked; thi'
lwas the last place Dodge was seen alive an
ltt was dusk not dark, and within . short time
Hess than half an hour after Dodge and Hold
Len left Morton. After this and to travel tn
remaining three miles It took Holden ON
lgood level main Travelled road from one and
half to two hours to 40 to Redwood Fall
Here 10 an unexplained delay. Holden ad
tsmits and all the evidence shows, Holden di
not arrive at Exchange Hotel till half pas
nine or ten O'Clock p, NJ. Of the said night {
Ehomicide.
November, and on his shoes, overcoat, unde,
coat and pants were several blood stains an
! from the right sleeve there had been wiped
clot of blood. The blood was mostly on tn
right side of coat and on back also on back Q
undercoat, On Buffalo robe In the buggy va
. large clot Of coagulated blood and CONSIDER
able quantity Of blood In large drops coasula
i ed in the hair of the robe and on the lines at th
place where the hands Of the driver held tn
same were remnants Of coagulated bloo'
which had been wiped therefrom; on tn
right fore and hind wheels of the top bugg.
tere several blood stains aud quantities Q
Soagulsted blood. The top of the buggy bein
down, on the stays Of the top Ut the bugs
we're drops Of coagulased blood and in the DO
I OF the buggy on the right side behind the sea
were quantities Of coagulated blood. one o
4 NE large clots having been wiped off. All Q
thablood stains and marks were on the righ
side Of the buggy, whore the deceased wa
last seen in his life time, and where the d.
PENDANT admits be sat at the time Of hisldeatl
All Of these blood marks had the appearance
Of being recently made and some were moi
fhat - the large clots, entirely dry on the aft
ernoon Of tho 24th Of November. whom dil
covered by James Nc0owan.
!. Here follows detailed statement Of q
lposttion Of the BODY and TIE nature Of -
wound whicd We emit!