The record-union., 1891-11-21
TRIAL OF FOURGOUS.
Rebuttal Testimony All In and the
Arguments Begin.
The Clothing Of the Dead Woman
Shown In Court - Drawing
to Close.

The trial of August Fourgous, charged
with the murder of his wife. was resumed
before Judge Van Fleet and jury yes
terday morning.
District Attorney Ryan proceeded to
offer more testimony in rebuttal for the
prosecution. Coroner George Clark was
placed on the witness-stand and an at
tempt was made to exhibit, through the
Coroner, the clothing worn by Mrs.
Fourgous when she met her untimely
death.
The defense objected strenuously to the
clothing being shown, giving various
reasons for the objection.
NO POWDER MARKS.
District Attorney Ryan insisted that
the clothing should be admitted. He de-
sired to prove the falsity of Fourgous'
story that his wife was shot accidentally
while they were struggling for the pos
session OF the weapon. He would show
that there were no powder marks on the
clothing, thus proving that the shots
could not have been fired at such close
quarters as testified to by Fourgous.
The court finally admitted the clothing
IN evidence, and the defense took an ex-
ception to the ruling.
Eugene Lamet. the bakers whom
Fourgous declared in his testimony had
robbed him of his wifes affections, was
the next witness. He said he knew Mrs.
Fourgous during her lifetime. Was ac-
,qualnted with her fourteen or fifteen
years. He knew August Fourgous three
or four years. Witness wife had been
dead about four years. Mrs. Fourgous
worked at his house when his wife was
alive, and also after she Mrs. Fourgnus)
had been married to Fourgous. She
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30 per month and lodging and board for
both herself and husband. Then they
vent away, but she returned and went TO
work short time before her death. She
was always quiet and sober.
What were her relations with you ?"
asked Mr.. Ryan.
The defense objected and was sus-
tanned.
Mrs. Armbruster, another witness
against whom FOurgouS was very bitter
IN giving his evidence, was recalled, and
testified that during the time she was
neighbor Of Mrs. Fourgous she never saw
her intoxicated.
Mrs. Minnie Heiscn, daughter of the
deceased, was asked to produce photo
graph of her mother, but it was ruled out
on an objection from the defense.
The prosecution then closed.
MORE FOR THE DEFENSE.
Mrs. Frank Fourgous was sworn, and
testified that Mrs. Catharine Werlin
(who on yesterday testified that deceased
was sober woman) had told her that
Mrs. Fourgous, the deceased, was so
drunk at the time of wedding at her
house that she could not prepare lunch.
Mr.. Cedley, who has acted as interpre-
Ter during the case, was sworn, and tes-
titled that he had been in the dyeing and
cleaning business Tor seventeen years:
lie was familiar with cloths of all
kinds, and said the clothing worn by
Ars. Fourgous was made of Jersey cloth.
ana that powder marks would not show
thereon. If holes were burned in the
cloth of course they would show
August Fourgous, the defendant, was
called 10 the stand, and denied that he
had ever, in the presence Of Minnie
deisch, shook his fist at his wife and
threatened her.
This closed the case for the defense and
the arguments began.
THE ARGUMENTS.
Assistant District Attorney Buckley
make the address for the prosecution. He
argued for an hour in q forcible manner
lie characterized Fourgous as a cold
blooded murderer aud called upon the
Jurymen to do their duty. Fourgous, he
said, had falsified on the witness stand,
and told an improbable and ridiculous
story. The manner in which he abused
the various witnesses while testlfying
was evidence as to the disposition of the
man.
Grove Ls Johnson followed in a lengthy
argument which consumed the remainder
of the day. He declared that the prose-
cution had failed to establish any theory
whatever of the alleged murder, and had
simply declared that Fourgous had killed
his wife in some way or other, and they
demanded that he be hanged without fur
ther ado. The attorney referred to the
accident which Fourgous had met with
in 1879 in France-and which, it is
claimed, affected his mind. He declared,
however, that he was not advancing a
defense of insanity as to the killing, but
referred to 1t as showing that Fourgous
was not wholly sane when he married the
deceased. She did all the courting and
prevailed upon him TO marry her.
The case will be resumed To-day