The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-30

ness badly mixed up during the cross ex-
animation, about the location OF the Bord-
ner house, and the barn. He appeared 10
know very little about the location and
described fence on each side of the road,
when in fact there is no such fence.
Court then adjourned for dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The character OF the testimony pro-
duced in the forenoon kept the interest
| at fever heat in the afternoon.
JACOB BETTER
was again placed on the stand and Mr..
Welty proceeded TO tangle him up in the
| court had adjourned. Tho witness had
succeeded in getting himself somewhat
loosened up during the intermission, but
soon succeeded in getting himself into
| another hole. Questions concerning the
surrounding country to the Bordner resi-
dence were but vaguely answered. The
road from Bolivar to Sandyville, over
| which witness stated he travelled, was not
| at all clear in the mind of the witness
and II appeared that his memory
was exceedingly short or he had never
been over the road. At one point where
he found himself surrounded by net
work of facts from which he could not es-
cape, he appealed to Judge Taylor for de-
liverence from the cross-questioning of
Mr.. Welty.
"Make this man ask me about what /
| know" he said to the court " don't
know what don't know"
| 1.-The counsel does not know what you
know until he asks you," mildly suggested
Judge Taylor.
Mr.. Welty's knowledge of the country
surrounding Sandyville enabled him to
clearly demonstrate to the court and jury
| that the witness must have had in mind
some other country, as there were no
such land marks as he described in that
| vicinity.
Mr.. Pomerene occasionally interjected
a "WeI, let him answer now" but aside
from that the witness and Mr.. Welty had
it all their own way.
WAS HE THERE2
The state will attempt to show that the
witness Better was never at the Bordner
residence, and on the Sunday in question
almost every member of the family was
present, and that DR.. Robertson was not
at the house at all.
Mr.. Welty then asked him many other
questions, and the witness said he wanted
| glass of water before he answered. Mr..
Welty acted as bar tender and furnished
the water. The witness got mixed up on
several occasions. He said he never
talked with anyone about this matter. He
then said, I first talked with David FidleI
| hi ~ hn ~
! the Sunday in question. Iwentto see hin
. at the request of Pidler. l did not talk tc
Mr.. Pomerene about the case. got her'
about o'clock this morning.
The witness was again examined b.
. Judge Critchfield. He was asked regard
ing the road taken by the doctor and him
self. He was not very familiar with
and could give very little information
Mr.. Pomerene then stated that the de
fense desired to introduce in evidence tn
' book which was found on DR.. Robertson
table, and which is supposed to have cor
tanned an account with Lille Bordpel
= The State objected and the court refuse
= to allow the book to be introduced as ev
dence. The defense excepted.
A. E. swANK,
/. the undertaken at Sandyville, was calle
r. and testified as to preparing the body c
, Lille Bordner for burial.
a The defense next called
q OFFICER CHARLES sLAGLE,
= who was examined by Mr.. Pomerene.
got some instruments from him on MOI
T day afternoon. Lou Blake was with m
N at the time. asked him for the instr,
a ments and he went and got then
They were in the back room.
took them to police headquarters an
locked them up. / afterwards gave pa
le of them back to DIR. Maxwell, and d
N Schaefer kept three of them. MIR. Wei
l told me to give the instruments to d
q. Maxwell, after certain instruments hs
20 been taken out. DIR. Schaefer selectt
le three instruments and returned the res
The three instruments kept by D
Schaefer were shown to the witness al
q. identified.
a DIR. J. A. soHAEFER,
who was coroner at the time of the dea
~ ~ of the girl, was the next witness. He sal
~ ~ saw the body of Lille Bordner
Sandyville. / was at police headquarte
one day when Charles Slagle had some
IN struments. / saw the body first about
q. o'clock Sunday evening. Drs. Leining
be and Goodrich performed the post morte
lr. / was present at the time,
IL Atthe hour of going to press DR.. Schaei
of was being cross'examined by Mr.. POI
arana