New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-18
DESPERATE FIGHT
The Methods Resorted to by
Both Sides iii the Russell
Trial at Eau Claire.
Alleged Detectives Trying Hard
to Impeach District At
torney FraWley.

alleged detectives engaged by the deienseto
impeach the district attorney lodged back
and forth between the Jail ard the witness
stand to-day, but got in their work in the
Russell trial. One of them. J. w. Moriarity
OF La Crasse, was jailed last night on the
charge OF being All inmate Of a house Of i'll
repEte. He pleaded guilty, paid his fine
and got out. A half-brother, Mitchell En-
right Of Winona, was jailed as soon as lie
left the witness stand this morning on the
charge Of larceny of a revolver from po-
liceman. Cross examined this morning,
Enrght said he was sometimes known as
Velvet Face, Border Brave and .sWild
Cattle Mitchell" He admitted thath had
sworn in another trial that he did not
know how often be had been in Saltwater
and other state prisons
IL. Dunn, engaged for the defense in de-
tective work, was asked, on ross-examina-
ton, whether he, or Mrs. Russelfs attorney,
had not sought to get a doctor to swear that
Bertha Erickson came to him to get an
abortion performed but the court excluded
the question. Dunn denied that lie had
been
gtsS WATCHING THE JURY
from the second story of the opposite build
ing while they were in their hotel. Mortar
lty, on direct examination, swore that. I'M
der direction Of District Attorney Frawley,
he had gone to Stanley, Wis, and bought
arsenic which he was to hide under Mrs.
Russell's piazza, but Frawley had put off
doing this. He swore that Frawley paid
him tor his services; that Frawley also want
ed him to steal spoons from Mrs. Russells
house. and to find for him woman who
could swear that she saw Mrs Russell buy
ing arsenic.
Will Johnson, an Eau Claire druggist,
testified that Russ Whipple, employed by
the district attorney, called on him recent
~ and said it could be proved that he (the
witness) had sold Mrs Russell poison, and
il he would swear so the district attorney
would stand by him, but the witness swore
he had not sold it. The defense demanded
that letters from Moriarity to Frawley be
produced. Mr.. Frawley said he could not
find them. He thought they had been
stolen
Pro. Curtiss of Minneapolis, photographic
expert, this afternoon testified that in his
opinion the inscription on the r.
PACKAGE OF POISON e
alleged by the defense to have been discoy-
cred in an old mattress, was not in the
handwriting of either Mrs. Russell or her
husband. At this point the possibility of
evidence to the effect that the inscription
on the package OF poison was that OF one
OF the brothers-in-law of the deceased
4 created state OF br cathless expectation in
the big crowd. but no such evidence was
given, the de.ense being apparently salts
fled to disconnect Mrs. Russell and her
husband from the inscription on the pack
age. Attorney James put on B. A. Buffing-
ton, president Of the Eau Claire Grocery
company, to clear up the impression that
an agent of the defense had been using the
third story Of the company's building as a
vantage place from which to watch the
jury quartered in the hotel opposite. FL
mer Horton, nephew OF Mrs. Russell, les
tilted that one moonlight night at the Rus
sell place, he
CAUGHT PETER ERICKSON
holding the hired girl, Sara Halvorson, in
his lap on the piazza, and alleged gro-s inn
prophecies occurred. Sara was witness
tor the state. The objecs of the evidence is
supposed to be to show that Mrs. Russell
had cause. for sending the girl away aside
from mere jealousy. Mrs Russell will go
on the stand Monday morning. 1t is re-
ported that the state has a large amount
evidence III rebuttal Of the charges against
District Attorney Frawley, and the case Will
run about four days longer.