The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-12
STORY rs ALL TOLD.
Nordstr0m Murder Case Will Ga
to the Jury Today.
THE BOOTS ARE LARGE ENOUGH.
Yhey Eft Larger Feet Than Nordstrom's
where Did He Get That
Hate-Court News.

The Ncrdstrom trial continued all day yester.
day and was unfinished at IL O'Clock, when
On adjournment was taken to this morn
fng 1t $50 o'clock. 1t il probable that the argu-
uents will be finished and the case 20 to the
fury ct some time this afternoon.
There il no diminutlon In the interest shown
By the public in the case, aud the courtroom
was packed all day and evening.
The testimony of Sordstrom was continued
in the morning, and lastei for several hours.
The REORGANIZATION was very rigid, and
lasted for several hours. Norcstrom could not
account for his going TO the deserted cabin to
stay, and when he was hard pressed for answers
be would say that he was too drunk to know.
He could not reconcile his statement that he rot
the cap he wore when arrested in Seattle with
the other statement that he got II In Ismays
cabin, and there was corresponding difference
IN bis statements a. to where he lost his hat
BE preserved a defiant attitude eli through the
cross-examinaiion, but did not make good I'm
precision upon the spectators.
The prosecution introduced several witnesses
IN rebuttai. Nordstron had testified that he
bought some whisky from Saloon keeper Cooper
q Gilman on Saturday. and Mr.. Cooper was
sworn and testified that Nordstrom's statement
was incorrect, and that he had not seen Nord-
stson on Saturday or Saturday night
Richard Gibbon, q shoemaker OF Seattle,
was called upon to testify es to the
sire OF Eordstrom's foot He measured
the foot, and declared the rubber boot was
large enough for Nordstrom. He also measured
the foot of sheriff woolery, and found it slightly
larger than Nordstroms, and also the foot of
Charles Gallagher, which was an inch larger
that the prisoners. Both Mr.. woolery and Mr.
Gallagher then put on the rubber boot which
Kordstrorn claimed he could not get on.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Mcbride be-
gan his argument At $40 In the afternoon He
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did not like old man Mason, pointed 70 the fact
that there was but one dim light in the cabin
and that he might have mistaken Willie for the
tatber whom he rescmbled. The prisoner
might also have thought that by killing the son
he would be doing the old man more harm
than by killing him. He spoke OF finding the
tracks leading TO the Lndsy cabin and the
hat found found in the Ismay cabin aud the
finding Of the note In the hat which was plainly
taken from the note book found on Nordstrom's
person. He held that 1t was clearly proven that
the hat found in the cabin was that of Nord-
strom He pointed to the unlikeliness of Nord-
siron losing his hat In lying down for an hour
or two Mr.. Mcbride said that IL Nordstrom
was as drunk as he said he was it was strange
that he was able to tell so clearly Just where he
lost the hat, how he lay down with his head on
the log. what time of day IL was and how long
he slept. Although the prosecution had had
twenty Eight witnesses Nordstrom had only
one and he considered that the case against him
had been made out complete.
Z. B. Palmer, who is associated with Attorney
eoderbsrg In the conduct OF the case for the
defense. began the opening plea for the pris-
oner at O'Clock and argued for over two hours
he ridicuied the wei OF the defense and de-
csred that IL was altogether unlikely that
Eordstrcm did the shooting. II was much more
likely, he said, that John Lndsy, whom Willie
hasoa had had hght with short time before
the shooting, was the guilty party.
At IL o'clock the court adjourned. Attorney
soderberg will begin his argument at $50 this
morning, aud the closing speech viii be made
By Prosecuting Attorney Miller.