St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-10


shot at Burmette, and don't KNOW HIM,
but know he is chicken thief.
| was married when | was fifteen
years old to Peter Smith in the District
of Columbia; he died and | married
William Queen; was divorced from him
fifteen wears ago. | never told Mrs.
Wiuchell that | was engaged to marry
Hennig and that / had wedding dress
all ready.
! never took my revolver down to the
water and threated to shoot any person.
was catching minnowS once when
heard cries of murder from boat con-
tanning five girls on the lake. There
was another boat near them with two
men in it. The men had whisky and
beer and had been following the girls
around the lake. | called to the girls to
come to the shore. l had silver table
knife with me. held that out and told
the men l would shoot it they did not
leave the girls alone. | took the girls
to the house and kept them uutil the
men went away. Cogswell is one of
the men who were in the boat.
Menning's story.
Charles Hennig, who is Jointly in
dicted for the killing of Hoppe, was
brought from the Jail and put or the
stand by Mr.. Erwin. He is almost deaf.
He said that bis deafness was caused by
taking cold. He thought 1T had grown
Oh him since he went TO Jail. He stated
that he was born in Germany, and had
come to ST. Paul thirty-nine years ago,
i'll territorial days. When asked if he
is married man ne answered that he
had been and sired tears freely for
moment and then stated that his wife Is
dead. He heard OF her death three or
four days ago. She died in the ROcheS.
ter asylum some months ago. She was
sent to the st. Peter asylum seventeen
wears ago and was afterWard taken to
The Rochester asylum. Mrs. Smith
has kept house tor him about
nine years. He bought the Bass lake
property for her. He put into it some
money she had saved, and, as he want
ed to make it his home as long as he
lived, he had put more money III the
house than she wanted to put in. lie
allowed her SIP month, which he APP
piled to paying for the property, which
had been bought on payments. He
identified the caution signs. He had
prepared all but one himself, the eXcep-
ton being the one that warned people
to keep off or get shot. He did not put
that up. 1t was put up by some one
about year ago, after his barn had
been burned. He had been greatly an
hoyed by people stealing his chickens
and destroying his property. He had
paid 50 a pair for chickens and white
ducks. These had been stolen, his
buildings burned down, his cedar posts
burned and his garden destroyed.
He expected friends to visit him the
day of the shooting. and had gone across
the lake in the morning to get some
milk. After that he went to wedding in
the garden, IN a carrot bed. He heard
loud talking, and. looking up, he saw
his neighbor pulling at man who was
Wading in the lake. The witness said,
at was not my bread and butter and /
went on with my work. In about twenty
minutes | saw the man at my dock try
ing to climb upon it. went to him and
said, Stranger. you better get out OF
this. 1t is private property He called
me bad names and said he would not
go. [ tried to coax him to go Off
the property the way he came in.
but he would not We then got hot.
He hit me on the hand and cut it with
the end of his fsh-poe. threw stones
at him. He jumped at my throat, but
jumped back. then picked up boat
oar and when lookedup lheard shot.
Then pretty soon another shot. Hoppe
put his hand in his hip pocket and said
TO Mrs. Smith, You - -- will
shoot you" Then another shot was
fired and the man sank forward and fell
with his head partly out of the water.
| was very much shocked. | stopped
down and turned him over. Ell then
looked up and saw that Mrs. Smith was
gone. | went to the house and looked
sall over it for her. L could not
i find her. i went out and saw a
man coming through the fence. | told
him to go back. then thought that the.
hundreds of people who were at the
lake would tramp over my garden and
destroy it. then went to the body and
dragged it along in the water to the
edge Of the4lot. then went to the barn
and looked over it for Mrs. Smith did
not find her. then went to the body
again and was dragging it furthes away
when my hold slipped off his coat. L
then left the body. In little while
Mrs. Smith came back with Justice of
the Peace Boyd. | thought she had
been drowned in the lake. Mr.. Boyd
told me ought not to have moved the
body.
- A Good Impression.
The crOss-eXaminati0n of Hennig
but made his original story stronger and
impressed the people with its truthful
ness. He admitted that he threw three
stones at Hoppe. He said they were
both hot. He had been hit by Hoppe
with the fish pole and wanted to hit him
back. This was after he had begged
Hoppe to go off the premises. He said
that Hoppe was sulky and would not go
off. He admitted that he was bound to
get him off. He did not hit him with
the oar or put his hand on him to push
him down after the Shot was
fired. lie read such statements in
the papers, but it was big lie.
! The latter remark created general
| laugh, which was checked by Judge
| applauding. Hennig said he tried to
hit Hoppe with the paddle before he
| was shot. He did not know Mrs. Smith
! was near until the shooting began. She
| ran away after the shots were fired.
| That scared him. He stated that he
| bought Ibe revolver with which the
| shooting was done, OF rather he traded
| one he had bought of pawnbroker to
| Kennedy for this one and gave several
| dollars to boot. He gave the revolver
| to Mrs. Smith to be used in defense.
| They had no police there, he explained,
and they had to protect themselves.
Mr.. Erwin then called number OF
witnesses who testified that the woman
! Smith has borne good reputation for
| peacefulness. One or two or the Sc
were tripped up on crosse Xamination,
and admitted that they had heard of her
shooting at other people.
The court would not allow the de.
Tense to go as far as to show good moral
character, although Mr.. Erwin stated
in reply to the objection of the county
attorney that he wanted to throw down
/ the bars and give him chance to
prove her character to be immoral
This led to tilt between COUNSEL, III
which the county attorney suggested tc
Mr.. Erwin to go OH the stand to prove
that the woman's character is good
The witnesses called to prove gooo
reputation for peace and quiet are
r. T. Hickman and his wife, col0rec
people: W. S. Moffat, Victor Peterson
John Minea, grocer; Charlotte Myer
walt. Miss Carrie Sonnick. The latter
admitted that her father claimed tina
Mrs. Smith had shot at him when bath
| ing. John j. sO'Brien contradicted Mr.
Runyan. who denied that he had said il
| O'Brien's saloon that he saw the shoot