The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-01
STATE VS. HULL.
Lake 0ounty's Second Cutting Scrape
Aired in the Courts Abstract Of
Testimony,

Testimony.
The case of the State of South Da-
kota VS.. VIM. Hull was called by Judge
Aikens this morning and jury empan-
neled as follows:
Geo. B. Wall, G. F. Saxby, David
Williams, VIM. Geoissi, John Anderson,
John P. Medill, E. HI. Jacobs, o. r.
Thompson, Andrew Olson, Jas. Cole,
Joe Smith, e. I'll. Odell..
States Attorney Soper appeared for
the state and the defendant was de-
Tended by w. c. Beaman and Capt.
Stoddard. Hull was charged with "as-
sault with dangerous weapon"
on the person of Ludwig Abraham.
The parties to the fracas reside in the
neighborhood of Wentworth. The TAX
ing of testimony was concluded at noon
as follows:
Edward Uthe sworn and testified:
Resided at Wentworth Goth Dec. last.
Saw defendant and other parties in my
place OF business that day about IL
o'clock. Abraham and Kopler came in
alking Hull turned and SAID he
could lick both of these sons of b--s.
Kopler stood still and Abraham turned
away. Hull struck Abraham and
knocked him against the wall and Kop-
ler tried to pull Hull away. Abraham
showed fight and struck at Hull and then
Hull swore he would kill, cut the throat
of the id son of b-h. He then
drew his knife and cut and slashed, and
got excited and ran out and called for
help. When came back Abraham was
coming out with his hand cut and bleed
ing. He tried to strike Abraham in the
eyes with the knife and the latter warded
them off with his hand. saw the knife,
good sized pocket knife. 1 only saw
Strang when / got out on the street.
He was coming to take my place a. din
ner time. George Strang and / went
in. Then Hull said he would not hurt
US but that he would kill that other son
OF b---h. He made a rush again at
them and the other two ran away. Five
persons were in the building and saw the
fght-myself, Hull, Elias Owens, Abra-
ham and Kopler.
Cross examination: My place of bust
ness is lunch counter, not saloon. I
did run a saloon then-sold beer and
whisky. Hull did not drink in my place
at time of tight; did the night before.
Abraham just came; Hull had been
there half an hour before. Hull was
eating lunch. Ate his lunch with a
case knife, not his pocket knife. saw
him take his knife out of his pocket af-
terward. Lunch counter was in back
end of building. The bar where / dis
pensed my liquors was the same-about
II or Is feet long. did not tell Ed
Baldwin that Abraham struck Hull first,
nor did afterwards 50 tell Hull's father.
nor did I tell Owens so. l know Tom
Tackett.
Ludwig Abraham sworn: know de-
fendant. Went into Ed Uthe's place
Dec. 20th last about noon. Was at auc-
ton; went in to get lunch. Saw two
men at counter eating g-defendant and
another man do not know. I went in
first; Kopler followed me. I went in
with my hands iu my pockets and Hull
commenced to swear at me in English,
which / did not understand. l looked
at him and tried to pass by him. Hull
flew at me and knocked me against the
wall. / turned around and looked at
him and asked what he wanted of me.
then pulled my hands out of my pock-
cts and raised them up. He struck at
me and in warding of the blows he cut
my hands. He struck at my head. He cut
two fingers in one cut. Ny thumb was
almost cut of and is now stiff. Was not
90 before. / afterwards backed up and
ran out after the barkeeper. AS we ran
out defendant struck at Kopler. Kop-
ler had big fur and held it up in de-
Tense. went to the doctor. He held
up my hand and we went off and had it
dressed.
Cross examination: The whole affair
lasted only about three minutes. I was
about s or feet from Hull when he first
turned on me. Twas up near the bar
ordering my lunch. Was not near the
bar before that.
r. Kopler testified substantially as
1.-THE and Abraham did.
Prosecution rests.
VIM. Hull, defendant sworn: Live in
Wentworth. Was In Uthe's saloon last
December. Met Abraham and Kopler
there when the trouble was. Same par
ties there as stated by Uthe. Was eat
ing lunch there about IL o'clock. Was
not acquainted with Abraham or Kopler
before. ] stood eating lunch at end of
bar. They came very close to me. Il
hunched Abraham and asked him to
take something with me. With that he
Of ,aL mo oorcco tho hroa.+ ,~1 =. r