St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-08
DUGAN GOT REAL MAD.
NE CALLED EcE A LIAR AND THE
LATTER ADMITTED IT
AT HARRIS MURDER TRIAL

| The Sheriff on the Stand-A
Strong Chain of Circumstan-
tial Evidence.
1t appears there Is even limit to
Judge Jamison's good nature and fund
OF forbearance. Yesterday, when he
| found the court room was filing rs rap
idly as OH the preceding days. he took
hand in the matter and ordered the
passage WAYS cleared, and the people
| who were standing on chairs and
benches to make themselves scarce. A
detail of policemen from the central
station cleared out the court room. SO
that the air became comparatively pure,
and the people connected with the case
found themselves at liberty to move
about freely. Today the court room will
be closed to all save the attorneys, wit
nesSes and others having business
| there. Heretofore the unemployed"
have made the room a sort of loaling
place, aud the consequence is that the
health department has found it neces-
sary IL disinfect the place thoroughly
! every night.
| In spite of the hideous caricatures
printed of Slim Dugan in certain of The
daily papers, he is very much alive and
| looks not whit more worried than
when the trial began He chews to-
bacco continually and White masticates
gum. The state. however, is weaving
strong chain of circumstantial evil
dence against the defendant, and Mr..
Davis, shrewd as he is, will find he has
10 small task in breaking it. Several
witnesses were introduced by the state
who identified both Dugan and White,
| but there appears to be considerable
doubt as to "Yorkey" and Reed. Dur
ing the afternoon examination Sheriff
i Eye was on the stand and gave in some
testimony concerning Dugan.
You're lar" cried Dugan, spring.
ing from his chair and shaking his fist
at Sheriff Eye. Attorneys and jurors
| started and gaZcd at the excited "Slim,"
who had risen from his seat and was
| leaning over his attorney toward the
witness, while the crowd arose from
their seats i'll pure establishment. The
court raped everybody TO order, and
Dugan sank back i'll his seat at word
| from his attorneys.
Carl Wingate, son of G. E. Wingate,
| and living at 140S Fifth street southeast,
| proved an important witness for the
| prosecution. He stated that he saw
three strange men at the corner of Sixth
street and Fourteenth avenue south
east on the night of June Is. at about
11:25 O'clock. Mr.. Nye asked him:
Have you seen in the last day or two
Of tfri,t
Il have; yesterday afternoon at 2 p.
M"
"Who was it?''
Joe White"
'Did you recognize the other men?"
Zone of them | didn't see. The other
had dark clothes, with SLOUGH hat
drawn down over his right eye. He had
square jaws"
do you recognize in the defendant
one of the men you saw?"
Il think do. Taking into consider
alton that his muStache was shorter l
think it is the same"
did you have any conversation with
the men that night?''
II did, with Joe White. He asked
me where the turnpike was to st. Paul.
did not give him a definite answer.
They said they were looking for work
and that they were lost. l showed
them the road to st. Paul and they
started that way"
Joe White was brought into the room
at this juncture and Mr.. WiRgate testi-
fies that he was certain he was the man
he had seen. When MIR. Davis took
charge of him he asked:
''DO you mean to say that on that
night it was so dark that you could not
describe the appearance Of a man eight
feet from youP"
HE was i'll kind of shadow"
"Oh. yes. l understand all about
Shadows
lyon couldn't tell the color of his
eyes, his hair, his complication, could
you?''
No, sir, but | noticed his Jaw was
very firmly SET"
The witness said he was sure Dugan
was the man who first addressed him
that night and MIR. Davis said, pointing
to the prisoner:
''Is that the man that resembles the
man who spoke to you that night?'
Eyes, sir.''
"Now, yonng man. tell me where is
the point on the mans face where you
begin to identify him. AS l point tell
me?"
IA little higher-no, little lower
thereto
DO you swear that here before this
| Jury that is the point on his face where
your recognition begins?"
Yes. sir; it is"
"White, stand up" said MIR. Davis.
The man stood up. and, pointing to
White, Davis said:
Now. Carl, is that the man you spoke
| to that nightH'
Yes, sir; it is"
ta(larl that man 10 Toconl, White ~
| is charged with murder. Your evidence
is the one thing that may convict him
and send him TO the gallowS to be hung.
! Are you now willing to swear that he is
! the man you spoke IO?'
''Well, sir, must tell the truth. 1t is
the truth"
THAT'S right. my boy. God help you.
l want you to tell the truth. DO you,
without hearing him speak, believe him
to be the manH'
The witness put his hand to his throat.
There was a choking sensation there,
bat he replied, in somewhat uncertain
voice:
Eyes, SIR; but I-I-would like to
hear him speak,"
You are certain, are you?"
Eyes: l believe he is the man."
"Oh! you believe he is the man. Is
that the only way you can testify as to
his identity%
The reply was: II believe he is the
| man."
Michael MaiSer, a car repaIrer, and
| Evan Olson,a window washer, employed
III the Chicago Great Western wards,
testified that two men came into the
yards between the hours of and on
the morning of June 16, and asked for
drink of water. Both men identified
White particularly, but they were not
SO certain about Dugan. He wore a
SLOUGH hat, and they were not positive
as to the appearance of his face. Dugan
was ordered to stand up, and Maiser
| and Olson testified the man referred to
was about his size and build. White,
they said, was angry when he came in,
and when Mr.. Davis asked Olson il he
thought he would recognize the voice if
he heard it again, he replied:
well, he might change his voice. He
was mad"
did you say anything to the county