St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-08
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| Mr.. Hall-What occurrence did he
describe on as happening that night?
"Dugan said that one OF tho party he
was with tripped. and thought that he
(Dugan) tripped him. Dugan struck
the party, who drew revolver and shot
him. Dugan said that it was rot Joe
White who shot him. / asked Dugan
what time of night this occurred, and
he said that he could not tell-that 1t
was pretty late. i asked him where he
went after this occurred. and he said
that he went back to his rOom."
Mr.. Hall-Wnen next did you talk
with Dugan?
while going from the Jail to the
train, tho day of Jan. A."
what did he say then?"
HE said that oil the harm he had to
fear was that the train might be
wrecked. If it was. he hoped he would
land on top of the Dump"
| when next did you talk with him?"
| while coming home OH the train"
| What did he say on that occasion?"
| swell, for one thing, and to use his
| own words, he Said that no one was to
blame for this but himself, and that he
should not have come to Minneapolis
when he got out OF Saltwater. lie said
that he thought that the place where he
was stopping was not a proper place,
and the lady who kept it had told him
that some OF the parties who came there
the attorneys in the case. /
told him that every man had
fair trial III Hennepin county.
He said that man withoutmoneys stood
very little show, and told him that the
court would appoint him a lawyer who
would do his best for him. l told him
that Dick Reed and Joe White had been
arrested for the murder. He told me
that he had gone to st. Paul and had
the wound Oh his arm dressed by a
doctor oil Rice street. He said that he
stald IN 81. Paul two or three days and
| then went TO Eau Claire While here
| Dugan stated that a doctor treated his
arm and took the bullet from it. He
also stated that he sold his watch here
| to get money"
"Have you ever had any conversation
with Dugan since that night?"
Il have only visited him in the Jail as
visit all the boys there"
MIR. Davis took up the croSS-examina-
ton at this point, and by long list of
queries tried TO prove, as he afterwards
| stated. that the sheriff was prejudiced
against Reed. The court allowed many
of the objections made by the state
during the examination OH this point.
The witness stated, under crosS-eXam-
ination. that Joseph Sheridan was up
| before the grand jury out of which came
| the indictments against the four men
under arrest for the Harris murder;
| that others who also appeared before
this jury were Chief Smith, Coroner
! Spring, Belle Brennan, Lillian Gray,
Pat Cullen, John Feeley, himself,
| DnII., I'M ,uit al.
stated that the first information he
received to implicate Reed. White,
Dugan and John Murray came from
Joseph Sheridan.
"Dia you not state to Miss Grace
Johnson, Miss Jennie Rankin and Mr..
Hart. who came to visit you, that Dick
| Reed was bad boy, and that he was
| pulling the wool over the eyes OF Miss
johnson and his other friends in st.
Paul, and that you knew what you were
talking about, and knew just where
Reed was OH the night of the Harris
murder, and on the nights previous TO
| it?"
Il don't remember any such conve rsa-
| tion.'
Ibid not Miss johnson ask you on that
| occasion If she might be permitted TO go
| before the grand jury and tell what she
knew, and did you hot tell her she
| could not?'
II did not"
"Did you not, as the sheriff Of Hen.
nepin county, know that it was your
duty, If you knew of any witness that
could explain any case, to notify the
| grand jury?'
The witness said that he did not know
| 1t.
did you not on one occasion tell
Miss Johnson that Dick Reed was bad
boy, and that he was up here that night,
| ana that she must have been mistaken
about being with him that night at Lake
HARRIET"
Il only told her that Dick was bad
boy. and That she was possibly miStak-
| en-" The witness stated positively at
| this point that he had never stated'to
| Miss Johnson, Miss Rankin or any one
else that he had positive proof as to the
| guilt of the men under arrest for the
| murder.
did yOu not state on one occasion
| to these ladies that when you took Belle
| Brennan up to see Reed that he turned
as white as his Shirt?'
81 did not"
Ibid YOU say to Miss Johnson that if
| she would get Dick Reed to tell wha. lie
knew about the affair that you would
see that he would get off light?''
mo, SIR"
"Was there any time during Dick
Reeds confinement that there was not
ravlng maniac in the cell next to him?"
| Objected to and sustained.
Adjourned until 80 this morning.