St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-04
OBJECT LESSON FOR JURORS
DR.. Nippert's Testimony Is to
Be Illustrated With a
Skull.
PLANS OF THE DEFENSE.
Unnleasant Testimony Likely
to Be Produced Today or
Tomorrow.

tho murder of Catherine Cling Will
he resumed this morning. Inc
court the attorneys, the jurors ana
the crowd have had a much-neeueu
rest. and should be in GOOD cohol-
tion to endure the fatigue and toll Oh
the next few weeks.
Today's proceedings are likely 10
prove of the sensational soft' as
Attorney w. w. Erwin will appear
in court with a human skull, which
he will use in illustrating to the jury
the position of the skull bones. IL
the attorney carries out his lnten-
ton. his classic face, black dress
and princely bearing cannot fall TO
suggest to the learned Hamlet, the
Dane, at Ophelia's grave, INDUCING
in immortal speculations on the
! brain pan of Yorick.
The skull will doubtless be intro
duced the first thing this morning
in the examination Of DR.. Nippert,
whose testimony was interrupted
when court adjourned last Friday
bv the illness of Juror Dyer.
Dr.. Nippert's examination VIII
doubtless consume the entire DAY.
He will be subjected on the cross
examination to a very thorough IN
vestigation of the condition of the
corpse. not only as to the external
injuries. but also to the state of the
vital and generative organs. Con-
sequently, when the cross-eXamlna-
ton is finished, it is likely that there
will be an extended redirect ques-
tioning, as the states attorney has
not inquired any further than to the
cause of death and the external
marks of violence. Adry Hayward,
soon after the confession which ne
originally made, gave out an inter-
view in which he intimated that the
autopsy had shown a motive Tor
the crime other than the financial
one, to which the papers, up to that
time. had been almost entirely con-
fined. It is expected that, whether
or not Adry's statement at that
time was true, can be ascertalned
from the physicians. At the time
that the statement was given out, 1t
was stated next day-by Assistant
County Attorney Hall-that the IN
terview was a fake; that Adry did
not believe it himself, but that he
OHalD had told him that the coron-
er's investigation had disclosed evil
dence Of an operation.
Adry's interview, however, has
never been disowned by himself, as
Immediately after this story had
been given to the press, the order
was issued to Sheriff Chapel not to
let any newspaper men interview
Adry under any circumstances With
out presenting a written order from
Mr.. Hall. 1t is believed that this de-
NAL of the interview was inspired
bv a fear that the friends of the
dead girl would, under the influence
of Adry's original interview, be re-
luctant to become involved in the
case, even as witnesses, and that
thereby the state would be handi-
capped in it's efforts to complete the
chain of evidence with which to con-
Wet the prisoners. AT any rate,
full inquiry will be made into the
circumstances of the Adry inter-
view, and it is argued that, if Adry's
admissions, alleged to have been
made to Elder Stewart in private,
are admissible, then there is no
reason why the reporters who Sc
cured the st. Paul interview cannot
testify to the substance and Incl
dents thereof Neither was made
under duress, and it will be claimed
that both interviews stand on the
same bottom. If the defense can get
from Adry that the motive was as
he said, and from the physicians
performing the autopsy that the
conditions developed at that exam
ination indicate the existence of
such a motive, then the intricate tale
of loans and insurance told to the
jury in the opening speech of Special
Assistant County Attorney Hall loses
a great deal of it's force.
Here is another point, however,
| where it is reported that the de-
| Tense will call in experts, as a num-
Der of Well-known physicians who
have seen the original report of the
| physicians in question, have said
that from the conditions there re-
| lated it is not only reasonable, but
| imperative, to conclude that there
had been unnatural conditions.
1t is not an entertaining theory
| that was indicated by the suggestion
in Thursdays examination of an in
quiry into an autopsy of the trunk,
but as one of the attorneys in the
case has said, this is no time for
squeamishness. The full and fair
investigation of a murder demands
the fullest inquiry into all possible
motives, and especially when they
have been advanced by one who is
not only one Of the most important
witnesses, but an admitted Cocoon
! spirator in the murder
AS it now appears, the trial will
! not be over before March /, and the
third week starting today finds the
state scarcely started upon the case.
! Up to date there have been nine DAYS
spent in securing a jury and in open
ing the case. Then the taking of
testimony was interrupted by the
illness of juror, and two entire
days We're lost in this way. As a
matter of fact the only evidence
thus far adduced to the making of
case has been the establishment
Of the murder by the Identification
Of the body; the circumstances of
its finding, and the formal testi-
mony of the coroner and his deputy
that death was caused in their opin-
| ion by the bullet wound in the head.
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