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densky TESTIFIED to the ract or beins
employed by Kent and with having 4
conversation with Kent in Febr,1nr,
about his wife.
Court adjourned to 9 o'clock on Fri
day morning.
Fargo, N. D., July 2G-The story OF
Swidensky. the alleged accomplice OF
Kent. is being told with all the sick
ening details to-day. Swidensky tcsti
ffes that Kent agreed to give him
$4,000 If he would kill Mrs. Kent
at first the witness refused because
he was afraid he would be hung, but
Kent told him he had it all planned
out and there was no danger. Kent
approached him several times, and on
March lie agreed to commit the
crime. He was to meet Kent In
Prairie City, after getting out of Jail
and get his money. Kent went away
on Monday. telling Swidensky to &c
to the postoffice Tuesday and get q
letter for Mrs. Kent. He got the let
ter and Mrs. Kent told him 1t was
from priest who had seen Kent 20.
ing to Minneapolis. Then she began
to cry and said no more.
Tuesday night about II he called
Mrs. Kent up and told her there were
burglars around the house. The lit.
tie boy. Earl. looked out of the win.
dow and said lie could see them, and
while Mrs. Kent was looking Swi-
densky got the gun. When she
started to go to the sitting room he
raised the gun and fired and Mrs.
Kent fell dead. Swilensky then went
to the Hankey farm and told them
that burglars had been around the
house, that he wanted to go out but
Mrs. Kent wouldn't let him. He had
his gun in his hand and it had been
accidentally discharged and Mrs. Kent
Killed. In company with Hankey he
returned to the ent house and then
went down town. He told the same
story OF accidental shooting to other
people.
The defense objected to the testi-
mony Of witness as to acts subsequent
to the homicide as not binding on de-
fendant. The jury was excused from
the room and the law point argued.
The ruling on the question was
postponed by the court.
Swidensky identified the book taken
from him at the time of the arrest,
which contained the whole story he
was to tell before the coroner's in
quest. Witness stated the contents
were written before the murder ut
kents dictation.
The attendance was larger this after
noon than usual. the audience listen
Ing intently to the account of the hor-
rible crime as it fel frlom the lips Of
Swidensky. A lady tainted in the
court room, overcome by the story Of
the accomplice. The gun with which
Mrs. Kent was killed wae identified
by the witness, who said the shooting
was not accidental, but that the shot
was fired with the intent of killing
Mrs. Kent. He did 1t because Kent
told him to. The book in which the
plot was alleged to have been written
by Swidensky at the dictation of Kent
was introduced in evidence and tho
witness spent the greater part of the
afternoon in TRANSMITTING the story.
which it was arranged he was to tell
after the homicide. During the recital
of the actual committnl of the murder,
Kent cried like IL child. The cross
about 5 o'clock and before adjourn
ment he went completely to pieces,
and Mr. Hildreth was Obliged to wait
for him to recover. The witness tes-
titled that he saw Detective Hoy in
the Mandan Jail and that Hoy talked
nice and kind to him, and when the
detective left he told him to come
again and he would tell him all.
Ehriichman came in August and in
stead of Hoy and lie told him part Of
the plot of Kent, and the next day, at
Ehrlichman's request, he told it In the
presence of number of witnesses.
Since being brought to Cass county,
Swidensky has been sick and has been
taking medicine. The defense made
q demand for the bottles, they con-
tending he has been given strong
stimulant to carry him through the
trial. The discrimination Of Swi-
densky will be completed tomorrow
and at the request Of the defense
Judge Mcconnell has ordered that he
be allowed to see no one until after
the completion of his testimony.
Fargo, n. D., July 27.-Swidensky
has been under the fire of questions by
the defense all this morning. and has
withstood it all remarkably well. He
was questioned closely in regard to
his testimony before the coroner's in
quest, comparison being made with
the writing in the book, for the pur-
pose of unearthing discrepancies be-
tween the story told and that which
witness alleges Kent dictated to him.
The witness testified he visited some
Rohemians living near Mandan about
three weeks before the homicide, after
he alleges Kent asked him to kill his
wife. The apparent theory Of the
defense is that the writing in the
book was done at this visit and that
Kent had nothing to do with it. Wit
ness testified lie didn't tell Mrs. Kent
her life was endangered. because he
was afraid of Kent, and he thought
Kent would give it up and let him
alone.
lie received telegram while in the
Mandan Jail from his brother in Iowa,
to furnish a lawyer, but de-
from Minneapolis he told him he was
man told him Hoy had sent him be-
CAUSE lc COulll titlh lib luuxu uttkc, uuu
witness told him he wanted to tell the
truth, and the next day made his con-
feSSiOn.
The famous black book, which wit
ness testified he found in the house
vacated by the Mann family, played
an important part in cross-exaInina-
tion this afternoon. In addition to the
plot to murder Mrs. Kent there was
other writing in Bohemian, which wit
ness was requested to translate. It
proved in detail to !. the same story
Of what he did t.f % working for
Kent since com. to the United
States. as told at inquest and former
trial. Witness testified Kent did not
tell him to write that, but he did 1t to
pass the time away about month
before the homicide.
Witness denied telling Jailer Carlson
he expected to get out after Kent was
convicted, or asking why they did not
keep their promise and let him so.
Swidensky was then required to write
from dictations sentences Of the first
story told by him, which writing was
submitted in evidence. Hildreth then
asked witness if he was not afraid he
would get his neck stretched for the
murder. at which SWidenSky began to