St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-07
and said; "Yes, and you are the man


wards
Blixt then stated for the fiftieth time
that he was not right when he made
his first statement and had no chance to
correct it, but the principle of the
statement was right.
You had not yet made your peace
with God?"
There is no laughing to be done
with that 1 am talking the truth.
See this special pleader for his
neck" said Erwin sarcastically.
Don't laugh i'll my face" said Blixt
Erwin then tried to fix the time eX-
actly that Hayward gave witness the
whisky. BiiXt said he thought it was
about 5 o'clock. In witness first
statement he had said the time was
about or o'clock. Erwin asked
him to reccpcile the difference in
time. BliXt explained that as his mind
kept coming back he could remember
more and more. He appealed to the
court and jury to bear in mind his
condition and the circumstances which
beSet him.
Q. When you made your second
statement your attention was directed
to the time, and whether it was half
past or 5, as 1 read you. A. To MY
thinking this matter over, 1 say it was
some minutes after when he came.
Any one that was in my condition at
that time would afterwards, when he
got well, would know, would remember
it better than he did then. That is
all the explanation l have got.
Q. Wasn't it because you were in
formed that at o'clock Harry Hay
ward was with another man down
town, a man named Waterman, and
that it would contradict, and show you
to be a falsifier if you stuck to it that
it was o'clock? A. l say now before
God and heaven and the jury that this
what Mr.. Erwin is telling me | have
never been informed by any men, by
any person, but the statement that L
have made and the answer to this queS-
ton is from myself.
@. Now, then, if it is from your
self, explain to the jury why you have
changed. A. | have explained it in the
condition and the way I was then, that
l could not recollect or remember it
after come to my senses and got well
and better, and after that got out of
mel was very sick and had the di-
arrhoea and everything, and did not
know anything. After 1 got we'll and
got in a little better shape 1 remem-
bered it plainly, and DO today.
Q. Now, in your first statement-l
have your first statement here for the
first time this morning-in your first
statement you said nothing about a
bottle of whisky? A. 1t may be.
@. How can that be? A. Just SIM
ply don't remember it.
@. Now when your conscience smote
you and you had perceived the hor-
ror of your act in accordance with your
theory, you sent for Mayor Eustis? A.
Yes, sir.
@. And he took you out over the
ground? A. Yes, sir.
@. The ride over the ground re-
freshed your mind by the physical evi-
dences there of everything that oc-
Cured? A. Yes, sir.
@. And you came back fresh from
that, with a refreshed memory? A.
Yes, sir.
Q. And made statement as to
what was done, and never said a word
about the whisky? A. No; l did not
remember it at that time. [ remem-
bered it the second time, l guess.
@. Between the first and and sec
ond statement were you threatened
by anybody? A. No, sir; l was not
threatened by any man. No revolver
was drawn on me and no knife was
drawn on me. I did not make my
second statement at the point of a
knife.
@. My information, then, is incor-
rect. Did you remember that you had
not made a statement about the WHISKY
when you came to the second state
ment? A. When / made my second
statement l did not make 1t IN fuli
i nroo1l
O. In your first statement you laid
the killing of this woman to Harry
| HAYWARD? A. Yes, sir; and l do now.
@. You, therefore, had no need of a
nersonal excuse for that killing, did
you-you only deposited the body after
| it was dead? A. | want to ask ques-
| ton of Mr. Erwin about
Mr.. Erwin-I am not on the wit
ness stand.
The Court-Answer that question.
A. I laid the killing on to Mr.. Hay
ward-was that the question?
Mr.. Erwin: When you laid the kill
! ing on to Mr.. Hayward, you had nc
need Of a personal excuse, as if you
had done the killing? A. When
| said I went and took her after she was
dead?
@. Yes, sir, there was no need OF
any excuse so far as killing was con-
! cerned when you made that firs1
statement? A. According to thai
first statement 1 made, that he did the
| killing and I was taking her away,
want to explain that.
@. When you came to make youl
second statement you admitted your
self you killed her then, there was
need of the personal excuse? A. Il
is true that [ shot her.
@. When you came to admit thai
you shot her it was necessary for yol
to have some justification or excuse
for that act? a. L was not asking
any excuse; 1 just simply told tht
| truth.
@. You invented the whisky story
for justification, wanting to put it of
on the same man that you wanted
to put it off on in the first statement
A. I deny it.
O. Point to me where before YOU
second attempt you ever mentioned
| the whisky incident.
Mr.. Nye. He did not say he die
| mention it before.
| Mr.. Erwin. 1t was an invention fol
| that occasion? A. It is no invention
it is true.
@. Now at what time was it-I ash
you now for your story now-wha
| time do you say that Harry Hayward
gave you a revolver and cartridges
A. 1 say that was between and Z
moro close to than it was to 6.
Q. In your second statement L viii
ask you, did you state that it wa:
about o'clock? A. Yes. l stated be
tween and that he came down.
@. You stated as l have read to you
81 think it was about o'clock ol
something's" A. Yes, sir, but mar
can't just exactly tell to the minute
when he did not look at watch.
Q. Why did you change from
| o'clock to between and Z, and nearer
Z? A. I did not change. that is all
because he did not give me this wea
pom until he had all this talk, until il
was all through, this talk.
Q. What reason do you give fol
changing the hour there, most i'm
portant thing? A. I don't understand
that there is any change.
@. You know, don't you, that Mr.
Harry Hayward can account for his
time up to o'clock? a. No, sir,
| don't know that. L never knew thai
tho man could give any account fol
! In