Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
IN THE LOCAL Swim.
List of the Jurors Who Have Been
Selected to Give Kent His
Second Trial.
Postmaster Simons OF Wogansport
Will Have to Explaia Some
Things to Uncle Sam.
Frank R. Simons Held in $1,000 Bail
For a Hearing Before Com
missioner Hoskins.
More Candidates for Penitentiary
Honors are Soon to Arrive
at the State Bastile.
Mary Ann Childs, an Aged Negro
Woman, Comes in on a Tramp
From Louisiana.
A Number Of Capital Cityites Off for
Spiritwood Lake-For Fish
ing Purposes.
The Kent Jury.

A. G. Lewis, Fargo, grocer.
W.. j. Price, Fargo, plumber.
A. Plummer, Fargo, insurance.
J. MacSmith, Fargo, real estate.
w. G. Judd, Fargo, insurance.
l.. F. Newton, Fargo. railroad man.
W. H. Owen, Reed, farmer.
L. A. Barnes, Barnes, farmer.
w. P. Morris, Fargo, news dealer.
r. w. B.. Fleming, Fargo. ~paperhanger.
The case Thursday was taken up with
testimony as to finding the body Of Mrs.
Kent, after the murder, and an argument
as to the admission of the testimony of
Mrs. Lucy Jones, a witness whose nan
wal not subscribed to the information.
The opening for the state was made
by Attorney Miller, who said in SUBJ
stance:
The state will attempt to prove to you
that frequent quarrels were had between
Kent and his wife, and that he had
planned to have her killed by a third
party, and that he had a story prepared,
prior to the commission Of the crime,
for the accomplice to tell, and that part
of the plan was his leaving Mandan
prior to the killing.
The state will also attempt to prove
that in the month of February the de-
fendant approached Swidensky and
asked him to kill his wife; that he
would arrange everything SO that it
could be safely done. That he told Swi-
densky that he had $4,000 in England,
and that he agreed to pay $4,000 for
committing the crime. That he arranged
a place of meeting with Swidensky after
he had left Mandan, and that he would
assume the name of J. G. Pope. That
at first Swidensky shrank with horror
from the plan. That Kent gave as q
reason that he had put away his first
wife, that he had taken 2 5000 from the
bank, and that his wife was getting sus.
picious and that he could stand it no
longer. That on March 8, Kent told
Swidensky to write his plan in a book
SO he would not forget, and Swidensky
wrote and that it was arranged that the
murder be committed on the night oil
March 13.
We shall show you that Kent left
Mandan and went t Steele and con.
fessed that he was an embezzler ana left
a note and chattel mortgage. for $500
with him.
We shall show you that on the night
of March ID, Mrs. Kent was shot and
killed by Thos. Swidensky, ia accordance
with the prearranged plan. That the
boy was sent to a %neighbors to tell'ot
the shooting, making the claim that il
was accidental. At the inquest the pre-,
arranged story was told by Swidensky
in detail, and We will show you how
later the truthful story, as we expect tc
prove, was told by the accomplish.
Not Much Affection Wasted.
The feature of the Kent trial at Fargo
Thursday appears to have been the pas
sage-at-arms between Editor futile Of
the Mandan Pioneer and Attorney Hill
dreth of Fargo. There is no surplus o.
affection, nor has there been for some
time, between the two. Mr.. Tuttle ap.
pears to have been the bright, particular
star which Mr.. Hildreth has been en-
deavoring heroically to extinguish witt
eloquent words and highly tempered
periods, and in return Mr.. Tuttle hat
been jabbing Mr.. Hildreth gently in the
neighborhood Of the third rib. Mr.
Tuttle was on the stand for several hours
yesterday, and several lively encounters
were had. MI. Hildreth asked MI
futile if he did not go to Swidensky
and tell him that he was a persona
friend Of Judge Winchester, and if Swi
densky could raise $4,000 he (Mr. Tuttle
could get him off. In answer, Mr.. Tuttle
said that the statement was false and il
was the fruit Of either Mr.. Hildreth't
fertile brain or Kent's. Mr.. Voss here
said to Mr.. Hildreth that he knew thu
statement was false. Mi. Hildreth 60,
angry and told Mr.. Voss that he did no
dare say that again; that he had turned
him down once and he would do il
again. Both attorneys grew warm under
the collar, and for q time it looked rather
cloudy about the court room. The mat
tiers gone into we're highly varied in char
{. acter, Mr.. Hildreth desiring to know