St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-16
such intense interest manifested in
the famous case.
OLE WEAK ON ENGLISH.
An Interpreter Is Appointed Be.
fore He Can Go Ahead.

The morning session, which began
with Ole Thorson, whose examination
had not been finished when court ad-
! journed Thursday afternoon, was dull
and uninteresting Mr.. Nye had asked |
Ole the day before if he had not got
something" for making his affidavit. (
Ole could not understand.
You understood the question I
asked you last night?' asked Nye.
Did you receive anything for making
| that affidavit?''
II don't know, I don't understand
| English"
You understood the other lawyer.
| didn't you?" !
mo, not much.''
You understood the affidavit?" q
''At the house"
| A number of questions were put to
| the witness to which such irrelevant
answers were made that Charles
Erickson was sworn as interpreter /
How much did he get?" asked Mr..
Nye !
He says not anything yet" replied
| Erickson.
who did he talk with?''
1.-TWO gentlemens said he was to
come up here and he would get paid
| for it,
ASK him if he was sure he was.
home the night of Dec. 3?''
| He says he is sure he was
! What time does he go to bed?'
HE went to bed about $50 or g.
o'clock
How long did he stay awaken
He is sure it was about half an
| hour or may be a little more"
Ask him if he knows how it was.
that night
He has not anything to remember 1t.
by. His wife slept with him, and Miss
Larson slept in the same room on a
| separate bed. The two women went to.
bed first but Mrs. Thorsen was not /
asleep when her husband came to bed !
WAS the door between the kitchen !
and bedroom cIosed?"
Yes, it was
Did they have a light in the room?'t
yes, there was light in the room.
/ They always kept a light burning
| every night, summer and winter :
Il want to ask one question" said
the court, was the curtain up or
! DOWN."
ut was down." replied the interpre-
ter. "It was sort of green curtain
like the heavy shades in the court
room"
Erwin then asked if the witness had
| ever seen the men who got his affi-
davit. The interpreter replied: There
were three men there, one was Mr..
| Shumaker, Erwin's assistant; another,
| Mr.. Levering, of the Times; and the
! third a notary public. He had never
seen them before. They were all
! three together, and the little man, /
! Shumaker, had written down what he
said.
WAS a subpoena. read to him?'' .
Eyes, he says a paper was read to
| him he got to come up here with the
womans.'
WAS he told he was to be paid for
his witness fees or for the affidavit?'
He says he was to be paid for his
trouble"
''Well, did he think he was going to
be paid more than the law allows a
! witness?'
yes; he says he thought he was go
ing to be paid a little more"
ASK him if everything that was said
was said in the presence of the other
men,
Yes. he says they were present,
all of them, during the whole CONVEX
sation."
WAS there any of them who prom-
ised him anything more than for his
trouble and getting up in the night
than his witness fees?"
He says he don't know
well, laughed Erwin, tell him he
WON'T
OLE'S WIFE JENNIE.
After a few more questions Ole, much
to his relief, was excused and his vile,
Jennie Thorson, dressed in a green
gown and black sacque, took the stand
Jennie removed her hat tremendously
in Difference to the occasion. She
spoke fairly good English, and said she
lived up stairs at 2216 Twelfth avenue
south with Mary Larson, who was
''tyyenty-seven years old her last birth
day"
What were you doing Dec. 2?''
''I was sitting in the front room taxi,
ing care of my baby. He's six months
Old
What time did you go to bed?'
eve went to bed about $3.50 or
o'clock My husband he come a little
later We had a light in the front room
and one in the bedroom when the big
gest children go to bed"
What time did you go to sleep?"
'I can't say for certain. I wake very
easy"
Did you see Blixt here?'
Yes, sir; last Wednesday I think it
was"
''Wen. did he come to see you the
night of Dec. 3?''
Well if he did I didn't see him.
HE said here that he Knocked on
your door several times
well if he did, said Mrs. Thorsen,
"I didn't hear him
Mrs, Thorsen then stated that BIixt
came to her house on the 9Th of De-
cember and asked if Mr.. Bloom lived
there. After few inquiries about
Bloom Blixt remarked that he had
called at the house on Monday night
and knocked four or five times.
Mary Larson, who had lived with the
Thorsens, was the next witness. Her
testimony corroborated Mrs. Thorsen's,
with the additional fact that one had
to knock pretty loud on the door to be
heard when the doors between the
front room and the kitchen were
SloSeu- 1Aey Coulu, HOWeFer, uSudliy
hear when anyone knocked. Miss Lar
son would not swear Blixt had not been
there. but she thought they would
have heard him had he been.
On cross-examination Miss Larson
said that when the light was turned
down you could see real good'' The
house next door was very similar to
the one the Thorsons lived in. In re-
sponse to a question from the court
Miss Larson said the outside landing
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