St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-19

there was a talk about $40 he hau
charged me on collection he had
made, and I told him if he did not pay
me he would be sorry On the Tuesday
morning he said, I am going TO bring
a bill against the county for $500 and
then / will pay you some [ asked
him if l was to quit then, and he said,
No, you can stay right here
How long have you worked for
him?"
About four years in ALL"
"Is Mr. McMahon any special friend
of yours?'
HE has always been a good friend
of miner
Were you ever in the Jail with Blixt
but once?"
Yes, the first time was day be-
| fore a holiday"
TT was the first day that this con-
.versation oecurred?"
81 don't know?"
did he say this before you COM
menced to take down your shorthand
notes 2"
YES, to Mr.. Odell."
| And what was he said?''
| What L have already told Mr.. Err
win
Whereabouts in the interview was
it?''
about the middle
What did he say just before he
| came to this part?'
| ''EIverything-a good many things.
Turn to your notes and tell me what
he said just before that
The witness here gave her book to
the court reporter to mark the place
where the statement was made.
Mr.. Nye repeated the question for
! her to read what was said just before
| this statement.
| Mr. Erwin objected, saying that II
had already been ruled out.
The court said that it had not and
overruled the objection.
Miss Wachter then read the SEN
tence. beginning, "Then 1 felt as if
wanted to be with Harry all the time
Mr. Nye-Now read about the barn.
'T don't know where it is
After looking her notes over for some
time, Mr.. Nye said:
Cant you read your own notes?''
Some time was taken in looking, and
then Mr.. Erwin said:
II ask that the Jury retire and that
she read this statement to the court.
Mr.. Nye did not object, and the jury
retired.
Miss Wachter then, in the presence
of the attorneys for the state and de-
tense. as well as Mr.. Oden, read the
statement asked by Mr.. Nye. This con-
sumed Just half an hour, and after II
was over the jury was called in again
and Mr.. Nye proceeded with his cross
examination:
You have read all of Mr.. Blixt'
statements down to the point of his go
ing to the Ozark?'
Yes
at relates to Harry's suggestions
and propositions to Blixt?''
Yes"
Then you come to the point where
you say Blixt used the words which
Mr.. Erwin has asked your
| Yes
Prom that time on did it relate to
Blixt's connection with Harry?"
Yes
"Adry's name was not mentioned
from that time on?''
No"
Read the words which you have
erased
About two weeks before the muir
DER etc.
''That is on the top of the line
Yes
Mr.. Nye here called the jury's at
tention to the notebook of Miss
Wachter with these words erased and
! being at the top of the line.
And what are the words after
these?"
Where Blixt said that the plan was
a good one"
II show you Exhibit E 2, is this your
typewriting?''
Yes"
Us it a transcript of the statement
made by Blixt in your presence?"
Yes
do you wish the court and jury to
| understand your conscience has trou-
bled you so much about this that it has
forced you to disclose it?''
yes, sir"
ut was the day before Christmas you
| took that statement
Yes
"And you remained in the employ of
Mr.. Odell till Feb. 9?'
It'll a week ago last Wednesday,
the 14th.''
Then this trouble broke out after
you had the trouble with Mr.. Odell?'
mo, sir
How long before the trouble came?''
1.-THE last of the week"
What were the words Blixt used?"
about two weeks before the murder
Adry and I put up job to kill Miss
Cling for her money, and we agreed il
we got caught we would put it on
Harry, because he always went with
Miss Cling
rs that all that he said?''
''It is all that remember"
There is nothing in this statement ]
have about two weeks after the muir
der?"
II have that in my shorthand notes. -
do you know John A. OIson?"
Yes"
did you have a talk with him on
the 9th of this month in Mr.. OdelI S
Officer"
Perhaps 1 did,
| Did you say that Mr.. Odell has
duped me out of $40 on a collection.
Now what can L do, can 1 sue him and
make him give it back; 1 can't afford
to lose that, and 1 shall sue him for it;
now did you say that?''
81 said something like that
Did you say 1 came near being run
| over and killed by a runaway horse,
going to lunch. I was walking up Mic
ollet avenue and I heard some man
hallowing and a man fell beside me,
| and just after that the horse skipped
by me and ran over the mans leg; I
| never had such a close call, and that
| d Ode1 never made me so mad in
my life?"
Il never used those Words
do you say that you never use pro-
| fame words?"
ST don't say so.''
ibid he not make a reply that was
a close call but you might have got
killed?''
1--WE talked about it for awhile"
Did you then ask him what attor-
neys charge for collections?"
Il did not because [ know"
| Did you not say on your return