St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-07


second statement? A. 1 think it is
plain enough.
Q. You stated in your second state
ment that you got this revolver from
Harry, and these cartridges from Har
| ry? A. Yes, sir.
@. Because you changed from the
| story that Harry killed this woman
| to the story that you killed the woman,
! and you wanted to connect Harry with
| it? A. Is this understood between Mr..
Erwin and me right, this question that
you asked me noW-I want to know
| that.
.. I understand my end of it. A.
| Can l explain mine?
Q. Yes, sir.
| A. 1 want to ask Mr.. Erwin if you
| think yesterday, from the question you
gave me, the same question, that I
| Laid this plan when L said that | was
| to go ahead and take charge of the
| body after it was killed. Did you un-
| derstand that was my lie? Getting up
my own plan, did you. understand that,
Mr.. Erwin; did you understand it was
my plan and that 1 lied when 1 said
that L had to take charge of this body
| after he killed her-did you understand
| it that way?
Mr.. Erwin. May it please the court,
my answer will criticise the witness.
The witness. 1t is a mistake be-
| tween him and me.
The court He stated yesterday he
! had made up that story as a lie and
afterwards told the truth.
Then the first statement, the second
| statement and what BliXt thought at
present was taken up and involved the
witness in an awful tangle. He be-
came confused and answered stupidity.
In his statements BliXt testified that
he had left the Ozark flats about
quarter to on the night of the mur-
der. On the stand he thought it was
about half past T.
| @. You know Harry Hayward could
contradict you unless you made it at
that time, don't you? A. No, sir, 1
never thought at all of Harry, what
he could or could not, anything of it.
| Simply made up the time because l
| knew at what time
| Then Mr. Erwin tried q new tack.
@. What did you say about his cough
! ing yesterday? A. Well, when he got
on the sidewalk, pretty nearly the side
walk on Kenwood boulevard, he looked
at me and he hawked and coughed and
spit the way he said he would do. He
had cut across the vacant lot from
Hennepin to Kenwood boulevard, on
the right hand side. 1 stood on the
corner
@. Show US how he coughed? A.
No, he can show it himself.
Mr.. Nye. Show him how.
@. How did he cough? A. Well, 1
can't initiate everybody in coughing.
@. Well, he coughed and spit, and
moved his head, shook his head for you
| to come? A He turned his head
like that.
@. Now, when you gave your sec
ond statement, you said He Whistled
at me-" A Well, don't know as he
whistled; / don't remember that he
whistled. l know he coughed and
threw his head up for me to come
@. Well, what made you change it
from whistling to coughing? A. Well,
I know he called my attention to come.
I know he hawed and spit and threw
| his head for me to come.
Blixt was next interrogated about
| the conversation between himself, Hay
ward and Miss Cling at the buggy be-
fore the fatal ride.
@. What did he say to her in your
presence, or what did he say to you?
A. He said to her that l was one OF
| the gang, that he wanted me to take
| her out.
@. Now, in the first statement you
made you didn't tell anything about
your going down Hennepin avenue
to Kenwood boulevard?, A. NO, sir.
O. You said you went out and took
a car and went to Lake street? A.
Yes, sir.
@. You did not say anything in your
| first statement about meeting him or
anything else, down at Kenwood boule-
ward? A. No, sir.
@. You kept that secret? A. Yes,
| sir.
@. And you did not say anything
about your conversation down there?
A. No, sir.
| O. Well, why did you conceal in
YOUR first statement these remarka-
bile and suggestive words, HE is one
of the gang?'' What did you
conceal that for in your
second statement, or rather what dld
you invent it for in your present state
ment? A. Thet is no invention, Mr.
Erwin, it is true.
Q. Why didn't you state it in your
second statement? A. 1 can tell you
why.
Q. Wasn't it for the purpose to lend
yourself as a witness to carry out the
| green goods theory of the state? A.
She spoke to me on the road about
green goods l did not invent no
story.
@. Why did you not say in your sec
ond statement that the excuse he gave
to her to get her to take you into the
buggy was as you say now, THAT he
is one of the gang?" A. Because
didn't seem to remember it.
@. You had not then made your
peace with heaven, and your memory
had not come back? A. Well, 1 did
not remember it at that time.
@. Now, why didn't you state to him
at that time that Harry cautioned you
to keep your heads in? A. Because
did not remember it, I suppose.
@. Well, now, what is it that has
been dropping in and pricking up your
memory to sustain these theories? A
Because 1 have been thinking it over
more and more every day-I have been
remembering more and more every
day.
@. And you have been prodded
been coached? A. No, sir, have not
Blixt's various statements as to the
distance he drove after firing the shot
was taken up. The statements were
contradictory and Mr.. Erwin kept in
sisting for an explanation. He seemed
determined to impress the fact upon
the jury that Blixt had lied notorious
ly, fact which BliXt was perfectly
willing to concede.
Q. I want to get at what caused
you to change your story, what caused
you to remember? A. My memory
was spoiled and my health was spoiled,
and had been before 1 got into this.
@. Well, DR.. Odell, and DR.. Nye
and DR.. Hall have cured you? A. No,
God has cured me.
@. Don't you think it was a lesser
Trinity? A. If L had not thought of Him
and He had not helped me, would not
have been here today.
@. God loves truth? A. Yes, sir, he
does, that is certain.
Q. And he has no pleasure in liar
A. 1 will say this much. If the truth
is not placed before this court today,
then would not want to stay here
@. You had no motive in concealing
these things when you made this state
ment that you did not know how far
you went? A. l stated that in the first
statement.