St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-16
StenOgrapher Hitchcock Has the
Murderer7s Confessions.

MurUerer7S Confessions.
George F. Hitchcock, the well-known
court reporter, was called next. Mr..
Hitchcock is the stenographer who took
BliXt's various confessions at Mayor
Eustis' request. He brought his notes
into court and referred to them as fire.
quietly as Mr. Erwin wished to nail
any inconsistency in Blixt's statements.
Please turn to the second state
ment,' said Erwin. I'm his second
statement in speaking of Harry Hay
ward, did he use the following language
in testifying that they met in Ken
wood boulevard. Then he cut across
the vacant lot and he whistled at me
and 1 followed the sidewalk down.
There is another street there and he
cut across and whistled at her,
dom remember where she came from,
and stopped her at the Lowry block
there by the left hand side?' -
The reading of the stenographic
notes changed but one or two unimpor-
tant words.
The next question was: I'm his sec
ond statement did he use the follow
ing words speaking of tin box and
roll of money: A. He said 1 want
you to help me hide it. I want you to
take the tin box and solder it some
where's and I'll take it to the woods?'
Mr.. Erwin then read Blixt's entire
testimony. but the witness found some
slight inaccuracies in his notes from
the typewriter transcript. Witness
was then given permission to read from
his stenographic notes, excluding what
the court had already withheld from
the jury.
Mr.. Erwin called Mr. Blixt's at
tention to the fact that he had testified
before this jury that he was ordered
to hide the box, and that he took it up
into the attic and put it into a paint
pail, and when Harry came bown he
said to him: Where did you hide it?''
And he said: 81 put it in paint pail,
and Harry said, 'Oh, it is the first
place they will look for it, Now, L in
troduce this statement to show that
was not the case at all, by his second
statement-that Harry took it up at the
time and said he was going to hide it
in the woods. That is one point. And
1 called his attention, for the second
point, that he testified here before this
dollar bills
The Court-Well, I say that the re-
porter can read that portion of the sec
ond statement in relation TO the matter,
including the questions and answers,
wherever. he has made a denial of the
statement
@. Well, then, Mr.. Hitchcock, if you
will commence at that point about the
hiding where he said. He said I want
you to help me hide it, A. (Read from
shorthand report Blixt's statement as
heretofore printed.)
Mr.. Erwin lat conclusion of reading)
That answers the contradiction, your
honor.
(Mr. Erwin here read from his cross
examination of Blixt, in which the wit
ness denied having said in his state
ment, Il have done this because 1
heard that his own brother is telling
the truth, and 1 understood then that
the programme was that they had
made me to hang, and I thought to
myself if they wanted to do that, they
might just as we'll know the truth.')
@. Now, Mr.. Hitchcock, ask you to
turn to the latter portion of the first
to the following question make the fol-
lowing answer: Il have done this be-
cause heard that his brother was
telling the truth, and 1 understand then
that the programme was that they had
made me to hang, and I thought to
myself if they wanted to do that they
might just as well know the truth then.
you know" Did he so state? A. That
is what he stated.
.. In the second statement on the 4th
page. did he use the following words:
Il never could come to the conclusion
how I did have strength to do it. no;
and l don't remember how long, how
much further l went on: but l went on
as I told you, and then turned the horse
and come back; and [ kept the robe up
against her, and l was scared, you
know, that she should come out or
something like that, you know: and
then I made the calculation that I
wanted to get rid of her some way or
another, and l moved her feet out of
the box and she slipped out of herself
That was the end of it; and then 1 took
the horse along, just the same as
showed you up there on Lake street, IN
til 1 got Did he so state?
Mr.. Nye-He did not deny that.
Mr.. Erwin-Yes, he did.
The Court think not [ think he
stated it a little different from that. I
think he said he put his hands against
her and showed her feet out
Mr.. Erwin-That was on the cross
examination.
The Court-WelI, read it; what did he
say? read his answer to that
Mr.. Erwin haven't the number of
the page, your honor.
The Court-WeIl it is not proper I'M
less he did deny it.
Mr.. Erwin-Well, claim he did. But
if it admitted that is as far as I want
TO go, it IS cont4nded he deniet il, I
want to foil it up.
The Court-As [ remember it. the
only discrepancy between the statements
is that he puts his hand against her and
pushed her out. This is my recoIlec-
ton. Go on, you can show what his
statement was.
Q. Did he so state, Mr.. Hitchcock?
A. That is correct, the way you read
it.
At the request of Mr.. Erwin. the wit
ness was instructed to prepare two
copies of BliXt's first and second state
ments.
I've got to get this and digest il,
said the attorney.
well, 1 hope you will before you
hand it to the court - said Judqa Srn1tn
and everybody laughed at the joke.
Court here took a recess until 2
o'clock.