The Dickinson press., 1895-12-14

ographer in the Wadsworth inquest
held in Medora January l, 1895, read
from his record the following testi.
mony given by Mark Wadsworth.
Reside on ranch in Billings
county; lave resided there twelve
years; met Severson twelve years ago;
he commenced working for me at
on the ranch, and worked for
till he was shot; Severson was in
the habit of rising about daylight,
just before broad daylight; l got up
about daylight the morning that Ed
was killed and helped my wife grind
the coffee; l came ont of my room
before my wife did; Severson was
just going out of the door;I did not
go out of the heNsa gonth morning
Of the, 2latYdlta3zE dtd not. 90
hor until
k&JNf6K asaid that
EdsNDl1h6SI#aidilno eoainto the
bSNaaWSkhssehe hoy that morning;
Yrs4aeSns1ntot the house and said
sEd Is dead!" 1 said, ais that so!"
I did not ask him how he came by
his death; l asked him where he
found him, or he went on and told
me anyway; he said that Ed was ly.
ing in the corral Oh his belly; 1 did
not ask how he knew that Ed was
dead, and l did not ask him if he
went up and examined the body;
Fred said nothing more; my wife
came in the back door of the house
just as I was putting on my rubbers
to go down and see; she said sis he
dead!" She told Fred to get some
overcoats and take them down and
cover him up; my wife and Fred
them to the corral; Fred and my wife
were standing Ivy the body; my wife
had her hand feeling of his head; 1
stopped about thirty or forty feet
away from Ed; l did not go up to the
body; l was about ten feet away; l
did not say Il word; l stayed there
but Il minute and went back to the
house; l did not ask any questions
while l stood there; after this l told
them that the horse must have
kicked him and that he was dead
from that; we thought he was dead
from that in the first place; the rea
o l thought he was kicked by a
horse was l did not know there was
anything else there to kill a man;
there was blood on II Of his tenn
pies; it looked as if it was all
smashed in; I did not go back to the
corral to make an investigation; 1 did
not go into the barn to see if there
a any blood in the stall or blood
behind the horse; l went back to the
house; l did not say anything to the
coroner or the jurors about making
an Investigation; l do not remem Der
when Mr.. Young and Mr.. Ried came
back whether l asked them if they
had made any Investigation to ascer-
tain the of death; l did not ask
them if they had gone into the sta.
BILE to see if there was blood behind
the horse; 1 assumed that he had
been kicked by a horse; Fred did not
claim that he had examined the
body; no II claimed to me that they
had Investigated the cause of death;
l did not request any body to make
an investigation; I did not tell the
coroner that I would like to have
him make a thorough investigation;
l don't remember saying anJ thing
about it; 1 thought it was not my
business to investigate; I had no sus.
Picions that there had been any VIC.
lence; I don't remember any talk in
my presence of burying Ed without
changing his clothes; we did talk
about burying him after Mr.. Eaton
came; when Eaton came into the
house he said that Ed had been shot,
and l said that I did not believe it.
l said l will not believe that Ed has
been shot, till the doctor says So"
The report was introduced as evi.
dence.
Schuyler Lebo testified that on the
evening of the inquest at Medora the
defendant said to him, referring to
the boy Roehm: "They think they
will get it out of him, but they
won't; he'll keep his mouth shut"
erson the Sunday before the murder aud that
Severson rode the horse Kaiser, at first supposed
to have caused his death.
was five years old; lived with his grandmother
q she died three years ago.
". A. Ried testified that Koehm weighs fftoer
or twenty pounds more than ut the time of thu
The state rested its case at noon.
MIR. simpson in opening the defense said; tina
me prosecution had failed to prove its state
ments that there was q lack of proper feeling OF
the part OF the defendant in that he urged tn,
placing of the body in an clubhouse, and tina
defendant had not urged an investigation tina
the state had not proved a motive. The defens,
would prove Mr.. Wadsworth o stockman OF in
tegrity and honor, that the quarrelsome, win
dlcGve, wicked Roehm boy-aeide from an
tive for killing Severson. tic had said lie woult
put lead into Severson and that there would b
q dead Swede. He was Jealous because Sever
son was treated as one of the family and in Kill
ing him he carried out his general characters
tic Of tendlshness. The defense would prov
that the alleged conversation between MI
Cured; that Mr.. Wadsworth rose after Sever
son and the boy, Severson going out as Wads
worth came from his room; that defendant re
WadswOrth asked for Severson after breakfas
Roehm went to turn out COW; returning said Z,
was dead in the corral; all went to tho corral
near the body she fearing he would have anotl
or shock; sent ROehm for the Reds; whe
found the real cause OF death tho Wadsworth
asked 9 full Investigations; weather, -distanc
and i'll health prevented tho Wadsworths al
tending the funeral. The defense would prov
the statement attributed to defendant by s. n
an alibi; that Roehm's story was made up a bi
here and . bit there from what he had hear
with the idea that he could free himself.
Or. Stickney testified to having been Wads
A6u SSuiS
tended him in summer of 1894 for paralysis
shock dulled faculties and lowered vital cond
tom; did not think Wadsworth could hav
helped carry the body.
Mrs. Wadsworth described ranch surround
lngs Severson was more q trusted friend tina
employc; had been away but three t~imes-shoi
periods-in the twelve years, at Mikkelson'i
Eatons and at Medora; was at their place COZ
tinuously from April ., 1898, until his death; ha
never known any trouble between Seyerson an
koehm save two weeks before Sevcrson's deaf
they disputed over some cattle and Sc
erson SAID he would slap Roehm; had caugl
Roehm in falsehoods the day before the mu
der had supper at four o'clock and Mr.. Wad
worth retired soon after six; december 2
heard koehm rise and go into kitchen abo,
six o'clock; al rose soon after; Seycrson wi
had slept with the boy, left the house; NJ
Wadsworth went into the kitchen; did not 81
Severson alive that morning; boy came in AT
asked if he would have time to milk befo
breakfast told him he would and he took pa
, and went Out; he also asked if she had heal
. the dogs bark that morning and she said Yes
that probably coyotes were around; asked hi
6 to get some wood which he did and then we
to milk; soon after tho three ate breakfas
wondered why I'd did not come; she suggest
he had gone for his team to get ready for wor
I Mr.. WadswOrth thought he might DO cleanu
the stable; when Fred first came in whine
asked where Ed was and he said he did II
know Mr.. Wadsworth thought shc had bett
look Tor SoversOn and she thought he III