St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-15

must get rid of her, or in his own IAN
guage, that he must carry her down
town with him. Then what does he
do? He says he took her feet and
placed them outside of the carriage, and
took her by the body and let her down
on the wheel, and that the rear wheel
of that vehicle passed over her limb
I'm what condition do we find that
body at the morgue? The mute, HE
less form of Catherine Cling, in yondeFi
morgue, gives the lie to the testimony
of Claus A. Blixt. What do we lind
as testified to by DIR. Nippert and DR..
Hill? We find an incision in the lower
lip. We find scar upon the END Oh
the nose. We find that the nose mas
been broken, crushed, and bent over
towards the right. We find over her
right eye a wound in circumference
equal to a hazel nut, somewhat de-
pressed. And then we find, beginning
in the front, a fracture of the skull
through both bones, beginning with the
frontal, passing through the temporal
and the parietal bones, away around
almost TO the base of the brain ana
Claus A. BliXt expects you, gentlemen,
to believe that that woman, falling asa
limp, lifeless woman would do, broke
her skull upon both sides and left all
of these scars, evidences OF the he1nous
assault which he made upon her. An,
it will never be believed. Claus A
Bltxt must have beaten that woman's
head almost into jelly before he ever
fired that shot. And the evidence in
this case, in my judgment, will clearly
prove that proposition. You take
child, a drunken man; you take
woman who has tainted, and let them
fall out of a carriage, and it would be
practically impossible for them to re-
ceive all those wounds. Claus A
BIixt fired that fatal shot when he
feared that the woman was not dead;
and it was not brought out on direct
examination, but on cross-examination,
that just before he fired the fatal shot
he heard another one, another shot
little distance off Then he says he
drove up into the vicinity, partly after
leaving the carriage, and took car,
and where does he say he VENT 1t is
necessary, gentlemen, to account 1of
the wherea bouts of Claus A. BliXt from
the time he committed that horrible
deed until he returned to the Ozark
flats
Mr.. Smith then described the move
ments of Blixt after the murder, as
testified to by him. He made much of
the alleged visit to the Thorson resi-
dence in South Minneapolis, and said
he would prove that BIixt never made
the journey which he said he did.
ROASTS WILLIAM HENRY.
The speaker then attacked Blixt in
savage manner, and administed Sc
we're rebuke to eX-MayOr EusttS Tor
shaking hands with him.
Gentlemen said he, 'I cannot prop
erly characterize the conduct of this in
human fiend and brute, who has testi-
fed on this stand, but L desire to adj
vert to one circumstance even though
[ should incur the interruption OF the
court One day when Claus A. Blixt
had been gazing around over the room
in that heartless and Indifferent way,
always falling back on the statement
that he did not know his memory
was not good he was sick them
whenever a very difficult question was
put to him: and Immediately upon the
adjournment of the court and in the
presence of this jury, the former mayor
of this city stepped forward and took
him as he came down and held onto his
hand and looked into his smiling face
it seemed to me it must be to give him
character before this jury. [ would not
have touched the bloody hand of that
debased brute for large amount I
don't believe it is right. And [ want
to say before [ leave this part Of the
case, gentlemen, that [ have no dis
position to say anything disrespeetful
of any man who has sought, and has,
as he believes, found forgiveness at the
throne of grace. His testimony, gem
tlemen. if true, would be very damag-
ing to the defendant in this case. [
would not predicate any intelligent ac-
ton upon the testimony of such man.
'In what position, or in what rela-
ton. does he come into this court? An
indictment has been found against him
charging him with the
MURDER OF CATHERINE GING.
Nov, there is one way that he might
have been given credibiIity and that
his testimony would most nat
urally have been believed. 1t has sug-
gested itself to you before this. What
was that? 1t was to have tried him
and convicted him for the awful crime
which he confessed with indifference
here at this time. Then he could have
come into this court and the county at
torney could have said, Gentlemen of
the jury, this man has committed an
awful crime; he has been tried for that
crime: the verdict of guilty has been
returned, and the court has passed
sentence in accordance with the law,
and now he stands upon the portals of
death. There is no inducement what
ever for him to falsify just before he
takes the step which launches him into
eternity. But that is not the method
pursued. They keep a string upon him
in a sense, in no dishonorable sense
will say with respect to the county at
torney, but he has seen fit in his wis
dom to bring him in here without a
trial, without conviction, when it was
absolutely sure that he might be found
guilty; when there was not a shadow
of doubt upon the mind of the county
attorney that he was guilty; he might
and convicted and sentenced. And
such a man as that, then, if he claims
that he has found peace by seeking for
giveness at the throne of grace for his
crime, he might be believed, because
his testimony would be surrounded by
these solemn circumstances which
would tend to impress its truthfuIness
on you.
But no, this is not the course that is
pursued. They take the man that they
know absolutely, in accordance with
his own statement, to be guilty, and
bring him here to take the life of the
man that is guilty according to their
theory. So much for Claus A. Blixt.
At this point the speaker trained his
guns at Adry. The defendant, who
evidently knew all about Blixt's char
acter, leaned forward and listened at
tentively to his attorneys remarks con-
corning his brother
There is another peculiar witness, .
said he, that has been introduced by
the state to prove guilty knowledge on
the part of the defendant here and COM
plicity in this crime, and that is Adry