St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-07
ACQUITTED BY THE pUBLEc
Harry First Tried Before Mayor
Eustis.


Now, what was this first statement
This witness who now comes upon the
stand with another entirely different
story; on his own accord and yolun-
tar1ly calls up the mayor, and the
chlef has typewriter summoned and
wants to make a clean breast of this
entire transaction; and he tells this
story, which proves that there was
another man engaged with him in the
commission Of this murder:that he was
commissioned to remain with the dead
! body until she was dead: that is. Blixt
was commissioned to remain with the
body until she was dead; that he did
SO until she was dead; rode her around
In the buggy until he was sure tina she
was dead, and then dropped her out.
and the shot that was heard there
after she was dropped out, was I'M
doubtedly a shot from Blixt, or some
accomplice of BliXt; nobody can ever
tell, except him, if he would tell the
honest truth about it: and then the
pool of blood on the ground: the evil
dence in relating to this accomplice.
present at the time of the murder, was
fnnumerable, and therefore 1 wish to
call your attention to that as we pro-
coed. Now, gentlemen of the Jury.
here is confessed murderer; and his
nrst staement-not all false, but only
false for the purpose for which he
agreed to make it-that is, to charge
1t upon Harry, but doubtleSSly true
IN the subject matter in regard to the
death of the girl and his commission
to watch her until she was dead; that
is put in evidence before the mayor
and chief, and reduced to writing, and
they operated upon it. Under the evil
dence they arrested and detained
my client. Do you recollect after
thirteen hours of examination before
EustiS, Nye, Hall and the detectives,
and everybody connected with the
prosecution of this case, after thirteen
hours of exhaustive cross-examina-
ton, what did the state do-that was
the first jury that sat upon Harry's
case?
Why, it acquitted him. 1t turned
him loose. 1t said to him, in the lam
guage of Mayor Eustis, Harry, we be-
ieve you have been made the victim of
circumstances" This improvised
grand jury turned him loose, acquitted
him, and expressed the opinion that he
stances. Well, what caused his ar
rest? What caused them to change?
Adry and Stewart had begun to work
Blixt had heard of Adry. Blixt makes
the confession in accordance with the
agreement that he had with Adry
Harry was instantly arrested and from
that time down to the present, the
whole object, strain, movements and
forces in this prosecution have been to
sustain, correct, revise, make good and
strong this confession of this informal
murderer. This was on the 5th, the
first statement was made. Two days
later, upon inquiry, it was found that
Harry was at the theater at few min
utes after o'clock; that he was there
before the fatal shot was fired; that
Blixt'S statement, made in accordance
with his agreement with Adry, was
patent lie. Then what ca the state do?
The state, which ought to guard the
citizen, what did it do? Why, two days
afterwards, Mayor Eustis again got
hold of Blixt and said to him as fol-
lows: Question-"Now, you would like
to make a full statement of things as
they existed, would you, Mr.. Blixt?"