Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1895-06-21
THAT TRIAL.
Last Weeks Report Not Satisfying
Some, Eyerybody's Version is
Given This Trip.

Our write-up of the Vinkle trial
last week does not appear to have
given entire satisfaction. Mr.. Vinkle
has referred to the account as -
lie from start to finish, and Mr.. G. j.
Schunk claims that his character and
reputation in the community have
been grievously injured by the vari-
GUS mis-statements which tho article
contained. No claim was made to
absolute accuracy in the account, as
the REPUBLICAN was not represented
at the trial and copy of the steno-
graphic report was not available in
time for last weeks issue, and our
information necessarily had to be OBJ
tanned from the witnesses who were
called; and it was from the state
ments OF q majority of those who at
tended that our re port was made.
1t is not the desire of this paper to
injure anybody's reputation; and as
Mr.. Schunk has kindly placed at our
disposal n copy of the stenographic
report, we take pleasure in correcting
our statements of last week.
The REPUBLICAN last week stated
that Schunk testified in substance
, that he did not see any beer any
where during the Coursing Meeting.
Tho stenographer's report on this
subject reads as follows, leaving out
the immaterial questions:
Direct examination by Mr.. Cole.
Q. Did you notice what if anything he
Vintle had in his possession? A No Sir;
Q Did you notice whether OF not the de-
fendant Henry Vinkle had any bottles or
kegs of beer? A didn't notice 1t in par
ticular; no sir.
Q Did you purchase on the 9th. day of
April 1895, from the defendant, any beer in
either bottles or kegs? A did not.
Q Did you ut any time, on any of these
dates purchase from the defendant Vinkle,
beer? A No sir.
70 Neither in bottles nor kegs? A No sir.
10 Did you see whether or not Mr.. Vinklc
made any sale? A did not.
Q Will you swear you did not on the 9th,
10th or 1lth days of April buy any beer of
the defendant Vinkle? A Yes sir.
Q Did you buy any other kind of intox-
q And you swear that you id notse him
sell any? A Yes sir.
10 Well, will ask you whether or not the
defendant Vinkle gave you any? A He did
| not.
The REPUBLICAN further on said:
CD. Schunk was recalled by the prosecu-
tion and acknowledged that White did give
him 25 cents with which to purchase beer,
| but that he put the 25 cents into his pocket
and took bottle from Vinkle's wagon
when the latter was not looking.
We take pleasure in correcting this
by giving the stenographer's report
on this point:
Q Now, will ask you Mr.. Skunk how you
know there was bottle in the wagon and
where it was? will tell you how know
Mr.. White and Ole Rood was riding IN the
buggy and Charlie Bell and was driving in
another buggy, and we was driving side by
side, and at noon-time We had two bottles
of beer. where they come from l didn't
know, but however, just along late in the
Skunk, where did you get that beer2" ]
said didn'tg get it, somebody else got it.
Objected to as not responsive to the quest.
ion--Overruled.
Witness-Then late in the afternoon when
Mr.. White said "where did you get that
beer?" and said 81 don't know, he said
"Do you know where fellow can get any?"
could get any,, and l said maybe Bel
could and he said "Give us the dough"
and he tossed up quarter and Bell caught
it and he handed it to me, and put it in my
pocket, and when we got nearly up to him
think Mr.. Vinkle's horse stopped to make
its water, and jumped out of the. buggy te
run over to Vinklc's wagon. to ask him u
there was any beer, and l ran up behind the
wagon and looked in under the seat, ant
John Lason was sitting on the hind scat
and sec bottle and 1 took it out ant
jumped back in the buggy and started tt
take drink; Charlie Bell said, Don't be
hog" and he took the bottle and took
drink.
@ Did you ask Mr.. Vlnkle for that bottle
A l did not.
Q Did you ask anybody in that rig for tha
bottle? A l did not.
did not.
Q What did you get out of there, was it in
toxicating? A don't know, it tasted lik
beer; whether it was intoxicating or not, l
didn't intoxicate me.
Probably the portion of our articl,
most Objectionable to Mr.. Schunl
was the statement that there was
wide divergence between his testi
mony on the stand and his previous
statements to states attorney Cole
We are only too glad to put this cor
rectly before the public, and to do S,
publish below letter from MI
Schunk and also a statement from
Mr., Cole, which appeared in tn
Commercial of last week:
Mr.. ScHuNK's LETTER.
EDITORS OAKEs REpuBK1cAN:-I you wi
allow me space in your columns will max
public the grounds and the only basis this
could have laid down for the prosecutin
attorner, A. I. Cole, for the State VS.. F
Vinkle. will say that when Mr.. Cole ws
in Oakes April 29th he came to me. in Ho
brooks livery barn and asked me what
about: Vinkle selling Intoxicating liquor
emphatically denied knowing anything j
particular about it. Mr.. Cole then sale
How about that bottle of beer you an
Andrew White had out at the dog races2"
said: cts true that White gave me 25 cen
to get hlm bottle of beer, and ran oy;
to Vinkle's wagon and got it, At tn
point Mr.. Lynch came in and the conve
sation ended. Mr.. Lynch remained fe
minutes and then went out, and started
follow him, but just as I reached the do,
Mr.. Cole stopped nae and said: ''If you a
. put on the stand you will have to swear
the truth" said: "Yes, sir, will have
tell the truth and nothing but the truth: b
, don't think it will do you any good"
will kho o1py Ill tbn