St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-06

| the ones he had on in the court room
after court adjourned.
Judge Smith did not think it hardly
| necessary, but agreed, if the attorney
insisted, which he did.
Mr.. Erwin then took the witness
over the road again and made repeated
references to what BliXt had told
Mayor EuStis in his first confession.
BliXt was asked to show the position
he occupied in the buggy and the manner
in which Miss Cling kept looking for
Harry" Mr.. Erwin sat down by the
witness, who left his chair and sat on
the step. He showed the angle at
which Miss Gings head was when he
fired the shot, and said she was peering
out on the left side. When he shot
her he did not take aim. 81 just
turned the pistol that way and fired.
You may believe it or not. 1 didn't
look at her. 1t was just luck hit her
and where Harry told me to shoot her.
1t is a wonder hit her. he said in a
plaintive tone.
Blixt was. examined at length in re-
gard to his statement and became con-
| fused by his misrepresentation of the
point Mr.. Erwin was striving to get
at. The attorney wanted to know ii
he had made ANY other statements"
meaning oral ones, but BliXt insisted
that he had made but two statements.
He did not remember of going up stairs
in the Jail and having a portion of his
statement taken down by a stenogra-
pher, though as a matter of fact he did
do so, but he recollected that man had
been writing while he talked, on one
occasion.
Witness said that after he shot Miss
Cling she threw herself straight back.
He took the robe and held it up against
her with his left hand, and drove with
his right hand. He did not change
from this position until he stopped and
dropped the body out of the buggy.
He had hard work to keep in the road.
He had a great struggle with himself,
he said, to commit the crime. He got
his revolver ready a dozen times but
his heart failed him. He thought the
revolver was about a foot from her
head when he fired He could not say
with certainty. Miss Cling never
moved after she threw herself back an
instant after the shot was fired. She
sat with her hands resting on her lap.
While telling this Blixt was visibly
affected
81 lie not one wcrd,'' he said, "I did
it just blind. 1t just happened that
hit her. L didn't put the pistol
against her head
Blixts exhibition of feeling amused
Hayward considerably. He grinned
foolishly and kept his eyes rowing about
the witness.
He said he drove the horse back
very slowly. He kept the robe up
against Miss Cling all the time. When
he came to the spot where he threw the
body out, he took hold of the woman's
feet and slid her out. She struck the
front wheel in falling and fell between
the wheels. AS the horse started up
the hind wheel ran. over her legs.
The horse started to run and ran until
they crossed the street car track. They
passed a man and the horse turned out.
Ibid you discover any blood on your
clothes?" inquired Mr.. Erwin, return
ing again to his favorite point.
mo, sir, 1 did not"
Didn't you feel any, wasn't the seat
of the buggy damp with blood?'
81 don't know, said Blixt. 1 didn't
know of any"
In the course of cross-eXamination,
Mr.. Erwin procured BllSt's type-writ-
ten confessions from Attorney Hall, and
said he would look them over in the
evening so as to save time.
The fact that BliXt lied about his
first confession for several hours
while undergoing the sweating" pro-
cess at the hands of Mayor Eustis,
Sheriff Eye, and the states attorneys,
and kept up his front, will doubtless
be enlarged upon by the defense. Then
the blooy clothes theory, that he could
not possibly have committed the crime
in the manner related yesterday with
out getting. blood on his clothes, will
constitute an eXhaustlesS theme for
argument Blixt, in telling of his
movements, said he sat on the extreme
edge of the seat and as far away from
the dead woman as possible.