St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-06
BLIXTvs AWFUL STORY.
He Tells it in Court With Remark
able COOInCSS.

9bIe &OG1hcSSs
When Claus Alfred BliXt was
called yesterday morning he stepped
I'D to the clerks desk, and, lifting
his hand high as he took the oath,
he mounted the stand and faced the
crowd and his alleged accompllce.
what is your full name?'
"Claus Alfred BliXt.
Where was you born?" a
"In Sweden, in 1853.
"How old were you when you left
there?"
81 don't know exactly. I came to
Spring Garden, Goodhue county, in
1873. 1 farmed there most of the
time, and came to Minneapolis in
1886"
'What have you done here?"
part of the time I've been farm
ing, and partly at my trade. I'm a
stationary engineer. Part of the
time 1 worked for James Baxter &
Sons, at Riverside, in the stone
quarry. Then, when they moved
out between Lyndale and Aldrich, l
moved there with them and worked
there three years"
"What else have you done here?"
''Well, I tended bar two times"
"Were you employed on the street
car at alp"
Yes, sir; I was on the First ave-
nue. line about a year"
Were you idle last winter?"
Yes, sir"
"What did you do in the spring?"
81 went to work for w. w. Hay
ward, in the Ozark flats, April IA"
"What did you do there"'
"I had charge of the steam
plant"
"Are you married?"
Yes, sir. My wife is in the court
room. 1 had three wives, and my
children are by the first two
wives"
"Where did you live in the Ozark
fats?''
In the basement; me and my
wife,
"Are you acquainted with Harry
Lay w olI u, lllC dClSIIQCHI.
Yes, sir. 1 met him in the Office
of his father before [ got the place"
when did you see him neXt?"
''The day L went in the flats. He
talked with me about the engine.
Something was wrong with it. I
then saw him for two or three days,
but after that 1 didn't see him for
some time"
''Now L will ask you where your
talks with Harry were?''
For six or seven weeks before I
was arrested he was down there al
most every day"
BliXt was then shown the plans of
the Ozark fiat, and showed to the
jury the location of the various
rooms where the plotting was said
to have been done.
Tell us, if you can," said Nye,
where your rooms were and the
other rooms"
This was done, Hayward leaning
over and listening with breathless
interest. Sheriff Holmberg stood at
one side and John Day Smith at the
other of the plat, while the Tall
Pine, Erwin, lowered at some dis
| tance behind his colleague.
Now your conversations were al
most always in the basement. Where
were they generally held?''
In the boiler room, around the
steam boilers or on the bench here"
indicating the place with his point
er
after you had gone to work
there, ask you if Harry ever made
any propositions or suggestions to
you of doing any outside work??"
"Yes; he did"
What time was that?'
Il can't tell what time it was. That
was about the first of the month be-
fore the last month of the year"
1--WE object to anything of that ma
ture," said Erwin. 'It was about
the newspaper" put in Blixt.
1--WE object" said Erwin.
81 want to y,''-said the court,
chat shall confine you both to the
strict order of proof. You have got
to introduce the evidence relative to
this murder before you can intro
duce any other propositions"
Every well, your honor" said Nye.