Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-02-08
The Direct Cause of Miss
Ging's Death the Ques-
ton Raised.

tOpsy, penetrated both the pony cover
ings Of the skull and were Of about
equal extent, something like four inches
in length on both sides of the head. DR..
Nippert was on the stand the greater
portion Of the day. Erwin asked him
thousands of questions in regard to the
post norton and exhausted all his
adroitness in an endeavor to neutralize
the doctors judgment, namely, that the
fractures of the skull had been made
subsequent to death by the gunshot
wound. DR.. Nippert's testimony was
clear and explicit on that point, and he
reiterated his opinion as often as Mr..
Erwin put the question to him.
The line Of cross-examination pursued
by Mr.. Erwin tends altogether to the
discrediting of Bixt's testimony. It
was claimed in the opening address by
the state that, according to Blixt's state
ments, the buggy
Went Over Miss Gine's Body
after being turned, and in this way the
prosecution evidently intends to account
for the fractures. The defense will in.
troduce testimony tending to establish
that the weight of four such buggies as
that driven by Miss Cling that night
would have produced no such breaks in
the skull as those shown in the autopsy,
and to render still more evident the fact
<Eo% hn ho% with hnoxyv
weapon before being shot.
Blixt, in his statement, says not
word about having struck the young
woman before shooting her. In fact, he
denies this absolutely, and therein his
story will probably conflict with the
expert evidence as to the nature of the
injuries.
DR.. RusselIs Testimony.
Previous to the appearance Of DR..
Nippert to the stand DR.. Russell was
called: The doctor lives but short dis
81 lance from the scene of the murder, on
Hennepin avenue, and he was called on
the night Of its occurrence on the sup
position that the young woman still
lived. DR.. Russell corroborated Ehr-
hart in the statement that the body lay
right side down to the road, balancing
the statements Of Policemen Moore and
Fox, who asserted that it lay left side
down. His testimony was corrobora-
tive of all that has gone before as to the
position of the hat, in that it lay close
to the body and near the shoulder. The
doctor described his visit to the
Scene of the Crt ne.
He was called about o'clock and
thought he arrived theA yout 10 min
utes afterward. AS to appearance
of clothing and other inulcations about
the body, he agreed with the other wit
nesses. There was pool Of blood under
the head. He had formed the opinion
after the body was removed and he
learned of the revolver wound, that the
blood must have come from that wound.
At the time he arrived DR.. Russell
thought the young woman must have
been dead something like half an hour.
DR.. Hill Corroborates.
DR.. Hill was the next witness. His
examination consumed but few min
utes. The same general questions were
put to him as to DR.. N ppert. He testi-
fed on the same line as his colleague,
and was certain the fractures were pro-
duced after death by the pistol wound.
The questioning of the defense ap-
peared to be towards establishing that
Miss Cling died from the blows on her
skull which produced those fractures,
and that the shot which penetrated her
skull, while necessarily of a fatal char
acter, was fired to hasten the end or to
divert suspicion from the actual condi-
lions surrounding the crime.