St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-08
IN REASON AND LOGIC
Were the Words of Claus A. BI.xt
False

Were the Words of Claus A. BI.xt
False.
Now, his words are false in reason
and IN logic. If he was intending to
XIII that girl, and had a struggle with
mind and conscience about it, and
dld 1t, he would drop her right there
He would quit the body right there.
or there was some excuse for his not
doing it. Some one must have come
there to disturb him. The necessity
or concealment and movement from
TINS place must have interviewed
or the psychological law which God
placed in the minds of men would
have moved him to drop it right there
either by running himself in fear
and dismay and trepidation, or by
dropping her and running with his
horse; and yet he tells you that story,
SO impossible, that after shooting this
woman, he, with her dead body fall
ing on him, the blood escaping from
her wounds, with everything to excite
MN, everything to break him down.
he drove with one hand a mile down
That road, slowly, turned around
thirty rods, he says, beyond where
he shot her-turned around and rode
with her a mile. Oh, false, unrea-
sonable, ridiculous and absurd testi-
mony. The better and more reasona-
Bile theory is that down at those
woods, a mile from there, he and his
aceomplice, whoever it was, succeeded
in beating this woman. For what
purpose, their violence was made, i
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whether for money, or for some worse
and more. terrible thing. She was
beaten there almost to death, and
this man said to him, Don't leave her
now until she is dead and the blood
spots on the buggy show she lay there
on her side, the blood poured from her
broken nose, which was full of clotted
blood when she was afterwards ex-
amined by the physician; blood which
had no connection with the wound
made by the pistol. She laid there I'M
til from her broken nose had poured
out a spot of blood upon the right
hand side of that seat, fourteen inches!
long and seven inches across, as thick
as a little finger, of clotted blood, be-
draggled hat and hair and dress. Here
is the hat, and here are the dresse5
all to show, the buggy all to show, and
this Infamous scoundrel led that horse;
from where she was beaten and
bruised until he came down in the
dark tamarack swamp, and there,
finding her not dead, shot her twice;
once he missed her, then struck her
in the carotid artery, and as she lay
there, the blood which lay above the
carotid artery in the head and from
the trunk of the body, the blood
poured out on the ground, and made
that pool one foot across in diameter.
by the testimony of Mrs. Naegele and
Lillian Brown and Mr.. Springstead
Then these disinterested witnesses,
the living and physical ones, the
wounds themselves, and the blood
spots and bruises of the skull, all
confirming that theory to the per-
petual damnation and eternal destruc-
ton of this canting hypocrite's lies,
spoken in order to obtain for himself
pardon, launched against an innocent
man, but proved innocent by all the
logic of this case, by every line of
thought that is in it. / beg your par
don for more than suggesting to you
these things.
1 want you to take into considera-
ton, gentlemen of the jury, the testi-;
mony here in regard to the blood in
the buggy. Now, you recollect when
the buggy was brought in here it had
been washed and cleaned up, and you
further recollect that when you ex-
amined Claus A. Blixt you gentlemen
discovered, one of you, on the left
hand side 1 think it was, two or three
little spots of blood here, down below
the pocket of the coat, and that was
all the blood you could find upon him;
two or three little spatters here. These
were not made by the coat resting in
blood or against blood, but they We're
spatter marks and were only con-
fined l think to three or four. You
gentlemen examined them more par
ticularly than I did; recollect one of
your number called my attention to it.
Now. refer and refresh your recol1ec-
ton in relation to the blood in the
buggy. Mr.. Goosman, on pages II and
IL of the testimony, testifes as follows
as it is distracted in his own words:
In the center of the cushion there
was about a pint of blood, heavy and
SiOllCu, IidhIS pOOl seven l1CIl6S
wide and thirteen or fourteen inches
long,
You recollect held up to him one of
these books, and he likened it to that,
if you recollect. There is the size of
the blood pool on the center of that
seat, and, as he describes it finally, a
little more to the right, heavy and
clothed, making pool seven inches
wide and thirteen or fourteen inches
long, occupying more than half of the
right side of the cushion. On the seat
back underneath the cushion there was
considerable blood, very fine and light
colored. This was the serum of the
blood, which separated as the blood
coagulated and ran off. On the back
rest there was considerable blood, as
If some one had rested up against the
back curtain, and had run down I'M
derneath the cushion; some blood II =,
gone through the back of the cushion
into the bottom of the buggy about two
inches from the top of the back rest
and ran down to the seat; the seat of
the cushion did not go under the up
holstery back of the cushion, but was
out little, so that running down the
back would not catch this blood upon
the cushion. That on the back went
through. You recollect how he de-
scribed it that his upholstery didn't
go under the upholstery back, the
cushion didn't, but was little way
out, so that the blood ran down the
back of the buggy; the seat of the
buggy was not the blood which made
this pool upon the cushion; that came
from some other place. The blood
stains commenced about two inches
from the top of the back rest, and ran
down to the seat. On one of the front
boards there, right or left, there was
blood stain. There was quite a little
blood spattered around the back of the