St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-08

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There We're the two shots that Mrs.
| Naegele, lady that she was, had
said she thought she heard; these
were the two closely succeeding shots
that We're heard by Gertie Brown,
| Lille Bunch and Frank Spring
| stad. These two shots were fired
where the body lay and nowhere
else. The blood upon that buggy
seat came not from that bullet
wound, but from the broken nose
How, pray, if that nose were broken
after death, account for the clots of
blood found in the upper nostrils?
How account for that pool Of blood
lying under the head of the corpse
as 1t lay there in the sand If death
| had occurred ten or fifteen minutes
| before.
And then the blood on the hat
| rim, Where did it come from? 1t
came from the buggy seat, where
| the woman lay as she rode. 1t was
on the one side only, the right side,
and it did not come after she laid in
the road, because the hat then was
not upon her head, but tipped up
against her back.
The horse and rig, with the reins
| thrown loosely over t. HIdashboard,
also gave the lie to Blixt. How did
those reins hang loosely there while
the heavy weight had been jolted
from the front to the back of the
bed during the trip? Blixt had not
been seen driving that buggy back.
No one saw him. Why? Because
he walked, while the third man
drove. That was where that extra
hour went that caused Blixt, two
nights later, to go down into South
Minneapolis, among his friends and
countrymen, and try to cajole them
into supporting his fictitious alibi
that night.
The skull, too, gave the lie to
Blixt. The jury must exercise its
common sense, it's reason. Expert
testimony must assist, not take
away, the judgment of the Jury.
Wherein all their experience-had
they ever seen or heard of such in
juries caused by such a fall? Never
Even the surgeons never had, al
though the books said it was barely
possible that such results might en-
sue.
The bullets weighed gave Blixt the
lie, and dismay was hurled into the
camp Of the prosecution when the
defense, seeking, not fearing, the
truth which had been avoided by
the state, had weighed the bit of
lead before the jury's own eyes.
Who had been the seekers of truth
in this case? The night of the mur-.
der Adry remains closely in his room
until Harry wakes him, and pro-
fesses to know nothing of what has
happened, while Harry told every
one he met, the city police included,
a part at least Of the story, the true
story, which he has ever since told,
and which they, too, had heard from
his lips as he sat upon the stand
Mr.. Erwin, at the opening of the
afternoon session, expressed his own
dismay at the vast amount of evil
dence he had yet to review, Judge
Smith having admonished him to
conclude his speech as soon as pos
sible, and he fastened through the
rest of the case. The analysis of
Adry's testimony was, if anything,
more subtle than that of Blixt's.
The two stories contained the same
platitudes, the same frauds, and the
clearest evidence of collusion. Who
was to be believed, the boy who
stood by the home and mother, the
boy who, aside from gambling, and
that at faro, was a model young
man, or the boy who had been a
highwayman, who was even now a
prisoner through his own fears, and
who had been saved from the blow
OF his fathers hand when he cues
toned the virtue of his own mother
by the brother, on whose innocent
head he was trying to fasten the
crime of himself and his red-handed
accomplice
incidentally, Mr. Erwin referred in
glowing terms to the game of faro.
1t was not the cheating game of
thieves, who chose to call them
selves gamblers, but had been the
pastime of Lord Bacon 1t was the
embodiment of the doctrine of
chances; that higher mathematics
which differed from the everyday
hgures of mankind, in that it's
standards of measurement had not
yet been ascertained by the human
mind. Lord Bacon had spent the
better years of his life in an effort
to tabulate the rules of these higher
calculations.
MI Erwin then proceeded to go
into the connection of Adry with the
conspiracy, which he said the de-
fendant had been anxious to get
in, although the rules of law would
not permit the trial of more than
one case at a time. Finally, the
state had made a slip and made
possible cross-examination of Adry
on that subject, and the state saw
its mistake, and the court somewhat
angrily ruled it out.
That's not So" interrupted Mr..
Hall. You should have laid your
foundation properly
eve did, retorted Erwin. hotly.
I'VE did follow up your slip upon the
instant
Judge Smith here took hand, and
informed Mr.. Erwin that it was
highly improper for him there to
argue matters ruled out of the case,
and besides he did not thank him for
the remark that the court was angry
when the ruling was made.
Mr.. Erwin explained that he did
not mean it in the full sense of
the word, but that his honor was
evidently perplexed and annoyed.
The apology was accepted and Mr..
Erwin proceeded.
Should the jury credit the testi-
mony of two such men, obtained, as
they we'll knew, under the promise
of clemency?
Mr.. Hall again Indignantly inter-
ruDted saving that tha atanoopt of