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

of them you might think it of little
note, but they attend at every turn, at
tend in this case, are at the top Of this
case, and he stands here confronted by
natural conditions, natural deductions,
natural inference at every point in his
story.
Now Mr.. Blixt is further contradicted
by his movements after leaving the
body. He did not go down to Twenty
third street. Now, what was the ex-
act testimony on that? What made
BliXt stop to see If the flagman was in
the flag hose? Now, he never ex-
planned that. My theory is this: That
when he went up on foot to get in the
buggy he saw the one-armed f1agman
and he stopped there to see If the one
armed fagman had seen him, and to
explain the character of his visit there,
and for that purpose alone. And the
next night Mr.. Kennedy says that he
came there again inquiring for that
fiagman; undoubtedly for that same
purpose. This flagman he had known
a long time. There is no reason for
his looking that flagman up so speedily
after this murder, except upon the
theory that he feared the f1agman had
noticed him. OF course he is contra
dicted by Mr.. Kennedy as to the man.
ner in which he came in that house,
but that is trivial in its character, and
l will not stop to notice it.
Then he says he went out to Twelfth
avenue and Twenty-third street to see
man that owed him money.
Now, isn't your credulity startled
and broken down to think that a man
who had just killed a young woman,
that he should start and go back, and
go off and dun a man for dollar and a
quarter that had been owed to him for
four years. 1t is too silly for any man
to entertain for moment; and it is
constructed for some purpose. And
what was the reason for the construc-
ton, except that he might account for
the hours time, which, if he told the
truth about 1t, would expose his ac-
complete, whether it was Adry, or
whoever it was? So he makes this
trip which never was made. He makes
it in his testimony around to this
place on Twelfth avenue and Twenty
third street for the purpose of ac-
counting for the loss of that hour
Now, what does he say? He says he
went down there. It was dark up-
stairs and down, at the house where
NiiC itiei1i uocu " i've. KNOCKED nV0
or six times at the door. He owed me
$l.l5. l had not seen him since last
spring" Now, there are three wit
nesses who contradict this. One of
them is Mr.. Thoreson, a man of very
slight intelligence. He thought he was
going to make something by reason of
! his testimony. He thought he was
going to make some money. He didn't
know how much. How he got that
into his head we never knew. We gave
him to understand that we never
knew; but he thought he was going to
make something. He thought the case
was so important that necessarily he
would be paid for his knowledge in
that regard.
Now, 1 do not depend much on that
kind of man, and 1 do not ask you to
consider his testimony for anything
more than it is worth. I do ask you to
consider the testimony of his wife and
his wife's sister. You saw them be-
fore you.
They were thoroughly honest peo-
pie. They were clear. There was no
uncertainty about the testimony. They
say they went to bed at o'clock Jen-
ME Thoreson says she was a light
oiCCPCi, ucdIu no one knock at the
door; that she would have heard if
any one had knocked at the door four
or five times; that the light burned all
night next to the passage to the back
stairs. And Mary Larson testified the
same. Now, calculate can be made
here. Now, calculating the time it
took him to go there and see what
time he got there the time of Blixt's
a fsri vc1 of +la ",
two minutes at the time knocking, and
eight minutes to go to the car;
eighteen minutes to Washington and
First avenue south, thirty-three blocks,
running on schedule time, fifteen min
utes in Swanson's saloon shaking dice
and drinking, is Blixts testimony; his
arrival at the jewelry store; left the
jewelry store at 9:52; that is Metz
gers testimony; he must have left at
Thoreson's at o'clock and nine min
utes. The lady said she did not go to
sleep for half an hour, and it was
their house, without much furniture
in it, back door, this partition in
that kind Of house and then he going
back, you understand, two days after
wards, and said that you were not
here, or we would have heard you.
Now, Mr.. Blixt is a murderer. Mr..
Blixt is now confessing for the pur-
pose of eXtenuation and excuse: and in
your judgment of the testimony you
cannot make Mr.. Blixt's statement
uncorroborated in any way against the
diSinterested statement of Mrs. Thore-
son and Mrs. Larson, sustained, as
they are, by the other Thoreson, or
the man Thoreson. To be sure they
tried to confound him with the switch
man down here, but the Switchman
says he cannot tell what night he
spoke to him, whether it was the Sd
or 9Th; he was on the odd days, and it
was the 5th that this man went back
to Thoreson's, and it might have been
that day. SO that there is no cor
roboration there. You cannot find
any confederation there which is def
mite or proper. Therefore, you find
Blixt doing what? Manufacturing tes-
tinlony to cover what? Just what you
want to know; just what you and this
country wants to k9ow, more than
anything else on earth, where were
you, BliXt, during that hour? What
were you doing and whom did you
see?
These things 1 cannot stop with I
must go on.