St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-08
MISS GING FIRST STRUCK
And Then Shot by BliXt as an
AftertIiOuglt.

take, we will be glad to correct 1t If
is. Now, what does this tell you?
What do these blood spots tell you?
! They are not contradicted by anybody,
they are sustained by everybody in
/ this case. What is the condition of
this hat? Do you see it has laid on the
edge in blood? This hat, this edge of
it which is upon the right side as she
laid down on that side, laid in blood
| just to that point where her head held
| it up right on that right edge about an
inch. just like that. There is the blood
| upon that seat and upon that hat.
Look at this line like the horizon of
storm across the sky, straight as an
arrow, just where that hat met as it
was upon her head. That woman lay
upon the side, and the blood which was
upon that side came from her cut lip
and her broken nose. That girl was
struck upon the head beneath the hat
by some blunt, strong instrument, and
upon both sides of her head, as the
| physicians testimony shows, in order
to make the wounds upon that skull.
When she laid with her head over the
back rest, struck to partial insensibil-
ity by these blows, in the buggy whose
top was down, the blow which fell
across the bridge of her nose breaking
down both the bones of her nose, COM
pleting her insensibility - that blow
spattered upon the top, right behind
her head, this blood which was found
upon the front of the upper part of
that top. This blood lay running on
the side of this buggy from the wo-
mans nose as she lay there, and there
was none in the buggy by her. Some
man got in that buggy and lifted up
her form, and raised the top, and the
| running blood still running from her
living body, her heart still pumping
out its feeble current, streamed down
the back. do not leave her until She
is dead, be sure you give me time TO
get back to town." This brutal man
either led that horse with that BODY
standing up in that way until it came
3Ho the point where he dumped it out.
or he got into that buggy with ex-
7 IRENE care, standing up and not sitting
lfdown, and drove to that point He
never drove that buggy with it's blood
? !upon its cushions and upon it's back in
1.-the manner in which he says he did
} at all.
Did she bleed before death? Look at
thls shirt-or at this shirt front, gentle
men. Did she bleed down from her
nose? Let the blood tell you whether
( she did or not-can there be a better
( witness to a jury who tries her death
k mere is her blood! 1t speaks to you In
/ thunder tones, that her nose was
broken and her lips were cut before the
Iatal shot was fired. Doesn't the buggy
seat showTdoes not the hat show
lnat she lay upon that seat; does not
! me bloody hand print show that the
|, top was raised after some one had got
III there and Strengthened her up, and.
| possibly, then put the robe between
her body and him. What was it-what
| was it which tore this hat out of the
mar! What was it which disheyeled
/, the hair of this woman and left if all
hanging down? Why was it all clottad
with blood. unless she lay there in her
| blood?
These are pregnant questions for Won
TO answer. And it is true 1 was par
tlcular about her veil, for when The
man rent this veil, the eternal trntt
! came! This veil is under the hat like
this Gndicating). Here is it's front
mere is the back of the head-I don't
want to tear it any more than ii is
What rent that veil?- The blow that
! $500 AAp' Pi ODtiOiy d DlOW WITH a
revolver, the hammer, or something
cutting that lip. That blow rent that
| veil. Was it rent before death or after
death? Let the blood on the veil an
swer. 1t speaks and tells you its own
story; it flowed, here it is; here it is
clotted, holding by it's clots the inter-
stlces or this veil-here is violence be-
/ fore death.
a hn nj
murdered woman. On the skirt-there
is upon the front dust where the body
fell right down in the dust, and no.
where else. Erhardt's brother testi-
fled to you the track as she slipped out
OF that buggy, in accordance with the
first and second statements of Mr..
Bhxt-slipped out of the buggy, struck
/ upon her heel, came over on her toe.
and her toe drew about six inches as
| she fell upon her face. Here is the
dust upon the front of her skirt; here
is the dust upon the front of her skirt
to show that she never rolled or
| tumbled, or struck anything elsei And
i yet that hat and that veil was not up
on her head, nor did not come off in
the fail, but was found by the officers
and Erhardt, standing up against her
NS1o pOOy VII Tic OdCh, like lndC.
Mr.. Hall-No, put there by some
body.
Mr.. Erwin-No, found there.
Mr.. Hall-No, sir.
Mr.. Erwin-Found there-right there.
And this lying hypocrite says he never
got out Of the buggy. Why, he was
never in that buggy there at all, He
shot this poor woman there-his two
shots are marked here-indelibly
marked upon the clothes of this dying
woman, made dead by his brutality,
which she wore at that time. The hat
was found there, put there by some
:, ones hand, standing up against her
back
Ieh Mr.. Shumaker-Officer Fox found It,
h., Mr.. Erwin-Officer Fox found it. If
/ this hat had fallen off yonder, as this
body came down between the wheels
as 1t would have come Off you would
pitch forward with a hat upon your
Il head, your hat goes a little further off,
/ or perchance is not behind and lays
h upon the ground-but that it could
ever be placed up against the back of
that woman like that, is impossible.
This is the testimony of Officer Fox:
! How did the hat lay or face on top?"
1t laid about that way Qllustrat-
ing). Tipped up a little alongside of
the body. 1t laid as if placed on the
body there?" mo, sir; it laid on the
side of the body just the same as If
that was brought up and the hat laid
in that way" You saw him iliustrat-
ing, did you not? There were only two
men there before and they were the
| Erhardts, and they said upon the
stand here that they never touched the
hat or anything, until the offer came
up.
Mr.. Hall-They took hold of the
hand.
Mr. Erwin-Never touched the body
except to take hold of the hand.
Here is the hat the woman wore,
confronting him-confronting him by
blood marks-confronting him by it's
-. l.. Il.