The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-08
HARRYS DEFENSE
Some of the Props Knocked
Out by the States Rebuff
tai Testimony.
kDRY AGAIN ON THE STAND.
Was Out Driving With His
Wife on the Night of the
April HOldup.

has reared about his client to save him
from those who are hunting him to the
gallows was all but demolished by the
testimony offered in rebuttal by the
state. All the conjectures and innuen-
does that have been thrown out by the
defendants attorneys have been born
of the moment and stand for nothing
but vain attempts to obscure the light.
Albert Hall, the assistant county at
torney, figured as demonstration to the
class. The surgeons were called by the
state to testify on the possibility, or
otherwise, of Miss Ging's injuries, aside
made by falling from the buggy. DR..
Dunsmuir was a ready witness and
answered the long Hypothetical ques-
ton by stating that the fractures of the
skull might have been caused by the fall.
Staggered Erwin.
Mr.. Erwin, in cross examination, fell
back ON Ehrhardt's statement about
the heel marks in the road, and asked
the witness whether, in his opinion,
the fractures could have occurred had
the woman struck feet first and then
fallen forward on her face.
The attorney for the defense conf
IDENTIFY expected a reversal of opinion
on this basis, but he was disappointed,
for Dunsmoor promptly asserted that
such injuries might easily have result.
ed, even under such circumstances as
Mr.. Erwin assumed to have existed.
| Erwin was rather taken back at this
declaration, and he gazed at the wit
ness in that peculiar questioning way
of his for some moments.
''That is your opinion?" he inquired.
cit certainly is" said Dr. Dunsmoor,
emphatically.
The Bullet Could Have Done 1t.
In reply to question of Mr.. Hall the
doctor said that the fractures could have
resulted from bullet wound alone by
expansion, even though there was nc
apparent connection between them and
the bullet wound.
DR.. Dunn gave testimony that was in
every way corroboratiye of that given
| by his predecessor, and the state had
succeeded in giving a hard knock to the
| budU DllAO UuGGCICu LID fICU11u
with the steel rail.
| Ernest Gamash, almost disabled by q
recent accident, was helped to the stand
and testified that at 7 o'clock on the
evening of Dec. he, and his brother
chased George Grindall under the stone
arch bridge on Central avenue. Grin
dali had testified to being in the vicin.
| - 1o+C1 or hot
seeing the "third man"
| The HoIdup Again.
Mrs. Adry Hayward was called and
asked regarding the whereabouts of he1
husband on the night of April 81, when
Harry claims his brother held him up.
Mrs. Hayward testified that on that
night she and her husband We're riding,
going out after 8 o'clock, about the
hour Harry claims the holdup occurred.
She was positive as to the date, as she
had read in the papers of the holdup
and remarked to her husband that eve
We're riding; we might have been held
up ourselves"
| Adry Hayward was then called He
testified that he and his wife were rid
ing the night Of April 81. He got the
rig about 8 o'clock and they drove about
an hour and quarter, leaving Mrs.
| Hayward at his home at Thirty second
and Calhoun Neither he nor his wife
left the buggy on the trip. He said
there was not word of truth in the
conversation Harry testified to.
Harry Rapid Eater.
Mrs. Mary E. Mathes, a sister of Mrs.
Adry Hayward and boarder at Thir-
teenth street, where Harry ate the night
of the murder, said that he came within
few minutes after Z, ate only a little
soup, rejected the dinner course, and,
she thought, only looked at the dessert.
Then he left in great hurry. She and
| her husband remained few minutes
longer and then went to their rooms,
arriving there at 7:30 She recalled the
time because she was going to her
fathers to celebrate his birthday.
Harry had testified that it was 7:22
when he left the diningroom and that
Mr. and Mrs. Mathes were both there.
Miss Cling Started Alone.
James Ford, the old man who keeps
the cigar stand at the corner of First
avenue north and Fifth street, was
called. He was so infirm that he had to
be supported to the witness chair by
three men. He testified that on the
night of Dec. 3 he went into the street
to pick up stick of wood that had
fallen from a passing load. AS he
stopped Miss Cling almost ran over him,
and checked her horse within two feet
of him. The old man knew the lady by
sight. The horse, after being started,
broke into a slight gallop. Ford
watched it until it disappeared
on Western avenue. No amount of
cross examination could shake his testi-
mony. G. B. Dickens, proprietor of the
West hotel livery stable, corroborated
Ford's testimony.