The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-03-07

they brought? A man from whose tinge,
tips the blood OF Catherine Cling is con,
tinually dripping, while from his eyes
drop penitential tears. He walks upon
the stand-blood and tears. They next
bring up man having all evidence of
q marital weakness and deformed
mind, SO weak and deformed it could
never comprehend the command of God
to honor father and mother. A man
who was so weak and deformed in
mind that he became highway robber.
A man so weak that he plotted
crime and finished by plotting the
death and destruction of his brother, a
man so deformed and weak in mind
that in the witness stand, under oath,
could not be respectful to God or his
laws of blood, to father Or mother.
These, bloody, hypocritical murderer
and an escaped tiger, they 2sk you to
believe. These are attended by two
squires- Wilson and jerks. These are
the only witnesses they have brought.
eff Claus A. BIixt has sufficient
weight with you to convince your
minds and conscience, if he and his cor
roborator, this foul tiger-if they are
enough, your duty is plain to conylc-
lion. If the testimony of Claus A. Blixt
is not enough, nor the corroboratlve
testimony of the tiger: then your duty
is plain to acquit. It becomes your
duty to consider with all possible care
the testimony Of Claus A. Blixt, and see
whether he lies There is the supreme
duty.
Paid His Respects to Eustis.
while you are analysing the murder
of poor Miss Kitty Cling did you an
alyze the testimony? Mayor Eustis is
the man who, waking up in his dreams,
should cry, Damned spot-out-out-
there's where the murderer shook my
hand Yes; there is where this poetry
comes in. And he, the mayor, stepped
up to this man when on the witness
stand and shook his hand. You made
a splendid Witness he said; and when
this defendant marched from here to
the Jail, the partisans cried out, Hang
him. Hang him. But when this
penitential saint, Claus A. Blixt, was
taken across there, no one cried out,
hang him. hang him."
Knew Blixt Was Perjured.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Erwin
at once went into his case, first making
a critical analysis of the testimony of
Claus A. Blixt.
81 had an honest purpose" said Mr..
Erwin, Gin my cross examination of
BliXt. had an unconscious sight and
Judgment. knew before he got half
way through that he was perjured. He
could not hide the fact that he had
perjured himself. He was a phenome-
nal man so far as. the grasp of intellect
was concerned His mind was strong
and he had the capacity TO commit per-
jury. He had boldness in proferring
his silly excuses. I found him shifting
as to his motives. He claimed he was
in his statement, and
on the stand he claimed it was
fear for his wife that moved him to
do this deed. I saw it was necessary to
bring out this strong, absolute fact if,
with his strong mind, he could explain
his former statements. I think Blixt
proved himself on the witness stand,
under rules of court, to be the most as
tonishing and daring perjurer have
ever seen on the stand.
There is one thing I thank the al.
mighty God for, and that is that Blixt
by his own words, has demonstrated
this. One word in relation to this
crime. It is as mysterious as it was in
the beginning. There is reason for
this. This case, if the law permitted
it, ought to be sent now to the grand
jury for investigation. It was the
grand jury that admitted this mysteri-
GUS case into court for trial. The
grand jury ought to be abolished. The
system was created to take hold of mys-
terious cases.
By mistake, by error, the mayor, the
and county attorney turned
themselves into an improvised grand
jury. They stepped in the investiga-
ton just where they pleased. They
took the self-confessed murderer and
patted him on the back, with promises
of clemency, and set themselves to
work to crush down and destroy all the
natural sources Of inquiry. They pro-
tect Claus A. Blixt and Adry Hayward,
the ones who should have been investi-
gated. All the mysterious movements
of Miss Cling could have been disclosed
had there been the proper investigation.
Now, Claus A. Blixt and the construc-
ton of his story is voiced here in this
evidence, and in a way you can't help
taking notice of. How many things do
you suppose contrdict Blixt? He con-
tradicts himself time after time, day
after day, circumstances after circum-
stances"
"The dead body contradicts him, the
condition of the clothes, the blood in
the buggy, the tracks, his wife, his
brother-in-law, the witnessing of the
note, the bullet and then witnesses who
established the alibi, these all contra
dict him."
Ratifying the Japanese Treaty.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE emperor
of Japan has formally executed the rat
if1cation of the new treaty with the
United States and the document has
inst been forwarded. It is expected tn