St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03
THIS IS A CLINCHER,

THIS IS A CLINCHER.
MIR. jerks Saw Harry Run Along
side a Car.
George w. jerks, the well-known
banker and broker with offices in the
Minnesota Loan and Trust company's
building, was the next and last wit
ness put on in rebuttal. His testi-
mony quickly discovered the expected
Sensa ton.
q. You are engaged in what bust
ness? A. Banker and broker, in thG
Minnesota Loan and Trust company's
building, in this city
O. And where is your home? A.
2l2O Fremont avenue south; in the re-
gion known as the Lake of the Isles.
1t is two blocks west of Hennepin ave-
nue. near Twenty-second street.
Q. What line of cars do you take in
going to your home and in coming to
the city? A. Usually the Lake Har-
riet.
Q. Where were you on the evening
of Dec. 8, in the vicinity of Z o'clock?
A. At home.
Q. At what time did you leave your
home? A. Five minutes past five or
six minutes past 7.
Q. Had you any engagement, any
thing that called your attention to the
time, the passing time? A Yes, sir.
Q. What was that? A 1 was to at
tend the Retail Merchants banquet at
the Commercial club at 7:3O. Yes, sir:
l wanted five minutes before the meet
ing to meet some personal friends.
O.. Leaving your house, then, about
five. minutes past o'clock, you took
what car line-what street car? A. AS
L came out on my porch missed the
car, the five minutes past car was
just passing; SO L walked down to the
junction, where 1 might have a chance
OF catching one of three lines, at Lowry
hill0the Lyndale, Kenwood and Harriet.
My gneXt car, regular car, was the
twenty-minute car-twenty minutes be-
tween.
y. AS you came down on the car,
We're you sitting on the inside of the
car, or were you on the outside of the
car? A. I was standing in the vesti-
bule, on the rear platform
Q. Do you recollect anything uf1us-
tai happening on that trip down on the
car, from where you got on down to
your point of destination, which would
be the intersection of Fourth street
and Hennepin avenue? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Anything happen near or about
the vicinity of Central park? A. Yes,
sir.
Q. What was it? A. When we
reached a point one block this side of
Kenwood boulevard
Q. Will you indicate on the map.
this is +, continuation of Harmon
place A. Indicating on map.) 1t is
a little street-it is continuation of
Harmon place. don't know the name
of it.
Q. 1t is this? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you know whether there is a
vacant lot or block there? A. Yes,si r;
it is little vacant lot in there-a va
cant lot.
@: That is the block lying north of
the Kenwood boulevard? A Yes, sir,
right next to Hennepin.
Q. Using that pointer you may de-
scribe what you saw there and what
there occurred.
Mr.. Erwin-Objected to as imma-
terial, not knowing what it is.
The Court-The objection is over
ruled.
Mr.. Erwin-Exception.
A. On this corner there is a sign
board, or a bill board, forty or fifty
feet long. AS we reached this point a
man suddenly appeared at this end OF
the bill board and he came on the side
walk and ran down the sidewalk, fol-
lowing the car. Thinking he wanted to
catch the car 1 touched the conductor.
who was standing next to me; he
reached for the bell and brought the
car almost to a standstill; when the
car stopped or Stacked up the man
stopped running. 1 noticed the man
was not after the car, and the con-
,duetor pulled the bell cord and he
went on. We halted the car for tho
man at the corner. Qndicat ing.)
/ How near to the car had the man
whom you saw at first running come
before the car again started up on it's
way. A. When the conductor pulled
Sthe5bell cord to go on the man was
somewheres in this street, having run
To- Of Is yards, the length of that-per-
,=haps 10 or 10, or perhaps 20 yards, the
length of the bill board, and had got
ten in the street itself.
@. AS the car proceeded down Hen
nepin, did you observe the direction he
kept? A. He followed the car and
by the time we had turned this corner
2 he had passed in behind these large
trees in front of brick block, this
stellement-there is four or five tene-
: ments in there.
c. Following up Hennepin avenue?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Are you able to Identify the man
whom you saw? A. believe so; yes,
sir.
a. Who was it?' A. Harry Hay
ward.
Mr.. Hall-Take the witness.
Cross-examination by Mr.. Erwin.
@. Who was the conductor on that
car? A. don't know, sir.
@. Give me the name of the person
that was on the car with you? A. 1
could not do it.
@. Have you tried to inquire who
was on the car with you? a. No, sir;
reported it to the officer.
@. The vestibule is glassed in? A.
Yes, sir.
@. So you are inside of a glass
house? A. Yes, sir.
O. Inside of a glass house and swing