The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-08
COURT SAYS NO.
Testimony Regarding Adrian
HayWard'S Sanity Again
Ruled Out.
NO FOUNDATION WAS LAID.
Witness Wilson TeStifieS That
the Defense Tried to
Bride Him.

In the matter of ends the insanity plea,
J which the defense has urged SO persist.
emily in the case of Adry Hayward,
came to an end untimely and inglori-
ously. Mr.. Erwin chung to his pet
theory of making Adry out a lunatic
without first laying a foundation with
reat pertinacity, and the courts pa.
ence was severely taxed dozens of
faes.
RMr. Erwin's attempts to introduce
5stimony and dispositions tending to
prove Adry's insanity at times bordered
on the lgdicrous. The court ruled that
Eles had laid no proper foundation for
ijuch testimony, and that time and Cir
Icumstances must be distinctly stated
before any consideration could be given
to it. After bringing the matter up in
several different ways and meeting with
repeated rebuffs, the Tall Pine gave it
up, excused his experts and turned with
out moments delay to the introduce
ton of new testimony.
Wilson Again on the Stand.
M. d. Wilson cut a rather interesting
figure Oh the witness stand when called
on to testify as to conversations he had
engaged in with various people since the
Cling murder. Mr.. Erwin proceeded to
fill the hide of his own witness with
assegais and secured admissions from
the horse trader that he had several
times asserted his inability to swear
who was in the buggy that night on
Kenwood boulevard. MIR. Wilson stood
it for a while and pointed out to the at
torney that he had told only the persons
he believed entitled to such information
who he saw in the buggy. The reason
he talked differently to those asking
him questions about the matter was that
he had been pursued with relentless
persistence by reporters, attorneys and
other inquisitive people, until life had
been made burden for him, and he had
been forced to dissimilate in sheer self
defense. Mr.. Erwin persisted in max
= ing the witness admit that the stories
he had told were lies, either one way OF
the other, and this made the short
fSEdy u1tlIS VI w l1SOu CIdulILlll I1SO up.
He let out hint that the attorney for
the defense was playing with edged
tools.
Still Erwin poked away. Finally
Wilson thought forbearance was no
longer a virtue. When asked whether
he had not stated to several people that
he had been offered $500 to testify in a
certain way, the witness replied that he
had not made the statement in that
form, but he had made the remark: 81
guess 1 could get $500 out Of this it I
wanted to-"
Sweetser Approached Him.
1t was thin ice all around for the
tall lawyer from ST. Paul, but he kept
on questioning until Wilson raped out
a direct statement that Attorney
Sweetser, one of the lawyers for the
defense, had called at his house two
weeks ago last Sunday, and endeavored
to influence his testimony with hints
as to the amount of money w. w.
Hayward was worth. There had been
no direct offer of sum of money on the
part of the defense, but Mr.. Sweetser
had emphasized the fact of Hayward
seniors wealth, and had repeatedly told
Wilson that his testimony was neces
sary to the Hayward side of the case.
man, but that they could not buy him,
and that he would tell nothing until
put on the stand Mr.. Wilson was
then excused until Sweetser could be
got into court.
There were half dozen witnesses ON
hand to testify for the defense as to
what Wilson had told them about his
knowledge of the buckskin horse outfit.
Three of them were on the stand,
Messrs. T. S. Danforth, Louis Laramie
and Harry D. Davis. To the latter Will
son had said that he could get $500 from
the Haywards if he wanted it, and to
I the first two he had asserted his inabil-
: ity to swear positively who was in the
buggy he saw.
Proofs of Insanity.
At the afternoon session Mr. Erwin
attempted to introduce testimony re-
garding Alry's insanity, but the state
objected and the court sustained the OBJ
lection on the ground that no proper
foundation for such evidence was laid.
A M. Sweetser, one of the attorneys
for the defense, was then called to the
stand and Wilson's testimony read to
him entire, with regard to his talk with
Wilson, in which he was alleged to have
tried to bride Wilson.
SIS that true?' asked Erwin.
"It is not true" said Sweetser, slowly
and distinctly.
On cross-examination Mr.. Nye drew
from the witness that Miss Wachter,
the star witness for the defense, is at
present employed in his office. He per-
sistently denied the offer of money to
Mr. Wilson and said he had had none
of the Hayward money to handle.
Mr. Erwin had no more witnesses
present and at o'clock the court re-