St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-26
Objection sustained.

MIR. ErWln-IhlS is OHefeQ LOT SHOW
ing a motive in another party for COM
uniting this murder, not mentioning
the party, but the court understands.
The Court-There is no proper found
alton laid for that evidence yet.
Mr.. Erwin-Just note an exception.
Mr.. Erwin continued to read por-
lions of BliXt's testimony to the wit
ness only to elicit emphatic denials.
In fact everything that could in any
way tend to corrobora ton of BliXt
in as to the plot to murder, the re-
volver and cartridges, the meeting Of
Miss Cling at Kenwood boulevard and
his conversat tons with Blixt relative
to these matters, witness declared to
be untrue.
@. Did you ever have any talk with
him about a doctor telling you where
to shoot person to kill the quickest?
A. Never in my life.
Q. You never had any such talk with
him? A. Well, now, 1 will tell you
about that a little bit. There might be
some foundation for that talk, because
it was customary for the policeman
about, think, in the neighborhood of
II o'clock at night-he comes around
he is around the basement there and
he stays in there for a few minutes,
and was every night about II o'clock.
And he takes out of his pocket usually
his billy, his little wooden billy, with
lead on the end of it, and he leaves it
on the bench there. Well, 1 know there
was often times when people were in
there, and I remember distinctly it
was quite usual thing to take up that
billy and pound with it, and the police
man would come back and we had
quite talk about it, wondering wheth-
er that would kill man or not, it
was such heavy one, heavier than any
of these billies l have seen hanging up
around in the stores and so forth, and
he would say, Yes, you could hit
man with it so it would kill him. and
l know there was quite a little talk
about that, and so on, what would kill
people and so on, but there was no
privacy about it; the policeman was
there and others. But whether I ever
told him about the DOCTOR it might be
[ know | have several times, often,
talked with doctors about such things;
and that Anoka doctor, it was not the
way it was put into the papers, but
there is some foundation for that. l
was up there camping, and there was
young doctor there; he had just
graduated from college, and he used to
talk with me a great DEAL and tell
me about how they used to lay people
out on a marble slab, and mark Just
where the heart was and all about the
brains and different organs; he used
to talk with me about these things and
explain them to me thoroughly-in
fact, was interested in things of that
kind; in fact, 1 have been advised to
study medicine, and I had been think
ing of it, and l took a great interest in
all those things. But l don't think-I
don't remember Of ever telling Blixt
where to shoot. If I had wanted to
tell him 1 don't think I would have to
ask any doctor about it; 1 think 1
would know that myself.
@. Well, you never told him any
thing of the kind? A. No, sir, never
did
@. He says that night, that night
after the murder, about 10 o'clock, you
came in and turned around and looked
at him and nodded your head? A.
Nothing of that kind, no, sir.
@. He also says that before the muir
der you had showed him letters, and
had told him you had got her to write
letters to you? A. Never; L can ex-
plain about those letters, if you want
me to.
@. Well, did you ever tell him any
such thing? A. No, sir. But 1 know
how these letters-he knew about the
der.
O. He knew about the letters after
wards? A. Yes, sir. After the in
quisition-after those letters had been
taken from me. I did not want them
taken away from me. 1 took a dupli-
cate of the one 1 wrote to her. I W0n-
dered if there was going to be d law
suit or something out of this, and 1
kept the duplicate. 1 didn't want them
to take these letters away from me
when they did. 1 turned it over on TIE
back and L wrote from recollection
just what l wrote to her and her all
swer. And 1 was explaining to I,lixt
and guess everybody else l met after
wards about it.
@. He further testified: "After he
came out of the sweat-boX Tuesday
or Wednesday, I said to him, If you
get arrested again, will you hold out?
Won't you testify then? And he said,
Not in forty years. He then said
after that, L wonder if your wife can
be bought to tell anything 1 said,
My wife doesn't know anything, and
she never will know anything; you
need not be afraid, and she amt the
woman that can be bought for this
house," Ever say anything of the
kind to him? A. I will tell you about
that. There is little foundation for
that. After this thing happened, and
1 had been down to this inquisition, L
was pretty thoroughly convinced that
this was a plot laid and they meant
to implicate me; and when she bor-
rowed that revolver from me- or want
! ed to borrow it, she did it because she
was coached through some third party;
| and l firmly believe if she had succeed
ed in borrowing that revolver it would
have been found on the ground out
| there where the murder was commit
| ted. And I says, "BliXt, don't let any,
body go into my fiat unless they have
papers to show they have a right to
go in there; if they do, the first thing
I know I will find lot of bloody
clothes in my closet; something of the
kind. And about the key, I says, "Your
wife has got the key to my rooms;
now, do you suppose she could be
bought to let anybody in there to do
any monkey business He said, mo:
have her take it out" and 1 think I
did, or she did. think the machine
was taken out of my room at that
time. L left instructions to let no
stranger go in there at all.
@. Well, outside of that possible
| foundation, did you ever say anything
that he testified to there at all? A.