St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-08

the police officers testified to, and
were careful and considerate to find
out just what the conditions We're
They saw just where the patrol wagon
was this side of where the body lay
and they saw where the body lay,
and they saw where DR.. Russells
buggy turned just the other side of
where the body lay. This agrees and
harmonizes with the testimony of
young Russell, the doctors son, when
he testified that when he stopped the
horse he stopped it away or nearly
behind where the patrol wagon was,
a few feet behind where it stood, and
the patrol wagon stood this side of
the buggy a considerable distance;
and after they examined the bouy
they drove the patrol wagon up and
put the body in it, put it in before it
turned around. He went back after
the body had been taken away, back
where the patrol wagon had originally
stood, to where his buggy was stand
ing, and he and his father got in
and drove Up forty or fifty feet from
where they were and turned around.
That is just what the distance was.
They turned around near and just
beyond where the patrol wagon
turned around. 1t is testified here by
Getchell, and by all these officers, that
this buggy turned further south on
the Excelsior road could not have
been Russells buggy or any other
buggy that is known of in this case,
unless it was the buggy that Claus A.
Blixt claimed Miss Cling was put in.
Now, look what they say. 1t is not to
be cast up; this is not to be discarded
This is the beginning of the investlga-
ton in your minds as to the cred1b1lity
of Claus A. BliXt, from the contempla-
lion of outlying circumstances. My
notes are taken distinctly from the
evidence, and if I misquote the evil
dence in any way, / desire to be cor
rected. / have it distracted in the
words in which it was given. Where
the buggy turned-that is, this buggy
which is not DR.. Russell's-50 or 100
feet beyond where the body lay there
were two places that looked like peo-
pie had stopped and tramped around.
After the buggy got into the street,
there were footprints of narrow, point
ed shoes going down there about ten
feet on this side of the body, where
they left the road; where the buggy
track turned it looked as if the buggy
stopped and the wheel was cramped
up, and there We're quite few shoe
tracks around there, as If somebody
had stopped between the wheels where
the buggy was cramped. No man on
earth can understand this testimony
better than you, gentlemen, who are
q M 70 fro
on the highway, necessitated to travel,
necessitated to watch the appearance
of the ground in relation to your cattle
and in relation. to wagons, and in re-
lation to everything occurring in your
life in that particular industry. OF all
men on earth you know that if the
track shows where a wagon had
cramped and that the people had gone
in there and tramped around in the
track of the wagon, that they whisp-
cred. You know that better than any,
body else. Because there is no need of
going into the tramping of the wheels
standing there unless this intercourse
is confidential, and people don't go In
there except under these circum-
stances. Now, If Mr.. Blixt's story is
true. that he turned around. the wagon
track says he stopped and cramped his
wheel there. The testimony of Getch-
ell and of the police officers-and there
We're four that fixed it before you-that
in that cramped wheel between the
opening made by the cramping of the
wheel upon the other side there stood
some one and their tracks were there
as If they had stood and talked. This
does not depend on Harry Hayward or
any friend of Harry Hayward's. This
is the testimony of the state itself, OPP
Grating in its own best economy in the
investigation of crime. There is no ex-
planning that You cannot hunt for
possible explanations. You must take
proper explanations, and if the mat
terS can probably be explained YOU
need not pay much attention to it,
But there is no probable explanation
Tor this circumstance except the one
claimed, and that is that other persons
than whoever was in that buggy
stopped here and talked; and that from
that point where they stopped and
talked the man with pointed shoue
walked down towards where the body
lay L lay no particular stress upon
any pointed tracks which were on the
road opposite the body, although thew
We're testified to. They add. to
a certain degree, to the testi-
mony of the pointed shoes
which were in the tramped part of the
road going down from where the
tracks were in the cramp of the
wagon; but they are in on way GER
tain, in no way connected. They were
simply similar and might have been
made by any other feet l want to be
perfectly fair on that. I do not claim
that these tracks which were on the
side OF the buggy and went up in the
brush, L do not ask you to give that
significance. But / submit to you that
you would, it seems to me, explain I'M
der the testimony of all the persons
who were there that night, how, so or
100 feet beyond where the body lay, 40
or so feet beyond where Russell turned
his wagon, those opening wheels per-
mitted man to stand between them,
and the sharp-pointed shoe track went
down from that place towards where
the body was.
WAS BEIXT ALONE,