St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-08
NO BLOOD ON BLIxT.
story of the Assassin RidicuIea nv
the Attorney


is true, his clothes would have shown
this thing-for gracious heaven. here
Is the woman's hat all covered with
piood! Mark you, and the hat only
rode a mile after the woman was shot
according TO his story; but according TO
MS story he rode with that bulky body
OF MS occupying half of that seat that
mile, keeping the dead body over away
from him, and when he put it out he
then rode along in the buggy another
mile to where he left it to come to the
Darn. Double and triple the chances
ana opportunity to get blood upon him.
and yet he had no blood upon him.
wen, as you go along in the further
consideration of this testimony Won
VIII see the reason, and that reason ia
this: What made him try to con,
struct an alibi for an hour. one noor
hour! What was it? In that 200.
hour he met his accomplice. in thar
poor hour he changed his clothes in
mat poor hour he lie concealed, and
the truth, if we could get at it, would
prove this sniveling hypocrite a per-
jurer as he is
ne went down to South MINNEAPOLIS
ana there he says he went down. but he
dldnt go down-false. He puts II
where his friends were, where the
SWede was, where Blum was: he casts
ms rod where it was best to catch
Where his hope would be safest-ba
uldh catch. Desperate man to cover
that hour-what hour? That hour of
washing bloody clothes, or changing
pioooy clothes, or that hour of making
up with MS accomplice, perhaps to di-
'iue the booty, to find out that the
money on her person was all a fake
she nad no money on her person. that
was all fake Here comes this man
Dolt' IN the minds eye, born out of
TINS lnferna' and hellish plot of per-
jury! Not by witnesses purchased. in
duced, wheedled, coaxed and bvpno-
tlzed, by the irrefragible and intellil
g1ole evidence of metaphysical things
operated and marked by the indelibIe
mark of the Master, under His divine
law, to which all human testimony
must yield, for that is the very foun-
cation OF common sense.
Gentlemen, there is one piece of tes-
tlihony mere, which you gentlemen who
are In the habit of taking care of
norses, you constantly use horses in
your everyday business, will readily
understand. Now, mark you, this
morse, when 1t came to the barn. was
not warm. The horse had heard the
SHOTS, knew about the falling BODY
horses know those things as we'll as
men; they are startled by these things
more readily than men are, as Won all
know, and the tendency to have ex-
cited the horse must have existed
through all these circumstances. what
ever they were. And that horse. he
claims, was driven rapidly around by
Erhardt's over the railroad track. COM
ing down by the railroad track, anu
was seen by these boys, driving along
that road up there very rapidly, and
turning the corner down Lake street.
and yet the horse was not warm.
That horse was not driven as hard as
they say he was. But / call your at
tentlon, you, gentlemen, who know.
these things by absolute experience
L call your attention to this fact, thai
you may be able to show your brethren
by absolute knowledge on this subject
the lines on the dashboard were lust
as though some one had laid them on
the dashboard. In all your history as
farmers, in all your experience in
driving horses, whether from a box
wagon or from buggy, or from any
vehicle, especially a vehicle whose box
was sitting on springs, and teeter-
when, in all of your experience was a
horse driven the distance that that
horse was driven, and the lines ex-
tending from the back strap to the
dash, which are heavier than any other
part of the lines, which hangs from the
top of the dash, when their natural sag
did not pull those lines down in the
case of box wagon, until the lines
bending down, sagging down, strikes
upon the cross tree, breaking the
weight; of if the cross tree doesn't
catch them, goes down upon the
/ ground. When, in all the history or
your experience did you ever see a
horse driven from the corner of Lake
street and Twenty-ninth, Dupont, by
any road you might take to Goosman's
I stable, however softly the horse may
walk, In a buggy which was a hard
riding buggy, according to the testi-
mony Of Mr. Goosman, uncontradicte0
when did you ever hear of the lines
holding themselves up as these lines
did, against the teeter, the oscillation
Of that buggy, and not sag down-just
as If they were laid there from the hand
onto the dashboard, before the horse
came into the barn?