St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-06
STRONGLY CoRRoBoRATIvE'
The Evidence Given by the Wife
of Biixt.

OF
Mr.. Nye then reverted to the strong
corroboratiye testimony of Mrs. bl;Xt
as to the conversation and transac-
tons between the defendant ard
Blixt on the night of the murder. He
next briefly narrated Blixt's actions
on the night after committing the
crime, the trip back to town, the cali
at the jewelry store, his return to the
Ozark, his conversation with Harry
Hayward thereafter.
Now, gentlemen" said Mr.. Nye, Il
expect there is quite a field for the in>
genuity of the defense in the examin-
alton of those matters of confederation
of Blixt, concerning those natural,
those silent witnesses in the case, such
as the position of the body, condition
of the buggy, condition of the cloth
ing, condition of the trackS-thoSe
things. But I am going to ask you,
gentlemen, without very much argu,
ment on my part, to simply take an
honest, common sense view of
those various questions and settle
them, not in the light of theories, but
in the light of the evidence in this
case; what is natural and what is hon
est. l am unable to see why the con-
dition of that buggy, as to blood, is
not a natural, a powerful and com,
plete confederation of Claus Blixt.
Gentlemen, there never was a drop
of blood from that woman before she
was thrown from the buggy, but what
came from the wound of entrance at
the rear of the right ear.
you will be your own judges-you
saw the buggy~here; you heard the tes-
timony of Mr.. Goosman in connection
with it, and 1 submit to you that this
is within itself a powerful and COM
plete confederation. 1t is prominent
confederation of the fact that that poor
dead woman's head rested back on
the back curtain, where the blood still
remained when you saw the buggy,
and she must have ridden for some
distance in that way-that drunken
and benighted murderer holding the
robe between him and her. And the
woman's hat is a complete corrobera-
ton of the blood stains which must
have rubbed against the hat as he was
endeavoring to steady the lifeless form
that rode by his side. Let them make
all they can out of the buggy, the po-
sition of the body, the skull or what
they may, the farther we have gone
in this case and the more evidence has
strated that every word of Claus "A.
Blixt's testimony was true. You are
not going to be deceived by any fine
haired distinction about position, or
how the limp and lifeless woman
thrown from the buggy on the frozen
ground might or might not strike. We
have demonstrated by the best physi-
clans of this city, and we could have
brought fifty more, that those frac-
lures might likely, might and probably
did result from the fall. And some OF
these physicians have testified, and one
of their own physicians gave currency
to the opinion himself, that they could
have been produced by the conclusion
of the bullet itself -
Now, what is there in, this case as
to the body? Aren't there many
different ways that that girl, being
thrown from the buggy, might have
cut the lip upon the tire of the wheel,
or upon the frozen and uneven sur
face of the ground? What is there in
the case, gentlemen, that is not con-
sistent, absolutely consistent with the
testimony Of Claus A. BliXt?''
The testimony of William Erhardt,