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

the conversation that you had 1t Wit
messed, and had a written affidavit anu
had it sworn to before notary publlc,
and if he ever said anything against
you you would have him in the states
prison for ten years Anything IKE
that said to him? A. No, sir.
Q. Were you ever engaged with MIN
in barn burning. A. I never was.
@. Is any truth at all in his state
ments about burning the barn. A.
No, not bit whatever. 1 can tell you
pretty nearly where the fire business
comes from.
@. Well, that amt necessary at this
time? A. There are children of mis-
fortune around this courtroom in res,
gard to fires.
@. Now, there was some instructions
testified to here by Mr.. Tucker, in re-
gard to keeping the elevator on the
first floor. You may state what IN
structions were and what was the occa-
sion of giving them? A. Well, told
him when Mr.. Blixt was in the base
ment attending to things there for him
to stay out of the basement and stay
in the elevator. Now that may be
taken just exactly two ways.
@. For what purpose did you tell
him that? A. 1 told him that to bet
ter satisfy the tenants of the building
When BliXt was in the basement IT
was not necessary for him to be down
there, but when Blixt was away on
business it was necessary for him to
stay down there to attend to the steam
plant. He had been in the habit OF
int no ho
checkers and such things as that, and
they all had to wait for the elevator.
@. Mr. Tucker also testified that
during the summer some time he sent
a letter for you with a draft in it from
Miss Cling for $50? A. L think that is
right. e
@. Did you-receive such draft from
Miss Cling? A. Yes, sir. l don't re-
member the 'occasion-some money
transaction-she had given me her
check and perhaps l didn't have time
to cash it; don't know what it was.
There was a good many money deals
between US and don't remember just
what 1t was. But I tell you he had
the time wrong; he testified that it was
about the 1st Of August. If you look
it up you will find it was back in June
or July-if you will look the check up
you will find my Endorsement on it.
@. Now, I call your attention to
Adry Hayward's testimony, but be-
fore do that, will ask you whether
the conversation in general with Mr.
Blixt, as related by him, about killing
anybody, or about Miss Ging-whether
those conversat tons are true or false?
A. They are all false.
@. Did you ever have any intention
of killing Miss Cling? A. Never in the
world 1t is the furtherest thing from
my mind in the world.
@. Did you ever have any confeder-
ates, or any talk with anybody about
killing Miss Cling? A. Never.
@. Now, Mr.. Adry Hayward testi-
fled that Harry and l have been on
first-class terms, as general thing. y
A. That is not true.
@. Now, you may go on and give
what terms you have been on with
your brother during the past five or six
years and what serious times you had
with him, all of them. A. l don't be-
lieve I ever was to the theater with
| my brother in my life-well, l won't
say my life, but 1 will say in the last
five years. Well, l will tell you. [
guess in five years I have not been or
gone any place for pastime or amuse-
ment with my brother five times, in
| five years; I don't think that is eXag-
gerating it at all. Of course, if they
were picked out and my attention
called to it, it might be different. But
I don't believe 1 have been with him
| five times in five years.
| @. Now, what trouble have you had
| with him in connection with yourself
or your father, what trouble? A.
Well, my brother Adry is a victim of
that green-eyed monster, jealousy, has
been for five years-and well, anything
that comes up, don't make any differ
ence what it is, it is so strong that if I
should go in sometime and borrow $50
of my father over night, or something
| like that, my father would be afraid to
| give it to me in front of my brother, for
| fear of a scene; for if I should go out
after that my brother would light on
my father and want to kill him in
| stantly-not once, but hundreds of
times I have seen that brother of
mine stand up in front of my father
and curse and BLACKBOARD him, swear
he would kill him dozens of times.
Mr.. Nye-That is objected to as in
competent, irrelevant and immaterial.
@. Well, you rebuked your brother?
| A. 1 have, time and again.
The Court-So far as any difficulty
between his mother and his father and
his brother, I do not see that this is
competent.
Mr.. Erwin-On1y so far as it is con-
nected with him.
The Witness-Well, I am giving you
the trouble in which 1 was connected
with it.
The Court-Well, he does not claim
| he was there and saw this all.
| The Witness-Yes, sir. I was there
| and heard it.
| @. What would you say to him? A.
| I would pitch into him and he al
ways
The Court-Now, don't talk of the
| difficulty between your father and
mother unless you were present And
the difficulties you have had with him
you can state briefly, even in their
presence. A. You want the main diff
ficulty between he and I?
| O.. Yes. A Well, the first main diff
Guilty lately, was about last spring
shall I go on and tell you all about it?
@. Yes. A. That was the one that
| was ruled out once.
(The witness went on, after an ar
| gument between the attorneys, to tell
| how on the morning after he and Miss
! Cling and Miss Vedder were held up
near the Lake of the Isles, he found
| his watch, taken from him that night,
| in Adry's possession)
Court here took a recess until
| o'clock.
HIS TALK WITH ADRY.