St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-11
THElCOURT THEN ADJ0URNS.
Slow Progress Being Made
o., os . and No New Develop
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HAWKS WILL TRY TO PROVE
That His Entry Was $27
and the 81" Was
49, f. Forged.

The Hawks case dragged along all
day yesterday in the same tedious man
ner it did the day before, and it was
almost time for adjournment in the
evening before the states attorney an
nounced that the testimony for the state
was all in. Then Judge Flandrau made
the opening statement for the defense.
and the court adjourned until this
morning.
When the case was called In the
morning Betsy Shepard. the bookkeeper
for the bank, resumed the witness
stand, and was put through a long
cross-examination that took up most Of
the forenoon, but failed to shake her
testimony in any material point. She
went over in detail everything in con-
nection with the method of keeping the
accounts of the bank, and explained
that the reason FuerSt was allowed to
overdraw his account was because she
went by his pass book without looking
at the ledger. She never had anything
to do with the loans made by the bank.
and knew very little about them.
She was satisfied the defendant must
have received the money from Fuerst,
for she identified his handwriting. She
thought all the figures in the entry
were made by him. She was then ques-
toned at length regarding the kind OF
ink used, and whether it did not change
its color after drying, but if the exami-
nation resulted i'll aiding the defense
materially the spectators did not seem
to catch onto the fact.
Mrs. FuerSt was the next witness.
She corroborated the testimony of her
husband with reference to his having
the money. She gave him sos Oh the
date referred to, and he told her he was
going to place it in bank together with
some more he had on his person.
John Karcher corroborated Fuerst S
testimony with reference to the motive
for borrowing the SIS from his neigh
bors, explaining that Fuerst had a
mortgage on his (Karcher's) property
for S15e, and he was going to loan him
$3.50 more and take mortgage for $500.
But after Fuerst got the money it turned
out that witness did not want to make
the loan.
Joe Tschida testified that he loaned
Fuerst S25 about that time, and cx-
planned the conditions of the loan, cor
roborating the latter's testimony.
Andrew Holonitsch alsoscorroborated
the testimony of Fuerst regarding his
loaning the latter $50 for three months.
Matt rMatinkowtz testified regarding
the loan of 500 Fuerst made to him
when his child died. and another 500
later en- taking mortgages for the
amount: This was simply to corrob-
crate Fnerst's testimony in regard to
all his financial transactions.
Attorney Otto Kueffner testified to
having gone with Fuerst to see Hawks
after the latter had promised to fix the
matter up and failed to do so. Witness
said that on this occasion Hawks re-
piled to FuerSt's question as to whether
the 1927 entity was not made by him
We'll, you see there is blot Oh the IL
Then witness spoke UP and said to
Hawks that he had known Fuerst for
years, and knew what he said was true.
Finally Hawks made a proposition to
compromise by paying Fuerst at the
same rate the suspended bank paid its
creditors. but the offer was rejected.
This closed the testimony for the
prosecution. and Judge Flandrau then
made the opening statement as to what
the defense proposed to prove. His
statement was identically along the
lines anticipated in yesterday morning S
GLOBE. The defense proposes to prove
that Hawks entry was SGT, and that the
'l' placed in front of the 2 is a forgery.
AS to the 1852 entry, being the Sl27
added to the total amount Of the depoS-
its previously made-S225-it will be
commended that this was simply an error,
the discovery of which inspired the
forgery.
It is not probable that the case will
get to the Jury today.