The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-29
Witne sses for the De-
Tense Examined on
Friday.
Expected to Prove An Abb.
Other Items OF Interest Picked ~
About the Metropolis OF the
Copper Country.

found. Charles Wendell was standing B
side me when the marshal and Nolt
= passed. Charles saw them and sal
wait here until come back. He return,
,, soon and said that they were lookin
for the girl and that they would find hi
and thought il would be best tor him
take his coat and skip. He came back !
half an hour and said he had been {
Ia Youngs office and said might be calle
there soon. He asked me il knew any
thing about the girl and told me TO sa.
he was with me that day.
Laura Wendell said she went TO Dur
: ham s for eggs about 3 O'Clock. Had
some difficulty in getting across the lake
Got the eggs from Carlsons Going
there saw some boys but did not know
who they were.
This concluded the case for the people
The lawyers for the accused then moved
that the detectives evidence be stricken
out, but the court denied the motion.
Attorney Flanagan then stated he ex-
pected TO prove an alibi, by showing
that the boy left his mothers house
about 400 O'Clock and went across Lake
Bancroft TO swim in Cooper Lake; that
he stopped at Sodergren's and while
there his sister Laura came across the
lake and Sodergren called TO her, "lour
brother is here" that after the three
boys rowed across the lake and Wendell
went home, after which he went to the
show and returned at IL o'clock.
The first witness for the defense was
James Morris, of Chicago, an expert em-
balmer, who said he had handled several
thousand dead people and had observed
that in from forty-eight to sixty-two
hours an odor will arise from dead
body. The odor cannot be described. Ii
increased in intensity in from four to six
weeks; then il diminishes. Fabrication
will commence where the injury that
caused the death is. The odor from the
dead body would be noticed in the room
below. Odors go up, the fluids or liquids
would 20 down. They will penetrate
anything except zinc or glass. The smell
would be so strong that person would
not live there. Naturalization is the dry
ne up OF the body with its fluids.
Seth Sodergren lives at Lake Bancroft
Saw Wendel's sister coming across the
lake on the afternoon OF the oath OF June
and going TO Carlson's. One of the boys
said, Laura, here is Charles"
Laura Wendell said that when she
crossed the lake she saw the boys. They
said something to her. The eggs were
for the wedding. The family went to the
wedding about o'clock.
Eddie Werner said he saw Charles at
the show the night the fire bell rang. ON
cross examination said he could not men,
ton another person who was at the
show that evening; was not even sure
that Wendell was present when the fire
bell rang; he did not sit near or talk with
him, but thought he must have been there.
Charles Olson, who sent come men to
kalsomine Wenders house last summer.
was present when the men were at work.
Ii was about July 20. They we're work
ing in the second story. Did not notice
any smell.
Christ 0ehi, one OF the men who did
the kalsomining, noticed no bad smell.
but could not always tell through work
ing with paint.
Sophia johnson worked for Wendels
last July. She went INTO the garrett Just
before the tournament, Noticed no smell
but two weeks after the tournament the
smell was very bad.
John Rose, an Ontonagon fireman,
stopped at Wendels with his wife three
days last August, but noticed no bad
smell.
Dan Wier and George Baily, two other
fremen who stopped at the Wendell
| house, noticed no bad smell.
Mrs. A. c. Noelker, who is grand
mother oil the accused, said few DAYS
after the body was found my daughter
brought Charles clothes down. They
were dirty and put them in the tub and
the girls washed them. Charles did not
know anything about it. There was no
| I've in the house. She said that Simon
Carlson told her on the day that Eva
was lost Charles was with him picking
wood and that the fire bell was ringing
as they we're coming home. On cross ex-
animation said she did not examine the
clothes, but just put them in the water.
| An aunt OF the accused, Mrs. Roebm.
said that Simon Carlson told her he was
with Charles the day Eva was lost about
! O'Clock at Flannigan's corner; they
were sitting there picking wood. Carl
son said he left Charles a little before 6 at
the cemetery steps and went home.
Mrs. Wendell, the mother OF Charles. her
husband il dead, was in the store on
June 81. She said Charles went AWAY
about 430 and did not finish freezing the
ice cream. Eva was there in the after
noon; she went away and then came
back about J:45. asked il Lily was sleep
ing, stepped out of the door and that is
the last saw OF her. About 6:30 or Z
O'Clock Charles came back and asked me
for 10 cents to 20 to the show. which
gave him and he went away. went to
the wedding about 7:30; next saw Charles
at II o'clock. When the fire bell rang
Charles went to the engine house to see
what IL was about. lie came back and