The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-05
SETTER SIPHON.
vas Used TO SEPARATE
AxcRY FIGHTERS.
=. s>ssy. % Told Yesterday On the
.-..s-~.s xsasd I'm the kraas MUIR
- rx4ai, Caused Anusemens In
n~arf Room-The State Presses
- case Against the Accused Man
- the Defense ON cross-Exana-
e--6soa spars for an Opening
e1.e~ xews of the Courts.

,r.r,or amid solemn surroundings lie the
x'ee.eSt kind OF hurnor. Nowhere Is the
.s.,s~. Of a laugh 80 dear as at some
r,.s.r service or function where 10 laugh
-a~s a crime. The solemnity of O
-s~v trial In the superior court was
s.sr Yesterday by a ripple 81 amuse-
-. - spontafeous and 20 genuine that
- everything before g. and for
- ne Jurors forgot their grave duties
- ~ halo Of a smile played round the
~11c1a1 bench.
. - Il. tho Kraus case, and William
80 proprietor OF the Pioneer saloon,
- = The stand. The preliminary skir-
-.~hi.<. questions and answers as 20
--~~e and dates, excited no unwoEted
1900 among the large crowd IN the
.s..s,f room; but when he came 10 tell how
!. te6ke up a bar room broil by turning
s1,frer giphon on the angry fighters,
~ much as a hose pipe is sometimes
srned on an ohdurate prisoner 10 bring
-. 10 terrns-wcii. II was then the court
5000 TO be solemn. After telling OF buy
- some potatoes from yolski on Febru-
~ II, Bloch said:
s,Fhe lltfle fellow. Kr4lg. was standing
:. fht railing OF the bar and pointing az
- nofatoes, they were laying back In
- Yooun. and Nolskl was eating iunch,
- - vas psnting at the potatoes. and
- 4 came up and told him that he
= - want me 20 tell IL in German?'
a 10: Tell me sn English.
4 IA told him II he would tell what no
49, sT ssss r. s so1 Mou fs 70 ss Ia, Mna,
yfxns had done. kraus would SO to jail?
4 ~ WAT elser
nee Krags tumgsa OF the railing
- 6or< you would be hung and the
~ foltow says again: mo: you are the
- 90 ought to be hung'-Volski-a
- nnebody raped for a beer and /
~ 3 90 back and wait on them, and
r.. came back they had each other
= . beard--thesr whlskers and they
- hing. and | jumped behind the
- ID took the settler bottlo--a ST.
- lle--and got them apart that
-. after that he went back and
~ IN again--the other fellow.
& IIow did you say you separated
- uhcn they were duarreilng2
n 4put tho siphon-seTxer on them
q What IL meant by that--what Is the
aa1un- ssltxer?
4 Jusf hike q hose: shoots from here
/ ~ oppressive gesture of Mr.. Bloch at
- point was enough TO convulse the
aoud and he continued tha amusement
NJ by telling how the men started to
t1ting a second time when he again
ointled them with seller from the
80.
ise state resumed its case yesterday
mIning. with p j. Elliott on the witness
81 He told of his visit to the ruin.
- morning after the fire. of finding
M In the soft loan and the charred
Msins Of volski and two pools of blood
j tho planks. He saw Kraus coming
- the direction OF the house. On meet
Il him. kraus exclaimed
Uelr Gott. all / hat was burnt up"
keampanied by Nelson. who was with
eptf. they went To the house Elliott
~: Whose blood IL that?'' Kraus re-
~ Eds" meaning voiski's. and also
~ the remains were yoiskfs. Nelson
~: Somebody must have killed him."
x>geupon krTlus exclaimed. Me kill
| ny NO" said Nelson, 81 didn't mean
/ ywr Kraus said he has lost all his lit
d klongings and he cared more for them
Inn for I'D. Elliott had seen marks as
ia hody had been dragged to the house.
h ~ Of the coroner's jury and OF the AK
q Tie eoor. though on crosS-exanination
b admtuhi that the AK had passed through
Tie hanb OF the Jurors before he saw IT,
Tie discrimination also perplexed the
vltaes on the points OF the compass.
There was an interesting hattie over Ell
BITS redirect and the cross-examinafion
Rowing. He stated that he had assisted
sectiye Cave. and had also told all he
IN about the case TO Capt. p. u.
RgAes, of counsel for Kraus. Mr..
Nghes, cross-cxasnining. asked leave TO
snto the subject matter or Eiliott's
uiements to him. Mr.. Hart. for the
Hse objected. and the questioning pro-
eessd np TO a certain point. bringing out
q admission from Elliott that he had not
~ the jury all he knew OF the case.
% hat on the night of the IRE Ole Nell
- had gone 10 Kraus and Volski's
huS. He also reluctantly admitted that
g wife had said In Hughes presence,
azf would We do &c that fellow should
~ lDose.''
men came witness Bloch, whose story
as sheady been told. He was followed by
asny Wilson. who testified among other
nhss that he knew OF no trouble between
Anas and Volski. Adolph Baker. deputy
nssiH. told OF getting the overails which
= alleged kraus wore. He admitted
"a he had advised Kraus 10 plead self
eense. and that kraus at that time had
p'etested hts innocence. Ernest Rarsell,
cock. identified the overails as resem-
saS those worn by kraus. Ia Springer
bsaiaed that he knew OF no trouble be-
sseen the two men
Aate Flynn. the last witness for the day.
ss'ed she had known the men three years.
Lsst August she saw Kraus with hts face
~ =. covered with blood; he said Nolski had
si AIM with a stone. She had passed the
hing.
TIE state will resume its evidence this