The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-18

sidewalk, and soon nfseTWaTo LIT. wells I
arrived and Kroeger was renewed to
the two men he saw running wore a
light cofored SLOUGH hat, and the man
on the inside of the walk had on long
coat.
Louis Lienemann.
Louis Lienemann testified that he
knew kroeger, the deceased. AT the
California brewery, about 10 minutes be-
fore 10 O'clock on the night or May %.
the night of the murder, Mr. Liene-
mann changed some money for him. he
could not say that Mr.. Kroeger dis
played much money. The last time NJ.
Lienemann saw Kroeger he stood at the
west end of the bar. near the Main
street entrance. About 10:30 O'Clock the
witness heard that kroeger had been
murdered
Jacob Osenbrug, a brother-in-law of
William Kroeger, the murdered man.
testified that he heard of the murder
about 1890 o'clock at night and reached
the scene just in time to see some men
carrying the wounded man into the hos
pital. The doctor said there was only
one chance in a hundred that the man
would live and that the only hope for
him was to perform an operation, which
the doctor was Instructed to perform. 1t
was apparent that he was dying and he
asked the witness, in German, to see
that his wife and child were taken care
of Osenbrug said that after Moody
and Franey were arrested he accompa-
MED Henry Kroeger to the jail to take
a look at the suspects. The jailer called
Moody to the bars and Moody took
good look at Osenbrug, but toe instant
his eyes encountered those of Henry
Kroeger he started back and became
very nervous and uneasy, and tried TO
keep away. The jailer asked Moody Il
question about some handkerchiefs and
Moody was so nervous he could not re-
ply. He made a partial answer and
then seemed to be choking, or out of
breath, and he stopped, and after recov-
ering he completed his answer. As soon
as Kroeger and Osenbrug got through
inspecting Moody he made a rush to
get back into his cell and away from
kroeger.
BY consent of the attorneys the testi-
mony of Thomas A. Morrin, taken at
the preliminary examination, was read
to the jury, the witness himself being
out of the country. At the preliminary
trial he appeared as a witness on both
sides. In his testimony for the prosecu-
tion he said that on the night of the
murder he was with Moody and Franey
in the California brewery about 10
o'clock. Morrin is an attorney and he
was in the brewery to see one Michael
Cramer, a witness in another case.
Cramef was with Moody and Franey.
| The men were standing near the west
| end of the bar, near the Main street en-
| trance. They remained there about 10
| minutes, when Morrin left and stepped
/ outside for a few minutes The three
| men soon came out and passed east On
| Characterization by Mr.. Naughton the
witness said that Moody had told him
/ they, the three men, We're going to the
/ VIII house TO room.
Mrs. George Althof proprietress of
4 "a an nSf d1Ggus xsta q
/ the next witness, and testified that she
knew both Moody and Franey, and that
| Franey had stopped at her place off and
on for the past three years. She saw
Moody for the first time the Sunday be-
fore the murder, when he was at the
Will house, and was making a great
| deal of noise because Franey had
locked him out of the room. Mrs. AL
thof admitted him to the room because
he claimed that he had paid the rent
and had as much right to it as Franey,
The two men had a quarrel about it
and made so much disturbance that
Mrs. Althof threatened to call police
man. They had paid only for one night
and the next day she locked the room
and wouldn't let them have it again
About or $50 O'Clock, on Tuesday eve
ming, the night of the murder, Moody
and Franey returned and asked for 8
room. Mrs. Althof said they could have
one If they behaved themselves, and
they promised to do so and got the
room, Moody paying for it. She did no
see the men leave the house, but a
10: 80 or LAS o'clock at night they call.
ed at her office and Moody requested
her to call him at $3.50 o'clock in thu
morning, as he was to be a witness il
some case.
Moody Was Excited.
Moody appeared to her to be excited
The appearance of the two men indi
Gated that they had just come in from
the street and they had come from tn,
direction of the entrance. Moody wore
light soft hat and Franey wore
black hat of the same shape as Moo
dy's. The men seemed excited and in /
hurry.
Mrs. Althof said it was a quarter to
o'clock when Moody and Franey cam
to her Office and asked to be called a
$50 in the morning. but on cross-ex
animation by Mr. Mcclernan she SAT-
she always kept her clock a quarter o
an hour fast, and had done so for /
years. She told Moody and Franey tina
she could not call them, but she CAV
them an alarm clock.
Mr. Baldwin subjected his own Wit
ness To searching cross-examnatiol
as to the time and the correctness Q
her clock. as it was evident that Ii he
time piece was Is minutes fast. and he
testimony was true, that the defend
murder at 1926 o'clock at Crystal an
Park streets, ran west on Park as ia
, as Alhambra street and returned I
their room at the Will house, on LAS
Broadway by 1890 o'clock, as indieat
ed by the testimony. Mr.. McClerna
! objected to Mr.. Baldwin's method c
examination and after he had bee
permitted to go on along that line fo
some time the court told him he ha
gone far enough.
You have had enough about TIL
clock business" said the judge, mo-
get off on something else
| Mr. Baldwin asked another questio
on the same subject and the court tol
him to stop and said the action of NJ
] Baldwin was foolish
Mr.. baldwin and the Court.
I'VE take an exception to the court
, rulings and its language and ask tha
! the language of the court be take
[ | down.
: Nothing of the kind" replied Il
r lceuft.
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