The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-07
NOT A SEASONS HIT
BICKEL TRIAL IS NOT A STAR
COURT HOUSE ATTRACTION
ANY MORE.
TOO TEDIOUS FOR THE GANG"
INTRODUCTION OF EXHIBITS NOT
SENSATIONAL ENOUGH TO SAT-
ISFY THE CURIOUS.
POLITICIANS NOTES A FEATURE.
Two or Three Local "Leaders" Had
Their Names on Bits of
Paper.
POLITICIANS NOTES A FEATURE.

ers about what the jury will do.
The trial was resumed yesterday
forenoon with Bookkeeper Edward
Heinlein on the stand. The audience
indicated a serious falling off in the
attendance, indicating that the trial
is becoming too monotonous to any
longer interest the people.
The state made some Roadway in the
matter of Identifying, through Wit
ness Heinlein, the several promissory
notes aggregating over $4,000 which
the indictment charges the defendant
with stealing. Mr.. Heinlein identified
and other entries made by him, in ac-
cordance with the instructions of Mr..
Bickel, to whom, after making the en-
tries, he turned over the notes.
Mr.. Heinlein was told what he was
allowed to tell about the meaning of
figures on a number of Bickels debit
slips. He was allowed to proceed by
Pierce Butler until he reached a point
where the testimony promised SEN
sation, and then came the inevitable
objection and argument.
The witness identified exhibit SO as a
debit slip of the defendant, the
amounts on the same being made up
from checks of the defendant listed
from time to time. The total was
$597.05. He testified that the total was
transferred to debit slip of the de-
PENDANT.
Mr.. Anderson-Inspect exhibits 90
and IA and see if you can tell to what
debit slip the total of 80 was trans
ferred.
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Mr.. Anderson inquired if from an in
spection of the two exhibits the wit
ness could tell the date he made the
transfer. The witness thought it was
at or about the time of the date on
exhibit IA.
At this point Mr. Butler was per-
mitted to cross examine to test the
witness knowledge. To him Mr. Helm
lein stated that he could not tell when
exhibit 90 was made from an inspec-
ton of the paper itself. For anything
he knew it might have been made in
July. There were no marks to tell
when the transfer figures were trans
ferred. There was no mark on IA to
indicate that anything on SO had been
transferred. He could only say that
the total CT SO was transferred from
the fact that a similar total appeared
on A.
Here Mr.. Butler ceased his cross-ex-
animation and the court sustained his
objection.
Mr.. Anderson (to witness)-Have you
any recollection of making any other
slip than SO, containing the same fig
ures?
The objection was sustained and Mr..
Anderson produced a copy of Green
leaf on evidence to show that witness
had right, after inspecting the eX-
hihitS, to give his best judgment as to
whether the amount was transferred
from SO to A.
Mr.. Butler said there was not a date
or mark of any kind on SO to show
when it was made or to show
that the total was transferred to any
place. In order that the witness would
be allowed to testify, it must be shown
that the two papers were made con-
temporaneously.
The witness was directed not to give
conclusions. He stated that certain
figures referred to debts; others to
credits, and still others to totals. The
mCmentous question of striking bal
aDce was left to the jury.
Mr.. Anderson took up exhibit IA and
went over the same ground exactly
that he did with 10, asking the
identical questions and receiving the
same answers.
At the afternoon session, Mr.. An
derson selected a bunch of slips and
checks, and started reading them to
the jury. He was interrupted by coun-
sci for defense, who stated that these
exhibits had not been introduced in
evidence. An examination of the rec
ords showed that some of the exhibits
had been received, and these he read
to the jury.
Mr.. Heinlein testified that the Min
nesota Savings bank cleared through
the Allemannia, during his incumbency
Mr. Butler objected to the witness
testifying concerning the Sophia Lair
promissory note for $3.50, for the rea-
son that for aught that appears in
the Indictment, the note was not sign
ed by anybody, or delivered to any
body nor was there any allegation
that the note had not been fully paid
before it was stolen as alleged.
The court overruled the objection,
holding that the Indictment and the
bill of particulars sufficiently describe
the notes.
Mr. Heinlein testified that he re-
of his making out the credit slip.
known as states exhibit 107.
1t was on Jan. 16, 1897. Mr.. Bickel
had told the witness to mark the note
paid. Witness did so, and made an
entry to that effect in the general
credits book.
States exhibit 1OS was shown the
witness, who identified it as the So
phia Lair note. Mr.. Heinlein said
that states exhibit 10S was the note
from which the entries were made
on states exhibit 107. Asked what
became of states exhibit 10S, the wit
hot ho rrix,
to Mr.. Bickel
Mr.. Heinlein identified states ex-
hibit 100 as a credit bills discount slip
made out in his own handwriting
States exhibit 10 was then shown
Mr.. Heinlein, who identified it as a
note given to the bank. This was the
note for $500 signed by A r. Kiefer
and William Bickel, the defendants
father. Asked what became of the
note, Mr.. Heinlein answered that he
gave it to Mr.. Bickel after making
the entry.
States exhibit Ill was shown the
witness, who identified it as a credit
bills discount slip made out by him
JAN Is, 1897. 1t contained figures in
dicating the number and amount of a
certain note. After making the entry,
the note was given to Mr.. Bickel Mr..
Heinlein then identified states exhibit
1f2 as the note from which the entry
on exhibit Ill was made. States ex-
hibit 112 was the note of Murdoch E.
Murray for $50. States exhibit 113,
being a credit bills discount slip, and
states exhibit ia, being the note of
Eta s. Orr for 500, were also identi-
fed by the witness, who testified that
he gave the note to Mr.. Bickel
The same process Of Identification
uas nIIrs11ed with the note of Henry
Johns for $3.50 and the accompanying
credit bills discount. The witness
gave this note to Mr.. Bickel. So with
states exhibits III and 49,. the latter
being the Harry De Wallace note for
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