The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
STOLTZ MURDER CASE
PORTLAND ATTORNEY OUTLINES Ev-
IDENCE AGAINST MARSHALL.
Judge Marsh Refused to Give the
NaiIers to Meet at Chicago.
-speclal to the indianapolis Journal.


WINCHESTER, Ind. Aug. 10.-Judge
Marsh to-day refused to give Samuel H.
Marshall a continuance, and the murder
trial is fairly under Roadway George Berg
man, of Portland, made the opening state
ment, in which he claimed that early in
February Marshall was in Anderson with
out money and dressed in an old suit of
clothes; that Albert Musser was released
from the Anderson jail on Monday evening,
where he had been confined on charge of
vagrancy under the name of Watson; that
Marshall left Anderson on Monday evening
or Tuesday; that on Wednesday evening,
between 10 and IL o'clock, he was at the
strawboard works in Muncie and talked
with parties there in the engine and boiler
room; that soon after he left Musser came
in and inquired for the paper maker from
Anderson (Marshall had worked as a paper
maker there); that Musser was permitted
to sleep in the boiler room behind the boil
err; that Marshall soon came back to the
boiler room and inquired for Musser, and on
learning he was there left word that he
should call for him in the machine room at
5 o'clock in the morning; that while in the
machine room Marshall told Frank Markle
he was just from Terre Haute and that he
and Musser were going up the road to pull
off peach;' that there was an old lady
up there who lived alone and had all kinds
of money and was afraid Of banks; the Kid
(Musser) knows all about it; there is Grip
pied boy up there who had his hand blown
off in a safe-cracking affair knows all
about it, that both Marshall and Musser
slept at the strawboard works that night,
and the next morning, Thursday, had a
long talk alone; that on that same after
noon they were both seen at Portland. The
prosecutor then claimed the evidence would
show that Marshall and Musser returned to
Anderson, where Marshall exhibited a roll
Of bills and silver, showing 1900. Mr. Berg
man also claimed that Marshall told people
in Anderson that Mrs. Stoltz, of Portland,
had been murdered five hours before the
discovery was made at Portland. This was
Feb. H. On Feb. II he and Musser had
come through Alexandria on their way
from Portland, which would show as was
printed in the Journal some time ago, that
Mrs Stoltz must have been murdered a day
before the time the Portland officers fixed
the crime. The next evening, in Anderson,
Marshall married Edith Gaisser at a house
where he had been boarding. He had cost
~ presents for her. After that, the prose-
cutor claimed he would show that Marshall
returned to notorious resorts in Anderson
and inquired if they knew of the Portland
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bill in payment for drinks He deposited
$500 in an Anderson bank ard left for Terre
Haute. MusSer also showed big bills in
Anderson. Mr.. Bergman declared that Mar
shall returned to Anderson without money
early in March and was asked if he had
killed Mrs. Stoltz, of Portland. He said he
got there too late, and explained that he
and Musser won their money at Knights
town. He was then traced to Monmouth,
of the prosecution shows that the state has
prepared a strong case against Marshall.
The testimony thus far has been what
transp1red just before the murder and the
transactions leading to and Immediately fol-
lowing its discovery City Marshal Mont
Mahan testified to having received on Feb.
printed a request for him to go to Mrs.
Stotz's house, in the north end of Port
land, near the heading factory; that she
Of the murder