The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-17

me and did not have his hands on the
gun. Some enc said, give up your guns
and then one of them reached over and
grabbed me, at the same time throwing
all his weight on me. Here father
started to get up and was in the act of
raising when that man there pointing
to Corbet,) fired and my father fell into
the water. He did not say anything nor
did he have hold of his gun which lay
by his side. There was a distance of
about five feet from the muzze of the
gun and my father and he fell face down
in the water on the shore side When
my father fell in the water one of the
Wardens pulled me into the launch and
said, what did you let your gun go off
for" l told them l didn't know unless
my foot caught in the trigger. 1 heard
Corbett say when they pulled me into
the launch that he had had that gun
loaded with bUckshot for Mrozinski's
bereht, and for a long time, too"
The witness then told of his being to
the police station and of telling the
story of the murder to the officials there.
During the cross examination MrOzinski
at times became badly puzzled and want
ed to tell things having no connection
with the case, but bearing on the enmity
which the game Wardens held toward his
father. He had taken his gun because
his father told him to do so. Their
intention was to see what right the
men IN the launch had to their nets.
Witness always took a gun with him
when he went to overhaul his nets, as
occasionally he found some game. When
they went out to demand the nets his
gun was loaded and also his fathers.
His father before going grabbed up
number of cartridges. His reason for
doing so, he thought, was because his
father had been robbed of his nets sew
eral times before and he wanted to see
their authority.
He admitted that his father had driven
Game Warden Fullerton away from his
nets once before with gun
When asked whether his father was
angry, he said he did not know, but that
if he was very mad he could have stood
on the shore and shot them as they were
passing.
When the wardens started out from the
shore his father had his gun across his
lap, but when Corbett fired at him 1t was
lying in the boat at his side He was
facing his father and could see every
thing. Corbett was standing in the bow
Of the launch and the stern of their
boat was facing him.
During the examination legal tits be-
tween the two attorneys We're frequent
and the witness was kept busy trying to
find out when to answer questions and
when not to.
TOLD BY EYE WITNESSES.
George S. Crops and Harry w. Thorn
Ion, telegraph lnemen, the latter from
milwaukee and the former from Winona
were visitors at the fish hatcheries Pass
ing along the bank of the river. which
in the vicinity of the alleged murder is
quite steep, their attention was attracted
by some loud hollering on board a launch
containing five men and which was maxi
shore WI tIoyy
Stepping on the edge of the bank and
looking over said Crops, who was the
first witness called L saw partly pushed
out from the bank a skiff, in which
were two men one in the front seat and
the other an older man in the stern
Then men in the launch which was COM
ing head on up the river, were all hOl-
lering to the occupants of the skiff to
throw up their hands. They did so, the
young man answering quicker than the
other, though both seemed to be excited
and kept raising and lowering their
arms. AS the launch reached the skiff
man reached over and grasped the
sides and the two boats drew out into
the stream. AS they We're going out
some one hollered to get the guns, and
l saw one of the men reach over the
younger of the two in the Skiff and grab
the gun, at the same time pressing down
the fellow. Corbett, whom the witness
recognized and pointed out, was stand
ing in the bow of the launch with his
gun pointed at the old man in the stern
! when / saw a flash and the old man pitch
| into the river. His body doubled I'D and
| hoated by me and the water was discol-
ored with blood and gore. He was in
the act of rising when shot, but I did not
| see any gun in his hands. His hands
| were hanging down by his sides.
The witness readily recognized the five
men in the boat and at the request of the
attorneys pointed them out as they sat
| In court. All he said were armed with
revolvers and guns, the engineer in par
ticular had a revolver. When they
neared the shore the engineer had his
hand on the lever, and in the other a
revolver. He looked up at the witness
Oh the bank and winked, and this fact
led him to believe that the whole thing
was joke until the old man was
shot.
The cross-eXaminatio ton did not shake
his story in the least
LIS companion told identically the
same story, though he did not see any
guns in the skiff. He heard the men
in the launch however, say: Get the
guns" He also heard them holler:
Throw up your hands!''
Like his companion, his testimony was
mistaken in the cross-examination. he
furnishing little additional that was new.
l This concluded the days work and the