The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-06
PROGRESS OF WISE CASE.
DEFENSE STILL OFFERING TESTI-
MONY IN SUPPORT OF THE
ROYS'w ALIBI p9 uese
ONE CARD UP THEIR SLEEVE
Expected to Produce Expert Evil
dence to Prove That the Girls
Are in a Hypnotic.
Condition.

ANOKA, Mimi, Nov. 5.-The defense in
the Wise case has discovered new lead.
Perhaps it is the mysterious some thing
which has been referred to for the last
weeks as likely to develop and establish
the innocence of the defendants beyond
peradVerture
This morning, before the session began,
Attorney Wyman- received telegram
from Freeman p. Lane. Mr. Wyman's
face at once beamed with smiles he
turned and shook hands with Hardy and
Miller, and the defendants were in high
good humor. Even Miller braced up and
laughed jovially with his friells. NNyman
turned to the reporters table and an
nounced his regret that Mr.. Lane has
missed the train and would not be pres
ent at the morning session. He lad Just
received a telegram to that effect.
1t is understood that the Wise girls
will go to California if they escape pun
ishment for their share n the crime.
Hardy and Miller express a determina-
ton to stay in Anolza- county eif~aeGuitte ed
and await development of ne real facts
concerning the murders Miller will
probably be compelled to go to a hospital
before long. He is a very sick man.
DISTANCES AND TIME
The proceedings in the. case this morn
Ing were dry. l.. P. Storms, deputy couu-
ty surveyor, testified as to the distances
between the places Miller and iIarly are
supposed to have visited on the day of
day Of the murder. 1t was seventeen
miles exactly from Bethel station to
the Wise place; eight miles and 268 rods
from Bethel to Miller's farm, and eight
miles and ifty-two rods from MiIler's
to Wises.
The defense propose to show that the
distance could not have been traversed
In the time between the defendants Ieav-
ing Bethel and the time of the murder
1T was developed in the crOss-examina-
ton that short road from Miller's to
the Wise farm existed, and that this
road was three-quarters of a mile short
er than the other.
w. R. Gillis, county surveyor. was
called and questioned as to the condi-
ton of all the roads involved on the
Gay of the murder or thercabouts Gil
lis was very positive in his statements
that the road approaching Wises was
sandy in the extreme. He could not be
shaken in cross-eXamination.
Emmett Guys, who met Smith and Sew
erson on the road shortly after dark on
the night Of the murder, was placed on the
stand His testimony was importont ~
show what time Miller reached home
Miller left Bethel with Smith. but chang
ed into another rig. Guys testimony was
torn to shreds on cross-exam nation.
Guys was poor witness. His evil
dent desire to be the friend Of the de.
PENDANTS left bad impression.
A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY.
The defense is not obliged to offer ex-
PLANTATION Of the testimony given with
such profuse detail by Eliza anG Martha
Wise, but it is OF interest to note that
TINS side of the case has retained DR.
Flora j. Aldrich, professor of psychology
or ~raI1
don medical colleges. The lady occupied
a place at the attorneys table during the
presence in court Of the Wise girls. and
she seldom took her eyes off their faces
Her conclusions are interesting, though.
perhaps, not convincing from the point
OF view of an average jury, and the de-
tense may not be permitted to call DR..
Aldrich
1t is of course the defense's theory that
these girls are suppressing the facts con-
corning the crime, which is held to be
the elimination Of an old family fled
The atrocious plot of which two ursopflis-
ucated farm children have testified, to
their own everlasting ruin and degrada-
dcn, is believed by the defense ia have
been born in the brains of Merrill the
sheriff, and c. D. Brown, the detective.
Doth OF whom, it is declared, have told
the girls the story so many times that
1t has become as real to them as though
it were true.
DR.. Aldrich noted every facial expires
sion, every trace of hesitancy, every
movement of the hands, every tremor of
the body, while Eliza gave her testimony.
At times she made notes with an air of
complacent conviction. To those observ-
ing her, it appeared that by an occult
process of reasoning not Ineligible to
the ordinary mentality, DIR. Aldrich was
solving the fifteep-year old riddle on the
stand, piercing with probes of scientific
erudition her armor of assumed cand,.r
and frankness.
Throughout the recital, which awod
alike ocials and spectators, DR.. Aidrich
leaned forward, eagerly and earnestly as
similaung every word of the hideous
monologue
AS result of this deliberate observa
lion, the woman in black asserts boldly
that Eliza and Martha are III an auto
hypnotic condition. In the opinion of this
expert physiognomist and student Of
psychic phenomena, constant recitation
of the story they are telling has made
so deep impression on the minds of these
girls that they are now convinced Of its
truth. Nor is this an unusual phenom-
enon If the published reports of psyCholo-
gical scientists are to be accepted. Dr..
Aldrich regards the girls as peculiarly
impressionable subjects.
AFTERNOON SESSION