The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-10
MR. PETERSON WAS RATIFIED

MR.. PETERSON WAS RATIFIED
This morning Mr.. Peterson gave further
evidence that he had confounded the tes-
timony of the elder Hardy with that of
the elder Miller and the statements
made by Elmer Miller with those made
by James Hardy. 1t was in questioning
Hardy as to the time that he and Miller
were with the baseball party and drove
into AilIer's yard on the night of the
murder Hardy declared that it was
nearly dark. .r a4
But do you not remember shouted
Peterson, that your father testified to
having recognized the team sixty rods
away?"
My father" raped out the witness,
''olu not testify any such thing
What shouted Peterson, do you
mean to sit there and tell me that your
father did not so testify?"
"Yes-my father wasn't anywhere near
Miller's al the time
And then it developed that Mr.. Peter
son had been talking about Miler's father
and not Hardy's father; also that he had
been questioning Hardy on line sug-
costing that he lived at the Miller pla ce.
There were numerous incidents indicat-
ing quite as palpably as this one, that
Mr.. Peterson was abstracted.
THOSE LOVE LETTERS.
Hardy made much more favorable i'm
preston than did Miller. The latter was
i'll, and his answers. to the questions of
the attorney were given in low tones.
Hardy, on the contrary, presented pic
ture OF rugged health and energy. He
was not only willing to answer the Ques-
tons of the lawyers, but he added a good
deal of unsought information. He made
no secret of his associations with the Wise
girls. He seemed a: tribe embarrassed
It'll a. i
written to Martha, but it was nothing
| more than might be expected from any
boy on hearing his tender illusions BAN
died about before q crowd of curious peo-
pie.
Those love letters from Hardy to Mar
tina were among the matters discussed
! this morning. In the course of the cross
examination Hardy had declared that he
| had no affection whatever for Martha
Wise-that he was scarcely interested in
her. He had known her with any degree
of intimacy for only a short ime, and, to
be frank about it, he did not care much
about the girl. Then Mr.. Peterson pro-
duced the letters Hardy had written Mar
tina, in one of which he said:
'How I wish you were here now so that
| I could love you up"
Didn't you write that to Martha
Wiser cried Peterson
YES said Hardy, 81 wrote 1t"
'And did you not mean that when you
wrote it?"
NO" said Hardy, ''I didn't mean any
thing Of the kind. You know fellow
says many things of that sort in letters
which he does not mean
'"Then you Ied?" insisted Peterson.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
James H. Eye, of Minneapolis. was the
/ first witness this afternoon. He had
! some talk with them as to where they
! were on the night and day of the murder.
! Conversation was taken down by Attor-
ney Pratt Miller said they quit about
$50 and started home. Arrived $3.50 to
S:45. Sunday before the murder they
We're at supper at S:45. Sunday of the
murder they left Bethel at $50 or GAS,
! and got home at the same time as the
| Sunday before. Tuesday latter the muir
| der they told the girls 1t was cloudy and
| looked like rain, was, a reason they did
not come on the night. of the murder.
Miller said Joe stayed by the horse while
! ne went Into the house. Had some con-
versadon with Hardy. too. He said they
left Bethel between $50 and T. Got home
at $3.50. Hardy said he told the girls he
dldn come on account of ball game
| the night of the MURDER Attorney Lane
gave Eye pretty rigorous cross-exami-
natlon, bringing out that witness had re-
Ireshed his memory by reading the state
ment of before. Conversation in Jail oc-
cupied an hours time. Neither boy sign
ed anything. Witness didn't go there to
get stuff against the boys and get $1,000
reward ~ q
George Merrill was sworn Was In
the Jail at the same time Eye was there
preston was sober when he gave his
statement Merrill had done drink with
him before he gave it, Considered a man
drunk when he talked at random Pres
ION had not been drinking, because he
mad just come to town. ''You and
BroWn and Eye then joined forces to dig
up testimony and get the $1,000 reward?''
demanded Mr. Lane. No; he wasn't try
Ing to get the rewSrd. There was no ar
rangement made between them for d.
vision of the 81 900.
John Marshall, A. S. Taplin, Lillian
Green and Albert Smih all testified they
saw bus with soma bows In il nasa