The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-07-09
EIGHT YEARS
The PENALTY
Inflicted Upon Lehman, Unnat-
ural Father, by Jury
WERE OUT ALL NIGHT
Before They Could Agree Upon Verdict.
Generally Considered in Mature
of Compromise.
WERE OUT ALL NIGHT

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Joseph Aorgie, Gilbert Trahan, James
Fitzpatrick, Peter Van Peters, Ward
Buckingham, Gustave Wendt, s. A.
Haugen, Jas Anderson, M. G. Sanford,
j. F. Collins, Geo. l. Sawyer, Peter N.
Edge.
DR.. Macdonald was the tlrst witness
called for the prosecution and testified
that he had made an examination of
Anna Lehman and found evidences
that a crime had been committed at
times upon her.
Anna Lehman, the prosecuting wit
ness, was called and testified that
she was Is years old on the 9th of
March, the time specified as the last
of criminal intercourse.
She said that she lived about Ii
miles north of kalispell on the Still
water. She was naturally bashful and
hesitated when asked as to the partic-
ulars of the crime alleged and often
had to be helped by the court before
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w. N. Noffsinger, attorney for the
defense cross-examined the witness
and sought to prove that she had her
father arrested to keep MIN from pun
fishing her for money that he alleged
was stolen from a trunk and that he
had accused her of taking it.
She was sobbing when excused for
the time being and was very nervous
and bewildered.
A witness giving his name as Al
bert Phelps was called, and took the
stand, but when it was brought out
that he went to work for Lehman on
March II, or two days after the crime
was committed, Mr. Noffsinger object.
ed to any of his testimony. The OBJ
lection was sustained by the court
and the witness was excused.
Deputy Sheriff Jack O'Neill was
then called to the stand. He testi-
fed that he had made the arrest of the
defendant on March Is. At the time
of the preliminary hearing of Lehman
before Justice Macarthur he was in
charge of the prisoner. After the pre-
liminary hearing while he was taking
Lehman back to Jail the latter said !:
This is worse than murder, l guess
have got my foot in it." And at an
other time in the sheriff's office, Leh-
man had asked if the doctor had made
an examination of Anna and when he
was answered yes, the prisoner re-
piled:
"Well, if the doctor has found trace
of any crime being committed, there
has been others implicated besides
myself, but l guess l will be blamed
for it ALL
Minnie Lehman, sister of the COM
planning witness, was the next on the
s. and. Sne was quite different in ap-
paarance from her sister, looking more
intelligent and evidently better edu-
Gated. She substantiated her sisters
testimony, and testified about the
same as to her sister telling her on the
next day about what had happened on
the night of March g. She also said
she had written letter to Mrs. White
fer her sister telling her what had
happened. She said she was 10 years
of age, would be IA years old next
April.
After a short recess the case was re-
sumed, Anna Lehman being recalled,
but nothing further was brought out.
The state then rested their case and
Karl Augustus Lehman, the defendant,
was the first witness for the defense.
He denied that he had ever been in.
innate with his daughter either on the
9th of March or at any other time
prior to that date. He claimed that
the testimony of the girl was lie.
He said that the origin of his arrest
was that he had some money in a
trunk in the house and that about the
18th of March some of it had been
stolen. He said that he was working
in the field on that date and Minnie
Lehman had come to him for the key
to the trunk and that she and her sis.
ter had then taken the money. She
wanted the key, SO she said, to get
some sugar which was kept locked.
When he discovered his loss he &C.
cused them Of taking the money and
threatened to punish them. At the
time something interviewed and pre-
vented him from carrying out his
threat. The girls then trumped up
The charge of rape and he was arrest.
ed.
He said that he had been sleeping
with his DAUGHTERS most of the time