Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-12-12
MAY Trial IS COMMENCED

of the incidents of that morning. She
told OF Mays coming ITO the house
with the milk bucket when she rang
for breakfast He said Harry had
milked one of the COWS and the COW
had kicked the pail over. Harry had
said then that he would go out and fix
the we'll pulley. When May reached
the house with the milk bucket and
Harry did not come May had started
for the we'll saying "he would go and
pull Harry out of the we'll" He went
Through the door in the fence and dis
appeared for a moment. When ne
returned he exclaimed that he feared
Harry was in the we'll as the pulley
and ropes and Harry's cap were on the
ground the well. Witness had
then gone to the we'll and looked in.
She saw Hanry's coat ON the top Of
the water, took hold of THE rope and
pulled, and the coat disappeared.
Witness said May had come to the
ranch Saturday before her husbands
death which was on Wednesday. He
was there with the exception of a trip
to Jacobson's Sunday and a trip to his
fathers Tuesday. He stadd there be-
cause Harry had asked him to do so.
Witness was asked if she knew that
MNor .opo1 I6S urifn hoa cdnor1tnH and
said she did not. She was then asked
if she knew that Mrs. May was Jealous
of Mays attentions to her. This was
objected to by the defense and the OBJ
lection sustained. She was asked If
she had seen May since she came to
town as a witness at this term of court
and said she had seen him on the
street but had not talked with him
more than to express recognition.
Asked if she had visited May in Jail
after he was held for the murder OF
her husband she said she had been to
see him about a horse but not to visit
with him Asked if she had waved
salutas to him in passing the Jail after
he was held on the charge of murder,
she said she had not done so that she
remembered. She had been with her
sisters. They might have done SO but
she had not.
The witness was then questioned
closely with regard to the converse
ton between her and May when she
had come back from the barn at break
fast time. May had brought the milk
pail In with him. It appeared to be
dirty both inside and outside. She
had not washed it out and did moi
know who had washed it. AS nearly
as she could remember May had told
her that Harry had gone to fix the wei,
pulley. Il
The circumstances at the well WHERE
she and May went after May had TOLD
her that he feared Harry was in thu
well were then gone into at greater
length She believed she had reached
n well first She told of seeing The
coat ON the bucket and of Jerking O,
pulling the rope. She thought thu
bucket had been changed but was moi
positive. She knew the bucket would
sink If the rope was Stacked. She
had not told W. B. Hibbs that the
bucket had been Changed.
After pulling the rope and SEEING
the coat disappear she had tainted
away. When she recovered she told
May to get Harry's body out of thu
we'll. He had tried Intellectually tc
do this, and finally went away fo1
help. She had seen near the we'll q
wrench, the pulley and some blood
The distance of these from the vel
she was unable to state accurately
Thought the blood was about a fool
from the curb, the wrench about three