Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-12-15
more TESTIMONY taken.
More Testimony for the State Taken
in the May Case Saturday After
noon and Today.
B. F. Scovil Tells Of What He Saw
at the Hibbs Ranch on the Day
Of Hibbs Death.
Iverson, A Neighboring Ranchman
Tells Of His Observations at
the Same Time.


the Same Time.
In the district court Saturday after
noon B. F. Scovil testified that he was
at the Hjbbs ranch on the fifteenth day
OF january last, the day of Hibbs
death. He arrived there at about 10
o'clock, and left few minutes after
noon. He saw Mrs Hiibbs first in the
house. He saw May the same day
about thirty minutes aftelward. At
FIRST May was alone and afterward
Iverson arrived. Scovil helped to take
the body Of HiIbbs out of the we'll
When he met Mrs. Hibbs at the door
she was crying and undertook to tell
what had happened.
0 He told OF Mrs., Hibbs preceding him
to the barn and driving out two colts.
The barn was empty when he got there.
May went to the well with him and he
Thought Iverson also accompanied
them. He saw the cap ON the fence
post, a cap similar to the exhibit in the
case, presented by the state as the caIp
of Harry Hibbs. When he arrived at
the well the pulley was lying on the
ground. The bucket was under the
water all but little. He did not ex-
pertinent with it.
Witness said he met May when the
latter drove UP. : May said an acci-
dent had happened and went with him
to the we'll. May said he. supposed
Hibbs had fallen off the table. The
east side of the curb was broken. May
said he had seen Hibbs formerly strad-
die the curb to reach up to the pulley
Witness said he had noticed blood on
the east side of the we'll, two feet from
the well. The blood stain was about
eighteen inches in length. The wit
ness said there was some ice around
the well. He noticed no roughness.
He had looked in the well a number of
times and noticed no jog in the well.
There might have been a jog and he
not have seen it. The inside of the
boards in the we'll was about four feet
square. He said he would have not
iced any considerable projection. The
pulley was seven to ten feet from the
well. Witness said he was there over
an hour before the body was raised.
IVerson went DOWN and tied a rope
around Hibbs body. The body was
dropped once after it had been grap-
pied. The body was taken out ON the
east side Of the we'll. It was laid first
on the east side and then carried
around to the south side and placed on
some hay. twas ahfterward carried
into the house by May, Iverson and
scovil. The body was placed in the
north room. There was nothing on
the head when he body was taken from
the we'll. He described the clothing
on the body. ;s 3:;s45 n 4.
May had told him OF the experiences
in the barn, when the milk pail was
AieAsu uYssl' sds previously IseAiaeed N
Tue testlmony OF Mrs.sH ibbs. oso 90 OF
tne mp 70 tne wei we'll and seeing che cap,
pulley, etc, on the ground. He was
una unable % give any particulars OF the
grapphng alsI for the body as as he had not
Deen present all the time. May said
ne understood HAIRY was going g,il TO pl put
on al 9 new pulley. @ scovil said he saw
NO new pulley about May also showed
Scoval g 1 q mark On the table which mel
cooked Like q slip mark fg near the center
an ana ~ g northeriy direction The
marx vast Was~tWo feet long and tWosthirds d
9ne length of the table. There was Sc. q