New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-04-08

arrest. He had said q don't see how
they can find out anything about it. Z
The testimony of Michael Miller practi-
cally closed the states case. Employed
as a detective at the county jail at ST.
Peter, where Tanke and wife were cons
fined, he had, he testified, overheard in
eliminating conversation as follows:
Speaking to his wife, Tanke had said ]:
off knew before what { know now, /
could have bought them all out" On an
Iother occasion he had said that il he was
to get twenty years he might as well
hang, and they might hang him yet. Wit
ness said that Tanke was continually tell
ling her that she must not give him
away, to which she replied she wouldn't.
The state rested at S p. nj.
The defendant, Tanke, keeps his nerve
admirably; chews gum and looks as I'M
concerned as he did the first day of the
trial. He acts like man who had plenty
of time and was spending it attending
murder trials; not that he took any par
ticula: interest IN trials Of that nature,
but might as well do that as anything
else.
| II. J. Peck opened the Tanke murder
case for the defense Friday morning. In
outlining the case he said they would
show that the defendant left the Well
ner farm at p. m. and arrived at his
home in New Ulm at s p. M, instead of
80, as contended by the state; that it
was an impossibly for Tanke to 60 to
New Ulm in an hour and a half, and that
Wilmert, who testified he saw Tanke ride
by on horseback, was not at Ulrich's that
night.
Continuing, he said the defense would
show that if a revolver had been in the
river for the length of time asserted by
the state it would have been mass Of
rust. The defense would show also that
there was no trouble between the defend
ant and Wellner, but that trouble had
arisen between Wellner and his wife, and
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that driven by threats she had shot her
husband near the barn.
In this connection Mr.. Peck said the
defense would pay particular attention to
the CLUB found under Wellner's body.
j. K. Morrison, conductor on the Min
neapolis & st. Louis railroad at the time:
of the murder, testified in regard to the
departure of the train from Klossner. The
schedule time put the train out at 8: 39
p. M, but there was no record to show
that the train was on time that night. !
Professor Leavenworth, astronomer at
the state university, was put on to con
tradict Wilmert's testimony IN regard to
seeing Tanke ride by in the moonlight.
The witness said the moon did not rise
that night until 8 :43 p. M, with New Ulm
as basis for bis calculations.
The testimony of Peter Ulrich and
Anna Renter tended to contradict Will
merits testimony as to his being as the
home Of the former that night. The form
er, however, on his cross examination
said he could not swear that he did not
see HIM, and the latter said he might
have been in the kitchen.
Harry Atlas, the Jew peddler, then
took the stand and said lie was on his
way to his home in Minneapolis and saw
John Wellner alive in the road near his
house on the night of the murder at about
9 o'clock CT some time later than the
time set for the crime of the state; he
said bespoke TO Wellner about some bolts
he had borrowed from him some days
before.
On the cross-examinatlon the witness
denied he had told Wild or Dunheim after
the murder that he was glad he was not
in that neighborhood that night, and that
he was at Fairfax. The witness said he,
did not know the time he had seen Well
ner until he had driven over the road
from New Tim to the Wellner farm an
found out the distance and thus made his
calculations.
Henry Atlas was released aAd created
quite scene in the court room when.
cross-examlned by the state Friday. He
stated he was afraid to testify because
Detective Coleman, he said, had offered
to strike him when he first arrived in
St. James, and had insulted him.. He
made an indefinite reply to the, st ate's
question why he did not have Coleman
arrested. He proved to be the most
Interesting witness on the stand so far.
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