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

did you ever shoot . revolver before
that night?' No, sir
And that was the first shot you
ever fred?n cit was.''
Frank Tanke didn't come into the
house that night, did hep No he
didn't
The afternoons examination OF de-
fendant Frank Tanke brought out no
additional facts in the Tanke murder
trial. His testimony was either q fiat
denial Of all incrimin rating testimony
Of the state S Witnesses or a corrob bora
ton Of former witnesses for the defense.
Referring to the alleged ride to New
Ulm on the night Of the murder, T ankle
said he had taken a train from Winth-
rop to New Ulm on Christmas evening.
He was not in the vicinity of the Well
ner farm that night but at New Ulm,
he said. sz
He denied being in the vicinity Of
the river that night and also denied
the eliminating statement attributed
to him at Union hall. He said he never
had any trouble with John Wellne1
and never owned a revolver. The re.
volver which Lockway testified to, he
said, belonged in the saloon where he
tended bar while in ST. Paul. He de-
MED the convers alton said to have been
overheard in the barn, as we'll as ad-
missions made in the st. Peter Jail.
The first witness Saturday morning for
the defense in the Tanke murder trial
was Fare Zschumeke of St. Paul, with
whom Tanke roomed for a time in that
city. He SAID he never saw Tanke carry
revolver.
Hernen Miller was sworn and said
that on the night of the murder he saw
the defendant at the Union Hall in New
Ulm from 8 p. m. until shortly before
midnight.
Nicholas Metzen, bartender at the
Union hall saloon at the time, testified
that the quarrel between Raffman and
Tanke occurred after 10 O'Clock, he
thought, instead OF before, as asserted by
the state. Anton Stephen also at the
Union hall, was sworn and said he thought
he last saw the defendant at about 2 a. m.
at the hall.
Ford Rick, who worked for Tanke at
the time Detective Coleman is said to
have overheard the confession, was put
on the stand to cast doubt on Co,eman's
story. He said he was always in the habit
of putting down hay and that the de-
PENDANT never went out to the barn after
supper while he was there.
Martha Tanke testified that her brother
Frank came to his home in New Ulm from
the Wellner farm at p. nj. on the night
of the murder and that be brought with
him goose which he carried in -four
sack. The father of the defendant, Au-
gust Tanke, took the stand and corrobor-
ated Martha's story. :, .Sat ~ -
Henry Retzman and Fred Miller of ST.
Paul, were witnesses Saturday afternoon
and were put on to contradict tfie states
testimony IN regard to Tanke's carrying
3 revolver while he tended bar in St.
Paul. 1859
Miller who hired Tanke, said he couldn't
say positively whether T'anke carried
a revolver or not while the defendant
was working for him, but Lockway, who
has testified that he knew Tanke carried
agun had told him (Miller) the defendant
did not have one.
Other witnesses were then put on to
testify in regard to the defendants char
acter and reputation.
Sheriff Mcmillan Of Nicollet county.
who arrested Tanke and bis wife on Oct
II, 1901, on the farm, said on the stand
that he took the chain from Tanke. He
put him in Jail, he said, and went TO St.
Paul in January, 1909, to look up the
record Of Tanke when be lived there and
to find out If Tanke was in the habit Of
revolver. Lockway was first
suggested to him at this time on Jan. 10.
He said he had ordered a search to be
made IN the river Ave or six weeks pre-
vious to the St. Peter trial.
Louis Loreck of Minneapolis, testified
that Coleman and Whitney had driven
HIM out to the Wellner farm in the fall
of 1901 before the arrest. He hired out
to Tanke, but after dinner the defend
ant discharged him. The witness then
returned to New Ulm and told the detec-
tive of the incident.
J. T. Coleman, recalled, said that he
and Whitney had driven out to the Well