The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-15

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the stand and told Of Billy Waugh's
relations with Mrs. Graves so far as
be knew them. r. d.. .'
The defendant William Norville
then took the stand and told
his story Of the occurrence. On the
evening of the 2sth of December,
he had put his revolver in
his pocket, expecting that he might
have trouble with Billy Waugh. He
walked to Portal from Coughlin's
place, where he worked. He got to
Portal, but after that the first thing
he remembered was as in dream
seeing his wife reclining on the
floor with her head resting on, the
cot. He put his arms around her
and lifted her up to see what was
the matter and laid hor on the floor.
He did not remember Of seeing
blood, nor Of any thing else that was
in the room. Next, as in a dream,
he remembered being in Murphys
Office and seeing 9 crowd. Then
his mind was blank until he was on
the tram and approaching. Minot.
The States Attorney spent hours
cross examining The defendant, but
failed to bring out anything mater
tally different from the story told
ON direct examination.
Michael DeVaney, of Columbus
postofice, who had worked with de-
PENDANT on the Waugh farm, where
defendant and his wife worked pri-
or to defendants commission to the
Insane Asylum, told Of the strange
acts that he noticed in the defend
ant. Told that Mrs. Graves was do
ing the house work on the Waugh
farm and Graves working as farm
hand. Said that from what he had
seen he thought the defendant in
sane.
The defense then offered in evil
dence duly certified record of the
commission of the defendant to the
Hospital for the Insane at Brandon,
Manitoba, where he was confined
as an insane person from August IA,
1908, to Oct. IA, 1908.
The defense then rested.
DIR. MacCallum was called in re-
buttal and gave his opinion that i'm
mediately after the commission of
the crime defendant was sane. Mark
Murphy was called and made the
same statement.
=. This was the end of the evidence.
Atty. Sutton g plea to the jury
has never been surpassed IN this
city. For three hours he stood be-
fore those men and thrilled them
with a review of the happenings I'M
til at the end he broke down and
cried. Sutton was not in this case
for the money there was in it for
him. He believed that VIM. Graves
should get off with light sentence
and put his whole heart into the
case. Jas. johnson then addressed
the jury making a most able argu-
ment.
The charge was given to the jury
by Judge Palda and it might he
said there never was better one
given in Minot. The jury went out
at s o clock Wednesday evening and
at II had reached verdict. Graves
was convicted of granddaughter in
the first degree and sentenced to
five years at hard labor in the pen
itentiary at Bismarck.
DOW ALRIGHT.
C.W.W W. Dow has received letter
from his son, Carlos, in which he re
lates the trouble IN part az follows.
TT got hurt little last night in lit
tie scrap over some ice cream. Well,
I am not hurt early as bad al the
papers make out. It happened like
this. The Shakopean society was
going to feed with the Minerva
society. Our society with two or
three others decided to get their ice
cream. Had not been with the
rowd but about five minutes when
one of our guards yelled that the
shaks were coming: We rushed out
to help them get the cream. I grab
bed Rollo Wright and tried to pre-