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

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in the body was the one which
caused the woman's death, answer
ed that had the bullet been forced
into the body after death, there
would have been no blood found
about it.
DR.. Crokat, the coroner, went to
Portal Wednesday and caused the
body of the murdered woman to be
taken from it's grave and the EXAM
ination of the wound was made. 1t
was thought for some time that the
wound which caused the woman's
death was made through the mouth,
but this idea has been dispelled.
The body was found to be in a very
good state of preservation and the
bullet was easily located.
Mark Murphy then took the
stand. He corroborated the testi-
mony of DR.. MacCallum as to going
to the Graves house and as to the
doctors conversation with defend
ant. Continuing Mr.. Murphy testi-
fed. II asked Graves where the
gun was. He said it was in his
pocket. / searched his overcoat
pocket and found the revolver"
At this juncture Judge Murray
was requested to produce the revol-
YER which had been delivered to him
at the preliminary hearing. Mr..
Murphy identified the revolver he
having made some private marks
on the same. Continuing the wit
nes told the jury the location of the
different pieces of furniture in the
house and pointed out on a rough
sketch of the floor plan Of the house
where the body lay and where the
defendant stated he stood at the
time OF the shooting.
The folding bed was in one corner
of the room and the cot in the 9th
er. The body of Annie Graves lay
stretched at full length between the
two beds. The three little children,
Jennie, five years old, Florence,
three years old and Pansy, two years
old, we're in the folding bed wide
awake.
Defendant told the witness that
he was sorry that he had done the
shooting. That he and his wife had
quarrelled and that although he had
no intention of shooting her, he did
the deed. The witness then took
the defendant prisoner and remov-
ed him to his Office, whore he kept
him until the next train going to
Minot, which he boarded with the
prisoner and delivered him at z
O'Clock the same afternoon to the
sheriff of Ward county at Minot.
WIN. Dickinson, the next witness
for the state, testified that between
3 and 4 O'Clock defendant came tc
his house. Told him there's
trouble at my house. " Witness ask
ed what the trouble was and defend
ant said "trouble enough-I've shot
my wife" Defendant then left the
Dickinson house and witness coulG
not tell which way he went. Wit
ness Immediately dressed and went
to Mark Murphy's, Office and then t.
the scene of the tragedy. He de
tailed the appearance of things
there about az the witness Murphy
had
liver Simness, the next witness
for the state, testified to about the
same happening at his house, and
the same talk with the defendant
that Mr.. Dickinson had. Furthe,
that he and Jack Rombaugh an6
Billy Coyne took the three little
children to witness house.
This was the conclusion of thu
states testimony. It had beer
proven beyond any shadow of 8
doubt from the defendants own
confessions and from the circum
stances surrounding the tragedy
that murder had been committed,
and that the defendant was the man
who did the horrible deed. The re.
volver taken from his pocket was in
evidence, the empty shells and the
bullet taken from the dead body,
which correspondent in size with the
revolver's caliber.
At this point in the proceedings