The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-15
Graves Murder Trial.
Manslaushter in First Degree,
" Verdict of Jury.

Graves trial has been secured es.
pecially for the Daily from Bis
mark. N. D.
The case of North Dakato VS..
William Norville Graves was taken
up in district court Thursday after
noon. The following jury was Sc
lected for the case. ]. D. benson,
VIM. Lind, John Baldwin, Albert
Klemper, c. P. Clayton, J.E. Flacd"
tens, Chas. H. Ward, e. E. Chris
tiansen, Sc. Van Fleet, John Walt
ops and E, H. Sike.
James johnson, who appeared for
the state, first told the jury what
the state would attempt to prove.
They would attempt to prove that
VIM. Graves had with malice and
aforethought taken the life of Annie
Graves, his wife, with revolver
which he purchased several days De-
fore the time of the killing, ana
which he tried to see if it would
shoot, the evening before the MUIR
der. That Graves went to the
house of his wife about 10 O'Clock,
the night before the murder, and re-
manned there until about three IN
the morning, when he committed
the deed, first placing himself IN
such Il position in the one room
house that the woman had no OPP
pertunity to escape.
The first witness examined by the
state was DR.. G. MacCallum. At
torney Sutton, who appeared Tor
the defense, objected to the witness:
owing to the misspelling OF his
name ia the information. The OBJ
lection was overruled.
DR.. MacCallum said regarding the
affair in answer to questions pro-
pounded to him by the states at
torney.
II am a doctor living at Portal,
N. D. I was acquainted with Annie
Graves, the murdered woman, but
did not know her husband. met
the woman in the drug store and
afterwards hired her to clean my
Office. On the morning OF Decem-
Der %, I was awakened about 3
o'clock by rapping on the door next
to nv room and on getting up, was
told by a man that a woman was
shot. 1 asked who the woman was,
and the man answered that she was
his wife, and that he had done the
deed. He wanted me to accompany
him to the house where the killing
was done. I started with him and
after going short distance thought
differently and went to Mark Muir
phys room and got him. We went
together to the house where the
killing took place. When we we're
thirty rods from the house, we ga"
4 man enter the house and when we
entered saw Graves. I walked to
where the woman lay and by feel
ing her pulse, saw at once that lite
was extinct. The body was lying
on the floor, the woman's head be-
ing towards the foot of the bed and
the head lay little to the right.
There was a pool of clotted blood,
perhaps pint on the floor, which
ran from her mouth. | should Judge
that she had been dead quarter OF
an hour and possibly more. When
entered the house I asked Graves
if he killed the woman and he re-
piled that he did. In examining
the wound, found that the bullet
had entered the body at point be-
low the clavicle and the clavicle was
SCARED. It forced it's way thru the
largest artery in the body, the arota'
which caused death so instantly.
The bullet was found in the rear OF
the body.''
!. On cross examination by Mr.. SUIT
ton, MacCallum testified that the
reason he did not accompany Graves
at once to the home, because he was
afraid that the woman was dead
and that if he did not restore her,
the frenzied man would turn the re-
volver on him and end his life. 81:
DR.. MacCallum in answer to the.
question propounded by Mr.. Sutton
az. to how he knew that bullet found