The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-15

| dressed to Mr.. Miller, and / told the
postman to take il to the drug store
across the street"
"Oh, that's the way that you found
out that his name was Miller, eh?"
Yes, SIR"
Edward Kenefick, whose testimony
as TO having seen Hartmann and Gott-
schalk together that Saturday noon on
West Seventh street was the one no
ticeable sensation of the day, was the
next witness called.
Kenefick testified that he was
switchman living at III Richmond
street and working for the Minnesota
Transfer company. He said that he
had known Hartmann ever since he
came to st. Paul from Nevada three
years ago and that he had known
Gottschalk by sight for about two
years.
Hartmann Called to Him
Il started downtown Saturday at
about 1880 o'clock" he testified, land
passed Gottschalk at the corner OF
Seventh and Goodhue streets, a block
from Schindeldecker's market. They
were standing talking together and
when / came along Hartmann yelled to
me: You'd better hurry If you want
to catch that car The car was close
and ran out to catch it. i did not
pay any more attention to them"
Upon cross examination he said that
he knew IL was about 1880 o'clock
when he saw Gottschalk and Hartmann
because he was on his way downtown
to pay his rent to c. A. Esterly and
when he reached the Office Mr.. Esterly
was just putting on his overcoat to go
TO lunch.
Mrs. Louisa Nelson, 4Se Goodhue
street, made a ready witness for the
tot H., Slaa
where Gottschalk had rooms and her
apartments were directly across the
hall from his. She was fairly ac-
quainted with his habits and hours
and testified to having seen Gottschalk
and man whom she has since learned
to have been Hartmann leave the house
on the Saturday that Schindeldecker
was murdered at about 10: 80 o'clock
in the morning.
AT between 1890 and 1 o'clock they
returned and went Immediately to
Gottschalk's room. That was the last
that she saw of them until o'clock
that afternoon, when she returned to
the house and found the two men to-
gether in Gottschalk's room, the door
open and Hartmann reading aloud from
an evening paper the account of the
Schindeldecker murder. She said that
when she first noticed them returning
that noon she was splitting wood in
the yard and they came down Goodhue
from the direction of Seventh street
She noticed that they wore caps, but
she took no further notice of their
wearing apparel.
Schindeldecker's Wife Testifies
Mrs. Schindeldecker, widow of the
murdered man, surrendered her IL
month old baby into the arms of her
sister when her name was called by
tho plarlx of the and IL N
the witness stand. She was attired in
a deep mourning costume. She was
on the stand only a few moments, and
testified to the amount of money which
her husband had with him upon the
fatal Saturday and to the length of
| time that Walter GerenZ was home for
dinner.
She said that her husband had
counted his money on the Friday night
before and that he had nearly 500,
mostly in gold and in bills. Saturday
noon Gerenz came home to dinner at
1905 and left for the shop at 1910
o'clock. She remembered because she
had glanced at the clock to see what
time her husband would probably be
home for his dinner.
Chief John J. O'Connor was intro
duced to testify to the details of Gott-
schalks arrest and the conversations
which he had had with Gottschalk. He
told, briefly, the story of the arrest.
The chief said, relative to his CONVEX
sation with Gottschalk that Gottschalk
had positively denied being with Hart
mann on the day of the murder and
that he had only remembered seeing
Gerenz after his memory was vigor-
ousiy prodded. The chief said that he
had only seen the prisoner three times
while he was in custody, once, when he
was brought in, once when Gottschalk
was confronted by the father of Hart
mann, and once when Gottschalk was
in the police court for his preliminary
hearing.
While cross examining Detective
Michael F. Sweeney, the next and last
witness of Inc day, Attorney Donnelly
of the defense brought out in the tes-
tinony the fact that the decorations Of
the walls in Gottschalk's rooms were
reliSious pictures. while a bible lay
upon the center table.
Detective Sweeney was called to tes-
tify upon the arrest of Gottschalk and
| the search of the room which Gott-
schalk had occupied for evidence. He
told of finding the hidden money in
| the teacup.
When the Introduction of his testi-
mony was finished Judge Finehout ad-
| journed court for the day, and Gott-
/ schalk, the prisoner, looking none the
worse for the hard day in the court
room, was led back to his cell in the
| county jail
Gottschalk was looking better in