The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-12-06
MRS. NJ, Kaufman
SEEKS CONTINUANCE
Rich Woman Cannot Stand
Trial for Murder. Friends
Say in Affidavit.
COUNSEL SCORES PAPERS
Thinks Printing Incidents of Case Bee
for Their Development in Court
Was Wrong-Case Goes Over
Another Week.
COUNSEL SCORES PAPERS

Sioux Falls. S. D., Dec. 4.-Impover~
ished mentally and physically and UNI
able at this time to stand the strain
OF q trial for the murder of her maid
servant, Agnes Polreis, Mrs. Kaufman
will get a continuance Of the case, ii
numerous afiidavits submitted this
morning are given consideration by the
court.
Judge e. c.. Smith, of Yanlton, called
Into the case, because Judge Jones OF
this city, is a ~neighbor OF the kauft-
mans, adjourned court at noon before
the state had been heard on a motion
for 81 continuance fled last Monday
The hearing viii be resumed next Sat
turday at 10 o'clock.
Neither Mrs. Kaufman. her husband
nor her son was in court this morning.
Last Monday, when she pleaded not
guilty to the murder charge, she was
closely yelled, but she was reported in
igood health.
Afiaavits were submitted ~testifying
Ito the mental and physical weakness
Iof the accused. Her husband, Moses
Kaufman. president Of the Sioux
Fails Brewing company. and their son
Charles related that during the sum
mer at French Lick Springs Mrs.
Kaufman had been very i'll. The same
itestimony was given by Mabel Phillips,
Il registered nurse of Ohio, who had
charge of Mrs. Kaufman.
A half dozen others, including three
physicians, told the same story.
Judge +. r. Aikens, counsel for the
accused, submitted an affidavit of his
own in which he the news
papers which have told the facts in
6ne Kaufman case, before they We're
submitted in court. He criticised States
Attorney Quinn of Hutchinson county
for bringing here a trunk of blody
clothing, representing them to belong
to the dead girl and exposing them to
public gaze.
Joe Kirby, representing the state
asked for Il commission of three ply
sicians to examine the mental N ply
sicial condition of Mrs. Kaufman.
TO compel her to submit to such in
curry. The case was here adjourned.
DR.. w. A. Germain, the Kaufman
family physician, who signed the death
certificate in the case of the alleged
murdered girl, was one Of the atlantis
who declared that the condition of Mrs.
Kaufman is now sue that. u trial of
the case would place her under q strain
which she could not stand with the
result that there would be a mistrial
and the county put to needless expense.
liz. the main he was corroborated by af-
fidavits made by DR.. S. A. Brown and
DIR. l.. A. Perkins.
Proprietor John Emmke, of the Cat
aract hotel deposed that States Attor-
ney Quinn, of Parkston, had brought
- W ItitS Guy ~ tfu!iN Ol DlOOQS ClOInll1S
and had exhibited them publicly before
any attempt had been made to submit
them as evidence in court. 1t will be
recalled the justice court later refused
to permit the clothing to be submitted
as evidence.
In Counsel AikeIl's arraignment OF
States Attorney Quinn for this pro-
eeeding, he intimated the clothing
might not have belonged to the Polreis
girl. When scoring the newspapers
who showed special industry in assist
ing in the development of both sides
Of the gruesonle story of the alleged
murder of a maid by her rich mistress
and printing incidents before they We're
brought out in open court, Judge Aiken
mentioned The Sioux City Tribune, the
Sioux Falls Press and also the Catar-
act and Critic of this city.
Counsel for Mrs. Kaufman occupied
all the time between $3.50 this morning
Ind noon. He was particularly bitter
IN his denunciation OF his fellow attor.
aey, Mr.. Quinn.
Since the morning session of court
It is freely predicted that Mrs. kauff.
tnan will be grained the continuance
ahe is fighting for.