Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-11-28
THE DISTRICT COURT
TRIAL OF KLEIN ON CHARGE OF
RAPE BEGUN YESTERDAY
Il TESTIMONY .;as 5a 5.s
SHOWED SAD CONDITION OF
z THINGS BY WHICH YOUNG %
GIRL is VICTIM. e:

The jury in the case of State VS..
Klein was completed about 4 O'Clock.
yesterday afternoon, A.. f. Mcdonald.
H. T. McCulloch, Karl Anderson and
j. 5. Hauenstein completing the jury.
The first witness called was Sarah
Lena Brown, the complaining witness.
Mrs. Brown is short and plump and
not unprepossessing, though showing
the lack of educational advantages.
Her testimony was given amid tears
part of the time and was very con-
elusive BIS to the times and places
when the alleged crime was commit
ted by Klein, three separate dates be-
ing named by witness within the last
three years, and all when she was
under age. The only other witness
put on by Che state was Sheriff WEIGH
| who testified to the arrest of Klein
and his attempted escape. The state
then rested and the case went over
until this morning in order to give
defendants attorneys time to prepare
their case, they having been called in
to the case at the last moment.
From those claiming to be familiar
with this case it appears the widowed
mother of the girl is infatuated with
Klein and their relations are enigmat-
ical. She has two daughters, Sarah,
who says she is now 10, and one
younger. Klein has long wanted
Sarah to marry him, but she was
desirious of marrying a young neigh
Dor, which the mother would not
] listen to as she favored Klein's suit.
As a elimination of the present
trouble the mother forced the girl to
enter some kind of an alleged Jewish
ring ceremony of marriage with
Klein, who is old enough to be her
grandfather, against which the girl
rebelled. Later the girl got into
trouble through her young lover, the
upshot of which was their marriage
and the arrest of Klein. The Jewish
Aid society of Chicago writes that 1t
drove Klein away from Mrs. Browns
home a year or two ago on account
of the alleged relations that existed
there, and in it's opinion Mrs. Brown
as we'll as Klein, should be landed in
the pen, %*@ ,is: a. <.r
i sS Yesterday afternoon before ad,
4 journing Igan Frier, the 11-year-o1d
son of Ludwig Frier, was brought into
court on complaint Of Hans Olson,
| and Geo. ". Walters, charged with
putting striehnine in their sugar and
nearly poisoning them The lad
5stated that he put the poison in the
sugar, to kill the mice and gophers
about the place. The story runs that
last July Walters and Olson returned
to their shack from working at a
neighbor's and made some coffee.
Walters complained of the bitter taste
of his cup while Olson's, was all right.
Am Investigation resulted in finding
that new bottle of striehnine kept
as gouher poison, had been opened
and some Of the poison put in the
sugar and the sugar put back in its
place on the shelf. No clue could be
found to the perpetrator of the crime
until this q month when Olson dis
covered the same taste in his coffee
and again found poison in the sugar.
AIS the boy herded cattle in that
neigh borhood he was questioned and
confessed that he had put the poison
in the sugar to kill gophers as he had
seen the men do. 1T was but the
Imerest chance that the men were not
4 killed. .:5. :: IA:
Wallace Stoddard. charged with
maintaining a nuisance in the shape
of a blind pig, appeared in court with
out money and without a lawyer, but
4 possessed of an elegant Jag .Attor-
Iney Newton was assigned to defend
Il him and the case will probably come
up Friday, when it will be seen if
this is to be the 132d pig case prose
cuted in the district court without a
conviction. Stoddard was sent to
4 Jail, that being considered the best
4 place for him.
Upon reconvening court this morn
4 ing the defense Id the Klein case
moved for directed verdict which