The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-06-14
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DR.. John Golden Springs Surprise il
Kabat Murder Trial.

AdDdt uIQcl Aildi
F., APPLETON, Wis, June 9.-[Spe-
cial. THE prosecution in the Kabat
murder trial this morning sprung sur
prise when it introduced John
Golden of Chicago as an expert witness
to testify to an experiment he made on
the Mccarthy farm on Jan. 23 of this
year, when he cremated the body of
man about the age and size of Michael
Mccarthy in brush fire of the size of
the two burned by Kabat during the two
days after the disappearance of Nc
Carthy.
The fire was built in the same place rs
those burned by Kabat
Few Bones Left.
DR. Golden testified that it required
four and one-half hours to consume the
entire body, leaving only fragments Of
bones that could be placed III cigar
box.
The experiment was conducted in the
presence Of District Attorney krug-
meier Assistant Attorney Ryan Mr.
Nolan. Attorney +. Heineman and Hen
~ Gloudman, the latter being the pres
ent occupant on the Mccarthy farm.
No Odor Perceptble.
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Mt night and ut 4 80 the following morn
ing the body was entirely cremated. The
doctor and others who Witnessed the Gre
nation testified that several times dur
lug the experiment they walked around
the fire at various distances. but at no
time was any odor perceptihlc at Il
distance of more than twenty feet
State Weaves Net.
The prosecution continues to deliver
its chain of circumstantial evidence and
the defense thus far has been unable to
shake off one iota of the evidence.
John w. Tyrrell of Milwaukee. hand
writing expert, was called to testify this
morning.
His testimony was used by the state
i'll its effort to prove that kabat had
forged the missing mans name i'll order
to show that he was in possession of his
farm and personal property and could
sell 1t If opportunity presented itself.
Important Witness Called
Among the most important witnesses
thus far called was DR.. &. \. Dorsey,
curator in the anthropological depart
| mUut of the Field museum, Chicago, who
occupied an hours time Yesterday after
noon in tcStitying that in his opinion
all the bones found in the declivity in the
lane on the Mccarthy farm Were those
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/ somewhere between 80 and 60 years.
/ Mccarthy was about 40 years old. DR..
/ Dorsey also stated that in his opinion
lie believed that the bones had been
buried only a short time when disCov-
cred, Or Dorsey told of having been
one of the most important witnesses IL
the famous Luetgert case and also in the
Becker case in Chicago some years ago,
Never Saw Mccarthy.
Among other witnesses called yestcr-
1 day afternoon was Mrs, William Merritt
of Green Bay, ut whose home Kabat
declared Mccarthy stayed for some time
after leaving his farm on the night of
September r. Mrs. Merritt testified
/ that she had never seen Mccarthy She
told the jury also that Il few days after
| Mccarthy had disappeared from his
! home. kahat came to her and asked her
to say to everyone who inquired for Me
Carthy that NE had been at her home
nut had just left. The witness told how
one day Charles Mccarthy, father of the
missing man, came to her home and
handed her note written by kahat, III
I which he told her 10 produce Mccarthy.
Proposition of Kabat.
William Merritt of Green Bay also
was called to the stand ana told a story
of kabat coming to his home and ask
ing him if he wanted to go in ON a deal
in which he could make Il piece Of easy
money He replied in the affirmative,
! wbcreupon Kabat is said to have asked
| him 30 20 with him to Chicago repre-
sent himself MS being Mccarthy and let
/ Kabat sell the Mccarthy farm at aue-
! ton, the proceeds to be divided between
! them. Merritt refused to accompany
| kabat in the deal and later told his
wife about the proposition that had been
made to him. Mrs. Merritt in turn told
/ the county authorities.