The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-07
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10 SAVE JORDAN !
DEFENSE ooNTRADIoTs MUCH OF
49, THE STATES EVIDENCE. =.
Contends that the Defendant Was Too
Drunk to Have Shot His Wife
Much Evidence in Support of tho
Contention that She Was Unhappy
and Killed Herself. =
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Fergus Falls Mimi, May 7.--Notwithstanding
the strong circumstantial evidence. and the fact
that tho government has one witness who tes-
tilted positively that she saw the shooting, 1t
Is by no means certain that conviction will
be secured IN the Jordan murder trial. The
defense has been endeaVoring to discredt the
testimony of the eyewitness by showing that
she was medicine woman among the In
dams, and giving the, impression that her testi-
mony is about ON par with that OF the aver
! age fortune teller. y
The witnesses for the defense fatty contra
dict much of the .cfrcu1nstantiaE testimony in
troduced by the prosecution, and two points
being Kept in view, the first being that Jordan
was SO drunk that he could not have fired tho
fatal shot, and the second that the woman had
suicidal tendencies and that the position Of the
revolver indicates that she committed suicide.
Agency Missionary Testifes,
Rev. Mark Hart, the agency missionary, him
self full -booded Indian. testified that he
! received the sack containing the revolver from
| Jordan, and took it UP and gave 1t to his dor
| dan's) wife. Harris tent was within a few
feet of the tent occupied by the Jordans, and
he testified that he heard angry talk, but
saw Mrs. Jordan sitting in the entrance with
| her head bowed, and stepping back into his
| own tent for few minutes, heard shot fired.
He ran out and found the woman lying dead
at the tent entrance: where she had been sit
ting, and looking into the tent, he saw Jordan
sitting up tho he had just been aroused
from drunken stupor, while the revolver lay
at the feet Of his dead wife.
"IIow did be look?' asked James A Brown
/ for the defense. $3.50
The witness squatted the floor. threw his
head forward and swayed from side to side
sleepily.
He looked like this. I don't believe he
knew anything about what he was doing,
volunteered the Indian.
II move that that last remark be stricken
from the record" said District Attorney Houpt
Judge Morris ordered the reference to wha
the witness believed stricken out. The prosecu
ton had had two witnesses on the stand wht
directly contradicted the testimony relative tt
Jordan's appearance and the position of thu
revolver; and the point was a vital one.
Sharp Clash Over Beaulieu., :.
John Beaulieu testified that he had, hear
Ay -ah- be quay, Jordan's, wife, threaten to d.
something that would make him sorry If he go
drunk that day District Attorney Houpt HANDLED
him pretty roughly under discrimination
and as he was leaving the stand he asked hin
what relation he"was to Gus Beaulieu, the we'll
:. known Indian attorney. -
ave object" cried the attorney for the de
Tense.
as Gus Beaulieu of counsel in this case7
asked Judge Morris.
/ HE is chief adviser for the DEFENSE, you
Honor" replied Mr. I1oupt.
| The attorneys for the defense were on thei
: feet in an instant and some sharp words passe
across the table, but, they insisted that MI
Beaulieu was not attorney in the case, th
= court ruled the question out OF order.
: $3.50: Tried strangulatton. -...,.
h Jordan's brother testified that Az :ah- be qua
J, had attempted to commit suicide on two occs
q sions while ne was with the, family two year
. before. Once, while they were out :d1gg}n
a snasereot. she became angry and tied her mo-
ia casin strings around her neck so tightly ths
: she WAS very nearly strangled before She Wt
t. discovered, while another occasion sne tut
!. a halter to a fence and, putting moose aronr
5, her neck, threw her weight into 1t by lean1r
e. forward, but was again discovered.
- Jordan is a halfbreed and has heavy m ,,
If tache He looks more like white man tns
an Indian. .. o
rs The government Is laying the foundatio on - L
n testimony going to show that JORDAN s, ir'en
" have been, endeayoring. to intimidate the WI
ae nesses for the prosecution =.
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