Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-06-14
MAY ADMIT BONES FOUND ON
FARM WERE HUMAN.
SAW ACCUSED BURN BRUSH
More Witnesses Are Called and But
ton and Buckle Exhibited to Court
Great Crowd at Murder Trial of
the Alleged Slayer of Michael Nc
Carthy.

Appleton, Wis, June 9.-Indicatiops
are that the defense in the Kabat
murder case is going to admit the
finding of human bones in the decliv-
ity on the Mccarthy farm, near where
Kabat is known to have burned brush
fires for two days after the disap-
pearance of Mccarthy, but they will
endeavor to prove that the bones
were carried there by some unknown
person anxious to bolster up a case
Kabat yesterday tended to indicate
that.
Questions OF the attorneys for
Kabat tended to indicate that.
During the morning session four
witnesses were examined, the most
important of whom was Charles Quig-
ley, an employe on the Green Bay &
Kaukauna Interurban line, who
passed the Mccarthy farm at z
o'clock on the morning after McCar.
thy was last seen and saw Kabat in
the lane piling wood and brush on
two huge bonfires.
to feet high and from distance
it looked as if some of the buildings
on the Mccarthy farm were af1re.
Bones Are Exhibited.
The district attorney offered in evil
dence a chest containing numerous
bones found in the depression where
Kabat is said to have buried the
ashes of the bonfires. A button said
to have been attached to the clothing
worn by Mccarthy and buckle also
said to have been on one of McCar-
thy's pieces of wearing apparel were
also introduced
Attorney Ryan, first of the legal fra
ternity to learn of the mysterious dis
appearance of Mccarthy, was placed
on the stand and told how he dug for
and found bones and human teeth in
the declivity, where Kabat had
burned the fire. He said that the
sod which had covered the place,
where the ashes, bones and buttons
were found, had every appearance of
being recently placed there and the
underlying earth was soft, SO as to
permit the digging with ones fingers.
John Hall and Joseph Diers of Kau-
kauna testified to having been on the
Mccarthy farm on September Is
when they saw Kabat in the lane still
burning two bonfres.
julius Heimke, the 14-year-old Kau-
kauna lad who was employed on the
Mccarthy farm at the time Michael
Mccarthy disappeared, Marshal Rich
ard Conlon, who did much of the
work of securing evidence in the case
and who caused the arrest of Kabat.
and Peter Zimmerman, a Kaukauna
saloonkeeper who found the bones
buried in a declivity on the lane on
the Mccarthy farm, testified.
Young Heimke related what trans
pired on the evening of September 10,
when Michael Mccarthy was last
seen. He stated that Mccarthy had
told him that he was going to Green
Bay and might not be back in the
morning. The next morning when
Heimke returned to the Mccarthy
farm he found Kabat in possession, the
latter declaring that he had pur-
chased the farm. Heimke then told
of seeing both Kabat's and McCar-
thy's revolvers lying in the front
room of the Mccarthy home and Of
seeing Kabat busy himself for the
following two days at burning two
huge brush piles in the lane. He al
so told Of seeing Kabat take McCar
thy's kerosene can to the place
where the fires burned and how, aft
er missing them from the tool chest,
he found McCarthy's axe and saw and
wheelbarrow In the lane not far from
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