The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
JUDGE HEARS BOCHE CASE.
PLEA MADE THAT HE BE ADMIT
TED TO BAIL.
ALL BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
The News viii Not Give to the Pub.
lie Testimony Of Witnesses to Jar.
mer Murder, Because the story Was
Told In Secret Session.


mer Murder, Because the story Was
Told In Secret Session.
Iron Tuesdays Dnlly1
Testimony on the staying of Frank
farmer by Herman Boche was taken
in Norfolk Tuesday afternoon but be.
hind closed doors. At the request of
Senator Allen, attorney for the man
charged with murder, the public and
the press was barred from hearing
the evidence advanced to substantiate
the motion to release Boche on bail
Judge A. A. WEIGH OF the district
court In the form Of dispositions A
decision on the motion for bail. 1t was
announced, would be given later in
the court room at Madison.
The prospective hearing in Norfolk
this city that Tuesday afternoon more
than a hundred people tried to crowd
into the law Office OF the county attor-
ney where It had been announced that
the examination would take place. An
adjournment was taken to the city
evidence that the hearing was com.
peting with the racing matinee for at
tendance.
1t was not given the crowd to take
another glance at the BOChC-Jarmcr
murder nor to hear court evidence on
the sum of money carried and said to
have been lost by Boche on the night
of the shooting.
Might Prejudice Jurors.
Senator Allen, Boches attorney, at
once asked that the session should not
be public lest Madison county be dis.
qualified from trying the murder case
when il came to trial. With the evil
dence placed before the possible jur.
ors of the county in advance the sen.
ator said that their minds would be
preiudiced when the case was called
to the trial The result of the con
ference that followed was that Sen
ator Aliens suggestion was acted on
and the testimony taken in the form
of depositions offered in the private
Office of County Attorney KOenigstcin
A court entry was ordered made tC
| the effect that the testimony shOulC
be taken at Norfolk during the after
noon before Judge A. A. WcIch tina
the dispositions taken should be later
submitted to Judge WEIGH for his de
cision at Madison, that no part Of thu
testimony should be made public o
given to the public in any form, tina
no use of the testimony offered shOuIr
be made by either party at the tria
and that the attendance at the after
Moons hearing should be limited Il
the district Judge, the county sheriff
the court reporter, the attorneys 70
the state, the defendant and his cOun
sci and the witness on the stand.
Witnesses Are Called.
Witnesses in position to hav
knowledge of the facts concerned il
the shooting were summoned to b
present at the hearing.
J If BOche is to be released on bail
! must be shown that the chances q
} convicting him of murder are slight
. 1t was for this purpose that witnesse
, were called in Norfolk. Manslaughte
J is charge that admits bail but mul
der if substantiated by evidence doe
not.
! Judge A. A. Welch of Wayne al
, rived in Norfolk on a morning trai
to preside at the hearing. Sheri
Clements, Herman Boche, Senator A
: len and a number of Madison citizen
! came up from Madison on the morI
ing train. County Attorney Jack KoeI
; igstein represented the state at tn
hearing.
Boche Looks Better.
Herman Boche, in charge OF She
if Clements and accompanied by hi
] attorney, Former United States Sci
T. ator Allen, came to Norfolk Tuesda
for the hearing before Judge A. !
. Welch in Norfolk on the motion to az
] nit the man formally charged wit
J first degree murder to bail Boch
D still i'll at ease, physically showed tn
superiority of life in the county jail
hunted existence in the woods {
+. the Elkhorn Since his commitmeI
to the county Jail after that wild wee
D in the woods Boche has grown bac
q towards his former self.
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