Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-10-09

tested the jurors for the state and l..
w. Lyon for the defense.
The jurors selected are:
John Blake-Motley.
Frank Love-Bellevue.
G. s. Smith-Morrill.
T. A. Krause-Clough.
Frank Dufo1d-City.
Jos. Houston-Cushing
Geo. Ogg-Morrill.
John Nygren-Motley.
Peter Picotte-Belle Prairie.
Chas. n. Tew-Ripley.
Jos. Doucette-Ripley.
o. P. Johnson-Elm Dale.
County Attorney Don. NJ. Cameron
and A. P Blanchard are conducting
the prosecution, and F. W. Lyon and
Donat Trettel have charge of the
defense.
The court room was we'll filled,
predominance of women beng in at
tendance, when court opened for the
afternoon session at 2 clock.
An outline Of the prosecutions case
was given by A. p. Blanchard, in
which be told the jurors of the
seriousness Of the crime for which the
defendant was being tried, that of
murder in the second degree. He
stated that if the defendant was guilty
her crime was all the greater, as it
was her husband, whom she had pro-
missed to love, honor and obey, who
was the victim. In the taking of
evidence he requested that the jurors
be especially careful to weigh all that
will be introduced, and to render a
verdict accordingly. He reminded the
jury that it was the purpose of the
state to punish the guilty, but that it
was also its purpose to protect the
the points Of the case, telling the
come to his DEATH and state that the
man was struck the fatal blows while
he was asleep in his bed, the blows
being struck from the side The state
would introduce evidence to show that
the murdered man and the defendant,
his wife, had many quarrels and that
at times their differences were so great
that on three different occasions she
commenced actions against her hus-
band for divorce, and that to a
neighbor she had confded that she
would divorce herself Mr. Blanchard
stated that the state would show that
the defendant purchased revolver
and practlced shooting, and that she
had acknowledged that one time when
her husband had gone to the barn to
sleep she had been tempted to follow
and shoot him and then say that he
had killed himself, after dragging him
down the hill. He then told how
VIM. Golln1k has returned home and
retired in drunken stupor, the de-
tendant and three young children be-
ing the only ones at home that night.
He rehearsed the story told by Mrs.
Gollnlk, about the two men she
claimed had entered the home and
demanded some money and then
struck him down, how she had run to
the neighbors, some distance away,
for help. and how on their return they
had found the body on the floor. He
further stated that doctors had said
that the affects Of the blows inflicted
were such that the man was unable tc
struggle to the floor; and wound up by
stating that another dress had been
found hidden, which was blood.
stained and bore bloody finger marks
and that while the state would be
unable to furnish an eye witness o1
the crime, it would introduce evidence
which would make it clear whether
VIM. Golinik had been murdered by
the two men or the defendant.
The state witnesses were then re-
quested to retire from the court room
to an outside room, there to remain
until they were summoned in turn by
the sheriff.
County Attorney Cameron then tool
charge for the prosecution in the ex
animation of witnesses.
DIR. n. w. Chance, was the frs
witness called by the prosecution, WIZ
testified that he had been called to thl
Gollnik home on August 18th, the
time of the murder, and the condition
in which he had found the murdered
man. That he found the mans skull
crushed in, some bones were broker
and that there was two or there
fractures; the floor and wall wa.
covered with blood, and on the heaG
of the bed, and that he knew that tht
man could live but short time
That the injuries ware on the lef,
side of the head and that the mar
must have been in bed and his face
must have been toward the person wht
struck him, but latter admitted tha,
the same kind Of fracture could re-
suit If the man was in sitting posi-
tion. Brought to the hospital later