The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-06

was called to translate the attorneys
questions into German and the answers
into English
wife Tells Of Spells"
Mrs. Boche was brought at once to
the mental condition OF her husband,
a subject on which more than one
witness had been called during the
day.
Mrs. Boche told the Jury that she
had been married twenty-five years,
that before the marriage or courtship
she had never noticed anything cur
ious about her husband but that after
her marriage she found out that at
times he was not right, that In those
times he was always afraid OF people.
All this was told by the wife In re-
Spouse to queries from Senator Allen
Herman Boche. she testified, at
times heard people speaking in his
head. Once when he was going to
Norfolk with her he turned back after
passing the Elkhorn bridge, saying
that too many people were talking
there when there were no people
around to talk. She told him that It
was not SO but he would not believe
her and turned the team around and
went back to the farm. These spells,
she said, did not come close together.
One day he was In Norfolk and would
not drive home because he imagined
that there were too many people at
the Junction and that they would do
IA II ~
I'll his father Joined them. This spell
lasted four weeks.
Mrs. Boche said her husband had
had spell" about a week before last
May. She knew 1t was spell because
Boche talked so much and kept run
ming around the outside of the house.
He talked to himself and spoke of his
troubles.
"Of what troubles did he speak,"
asked Senator Allen.
II think he had promised Frank
farmer the money and did not tell me
because he did not think that l would
allow It." Mrs. Boche's answer was
struck from the records as stating a
supposition and not fact
Mrs. Boche could not Identify the
revolver with which farmer was killed.
Mrs. Boche then testified that she
and Herman had nearly $500, mostly
paper money, put away in little shot
sacks before the shooting. After
word was received OF the shooting she
went to look for the money at once
and found II missing 1t had been
pretty close to $500 and 1t was gone.
The boys had money in the bank but
she and Herman never put their money
there. They had spent year or so
in getting the money, 1t representing
the sale of a team Of horses, cattle,
wood, hogs and the like. She had
counted the money q few days before
the shooting.
How long Mrs. Boche, did you
know Herman Boche before you mar
ried him?" asked Judge Jackson taking
up the cross examination
"Over half a year"
How much did you see Of him?"
mot SO very much"
you noticed nothing about him be-
ing afraid before you married him?'
mo"
How long afterwards?"
Il soon found out that"
within a year?"
YES"
How long before the next spell!"
81 think seven or eight years."
How long did 1t last?"
Pretty nearly the whole winter"
How long before the next spell?'
1T is now three years ago."
WAS that the last one?"
No, there was one last spring"
-Four spells altogether from the
time you married him up to last
May?"
Yes"
She testified that Herman was APP
parently all right and able to trans
act his own business when he did not
have the spells"
did Herman have any money when
he came back homer"
II know of nothing. don't think
So"
Mrs. Boche was questioned on the
pocketbook her husband carried. The
state drew from Mrs. Boche state
ment that the Boches had sold moth
ing in the days between the time she
counted their money and the day when
Herman was supposed to have taken
the funds to town. She was then ex-
cused.
The case of the defense was now
ready for Herman Boche to take the
stand but his attorneys decided to
secure for him a nights rest.
The defense failed yesterday morn
ing to get the testimony of the first
witnesses called before the jury. But
after the testimony of Broder Kettle
son had been barred late in the morn
ing they had no great difficulty in get
ting most of what they wanted before
the jury.
Acts Out the Death Struggle.
There were three intensely dramatic