The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-10-31
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Der 81, Just six weeks prior to her
death.
Asked for Operation.
The first witness on the stand fol-
lowing the opening Of the hearing
was Dr.. E. j. Engstad OF Grand
Forks. He testified that Miss Lien
had called upon him in Grand Forks
the week before she arrived in Minot
She asked for an examination. claim
ing that she was not feeling we'll and
thought she had heart trouble. He
gave her thorough examination un-
til the discovered her condition, when
she confessed all. telling him that
that was what she had been worried
about She also asked him to per.
form criminal operation which the
doctor refused to do. The doctor
said that his examination as far as
he went did not show any other all.
ment
The father of the deceased girl was
then placed upon the stand. He iden-
titled letter which he had written
to Miss Lien on October 2. advising
Gina to make him marry" her at
once.
Attorney Sutton asked Mr.. Lien
what he meant by the words make
him marry you" Mr.. Lien replied
that he felt SO bad about the matter
that he did not know scarcely what
he was writing.
"You did not feel bad because the
girl was going to get married, did
you?" asked Mr.. Sutton.
Mr.. Lien said ono"
Another question having been put
to Mr.. Lien by Attorney Sutton as to
why he felt bad. Mr.. Lien said that
he was sorry that Gina had done
wrong.
L. w. Dale was the next witness.
He is the young man to whom Miss
Lien was to have been married. and
his testimony, in substance, was as
follows:
81 knew Miss Lien for about two
years. met her first at Nekoma, Ca
Waller county. In response to let
ter received from her, came here
about noon, October 5. and met Miss
Lien at the depot at o'clock Sunday
morning. l walked up with her to
the hotel, and VIC talked on the way
up. She said that she was glad to
see me, and / told her that l was
glad that she had come. l told her
that all the rooms at the hotels in
Minot were full and that l would
have to give her my room. l took
her up to my room, which was num-
ber 143. and l slept that night with
travelling man whom had met Sat-
urday afternoon. / walked up with
Miss Lien to the. room. We talked a
few minutes. She said that she was
tired and was not feeling very we'll
and that she wanted to retire. I left
her, and did not see her until be-
tween 10 and II o'clock the next
morning.
II went up to her room, and we
talked for about an hour. The conver-
sation was pleasant and she appear
ed cheerful. We did not talk any.
thing about getting married at this
time and / don't remember whether
we talked anything about her condi-
tion or not
1--WE went down to the cafe for din
nor about IL or 1880, sat at an open
table and talked about different
things. l think that we remained
there about half an hour. Our con-
versation was pleasant. We returned
to the room after dinner. and remain
ed there about two hours. We talked
about getting married. Miss Lien told
me about her condition, which she
had spoken about in letter to me.
and we arranged to be married and
l told her that was sorry for what
had happened and she said that she
was more sorry than / was We then
took walk around town, going. east
on First street, toward the 500 de-
pot, along by the courthouse and out
as far as the sidewalk ran, return
ing by Main street. 1t was about
4:30 or o'clock when we return
ed. We returned to the room. where
l remained about fifteen minutes. AS
was going out Miss Lien said that
she was not feeling very we'll and that
might call doctor. l went up to
see Doctor Moeller, and told him that
had lady friend at the Leland ho-
tel who was feeling i'll, and he said
that he would go and see her"
1 "Was the doctor alone, when you
entered his Officer" asked Mr.. Muir
ply.
YES" e.
did you tell him what was the
matter with Miss Lien?"
"No."
did he ask you what was the mat
ter with herr"
NC"
did he take his medicine case
along with him."
II don't remember whether he did
or not"
Mr.. Dale said that Miss Lien had
stated to him that she did not feel
like eating anything, SO he went out
for supper alone. He went to see
Dr. Moeller when he came down
from the room about o'clock and
asked him how Miss Lien was.