The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-12-04
THERANDALLTR|AL
JURY SECURED FRIDAY FORE.
NOON AND TAKING OF EVIL
DENCE BEGUN.
WINN1FRED BARToNNE, KNOW
AS MRS. BRIGHT, WAS ON
STAND IN AFTERNOON.

and the taking of evidence began IL
the afternoon. But fifteen venire
men were examined before the jur,
was complete and of the three me1
excused, two were peremtorily chal
lenged by the state and one by the
defense. None were excused for cause
]. NJ. Lott. j. j. Sundahl and II. e
Fuller We're the veniremen pelem
torily challenged.
William Fisk, James Boyle, A. c
Jones, Peter Glazier and Carl Steen
who are on the Randall jury. We're
members of the jury which convicte
Mrs. Mary Harbour of manslaughtel
in the second degree last week.
Ernest b. Randall, the defendant
is represented in court by Attorneys
Boyd & Soule and is accompanied by
brother, V. A. Randall, OF Tacoma
Wash. States Attorney Chauncey L.
Wood, assisted by Attorney H. E
Edwards, appears for the prosecu-
ton, with Judge Levi McGee presid.
ing.
The opening statement for the
state was made by Attorney Woo
who said that the state would show
by chain of circumstantial evidence
that Randall murdered Marion Fran
els Dragoo. commonly known here
as Frank Bright.
The first witness for the state was
Winnifred Bartonne, who prior to the
shooting was known in the vicinity
of Inlay as Mrs. Bright. She told
Of her residence at Inlay with
Bright and admitted that although
they were living as man and wife
that she was never legally married
to him. She told of Randall's resi-
dence at Inlay. of the location Of the
Bright claim, her claim and the claim
that Randall contested and gave in
detail the events Of that fatal fore
noon on July 5th, when Bright was
found dead in the field by Randall.
After she had stated that the sher-
if had found the bar Off the end of
a watch chain and she had found at
the same time piece of watch
chain in the claim shack, near where
the revolver was found by the sher-
if after the shooting, the defendant
was asked to hand over his watch
chain to Attorney Wood and it was
seen that the chain was minus the bar
which holds the end to the button
hole.
Sheriff E. L. Bangs was called and
Identified the revolver, the holster
and the cartridges and they were Of
fered in evidence. The gun was a
3S caliber Colt and the cylinder con-
tanned four loaded shells and two
empty ones. The sheriff stated that
TIE shells were U. NJ. c., long, and
that the shells, the gun and the hol-
ster were as he found them on the
eighth of July The holster was be-
spattered with what apparently was
Bad Lands mud.
Miss Bartonne was returned to the
stand, and after few questions by
Attorney Wood the cross examination
by Attorney Soule, for the defense,
" oS III duulllOu " uCT
testimony given above, she admitted
that prior to her association with
Bright she had been married to a man
named Lewis. She stated that she
left Lewis in Kansas and that she UNI
derstood that he procured a divorce
there. She admitted that her father
spelled his name Barton and not
Bartonne, as she spelled it. She
said that she met Bright at Cham
berlain and came with him to Inlay,
where they had lived about two
years before the shooting occurred.
With reference to the post office
building at Inlay, she claimed that
the lumber was purchased with mon
ey that Bright had given her, that
Bright and Randall erected it, that
Randall owed Bright more than +
share Of the work. that Bright gave
her his work on the building and her
ownership to the building was new
er disputed.
Coming up to the present time,
Attorney Soule asked Miss Bartonne
what she did now, to which she re-
piled that she was still postmistress
which paid her about five dollars
a month; that she had earned about
SIS selling kodak views, that she
kept grocery with a 5000 to 5000
stock on which she had paid 500,
but that she did not make much pro-
fit in the grocery business although
she said her sales amounted to about
$500 a month. She admitted that she
had no money when she went to I'M
lay with Bright. but said Bright had
given her at various times some
thing over $500. When asked wheth
er she had bank account, she said
that she had and stated that she now
had about $40 in the bank, and that
she had her bank book which would
show all her business with the bank
but the attorneys for the defense evi.
IDENTIFY did not want the bank book
in evidence. Much ado was made by
Attorney Soule about her fine cloth.
ing, but she stated that Bright had
bought her most Of the clothes she
had, although she admitted havine
W. dresses made in this city since
shooting and having purchased
cat which she said had not We
been paid for. 1t was evident tina
the attorneys for the defense were
trying to lead the jury to believe tina
the woman had more of Bright
money than she could account for.
The events Of the day Of the shoot
ing were then carefully gone owe
by Attorney Soule. She said tina
Bright and Randall went to worl