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

| ton to render financial assistance
to another member just because he is
a member"
Not under obligations"
Not in either order?"
IL guess you can't make them dc
IT,"
III a member of the order is in
business do other members have to
trade with him?"
They have their own free will"
yes. Now was Boche intoxicated
that evening when you saw him?"
II didn't think So"
was Boche intoxicated when he
left the saloon?"
Il didn't think 3d."
Koehn also testified that he didn't
think that Boche staggered when he
went down the street with farmer.
The cross examination further de-
veloped from Koehn's testimony that
Boche In treating the crowd had come
over to Koehn and asked him to
drink, Koehn making the plea that he
had just had something. Boche insist
ed, saying that he had plenty Of money
and to prove 1t drew out small purse.
Koehn said he told Boche that he must
have 500, but the latter said he did
not have that much.
Now you don't know that he had
no other money!" said Senator Allen,
taking up the examination again.
mo, | don't" the witness said.
did Boche ever show you any
money before?"
No"
And couldn't Boche have come in.
to the saloon before 10:30? Might he
not have come in at 10?"
Il don't think So 1t was after the
council meeting"
thing for Herman to be up town in a
saloon at that hour?"
mo, l don't know that it was so
unusual for him."
Edna Ingham was called on the
stand as the next witness for the de-
Tense. She was asked to identify the
photographs of her place, which she
did. One photograph in particular
showed a chair placed out in the road
to represent the spot where the shoot
ing occurred. Some of the pictures
were ruled out as immaterial, the other
photographs being examined by the
jury.
County Attorney on Stand.
Senator Allen then asked Jack
Koenigstein, county attorney to step
into the witness chair. After the us
ual preliminary questions he testified
that at the time of farmers death he
held loan on the furniture in the
farmer saloon for about SITS. This
was secured by mortgage.
After closing out the estate and
satisfying this mortgage how did the
creditors fare?" inquired the senator
Seventeen per cent of their claims
were paid"
What would you say was the finan
cial condition of farmer on May II?
We'll, his unsecured creditors got
seventeen per cent"
"And some creditors filed no claims
at all?"
Yes, SIR"
farmers City License.
julius Huff, city clerk of Norfolk
was called and examined by Burt
Mapes, attorney for the defense. He
brought farmers old license papers
his 1907 application and the city re
cords to Madison.
Last years license tangle was found
to have possible bearing on the case
In 1906 through error the city clerk
had drawn up the saloon licenses Of
the city to expire April 80, 1907, in
stead Of the end of the municipal year
May 6. At the time there was some
talk of the old council holding an EN-
Urgency meeting and issuing licenses
for the coming year before the arrival
of the new municipal year with its
new administration.
The defense sought to learr
whether or not farmer supposed the
license matter would come up before
May 6, and was, as a result doubly
anxious to get his license money
ready without delay but the city CLERK
could not give definite testimony.
Pig Pen information.
William D. Ueckeh, night watchmar
in Norfolk at the time of the shooting
was called not in his former officia
capacity but because as a resident o.
East Norfolk he was supposed to bt
familiar with the vicinity just cas-
of the river. He was examined close
ly by Senator Allen on East Norfolk
geography.
Uecker's principal testimony was {
dissertation on the pig pens south o.
the resort and on the route that Ueck
er thought Boche would naturally take
in getting home. Uecker testified
that pig pen eighteen feet square
was on Joe Trulock's property soutf
of the resorts on May /, but that /
was later removed. He was question
ed about it in especial detail.
decker was vigorously cross-eXam