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

hood. Through these men and women
who testified during the last two days
the defense has sought to prove that
Herman Boche after sick spell In
his boyhood was not bright was In
the language of one witness rather
daily" that at four intervals In the
experience OF his wife he had prolong-
ed spells when he suffered hallucina.
lions, that one of these spells was on
him last May. that farmer was In
need OF $3.50 on April 30 to pay his
saloon license, that Boche went to
Norfolk with the money. carrying re-
volver to protect the funds, that he
became drunk In the farmer saloon,
that farmer coaxed him to the resort,
that there was no quarrel between the
men but that there was evidence OF
struggle in the road way where the
tragedy occurred. Other important
points are touched but that was the
main outline.
Aside from the testimony OF Herman
Boche's wife and son the defense yes
terday introduced two new lines OF
evidence, one to show that Herman
Boche was n simple minded man. at
times dairy" and victim OF halluci.
nations, the other an attack on the
character of Frank farmer. the man
Herman Boche shot. This last line
OF testimony was blocked by the
states attorneys interposing legal OBJ
jections to its introduction.
The witnesses who testified late yes
terday afternoon, following the testi-
mony of Mrs. Max Henschke OF Wake
field, the sister. and who cleared the
way for Herman BOche today were
Martin Buettner Walter Boche, Carl
Sorg and Mrs. William Boche. Their
testimony was offered after the court
had taken n recess about o'clock.
Martin Buettner, sixty.eight years
old and Madison county pioneer,
testified as to the sickness of the boy,
Herman, thirty odd years ago. He
said that young Herman said that he
was shaking all over and that every
bone in his body was aching Mr..
Buettner was not cross-examined.
The Son a Good Witness.
Walter Boche, the twenty-one year
old son of the defendant, was a good
witness for the defense. He answered
quickly and did not become confused.
He is a tall youth, moulded some
thing on the lines of his father but
with a quicker brain.
1t was with Walter Boche's revolv-
hot shot
The witness testified that he had
bought the revolver from Sears &
Roebuck some two months before the
tragedy.
did your father ever carry that
revolver prior to the shooting?" Walt
er Boche was asked by Senator Allen.
He never carried it."
"Did you have a Sears & Roebuck
catalogue?"
"Yelp, got three of them now"
where was your father the day be-
fore farmer was killed."
"He was up town and | was with
him"
The witness then testified that he
had been up town in the afternoon
Will luIuNi, So"lhS op''I
6 D. m, and that his father went up
town again in the evening. Through
an open door he had seen Herman
Boche, his father, counting out "a big
bunch" of paper money on an old
trunk. He put this money into
leather pocket book. Herman BOche
did not get home that night and the
next morning they heard of the shoot
ing.
Judge Jackson took up the cross
examination.
did your father know where that
revolver was?"
Everybody knew"
WAS that night the first night he
had ever carried that revolver"
Eyes"
you are sure he never carried it,"
"You bet"
How do you know"
Because know"
well, how do you know"
Because he never carried it,"
(which way did you and your father
come home from town."
1.-THE same way we went"
"Well, by what places?"
ooh, you don't know the people,
anyhow"
The young man was not impertinent
but Judge Jackson had to take another
tack to get his information, The ques-
tons touching the revolver were i'm
portant as relating to Boche's motive
for the night trim tn Norfolk
Young Boche was sent through a
detailed examination on the scene that
he swore he saw through the open
door between the room where he was
eating supper and the room where
Herman Boche was counting his
money.
Carl Sorg, forty-one years old, living