The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-17
Voice: Will you take it?

see my lawyer. I'D ItL
Voice: What are you going to do?
Smith: | am going to send for my
lawyer and tell him all l know.
Voice: What did they say you
ought to do?
Smith: They said it was better
to make a statement.
Voice: Are you going to?
Smith: Yes; they said if we had
buried him a little deeper in the barn
no one would have ound him.
Voice: Yes.
Smith: Do you think they will
make it all right?
| Voice: Now, Frank, you stoick to
that story.
Smith: When are your lawyers COM
ing up again?
Voice. Tonight.
Smith The hest thing I can do is
to get that $1,000.
Voice: Yes.
Smith: They say, your attorneys
say fl [ didn't talk and tell the story
! IL will be harder on me and it will be
better for me to clear you out of it
altogether, and then it would not be
so hard on me.
| Voice: Tell that story?
y
torneys to make paper with me SO
that / can get all the money out OF
them / can | will need it. What did
your lawyers have to say?
Mr.. Franciscus: 1 did not hear the
answer.
Simth: What say the Pau and
OeLaurisch?
Mr.. Franciscus: I did not hear the
| 81 cf airo
and I couldn't near.
you? :.
Smith: Sure, sure, I will do all if
they give me the $1,000.
Voice: You will give the money to
me? ~,
Smith: Yes, yes. They say that
they want to take me up before the
court.
Voice: I will call one of my lawyers
right away.
Smith: No, I want to call my at
torney first, are they going to bring
some one with them?
4 Voice: Yes.
/ Voice: Where is the top of the cap?
Smith: When you 60 out you look
for it. il is down in the bottom of the
grave. That was hell OF a game
; ANYHOW.
Voice: I heard
Mr. Franciscus: There was some.
thing else said but I didn't catch it,
but asked Smith and he said that Mrs.
Ledbeter said: 81 I had to do it over
again I would burn him up in the
!; ; stove myself.
Smith: Your father brought you
|. candy?
Voice: Yes.
Smith: Throw me one.
Mr.. Franciscus Four pieces of candy
were thrown into the enclosure that
, Smith occupied.
Smith: This is pretty good candy.
! all right.
Mr.. Franciscus: When Smith went
hack and put this candy on his cot
and sill. he told me that Mrs. Led
: better told him through the bars: IF
!. they take YOU before the court will
Y Won say that Bill Garner and some one
: else did it?' and he said he told her
I he would if they gave him the $1,000,
q Smith: l wish I could come out and
unlock your cell and get in with you.
Voice: The time is coming when we
e we will get out again.
t Smith: How do you feel today, any
h how?
|. Voice. Pretty bad.
d Smith: When you get out tomor-
i row
Mr.. Franciscus: This was the day
i before, previous to the time Mrs. Led
better was supposed to be admitted to
F? bail.
Smith: You will ge the fresh air
q and then you will feel better. Can't
you get a doctor?
o Voice: l don't want one. l am
afraid if I get out the people will kill
me.
Smith: When you get out you have
the children come and see me?
!. Voice: Ye, will have them bring
you some flowers.
, Smith: That will be as good as pie.
!. Are you going to have your father
v move out on the place?
Voice: He won't do it.
Smith: If we had not buried him
k in the barn your father would live
there, wouldn't he?
Voice: Yes.
Smith: After you get out try and
# do the best you can for me and try
k and don't forget me.
h Voice: | am afraid II L get OUT tney
will kill me.
Smith: They won't hurt you, just
10 STAY in town a while.
Voice: l am tired. I will lie down
and rest.
II Smith, Good bye.
10 Mr. Francicus: Then he waved a
kiss through the bars and 1 heard a
n sound like a smack.
Mr. Plymat: And you stated in that
conversation
Mr.. Schaub I can't hear you, wish
N you would speak louder, Mr.. Plymat
: Mr. Plymat: Turning back to your
r. notes, Mr. Franciscus, will you refer
to the place where Smith stated: %
N wish 1 could come out and unlock
+. your CELL" and read those notes again
carefully.
% Mr.. Francscus:
~ Smith: | wish I could come out
J. and unlock your cell and get in with
you.
Voice. The time is coming when we
.s will get out again.
r. Cross Examination by MI. Schaub.
d @. l wish to have you turn back to
some of your shorthand work. You
> stated that he said: 'You will FIND
the cap in the bottom of the grave