The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-29
Moorhead Department
KETHMAN JJVM0VED TN FACE
OF BLIGHTING TESTIMONY
Miss Lillian Wright Testdies That Defendant Is the Man She
Saw lowering About Her Home on Night Of
Crime Many Women IN Court

There was some delas ct the be.
ginning OF the Ketnmsn trial today
on account Of the non-arrtval OF w
H. Barnett from Fargo of counsel for
the defense. Owing to business in the
United states court at Fargo Mr.. Bar
nett was not able to be in his chair.
The courtroom within and without
the rail was crowded and there was
quite an intermingling OF ladies who
were on the quivive for the testimony
of Miss Lillian Wright, the first Wit
ness Of the day to be called.
The appearance of Miss wright in
the witness chair did not seem to dis
turb the defendant in the least and in
the relating of Miss Wright's testi-
mony at the point where she answered
the county attorney in the affirmative
that the man she had seen lowering
about the vicinity of her home on the
night In question and u few moments
before the commission of the crime,
was the defendant Frank Kethman,
the latter apparel remarkably uncon-
cerned and unmoved.
Miss Lillian Wright was examined
by County Attorney Johnson. In
substance, the story told by the witt
ness was the same one she told at the
preliminary hearing.
A few minutes before IL O'Clock on
the night in question she reached her
home having been at the house of a
friend. She found the door locked, but
she could get onto the porch and with
in the screen. She knew it was about
time for her father to arrive and she
waited. She told Of seeing man down
the street walking to and fro as though
waiting for some one and she was a
little afraid The porch was dark but
she could see about the neighborhood
and how the man first moved TO one
place and then the other-he was a
tall thin man. She saw all of his acts
and movements very plainly. When
her father came they compared notes
and both stood on the porch and saw
the man in the distance. The man dis
appeared for moment and soon after
witness said she heard blows and saw
an arm move up and down at a point
near the corner Of the street. She saw
an object fall and second or two
d AOA1l ACdIAlLS ONSE ~ set Ap &L1Q
moved westwaras.
Believed 1t Was kethman.
In answer to question by the coun-
ty attorney Miss Knight said she be-
lieved that from her observations of
the person she described as seeing and
the observations made afterwards the
person she saw was Frank Kethman.
Miss Wright saw Kethman in the coun-
ty Jail the next day and identified him
as the man she had seen the night be-
fore.
Miss Wright was cross examined by
Mr.. Nye, but she proved immovable and
her direct examination on the whole
was mistaken. The question as to the
time of Hiss Wright's arrival home and
the subsequent time of different oc-
currences and moves was very closely
analysed b. Mr.. Nye in his questioning
of the witness, and once or twice her
answers in the preliminary examina-
tion was read to her by Mr. Nye, but
the variance was very slight, as any of
the time quoted was estimated from
IL o'clock which she heard struck by
the clock in her home just after she