The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05

Freyert, brotherinlaw, were the
sureties. Accompanied by his rela !
tives Flege returned to his home, eight |
miles northeast of Wayne in an auto. |
mobile.
Albert Eichtencamp, the boy EN-.
pluyed ON the Flege farm at the time
OF the atrocious murder Of the young
woman, was on the stand all through
the morning session. The attorneys
opened their arguments in the after
noon, the prisoners protagonists bas
ing their whole contention on the
ground that there was no evidence to
show generalization necessary to
prove murder in the first degree and
that therefore the prisoner should be
released II he could furnish the pro-
per surety. No witnesses were called
for the defense during the hearing,
and the attorneys did not expect
! Flege's complete exoneration in the
preliminary, they say.
The prosecution maintained that
Flege was charged with murder in the
first degree, and the decision of the
| justice held him to answer that
charge. Therefore, they said, under
the law he should not be admitted to
bail.
! j. j. Mccarthy and assistant coun-
sci argued that no evidence had been
introduced to show that Flege had
deliberately planned the deed, and
for that reason the most that could be
| a
charge of manslaughter and that he
should be permitted to give bond even
if the more serious charge was placed
against him.
The bond was signed in the court
room after a short consultation be.
tween the prisoner, his relatives and
his attorneys. He walked down the
stairs, and in a few minutes was be.
ing whisked toward home, after a stay
of week and one day in jail. Eich-
tencamp, who is responsible for his
former employers arrest, went to the
home of his father, near Wayne, earl
Ter in the day.
Flege, for the first time since the
death of his sister exhibited elusive
traces of a feeling that was suggestive
of overwhelming currents of emotion
surging through his being as Eichten.
camp told, in plain, straightforward
manner, the incidents of the afternoon
when he said he saw Flege shoot and
kill his sister.
, Eichtencamp is tall, open-faced
country boy, and no trace of guile was
apparent as he answered the ques
+ tons of the attorneys. Stopping now
and then to get the exact sense of a
, question put in the nearly unfamiliar
, English, he answered each one direct
ly, and when the defense broke away
. from the perfunctory method in which
the other witnesses had been eXamin
8 ed and subjected him to a grilling fire
of cross-questions in which the peril
. nence of nearly every word which he
had offered in the direct examination
6 was questioned, his testimony was
4 not materially changed. The witness
:. gave his age as Is years, and tolt
!. that German was the language which
s is used nearly exclusively in the larg'
|. German settlement. lie said that II
d the quarrel which he overheard be
e tween Flepe and his sister that thi
g was the tongue which they spoke.
!. scnte roanps Story.
= Eichtencamp told the same stor!
r which he told Sheriff Grant l.. Near
e when he gave the information which
s led to Flege's arrest to that official
n He said that after the dinner on tn
8 hn out in IN
If barn when he heard Flege and hi
II sister quarreling. Then he heard tn
e two shots and the young woman wa
n lying on the ground moaning. The
IS Flege rode up to the barn where h
n was standing and told him to kee
Y. still or the same thing would happe
it to him.
The witness testified that he worl
le ed in the field all morning and a
d 1870 had gone to the house for tn
ar regular hour and one-half which
N was customary to take at noon. II
d. said:
V. Il saw William and Louise at tn
r. house at noon that day. William
k Louise and myself ate dinner togetl
" err sitting down at the table abol
Of II o'clock. When dinner was finishe
ir William and ! sat down and smoke
is Louise cleared off the table and ca
Id ried the dishes out to the kitchen. A
lie ter we had smoked pipe, laid dow
he on the porch just outside the diniT
is room door and William laid down {
20 a couch in that room and went
k sleep.
re in just a few minutes l was ava
n. ened when Louise was awaking w
Ir. liam to answer the telephone.
was talking to Fred Flege, his brot
he er, and kept answering yes and no,
or. Then William went to the autom
n, bile shed to grease the machine al
ne / went out there and helped hi
er- He said, Yes That's all you do no
us adays, she said. William said, Car
wv l do what l want tor
ST. Louise went to the kitchen. Loui
gh had a sunbonnet and an apron on.
In saw them when I went ont TO the Sh