The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04
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LIE Sueur Center, October 2S.-Martin
lO'Malley, who is defending himself
against the charge of murder, went on
the witness stand yesterday and testi-
fed that he was. given the ''third de.
gree" by a Pinkerton detective, and
thus forced to say things that he
would not have said otherwise. The
testimony of ONIalley follows:
Il am the defendant in this case and
am forty-one years of age. Up to the
time l was arrested I lived on nv
farm about three and one-half miles
north of this village in Lexington
township. ] have los acres of land of
my own and rented some land besides.
4 | was married about seventeen years
ago the first time and had min echil-
dren. eight of them living now. My
first wife died, it will be two years
next January. The second time I mar
ried Mrs. Prgl on May IS, 1910, and
she had three children. She and her
children came to live with me- Two
of my wife's children died July 3, 1910.
Since that time my wife has not lived
with me. On Saturday before they
died we were to Montgomery to see DR..
White. That day Mrs. Kudlik, our
neighbor, came to my place and told
my daughter Catherine to tell me that
the children ought to have a Doctor !
said | would call DR.. Moench and my
wife thought we better take them to
Montgomery to see DIR. White. We
went to Montgomery after dinner. 1t
was u pretty warm day. When we
got to Montgomery we went to my
wife's mothers home and then went
to get DIR. White.
Doctor Examined Children.
"We went to Montgomery after din
rer. 1t was a pretty warm day When
we got to Montgomery we went to
4 my wife's home and then / went to
get DIR. White. l brought the doctor
back with me to the Havlis home.
! The doctor examined the children.
There was a neighbor woman there
and the doctor asked her several aues.
lions about the children and also asked
ne. lie wrote out prescription and
told this neighbor lady how the medi-
cine should be used. / took the pre-.
scription TO the drug store. l went
out and tied my team to anotlCI
place. After a while l went back and
got the medicine at the drug store l
also bought a box of rough on rats at
this drug store. Then l went back
TO the Havlis home. ! did not 90 into
the house but told my wifc's brother
to tell her to get the children ready
and we would go back home and we
! did 60 home. When we got home
| went to unhitch the team and my
wife and children went into the house.
| Frank walked to the house. The
liquid medicine was given to the chill.
dren right away when we got in and
Frank was given a capsule also. I
went to bed about twelve o'clock and
woke up about five. I went into the
bedroom where my wife and her chill
drel were. She and Mary were asleep
but Frank was awake and / saw he
was very sick. l awoke my wife and
told her 1 would get the doctor. l had
one of the children telephone for the
! doctor and l started fire When /
got back Frank was dead. 1 sent for
Mrs. Kudlik and Mrs. Kendall and
they came. | asked Mrs. Kendall to
wash the boy and she said she would
but didn't like to do it until the doctor
or coroner would come. DIR. Moench
came. He examined the girl and pre-
scribed for her. He examined the boy
and then said it looked like poison.
He also prescribed for my daughter
Catherine. l got the medicine. In the
afternoon my brOthersinlaw and
motherin-law came over from Mont
| gomery, | sent for them. In the after
noon | called the doctor again. When
| the doctor came he said that Mary
was very sick and that there was
no use to prescribe for her any more.
| asked him what allied her and he
said it was infantile paralysis When
my brother n-law went home about
four o'clock l asked them if they
would not have Il grave dug in the
Catholic cemetery at Montgomery.
told him Mary appeared very sick and
if anything should happen to her l
would telephone to him. Mary died
about ten o'clock that night. Mrs. Kud-
lik. Mrs Kendall my wife and her
mother and | were in the room when
she died. The children we're buried
at Montgomery July 4. My wife did
not go home with me that day
Was Put Under Arrest.
IL was put under arrest week or
two after the funeral and kept in Jail
for four days. 1 was arrested later
on again. About two weeks before
the children died we went to Mont
| gOmery. When we left home none of
! The children were sick. Frank took
sick on the road between Lexington
and Montgomery and Inc remained sick
more or less until July 2. Before the
time that Frank took sick on the way
to Montgomery both the children had
been sick at different times with sum-
mer complaint and it lasted two or
three days. TIE second time / was
arrested was on August II about 3
a. m. at my house. Sheriff Traxler.
Otto Thur and a detective were at
my house on the night of August 8
and also on August 10. He told me
that he, the detective, came over to