The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-02
FATE OF ESAlJ IS0MAA Is
PLACED IN HANDS OF JURY
Attorneys Present Final Argu-
meDts This Morning Test
imony All In
LARCENY CASE IS ON CALL
TELEPHONE SOUTH 10

The morning session OF the Hough-
ton county circuit court was taken NJ
with the hearing of the arguments ol
the attorneys in the case of Esau Iso-
maa, charged with assault with intent
to murder. During the early part OF
the session. Judge Streeter sustained
an objection made by Attorney CAL
| braith 10 the entering of new testi-
mony, by the people during the rebuff
| tai. Attorney Galbraith made the
closing argument for Isomaa while At
| torney W. j. Mcdonald closed the case
OF the people. II was placed in the
hands of the jury at l1:45 o'clock after
which an adjournment was taken until
o'clock i'm the afternoon and the
members of the jury were taken to
dinner The next case on call is that
of Andrew Neimi alias Hjalmer Jank-
lila Of Dodgeville, charged with larceny,
Matt Kolari being the complaining
witness.
The trial of Esau Isomaa of Calumet
on the charge of assaulting with intent
TO murder Frank Brunette of Renova
last July at the latter place. held the
attention OF the circuit court all the
afternoon yesterday, a long list of wit
nesses being heard. The principal wit
nesses of the afternoon were the COM
planning witness and the defendant.
The former told of the attack upon
him i'm the Gross saloon at Renova
where he worked as bartender and
told the jury that il is his belief that
his life was saved by the metal clasp
on the front of the band of his trous-
ers. He says that but for this clasp,
which stopped the knife after it had
slashed his body from point near his
heart down TO the band of his trousers
the knife, which he declares was welded
by the defendant, would have entered
a vital spot.
ON cross examination by Attorney
Galbraith of Galbraith & Mccormack,
who are defending Isomaa, Brunette
testified he could not have been mis-
taken in the man who attacked him
with the knife, as there was bright |
light over the door through which he
was driving the defendant and some
others who had been making disturb
ance in the place. Before leaving the
stand Brunette. at the direction Of |
Prosecutor Macdonald showed the jury |
the long cut down his abdomen. in |
which the surgeon was required to take /
eleven stitches. The trousers which /
he complaining witness wore on the /
night OF the occurrence, showing the |
place where the weapon cut through |
he band OF the garment and that the |
,lasp was forced out Of the goods, were
submitted by the state as an exhibit
n the case.
Defendant Accuses Another.
Late in the afternoon Esau Isomaa,
he defendant, was called to the stand
o testify in his own behalf and he de-
lied the charges as made by the state
nd the complaining witness. claiming
hat he had no knife with him that
light Isomaa declared that Sakris
'itkanen, the other man whom Bru-
ette was driving from the saloon.
must have been the one who did the
utting if either of them did it. as he
new Pitkanen had a knife and had
happened it that very afternoon but
hat the only knife which he. himself
wned was a carpenters knife and that
g did not have it with him that might.
lis testimony was complete denial of
ne charges as presented by the states
illnesses and his cross examination
Y the prosecutor did not result i'm
ringing out any very great amount
information not given i'm the direct
Before a jury could be secured to
Y the case the entire panel had been
and it was necessary to call ,
Ilesmen. Among those summoned was ,
Thomas and. he being found
'ceptable to both sides. the trial pro-
'eded. The jury trying the case is
OF Vincent Vairo, Henry {
atz, Leonard Thomas, Joseph Ire
ar, +. G. Davis, c. A. Frimodig, Will
nm Galley. II. II. Lewis, William
rohn Frank Kahler, Dominick Orelli #,
Id William Sincock.