The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-10

you to think that James is fool.
He knows that BERTHE Smyth gave us
the testimony that didn't make it nee
essary to bring Hogdon. .@
"Now, don't. you remember that
BERTHE worked into his own testimony
that instead of saving his own prop
erty that he wanted to save the wom-
en- and children, and let his own
property burn. He sent his team Ov-
er. but didn't go himself.
What Happened Here.
"Now, then, what happens down
here in this town when DR.. Stanton
says that DR.. Dumas was sitting with
him and Mike Davis held up his hand
and said, Hello, there, Doc!' Have
you ever had that happen to you,
gentlemen. Everyone in my city
from bootblack up call me Free
Lane and many of them are people
that I don't know. 1 don't regard
that as any crime. They speak to me
just exactly as Mike Davis spoke to
the doctor on that occasion.
"Have you ever known of a Grim
inal in all your life time-have you
ever read in a novel, for instance
where a criminal would go and show
the evidence of that crime. Now,
DR.. Stanton says DR.. Dumas said he
had received from client that day
$500. Do you think he would have
spoken of that if he had gotten it as
BERTHE would have you think?
'Isn't it funny if BERTHE ever gave
DR.. Dumas one cent of marked mon
ey that it wasn't produced in this
court as evidence.
Said BERTHE Would Have Kept It.
"You know that if BERTHE ever got
that 800 of alleged marked money
it stuck to him like poor relation
that it never got to DR.. Dumas.
"Here are five etectives-instead
of the king bee detective there are
five, and then came the would-be de-
tective, BERTHE, and yet gentlemen,
they say beyond a reasonable doubt
DR.. Dumas received that money. New
er heard such a statement in court
room before and I hope l never shall
again. And in that connection how
singular. Right off the bat the doctor
goes up to Hibbing with his wife to
attend the ball game. The doctor
was the head of team at Cass Lake.
This is their evidence, not ours Doc
is good hearted fellow. One of the
football boys asked him for some
money. He said he had little
change and a 5000 check. Now,
would he have made such a fool state
ment if he had gotten it from Ber
tie?
81 understood Mr. James to say that
the doctor was an Intelligent man.
The fact that he showed the check is
the strongest evidence that he re-
ceived it legitimately.
AS to Duluth Phone Talk.
::Here was this entire bunch of able
detectives, E. E. Mcdonald another
able detective, the attorney generals
office, Sam Fullerton, and they all
knew that BERTHE was going to Duluth
for the purpose Of catching DR.. Du-
mas over the telephone. And BERTHE
said that the conversation was held.
I haven't the slightest doubt that
there ever was a talk held between
them. BERTHE brought in that straight
little bellboy, and wasn't it refresh
ing to have him on the stand to have
good clean boy, not fellow like
Bertie-he was so straight. daisy
in a barren field. l laughed at the
little fellow he was so straight about
it.
How Real Detectives. Work.
Let me tell you something. All
the detectives who have head on
them like an ordinary hatpin-not
one like Bertie's; they know enough
to know how to catch man on the
to1opbopo Thov would nut in a ont.
off and listen to the conversation,