Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-04-20
thunder" as one of the women had

thunder" as one of the women had
stated.
A. E. Sheets of Lakota testified
regarding the charge by Scott Rex
Sheets claimed that on July 12tn
lie saw Judge Cowan in mis- Office ana
that the judge was perfectly sooer.
Cross examination established the
date as July 18th, as testified to oy
the prosecution. M. Z. Crary of
Edmore also testified that he ate lin
ner with Judge Cowan on that day,
InIy l2, but Cowan was sober ana
the Judge did not put mis- arm "a
round Rex's neck. Andrew Ha zen
correlated Crary's testimony. At
torney J. J. Sampson also corrobor-
ated the testimony of Mr.. Sheets;
also Attorney T. w. Morrisey of Ed
more. All declared that Cowan was
perfectly sober at Lakota on the day
when Scott Rex declared he was
drunk.
The defense had for their first wit
ness Monday morning A. j. Mink
Ter, the Knox banker, who testified
as to the Rugby incident, when Co.
wan was alleged to have fallen a.
sleep on the bench. Minkler stated
that he was the one sick in the hotel
with whom Judge Cowan spent the
night, when the latter was alleged to
have been intoxicated. Cowan, he
said, was up with him practically all
night. In the cross examination of
Minkler the Rugby hotel register
did not show Minkler's signature
June II or 18, but he had registered
earlier in the week. Minkler stated
he had not registered those days but
was shown to his room by the pro-
prietor, he stopped there frequently.
Axel Egeland, president of the
First National Bank of Bisbee, for
the defense, swore positively that
Cowan did not sleep on the bench.
Mr.. Egeland gave every detail of his
testimony clearly and accurately.
The next two witnesses, John Nc
Cauly and James Ryan of Devils
Lake, testified as to Cowan's sobriety
on primary election day last year,
avering the Judge showed no signs
of intoxication. The testimony in
the morning was strong in Cowan's
behalf, none of the witnesses being
shaken in the cross examination.
''rne rest of the day was spent by
the defense bringing testimony refut-
ing alleged instances of sobriety
made by the prosecution. Attorney
F. T. Cuthbert testified that Judge
Cowan was sober at the time of the
snoring" occasion in the Devils Lake
court room. Peter limbo testified
that he had ridden in an QUITO with
Cowan April 18th, election day and
that Cowan was absolutely sober. w.
E. Bryant testified that the Judge
was sober November election day in
the afternoon, when he was with him.
A. G. McKinnis, a Devils Lake phar-
macist, testified as to Cowan's So
briefly the same day and c. ]. D.
Turner denied the intoxication upon
the part of Cowan. that night.
Fred Bassford, Devils Lake carpen-
ter and builder, testified as to the
conversation with Dan Brennan Nov
ember Sth, in which Bremen said
that he would get Cowan and kill
him, meaning politically. That Bren-
men had told witness that he had been
following Cowan for a year and a
half and that he had enough evi-
dence to send Cowan to hell. Bass
ford also said that Bremen had told
him that he would get even with Co
wan IL 1t took ten years, because of
Cowan's attitude in the judgeship
election when the elder Bremen op-
posed Cowan for the place.