The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-09-30

get the watch in the store before they
burned the building.
Lane Begins Cross Examination.
Cross examination by Mr.. Lane of
Robert Smyth shows:
Mr.. Smyth said:
Il first met DR.. Dumas last fall
Don't remember substantially the day
or month. 1t was sometime after
court in Bemidji had adjourned
couldn't say what month; it was
last year. 1 think it was in Novem-
Der; believe it was shortly after the
first snow probably about the tenth
l just happened to stumble onto him
visited him in his professional ca
pacity. I paid the doctor SIS for the
first visit. The doctor treated me
The doctor passed sounds on me that
day because he said he wanted to
enlarge the opening of the bladder"
At this point the women lett the
court room while the witness was ex-
amined relative to the nature of the
disease for which he was treated by
DR.. Dumas. .'----E..-.
Smyth said he received treatment
in Cass Lake every two or three
weeks from DR.. Dumas-didn't
receive over a dozen of fifteen. The
treatment continued until about the
last of May. Smyth began treatment
about November 10, 1910. 1t may
have been later than November 10
but he did not remember. The doc
tor, said witness, never rendered a
bill for his services When Smyth
first visited the doctor there was no
conversation as to what business
Smyth was engaged in. The Witness
denied that he had told DR.. Dumas
that the doctor in Bemidji had given
him no relief.
1t was sometime during the whit
er when DR.. Dumas discussed the
business in which Smyth was en-
gagged; he could not say what month.
The doctor, said Smyth, etaoinshrdlu
He didn't remember receiving any
medicine on January sth, 1911, or
of telephopiag to the doctor from
Puposky on january 9th, 1911.T'ss'
An evasive answer was given.
Didn't you when you first visited
DR.. Dumas, tear off bill head, con-
tanning the name of the PupOsky
Mercantile company, and give it. to
the doctor?'-
81 did not
Mr.. Lane questioned Mr.. Smyth as
to question of charges for medical
services being considered of small i'm
port; also: as, to: Smyth's connection
with Ethe Puposky Mercantile COM
pany,, Smyth stating that he had a
small interest in the store fixtures
and never had an interest in the
stock of merchandise, his only in
terest being that of an employe. CAT
this point the women returned to the
room.) Smyth stated that he never
had any stock in the business nor in
the building.
Explains the Insurance.
Responding to the examination
Smyth said A. E. Smyth was owner of
the Puposky Mercantile business.
Insurance was carried through VIM.
C. Klein, First National Bank and
A. e. Smith of Bemidji.
do you want us to understand
that A. E. Smith wrote insurance on
his own property"
Ellis name was on the policy as
agent" ...-. ~.
Mr.. Lane questioned Smyth close
ly as to the insurance carried on the
building.
Witness answered that he did not
remember to nearly all of the ques-
lions as to amount OF insurance car
ried on the PupOsky building. "
Witness did not remember date
when last insurance was put on.
About the Fire in May.
eleven days after you put that
last insurance there was a fire in
back of your store that pretty nearly
burned your store?'
cit was a small fire and was put
out" -r. ..sa-.. .....s.-.e.
Didn't you take the farm machin-
cry to place of safety?'
mo. sir; someone probably did"
Smyth stated that he fought fire
beside of Emil Gustafson several
times
During that fire, smyth said that
most of the time he was directing
the work of the men fighting fire.
Didn't you say to Mr.. Hodgdon
and others there, Don't pay any at
tention to the stock, it is we'll in
sured?"
enc"
did You Want it Burned?'
"Now, honestly, you wanted the
property burned, didn't you, Smyth,
so that you could get the $4,000 in
surance?''
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