The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-02
Benner at Spooner's Office.

did I not ask you if DR.. Dumas
had anything to do with your goins
to Oshkosh, or ever tried to influence
you in trying OF get Behan?" sale
Mr.. Lane. %- *,
"Well, I can't remember just what
happened"
"What? why, you were sober
weren't you.'
The answer, "No SIR caused roar
of laughter.
Again Attorney Lane asked if he
hadn't asked Benner in Spooner's
office:
Did DR.. Dumas send you to Osh-
kosh to get rid of Behan?"
81 can't remember"
you for?''
"Well, he said to get Behan out of
the country
"Now, didn't you say DR., Dumas
wanted to investigate the situation
there?"
"Something like that, I guess
Didn't you say Kennedy owed you
some money!"
well, he owed me some money,
| don't know how much"
"The money you wired for was the
money Kennedy owed your"
81 don't know
"You came into Judge Spooner's
Office voluntarily and said that Smyth
was tipping you money every day."
Assistant Attorney James objected
but the court permitted the witness
to answer.
81 can't say, but he was giving me
money"
Did you not say at that time that
Smyth was giving you money!"
Il don't know, I've been pretty
full"
"You remember of being alive and
talking about going to Oshkosh?'
"Remember of being alive"
"You remember of saying to us that
you took Mrs. Meyers out for ride in
Oshkosh and pretty near had a fuss
with herr"
20, 1 remember of taking Mrs.
Meyers OUT
"You say DR.. Dumas gave you $50
to run Behan out of the country?'
Now, how do. you figureshrdetao
well something like that"
Nov, turn around to the jury and
tell them how it was the doctor gave
you $50 to get Behan out of the
country when, you say, the doctor
told you he didn't believe Behan was
in Oshkosh"
"Well, I don't know, l was pretty
full at the time I guess
do you mean to sit there and say
that you are drunk all the time?"
"Well, it's been pretty near all the
time the last two weeks
"Now, Benner, you mean to say
that your physical condition, from
drink and dope. is such that you are
not to be believed?"
'That's about it.
'That's ALL" said Mr.. Lane.
On redirect examination Mr..
James asked:
when you went riding in Osh-
kosh with Mrs. Meyers, her mother
and other relatives were along were
they not?"
"Don't know about that-know
Mrs Meyers was there"
"Where was the first place you
headed for
"A saloon, guess" said Benner.
Benner also said, in answer to
questions from Mr.. James, that he had
told the defendants attorneys thai
he had told the truth in the grand
jury rom.
Mrs. Meyer, Behan's sister, was
next called and she told to having
seen Benner in Oshkosh.
Saturday Afternoon Session.
Following a merciless grilling at
the hands of Freeman P. Lane,
the Minneapolis attorney, Robert E.
Smith, the young man who declares
he led DR.. Dumas into a trap, which
caused his arrest following the at
tempt of Mike Davis and Martin !
Behan to burn and rob the store
at Puposky on the night of June
16 last, four other witnesses were
put on late Saturday by the state
in an attempt to prove the charge
that the Cass Lake Mayor is guilty
of arson.
Charles Lydick, a clerk in the Cass
Lake store swore that he was with
the Cass Lake ball team at Hibbing
on June II, when DR.. Dumas was
arrested and said the doctor had a
check for 5000, which the doctor
said had been given him by a patient,
who was homesteader. This is the
check which the state alleges was
given by Smyth in part payment for
the burning of the Puposky building.
Miss Hazel Bowers. a Bemidji tele-
phone operator told of calls put in
by DR.. Dumas in his alleged plan to
secure the men to burn the Puposky h
building, vi. |,
Duluth Bellboy Testifes .
Clarence Stone, bellboy in the {
Mckay Hotel at Duluth, the last s
witness on Saturday, said he was in {
| telephone booth in the Mckay
lotel, where Smyth was a guest and t