The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-10-13

he lett ana again returned and saw
this man lying on the bench. So,
HALEY, hunted up the coal pick and
threw it down and then picked it
up and hit the man with it several
times and then rolled him over and
turned his hip pocket and took his
money out and dragged him to the
depot. Afterwards he covered the
blood and threw the pick into the
weeds Then he went to Kost's barn
to sleep.
Had Money in Cap.
THAT is the cap, identifying
same) that he said he had the
money in" said Hall Green, I made
the hole small first and later en-
larged it to get the money out
That is the paper that he signed
there-identifying the confession.
There was some mistake in the
confession and he had a correction
made. Then he was asked if that
was true and then signed each page
of it. On cross examination, he
testified that board about by IA
inches was taken out of the floor
and that while in the cellar they
listened at that opening of the talk
between Green and Fielding.
W. H. Gibbs-Is live at LeSueur
Center. l know HALEY Green and l
know his father The detective, the
sheriff, the county attorney, Baker
and | were there. Hall Green came
in crying, then he went on, told his
story repeated the offer of alcohol
and pick story and what he did with
the body, etc., likewise the same
about the cap, and in substance tes-
tilted the same as Baker except that
he lighted match and looked the
money over and made a trip after
the coat of that man. Said he stayed
in a cornfield for two or three days
until his brother came up and got
him. He said he gave his brother
81 and bought cookies and other
food. He continued saying that the
reason he tried to blame it on Eel
Der was because he struck him at
one time.
Testimony of the Sheriff.
Pat Keogh-I am sheriff Of LIE
Sueur county. Fielding came here
August s. | kept Green in the ma
irons cell first. Green told me
when l brought him from LIE Sueur
that he would tell what he knew
about the matter in court. ! got
him to come into the parlor and
HALEY Green told us there, the story
which in substance, is the same as
that which Baker and Gibbs testi-
fed. He said after Masterson went
away he went into the coal chute
and remained there awhile and came
down and struck this man on the
right side of the head, and then
rolled him off and searched him. He
then dragged him backwards through
the shed and to the railway tracks.
Then he got the mans coat and
covered the blood and then threw
away the pick, etc. . He testified
same about the money as hereto.
fore testified. After this one. day
HALEY Green called for me and told
me to tell his father not to spend
any money for him because he was
going to plead guilty. He testified
as to being at LIE Sueur the morn
ing after the murder and seeing the
blood and testified same in substance
as Coroner Burnett testified. At the
time Hall was arrested. he had diff
ferent clothes than he has now.
Joseph Speatgen-I am the jailer
of this county. l took the coal pick
to st. Paul to the state chemist
That is the same one.
julius Hobert-I am the state
chemist I saw this coal pick be.
fore it was brought to me Septem
Der 2 by the deputy sheriff of LIE
Sueur county to make an examina
ton of the human blood. made the
analysis and found that certain de-
posits on the base of the handle
were those of human beings. | also
examined some of the clothes.
When on the witness stand this
morning Hall Gren said that the de-
| tective did not give him a chance
to say what he wanted to, and told
him not to say that anyone but
himself killed Rugs.
From THURSDAYS Daily.
Detective J. G. Fielding Of the
Pinkerton agency was the principal
| witness at the murder trial Of Hal
Green at LIE Sueur Center today
Green, the defendant, was on the
stand for few minutes during the
forenoon session. His testimony was
| to the effect that after he had told
the story to the detective in which
he admitted the Staying OF Harry
Rugs his father advised him to sign
| the confession as he would be sen
fenced to only year or two in
states prison.
Detective Fielding testified that
when he first talked with Green
about the murder, the youth put the
crime on another, but on another oc'
casion he confessed to having kill
ed Rugs.
On cross examination FIELDING
stated that lie told Green that il
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