Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-05-12

Der trust" will be subpoenaed as
witness at the Deitz murder trial. Ed
ward Hines, the lumber king, presi-
dent of the Hines Lumber company,
business associate of eyerhaeuser,
and the man mentioned in connection
with the 100000 slush fund by testi-
mony in the Lorimer investigation, will
be sworn and placed on the stand to
answer questions of the backwoods-
man, who now fights for his liberty
before the law, and who has always
claimed that the wood barons owned
Sawyer county body and SOUL"
Deitz expects to prove by testimony
of Hines that M. w. Froelich, one of
the peace emissaries who approached
him with Frank l.. Gilbert, attorney
general of Wisconsin, and Colonel o.
G. Munson, private secretary to Gov
ernor Davidson, just before the fight
last October, to sue for a cessation of
hostilities and arbitration, was an
agent of the lumber trust and sought
only to entrap him instead of prevent
ing bloodshed.
TineS IN Court Room.
Hines has been in Hayward since
Tuesday afternoon, and is stopping at
the home of T. c. Written, chairman
of the county board and local manager
of the North Wisconsin Lumber &
Manufacturing company, an utilization
of the Hines Lumber company. Since
his arrival here, Hines has refused to
speak for publication. He and Mr.
Written occupied seats among the
spectators in the courtroom and list
ened to the testimony of the defend
ants witnesses in the murder trial.
Aside from the Importance that will
be attached to the murder trial by the
subpoenaing of Hines, another vital
feature will be brought out in motion
which Deitz will make to have the
jury taken to the scene of the Cam
eron dam fight, and made acquainted
with the lay of the ground.
"Deputies Could Have Shot"
A geographical and typographical
map was introduced by the defense's
witness, Harry |. Orwig, Chicago civ
il engineer and surveyor. 1t was
brought out that bullets fired from
any one of the 20 or more locations,
some of them occupied by deputies,
could have gone on straight line over
the lumber piles to the spot where
Deputy Oscar Harp was killed.
Five deputies. Roy Van Alstyne,
Fred Thorbahn, Waite Ackely, William
iod
positions ON the west side of the
Thornapple river on line or at slight
angles with the DeitZ buildings and
the spot where Harp fell, and in the
defense's chart it was shown from the
elevation of these positions that shots
fired therefrom would clear all Oh
structions and reach Harp's position.
The witness could not be shaken in
his cross examination and Henry Nit
chell Rice Lake, county surveyor Of
Baron county who accompanied Mr..
Orwig when he made his measure
ments, corroborated the testimony
and also withstood rapid fire cross
examination.
Kane Recalled.
That puffs Of dust shaken from the
slack weather-beaten roof of the Deitz
barn by deputies bullets going through
were what the states witness testi-
fed to as flashes of smokeless powder,
was the implication in the evidence
submitted by the defense.
Captain Robert Kane, the gun ex
pert who gave such favorable testi.
mOny for the defense, was recalled to
the stand and made this claim.
Had No Trouble.
w. E. Moses, who is an employe O.
the Chippewa Lag and Boom company,
was one of those who drove the logs
out of the Thornapple at the start of
the Deitz controversy, testified that he
had never had any trouble with Deitz
although he had worked about the
farm a long time
Otto j. S. Boberg, pharmacist and
chemist of Eau Claire, Wis, was placed
on the stand by the state, after per-
mission had been gained by the court
and the defense, or the admission Of |
testimony which they had intended |
saving for rebuttal. He testified to
the weighing of the Harp bullet and |
the weights of 5000 caliber Winchester |