The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-03
DUMAS CASE IS
NEARLY ENDED
The Only Witness For the
Defense Will Be the Doc
tor Himself

Bemidji, Mimi. Oct. 3.-Two defn.
lite announcements we're made by the
attorneys in the Dumas case here this
morning. " expect to put our last
witness on the stand this afternoon"
said Attorney Z. r. Mcdonald. special
counsel for the state. IF we ever
put any witness on the stand. DIR. Du-
cant comment of Attorney Freeman
F. Lane Of counsel for the defense.
The seven witnesses were put on
the stand at the morning session,
making a total Of thirty offered by
the state in its efforts to prove the
Cass Lake mayor guilty Of an at
tempt at arson.
Martin Behan. the alleged pal Of
Mike Davis. In the Puposky affair. and
against the doctor at the preliminary
hearing. will be saved as the states
last witnesses. was Mr.. James state
ment. Witnesses were put on by the
state today in an effort to prove that
DR.. Dumas planned to get rid of Mar
tin Behan. who vas captured at Pu-
posky and released on bonds. as a wit
ner was brousht out as the man who
had been delegated to do this. Ben
ner said he had a conference with DR..
Dumas on the lake shore here and
that he also met him at Cass Lake.
On cross-eXamination Benner admit
ted that he frequently had been intox-
icated pretty much all the time the
last he was in Oshkosh. He had talk
ed with DR.. Dumas on the lake shore
here. just before going t Oshkosh.
He said DR.. Dumas wanted him to so
to Oshkosh. He said Dumas said to
him Il want you to go to Oshkosh and
If you see Behan get him out of the
country" Benner said DIR. Dumas
full Of snow" Asker what full Of
snow meant. Benner said he didn't
know. but supposed it meant. full Of
cocaine"
Benner also told of a conversation
in DR.. Dumas office at .Cass Lake.
when he said he didn't believe Behan
was in Oshkosh. but if he was there
said DR.. Dumas gave him $50 at that
time. Renner told Of sending a tele-
gram from Oshkosh to Pat Kennedy,
a bartender of the Tedford saloon in
Cass Lake. He said he arranged with
the doctor that he was to wire Ken
nedN If he needed any money. Ben
ner identified the $50 draft on the
Oshkosh bank as well as the receipt,
winch he signed when he obtained the
money. using the name of Jack Black.
MT. Benner sand he did not see Mar
tin Eehan. He said he did. however,
see Mrs. Meyers. Behan's sister, at her
home. Mrs. Meyers was brought into
the court room n identified by Ben
ner. Eenner said he a tried to find
Eehan.
Cross-examineC. Renner said he had
been in Judge Spooner's Office twice
since he testified before the grand
jury: that he had been introduced to
Mr.. Lane and had talked with him
about going to Oshkosh, but admitted
that he had been pretty drunk of late.
bcnner answered that he did not re-
member too many of Mr.. Lanes cut
tlnG questions. but stuck pretty closely
10 his original story Of being engaged
by DR.. Dumas to get Behan out of the
country. Benner said that Smyth was
giving him money. Benner admitted
that Kennedy owed him some somt3
and didn't know whether the fifty dol
lars was the return of that or not.
William Kirchoff a saloonkeeper
n pop manufacturer at Cass Lake,
stated that DR.. Dumas had taken two
men into his saloon a few days before
the Puposky affair and had told him
that the men were two Of the best
safe growers in the country. and that
something might happen between Be
midi and Crookston. Kirchoff de-
Z" ~ VI tie HleH Is DelnS snort
and thick set with a gold tooth in the
right side of his jaw, and said he
looked like n Of the photographs of
Mike Davis. which were shown him by
Attorney James. On cross-examina-
ton Kirchoff said he had sold a build.
ing to DR.. Dumas on which there was
a mortgage. the doctor to take the
building as it was. but denied that he
had n trouble with the doctor.
Asked as to how he came to tell of the
instance, Kirchoff said he had told
Richard Funck. county attorney of
Cass county, and then the latter re-
peated the story to Funck, State Fire
Marshal Fullerton and Detective
Fielding. that he had beef talking
with the blacksmith at Cass Lake who
told him that a sledge hammer had
been stolen from his shop and it had
probably been found in the bank at
Shevlin.