The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-10
DUMAS GUILTY; CASE GOES AT ONCE TO
HIGH COURT; DOCTOR FACES new CHARGE

he was the owner of rum shop,
common gin shop. Here is this in
locent BERTHE engaged in loading up
Mmber. jacks and have their money
taken away and then walk behind the
institution and divide it half and
half. This testimony shows what he
is. BERTHE goes from there over to
Puposky and becomes the manager
of the Puposky Mercantile Co., which
was run by one A. E. Smith.
"Now, let's see if am wrong, gen.
tlemen. l want to state to you right
in the beginning that I am not un-
mindful now that BERTHE was only in
the business at Puposky as the gen.
eral manager. BERTHE next blossoms
out in the Office of DR.. Dumas, the
defendant in this case. BERTHE says
that he went to the office of DR..
Dumas to be treated for one of the
most loathsome diseases that any
man on earth could ever be afflicted
with. This honest little Berries goes
down to the Office of Dr. Dumas, be-
cause, according to his own state
ment, he could not be cured by the
doctors in Bemidji he was in such a.
horrible condition, and he went to
DR.. Dumas to treat him-innocent,
sweet little BERTHE. Wouldn't he look
fine in frame! He went into the
doctors office and I can see, gentle
men, DR.. Dumas putting on a pair Of
rubber gloves that he would not have
his hands contaminated, and taking
a pair of tongs and making an ex-
animation of this honest little Ber-
10 .-..-. !:
I 'Bertie Though He Had Group"
"Bertie tells us that he did not
know what was the matter with him.
Why, he thought, guess, that he
had the Group or was troubled with
corns. Just imagined! And 1 want
to call your attention right now to
the one thing the court is going to
say, to you in this case and I don't
want you gentlemen to forget it
when you get Lack in the jury room.
Among other things. here is what
the court will say, The court fur
ther instructs you that if any wit
ness has wilfully testified falsely to
any material fact or circumstance the
entire testimony Of such witness may
be dishonored ~ you except as cor
roborated by other credible evidence
Il am going to show you where,
time and time again, this innocent
little BERTHE, cold blooded and ma
liciously committed perjury when
sitting on that witness stand. Ber-
tie goes down to the doctor time af-
ter time until finally, BERTHE says
am taking his testimony, we will
see whether 7 am telling the truth
or not-one day after the middle of
April he sat there in the doctors Of
flee and there came into that Office
two men. BERTHE says that DR.. Du-
mas said to him, sit down a mo-
ment', and BERTHE says he sat down,
and pretty soon the two men went in
and then the doctor. so BERTHE says,
called BERTHE into the office and this
conversation took place. Did you no.
tice those two men who just went
out? Those are two of the slickest,
smoothest operators in the country.
They come in and rest up here
Says it Was $4,000 Vision.
He says the doctor went over and
opened the safe and there stood Ber-
tie, SO he says, and BERTHE put his
hands in his pocke-s and he looked at
the two big guns aid the nitroglycer-
inc in the safe and there fitted across
the mind of BERTHE, what? Sherm
Bailey. Great Scott! Gentlemen,
was there ever more unfortunate
incident than the fitting across the
brain-if Bert:e lad any brain-of
the vision of Sherm Bailey that has
cost this county over $4,000?
when your census was taken in
this county last you had 1887 and
the vision thai B. rite saw has cost
every man, woman and child a
dollar each, down to the little
children that are nursing at their
mothers breast That vision was
the most unfortunate vision that
any one ever possessed. He'd a
mighty sight better have had the