The Calumet news., 1912-02-19
JURY SECURED:
CASE PROCEEDS
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY PRE-
SENTS THE CASE AND VIII
NEssEs HEARD ~ HEN
DRlcKsoH TRIAL.

been drawn, including an extra Nemro
OF sixty talesmen. owing 10 the great
care exercised by the attorneys for the
defense The jury as finally chosen
consists of Con Bedell, Hanock: Her
man Stoll. Calumet; J. r. Fredd, Ham
cock: Roderick McDermott Calumet;
j. T. Mcleod Calumet, Thomas
Wedge, Hurontown; William Sincock,
Calumet II. +. Mercer, Painesdale
John Messner, Atlantic; Arvid Kemp.
stanton. Fred J. Hosang. Red Jacket;
Thomas Dunstan. Dollar Bay
Prosecuting Attorney Mcdonald in
presenting the case for the people de-
fined murder, on which charge Hen
Erickson is being tried as when a
person Of sound mind and memory uE-
lawfully kills any reasonable being
with malice aforcthoughL either eX-
pressed or implied. The prosecutor
related how Mrs. Karela had been
found dead lying across table with
two bullet wounds In her head and the
defendant lying on the floor with
wound in the back OF his head. The
circumstances Of the afternoon preced-
ing were explained. How HendricksoH
had come home and had given drinks
Of whiskey from a pint bottle TO Mr..
and Mrs. Matt Jacobson In the base
ment OF the house occupied by Mrs.
lSaarela. The same afternoon William
Hoppala OF Painesdale had visited the
house TO secure some shoe-making
1sf. lrrfH s.I
sent Hoppola's visit and assumed 20
sullen attitude. subsequently Hen
erickson and another Of Mrs Karelas
boarders. named Aiakala had taken u
sewing machine belong 10 Hoppala TO
neighbor's and on the way had several
drinks from a bottle of liquor. After
supper Alaltala had gone down TO
Jacobsons leaving Hendrickson and
Mrs. karela alone. About o'clock
Mrs. Jacobson hears noise and a
scream and ran upstairs, finding Mrs
karela dead and Hendrickson uncon-
scious. She ran 10 neighbor's
and her husband Immediately vert up !
10 the Kaarela kitchen. Mr.. Mcdonald
called especial attention TO the fact |
that at this time jacobson was alone
with the bodies in the room.
The police officers who were called
by Jacobson found four a2-caliber bull
let's and some keys on the floor near
Hendrickson's body, being the same
caliber as the bullets found In Mrs. |
harela's head and In Hondrickson's |
neck NO pistol was found notwith- |
standing a diligent search. Mr. Nc
Mcdonald said he hoped to show Hen
erickson did the kiling. hat evidence |
would be introduced 10 show that Hen.
erickson had a pistol and also to ac-
count for the dis position Of the pis-
tol after the shooting
Mrs. Matt Jacobson. aunt Of the /
decedent and who live with her hus-
band in the basemer' OF the house
where the shooti 10k place wa, the
first witness heard. 81 ing her tcsti-
mony in Finnish whic as interpreted
into English by Jacob Jarvis. Her
testimony covered the same points out
lined by the prosecutor I'm his opening
address. She told OF Hendrickson's
visit TO her home in The afternoon
when he said to her that hc had for
gotten something. Il have been no
town ne said. lin my melancholy
state Describing the manner in which
her attention had been directed 10 the
affair upstairs she said she first heard
a crash as Of tin pans and then some
one crying 'poy. poy poy," At this
point court adjourned until 9 o'clock
this morning
Mrs. Jacobson was given a lengthy
cross-examinatiOn this morning by
Attorney Corgan, who cndeavorcd 10
show a discrepancy between tho tcsti-
mony given by the witness at the JUS
tice court examination and her tcsti-
mony az the present trial.
Attorney Corgan asked the witness
who she had talked with since the iug. ,
tice court trial She replied she had
spoken 10 so many that she couldn't .
remember any particular ono. Next a
'he was asked why she testified differ 4
entity now to what she had on former
'ccasions. The witness replied she lid q
rot remember exactly what she had a
testified before but that what she was ,
how telling were the facts 0f the case. r.
She was asked 10 identify her sigma a
nrc appended 10 The Justice court tcs- =
imony She did not know whether 10 a
ras hers or not She said zhe couldn't Il
cad English and therefore couldn't 4
ay whether the writing vas the tes- b
imony that she had given AZ the jus
ice court or not - ono point A. g
orney Corgan said that n che tesfl- p
led correctly on previous occasions a
hen what she told now VAS not true. d
We'll" replied The witness wearilyi ID
Let 10 be SO" I
a recess was taken while ihe inter O.
reter read over 10 Mrs. Jacobson the c
estimony given at the justice court. % -
ettle the point of lts being the same n
lat had been read over 10 her and G
hch she had signed. D
Sentences Are Imposed. b
During a recess Of court this morn
TX sentence was imposed BY Judge d
'Brlen on several prisoners who had q
zen found guilty Lewis Sewing 3
,arged with violation OF the liquor q
w. was fined $40. with t2J costs. b
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