The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-14

and IL. was living with his father, 81
mon Mckenzie.
That Mr.. Mckenzie, the father,
had been and was then in the butcher
business in Aneta. That his boy was
in the habit of delivering orders Of
meat around the town, and that he
was in the habit OF sometimes doing
that in the evening. That when he
went out in the evening to make those
deliveries he was in the habit Of a r
rying a lantern, and on the night In
question, the night of Oct. 16, 1908,
it was very dark; It was more than an
ordinarily dark night, because it was
foggy and misty; and on that night he
delivered two meat orders to the north
west part of town.
when he came back from deliver
ing the meat orders, the state ex-
poets to show, that there were two
men in the northwest corner OF the
city park. The state expects to show
that those two men were Clyde Sper-
ny and Louis Summerfield. The
state will show that those two men, or
two boys, recognized Kenneth as he
walked along the path with his Ian
tern; that they followed him out
through the park and along the path
from place to place. This process was
kept UP until they got Kenneth to a
place in town about three blocks
away from the main street in where
there are no houses very close by.
"The state will show you when at
this juncture he was attacked and
thrown to the ground and held there
by Louis Summerfield. When the at
tack was made Kenneth dropped the
lantern which he was carrying which
laid only a few feet away from where
he was forced to lie. A few minutes
elapsed when Summerfield picked UP
the lantern and unscrewed the cap off
the oil bowl and poured the contents
over the body of Young Mckenzie.
"Summerfield hen struck a match
and set fire to the boys clothing. While
this vas going on, Clyde Sperry pick
ed up the lantern and threw it into a
ditch nea by. The state will also
show that the boys became frightened
and ran down town and entered the
operahouse."
This concluded the opening address
to the jury by the states attorney.
Or. ksIIoa First Witness.
After the case was officially opened
DR.. P. J. Kellogg of Tolna, N. D., was
called to the witness stand to testify
as to Kenneth McKenzie's condition
when he arrived at st. Johns hospital
in Fargo. DR.. Kellogg was a hospital
physician at the local institution when
the tragedy occurred and attended the
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to his present home in Tolna-
DR.. Kellogg testified that Young
Mckenzie was suffering from extern
sive burns, about the legs, lower por-
ton of the abdomen and up one side
to his lower ribs. He also testified
that death was caused from burns
sustained.
DR.. G. E. Bennett Of Aneta was the
next witness to take the stand and
testified that he was called to the
Mckenzie home between $3.50 and 8
o'clock on the night Of Oct 16. 1909.
to dress the wounds inflicted from
burns received a few minutes pre-
viously.
when I entered the Mckenzie home
/ found Kenneth laying on the bed and
his father was taking the burnt cloth
ing off him. said DR.. Bennett. HE
was screaming with intense pain and
to relieve him of his agony / gave
him a hyperdermic injection"
Simon Mckenzie, father Of the de-
ceased boy, was called to the stand
and the clothing worn on the night OF
the affair was introduced as evidence
and all marked as state exhibits and
identified by the father as clothes his
son wore. They were practically all
charred and showed the marks of be-
ing burned. Mckenzie wept frequent
ly during the ordeal of his short stay
in the witness stand.