The Mankato free press., 1912-12-13

ner. and Poilei asked whether Hack
was the man who had bothered us
and l said he was.
Told Hack to Come to Station.
Then Pollei told Hack to come
! to the station with him. and they
started side by side across the street
towards the city hall. When near
the Saulpaugh corner Hack sud
denly put his head down and ran
for the bridge. We were walking
few feet behind them. Pollei ran
after Haack. ! heard no words sDok'
en- shortly. Mr.. POllei came back
looking for his vest, and he asked
us to 20 to the station with him
Witness did not hear a shot fired
She went TO the station, but did not
see Pollci again that night. There
was plenty Of noise while the men
were running. Susie had run after
them. but witness had not seen
anything At the Rex. when the wo
man that Haack had his arms around
had struggled and got away she
walked rapidly up the street. She
gave murmer which the witnGss
could not understand
On cross-eXaminatioD, the witness
said that her husband had been en-
gagged in the railroad business fol-
eighteen years. She is thirty-eight
years old and has two children. She
did not know Hack at the time the
woman was struggling TO get away
from him. The woman did not seem
to like HACKS conduct. Haack
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not understand as he walked along
with them. When Hack was running
away. witness could not see past
the light at the Saulpaugh side en-
trance. Boys were on the street fir
ing off large fire crackers and there
was much noise.
On redirect, the, witness said thai
she told Pollei that there was q
drunken man back there botherine
her and her sister and swearing al
them. and asked him to make the
man let them alone, and that also
he had hugged another woman.
Mr.. Wilson brought out that the
witness had told Mr.. Pollei that the
woman chad been fighting like ev
erything" against Hack. County
Attorney Schmitt tried to get hel
to rescind this, and succeeded par
TALLY, she describing the struggle.
as she then called it, during this
colloquy each asked the other tC
give a definition of fighting"
The court recessed at $50 p. IN.
until 9 a. m. today.
+ Jurymen in Fine Condition.
The jurymen were all in good
health this morning. They slept or
cots all over the second floor of the
court house, and are being taken
first to one restaurant and then tc
another for meals. They are stand
ing the break in the routine o
their lives well.
Mrs. Pollei and the four little
Pollei children sat behind the de
fendant when court opened this
morning. There were two little girls
and two little boys, all neatly
dressed.
DR.. ]. w. Andrews was the first
witness called this morning, and told
of the post mortem held just before
the coroner's inquest last July, his
testimony being cOrroborative oil
that given by the two doctors yes
terday afternoon, who had assisted
him in holding the post mortem ex
animation. The course of the bul
let was just a trifie upward, and
the srooved condition of the bullet
could have been due to striking
the lower side of the seventh rib
and to striking the backbone. A
man shot through the heart might
live as long as a stuck hog would
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run as far as across the court
room. There is no instantaneous
death, especially where a blood
vessel is severed. The vessel mus,
be emptied of blood first.
! Cross examined the witness SAID
that the bullet did not fracture the
rib or back bone, merely being de
fiected off by the bones or muscles
covering them.
i would you not expect an ordi
nary bullet. thirty-eight-calibrc, that
struck the rib with such force as tc
flatten the head of the bullet. tc
break the rib" asked Mr. Laurisch
The witness wanted to explain
his answer. but was held down tC
yes or no, and he answered yes
finally.
"You must take into account We
locity." said the witness.
81 know that, but you would mol
expect that the bullet. striking only
flesh and muscle, would be fiattened
to its present condition, would
you?" persisted the auestiOner.
The witness replied in the mega
tive, but still wanted to explain
The attorney brought out that the
bullet is flattened instead of grooved
on one side, as it might be in
glancing from a bone. The witness
said that the bullet merely grazed
the backbone. The witness judged
somewhat as to how the bones were
by the condition Of the bullet
rather than of what he actually saw
of the bones.
But, you don't know but what
the bullet struck some other object
before it entered the body of Hack
do you?" asked Mr.. Laurisch.
I "No, SIR" replied the witness.
"The penetration Of HACKS body
such as you found in following the
course of the bullet, would not fiat
ten the bullet as this bullet is fiat
: tened, would it?'
"No, sir"
! Bullet Was FIattened.
Answering other questions, the
witness thought that hitting the
rib would have flattened the bullet
Inn affor hitfinr tho ,,ih re-