The Washburn leader., 1913-06-27
Jury Retired 6 O'Clock Wednesday
Reached Agreement Next Morning

he was among strangers, but
his long experience had helped
him to be able to judge men, and
all he asked was for the jury to
take up the facts and look at
them with commone sense.
He discussed the statement that
Mr.. Maennel had made as a mat
ter Of fact that the storm sash
had been removed from the den
CT Anderson's house on April IA,
and he asked the jury if they
thought anyone who had con-
templated committing a murder
would be foolish enough to remov
such window and leaving it
star ding agains' shc muse where
everyone could see it. Mr.. Bangs
wondered ii til. jury thought
Walfre Anerson woul have been
foolish enough to have removed
that window ami placed it where
''h;s" friend McCulloch could
have seen it. Mr.. Bangs did not
take much credence in the state-
ment that Mr.. McCullach had said
that Anderson had told McCul-
loch at the Jail that he himself
had removed the sash. =
The attorney for the defendant
then called attention, as he term
ed it, that the state at the last
minute had called in Hilma Fahl-
gren to testify that the window
had been taken off in the month
of March by carpenter and had
been put on again, and he thought
that it would be hard for anyone.
at that time Of the year to tell
whether or not there was a storm
sash on anyones house. He was
of the opinion that Hilma had re-
membered this instance by sug-
gestion and he also thought that
the imagination Of a woman was
elusive. He also called attention
to the statement Attorney Maen-
mel that the window shade. had
been drawn down to a level Of,
where the window had been OPP.
ened. He thought that Ludwig
Peterson was the only one quail
fled to tell how far the shade had
been drawn. Peterson had stat
ed the shade was up nearly two
feet and that he was in q good po-
sition to know for he was the
one who examined the condition
Of the gun near the wind u iia ~ soon
after TIE shoe ting, and Nj. Peter.
son was q diant crested party.
He thought that McCulloch 3
testimony regarding the removal
Of the storm sash was more Of
9 conclusion of McC Culloch that it
was of Anderson, and should have
but little weight. He cautioned
the jury against putting a lot Of
inconsequential circumstances to-
gether, for it took but one bad
link to spoil the whole chain.
Here the Andersons were weeping
Mr.. Bangs then picked over
some Of the links Of the case, and
he said that one link in the chain
Of circumstances Of the state
was the 8 sound link, and that
the state had attempted to en-
circle the home Of Anderson with
the sound Of that shot. He called.
attention that to the fact that
Capt. Leach had heard the report
and at the inquest he had said it
sounded like q loud explosion,
while at the trial he said it had
9 dull sound he thought it was
dynamite, and that might have
been suggested to him from the
fact that And erson had been ia
the habit of blasting to plant
trees. He asked the jury to make
III own. comparisons, and then he I
called attention that the shot had
been heard at: Herb Hanson's
house whore at the time were Han
son and his wife and n Madden
md his wife 10 Mad den whose
ear hid been trained from hear
nc shOtsl on the rifle range atS
Risuasret ~ report sounded
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