The Washburn leader., 1913-06-20
these were placed in evidence by

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two wooden rods, such as are us
ed in cleaning rifles. He said he
had made an examination Of the
s.ots in the ends of these clean
ing rods with magnifying glass
and discovered in the slots bits
of red lint which were of the sam
shade as the pieces Of cloth pro-
duced.
The evidence of Mr.. Maennel
and the production of the pieces
of stained cloth, were accompain-
ed with a accompanied with a
craning of necks of the speact-
ators in the court room and there
was distinct interest in the pro-
duction of this evidence. This,
together with the Identification o.
box of 80 Special cartridges,
containing ten shells, of a box
which holds twenty, with the
testimony to the effect that
nine shells were found in the gun
taken from the den Of the Ander-
son house, leaving one shell to be
accounted for, and that Inherent
tally the shell that held the bullet
that caused the death of Funk,
were the features of the forenoon
session of court.
Opening the morning session
Ludwig Peterson concluded his
testimony on cross examination.
He told of how he, after arriving
at the scene Of the shooting.and
leaving Anderson had advised
him to throw open the house.
"My God," remarked Anderson
to Peterson, "they cannot sus-
spect me for I could not hurt
little dog"
This testimony was, however,
was stricken out on motion Of
the state.
Before leaving the stand Pet
erson identified the gun in court
as the one he had examined at
Anderson's home shortly after
the shooting.
In an attempt to rill Joe Olson,
a deputy sheriff, while on the
stand, Judge Crawford interrupte
Attorney bangs for the defense,
by instructing Olson that he need
not answer certain questions in
cross examination.
Olson had taken the stand and
was relating how he had gone to
the Anderson home after the
murder and found Waltred And
erson and Ludwig Peterson in
Anderson's private den, standing
together while Petersen had the
hand for examination.
Attorney Bangs objected to
what he thought was an impress
sion that Olson was giving to the
jury to the effect that Anderson
was also handling the gun for an
examination.
Olson also sid that at that
t me he took the gun in his own
possession and placed it in safe
keeping in the county Jail until
the time Of the coroner's inquest.
frank Thompson testified.that
while sitting as a member of the
coroner's jury he had examined
a Winchester rifle similar to the
one in court. That he was a
hardware merchant in Washburn
for the past twelve years, and
that he had handled such high
power gun since it had been put
on the market, and in examin-
ing this gun he declared it to be
9 ten shot fire arm. He tried
the action and also found that
it could contain mine cartridges il
the magazine and one in the bar
rel.
In extracting the shells at the
inquest he found but nine loaded
shells in the magazine.
During the cross examination,
he stated to Attorney Bangs the
methods he had practlced as q
dealer in cleaning annd caring fo.
such fire arms.
There arose a question here as
to the appearance of a gun recent
difference. The purpose of the
cross examination was to weaken
the force of the testimony given
to the effect that the barrel Of tn
gun looked as though it had been
recently cleaned. The defense
position is that the gun might.ha,
been put away with a light oil q
long time before the killing and
would not differ much from one
recently discharged ard cleaned.
Assistant Stat Is Attorney Mad
den gave testimony as to finding
several boxes of thirty-two Speci-
al shells in commode in the den
of the Anderson home. One of the
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