Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-12-13
Blood Stained Clothing
Exhibited in Court Room
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he could not get that description into
the record the doctor confined himself
to verbal description.
DR.. tSmyth, the county coroner, told
of going to the scene OF the gruesome
tragedy that morning, of finding the
body of Yannazzo doubled up in the
corner of the car with his clothing
fearfully saturated with blood which
had also ran through the floor Of the
car till it reached the wheels and
trucks below. He said Yannazzo's
bunk had been pointed out to him in
the car, but though he had made an
examination of the whole interior of
the car he could not find any signs OF
a struggle. , -.
In telling of the condition of the
murdered mans clothing he said that
his trousers and drawers had been
pulled down nearly TO his knees, and
his under shirt had been pulled up.
Next to the mans body they had
found a belt, in the pockets of which
was 100000 in gold and one silver dol
lar, also small pocket knife. He
said he directed Webb's undertaken
who was also there to remove the
body and bring it to Bismarck for
post mortem examination, which was
done Immediately
Both the state and the defense pro-
ceeded cautiously during the day, and
Lit was not till towards evening that
George Grummittf the Nndertaker,
who prepared the body for the post
mortem, was called to the stand. At
that juncture States Attorney Berndt
proceeded to introduce the bloody
clothing which has been in box In
the court room for the past two days.
The box contained pair of blue surge
pants, a vest Of the same make, a pair
of badly worn and dirty blue oyeralls,
a striped top shirt, 2 blue and two
red handkerchiefs, and also one white
one. There was also a pair OF badly
worn coWhide shoes, the money belt, a
smaller leather belt and a striped
cap and an undershirt and drawers.
These last two articles were in the
most fearful condition of II The eff
fects.
While nearly all Of the clothing had
been cut with the Kn.te and more or
less soaked with blood, the undertook
ing was by far in most awful cOndi-
ticn. The greater part OF the under
shirt was full Of holes caused when
the man was stabbed and was saturat-
ed with blood that the sight was sick.
ening.
The states attorney met with resist
ance from Attorney Smith for the de-
Tense when he attempted to file this
clothing as an exhibit. Mr.. Smith
objected to most of the clothing be-
ing filed because the undertaken did
not positively identify the articles, and
the Judge sustained the objection.
The only parts of the clothing which
the states attorney succeeded in hav-
ing filed we're the saturated shirt and
drawers, and those two awful specta-
cles were laid en- the floor till deposit
ed in the vault of the clerk Of courts
office after adjournment.
Also offered in evidence yesterday /
were a number of black hairs wrapped |
in piece Of small tissue paper This
hair was. said to have been found
clutched in both Of the dead mans
hands, and was identified by the I'M
dertaker and also Ed Norris, who as
sisted the undertaken at the post mo-
term
Morris said he had counted thirty
hairs taken from the dead mans |
hands when the body was being
cleaned, and he8thought there we're at
least twice that many but he did not
count them all. The reason why he
could not give the exact amount Of ]
hair was the fact that one of the
hands which held the hair had been
cut to the bones and the wounds were
also filled with this hair, which was
black, and thought not to be that Of |
Yannazzc. n 5ss3
It seems that three of the states
witnesses, one of whom was Domin-
lex Coccimigilio, have gone back to
Italy since the preliminary hearing.
Their testimony given at the prelim.
mary hearing has been transcribed BY 4
B. =. Gardner. who was the states at
torney's special stenographer at the
hearing, and Mr.. Berndt will ATTEMPT !
this morning to place him on the
stand for the purpose of introducing
this transcribed testimony, but he will
he required to present a statement to !
the court In the shape OF an affidavit.