Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-26

the accused we're sObbing aloud. HIS
sister, Hilma, was probably affected
the worst. but her brother, Walfred.
comforted her as she laid her head
upon his shoulder through the ordeal.
and wept. .
When the attorney had finished he
stood close to the jury and said Cen
tlemen, | have done all ! can do for
.Walfred Anderson, but you must con-
slider cautiously the testimony and
the evidence that has been present.
ed" .a
Suppose. continued Mr.. Bangs, that
you were being tried. You must bear
in mind what effect this testimony
would have upon you. ....
Are you going to send this man to
the gallows or the %penitentiary for
life upon a mere guess? Are you 60
ing to command the sheriff of this
county to place a moose about the
neck of Walfred Anderson about a
mere guess? Are you going to lead
up to the gallows step by step, upon
a mere guess? And this has been
what a great part of this testimony
has been"
Makes Some Comparison
The attorney made the comparisons
of the different manner that each wit.
ness had testified rs to appearance OF
AndersOn's countenance the evening
of the shooting. He recalled how to
Capt. Leach, who was a full red cheek
ed man, that Anderson had appeared
to him as being flushed. how to Hy.
land, who a pale faced and saffroned
.colored man Walfred Anderson had ap,
.peared as ashen gray, how to Ole Stef.
ferud. another healthy looking man,
who blushed q trifle as he was on the
stand that Anderson had appeared
when he saw him that night,
how to Mrs. Madden with her blue
eyes. Anderson's face had seemed blue
and that his eyes looked haunted and
that his eyes were shifting. He
thought that each witness had seen
nothing in Walfred's face that night,
nothing but a reflection of their own
countenances, and that they were all
more or less excited ana agitated. 1t
would be but natural that they would
be, after a man had been shot in their
own midst. Herb Hanson had said
that around his chin he was white,
while the upper part Of his face was
dull red, his forehead vas prespiring
and his ewes were shifting, he was
nervous. Mrs. Hanson, husband of
Herb Hanson, was so nervous herself
that he could hardly tell, said Mr..
Bangs, how Anderson looked. She
had said on the stand that his face
was colorless, that it was purple, that
it was a blush purple, that it was COL
orless except IN spots. and that he
looked like a dead man. Then Mr..
Bangs enumerated all these colors,
asked the jurors to take themselves
out of the case, and asked themselves
what kind OF a description would they
have of Anderson's appearance from
that testimony. He also asked the
jury If they would be willing to con-
vict Anderson on the variance of de-
sc%riptions.
Other witnesses. said Mr.. Bangs,
had seen Anderson at the scene of the
murder and had not noticed there was
anything unusual with his appear
ance than with any one else about
those premises, except Ludwig Peter
son. who said that he was grief strick-
en-. Mr.. Bangs thought it would be
nothing unusual if he did appear grief
stricken. The man with whom he
had worked for years in the bank, had
stood side of for years as they con-
Quoted the affairs of that bank, his
best friend, had been shot down in
cold blood, and of course he was af.
fected. Mr.. Gangs recalled how at
the time Of the shooting Anderson
was in the basement of his house fill
ing the battery jars with water, and
before he had finished had started for
his garage for some errald when his
attention was called to something that
had happened at FunKs, and that Il
crowd was gathering there. He went
over the fence to Tunk's shed, and
went inside for a moment, and then
with Ludwig Peterson he had come
to his W house, and while on
his way he had been accosted by John
Satterlund who remarked that the
shot had been fired from Anderson's
house that it had been fired from his
den window. Then as he continued
to his own house Ludwig Peterson
had suggested that he throw open his
house and let q search be made and
that with that Anderson had exclaim.
ed, my God, they can't suspect met
Anderson and Relatives Weep
1t was whea the Attorney for the
defense painted to the jury the story
of how, if the jury brought in a verdict
Of guilty on guesses as he termed
them, they might lead the young de-.
PENDANT to the gallows. and how his
mother, his sisters, and his wife would
be waiting outside to receive his body
cold and sti.., with his face battered
with the effects of the hangman's
moose that Anderson and his relatives
wept the most. Before closing he
touched on the fact that certain testi.
mony had touched on the fact that An.
and his wife had had trouble,
AMI that a few days before, the muir
der she had left him, and gone to Far.
go. What better reason said the at.
could she have had fer sccur.
a divorce could she have had and
never coming back to him il she had
him guilty, when she heard
u h!w being arrested. BAT she i'm:
n~ediately caMe back to him and has