The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-12-03
FORGOT HIS GRIP
SAYS HEUERMANN
PRISONER MAKES GENERAL DE-
NAL ON CHARGE OF SHOOT
ING MICHELS.

Second and Main streets, a few min
utes after he had been ordered away
from the front of the stairs over
the Lakota restaurant.
While standing there, he heard a
disturbance in the neighborhood of
the Lakota and followed several per-
sons into the alley back Of the rest
aurant. Carrying a small grip with
him, Mr.. Heuermann ran up the
stairs, glanced about over the roof
Of the restaurant kitchen for a
moment, saw several people moving
about owe the root in the darkness,
and then descended and mingled
with the crowd drawn by the shoot
ing in his wife's apartments.
This is the story told on the stand
this afternoon by Charles Heuer-
mann, on trial in circuit court on
the charge of having shot John Mich
els, with intentsto kill, on the night
of the occurrence mentioned above.
The prisoner, made a complete denial
of any participation in the shooting,
of having had a revolver in his pos
session when he went up the stairs,
of knowing which rooms over the
Lakota were occupied by his wife
and their two children, or having
any intention of doing anything to
or killing John Michels.
Mr.. Heuermann declared that he
had carried the grip, which is play
ing an important part of the case of
the prosecution, up the stairs, but
did not know what had happened to,
"a QIII;ofi cfnrr, opipn;Ja5 IN o,,o n
with the theory OF the state, with
the exception of the actual commits
sion of the crime. He related with
graphicness his minglfng with the
crowd drawn in the street by the
shooting, and then ."the next thing
the supposed criminal was arrested"
This prisoner made an absolute de-
lnial of having bought the revolver
found near the shooting, of having
beent.in Aberdeen on October s. and
having entertained hostile feelings
toward Mr.. Michels. He declared
THAT he had owned a revolver when
he went to Chicago last winter, but
that he had given the weapon to his
brother, H. B. Heuermann, now pres
ent at the trial. The revolver cart
ridges found in the grip, he testified,
were some that he, had bought for
the other gun and which he had car
ried for owe a year.
The story ofgthe prisoners life, as
told by him this forenoon, prior to
the details surrounding his arrest,
was the tale of a wanderer and man
of-all trades. AS atcircus roustabout
harvest hand, creamery operator,
%carpenter, painter and plumber, be
travelled over much of North Amer
ica..
He was a policeman in Little Rock
Ark, and a circus hand in Winnipeg,
Canada. He visited little towns in
Iowa and South Dakota in his travels
working in them from a few weeks
Ito several years. He went broke
in Cripple Creek. Colo, and harvest
ed wheat in the. fields of North Da-
kota. Minute details of his travels
and his occupations were given as
II they had occurred a week ago.
According to the testimony of the
prisoner, he left Cayuga, N. D., on
October 16. where he had been en-
ployed by E. j. Ross, a contracting
plumber. During this period, he de-
clared, he had not been in Aberdeen
and had not purchased anything in,
that city at any time, nor than a
meal or lodging.
Upon his arrival in Mitchell on
Friday evening, October IS, he stop
ped at the Jungles restaurant for
a short chat with an acquaintance,
went to his plumbing shop back of
the Widmann hotel and then went
to the home of James Spears to stay
for the night. His subsequent actions,
his arrest for drunkenness on Satur-
day morning, his attempts to locate
the whereabouts OF his wife and
family all were readily admitted and
corroborated the testimony for the
state! s
Tom Patterson and Mabel Heuer-
man YER called as the first witness
5es In behalf of the prisoner this
morning. Both testified that they
had seen him in5tthe crowd in the
street in front Of the Lakota immed-
lately after the shooting.
AS witnesses from North Dakota
did not arrive last evening, VINO
were expected to testify. that Heuer-
mann was in Cayuga, N. D., on DC
tober 8, the date when he was sup
posed to be in Aberdeen, counsel for
the defense attempted to have the
- continued further. This Judge
Smith refused to do and the case
proceeded with the evidence for the
defense.
The conrt room. for the third
day of the trial continues to be pack
ed to capacity. A large portion of the
spectators are women some of them
bringing their sewing and making
evident preparations for an extended
stay. { o5a3A6f
Prompt Action Will Stop Your Cough
When you first catch a Cold iof
ten indicated by a sneeze or coughl
break it up at The idea that
does not matter, often leads to
serious complications. The remedy