Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-26
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annual number Of the same year, le
show that they had been deposited b!
the defendants and transmitted tc
various points. He placed on the
stand Helen Faust of Denver, Col, l.
Newman Of Great Falls, Mont; J. j
Casey, Billings, Mont, and ID. F. An
gier of Chicago, witnesses who had
received numbers. 1T was the gov
ernment's. contention that the three
first naned had received the first, OF
March Issue, and that Angler, under
The assiEaied name of Krelle, was the
recipient8Sfgthe %semi-annual issue in
Chicago.
Eight Witnesses Examined.
The government placed eight wit
nesses on the stand yesterday, a mum
Der of whom were called back to
testify on several occasions. A large
number of exhibits were offered by
the district attorney.
The first witness examined was R.
L. Walton of Bismarck, agent for the
Northern Express company, in this
city. The district attorney introduc,
as evidence, Waybills purporting to
show that the shipments of the pub
l~jication were made by express through
the Bismarck office, with the dates OF
shipment as March 5 and 20. He ask.
ed the witness to identify these way.
bills as the records of the express
office. -,
iHildreth concluded his examination
of Agent Walton by asking the knowl-
edge of the witness as to the usual
time the shipments Of Jim Jam Jems
were made. Walton replied that they
we've usually sent out towards the end
of the month preceding the month for
which they YER dated, but that other
irregular shipments such as back
numbers, were also handled at vari-
GUS times during the month. Attor-
ney Tracy Bangs seemed bent on
securing the information as to the
specific dates on which the shipments
were made, those purported to be to
Helen Faust of Denver, Col, and l..
Newman of Great Falls, Mont, as in
dicated by the date of March 5.
Could Not Remember.
Miss Helen Faust of Denver, Colo,
was the second witness to testify. She
remembered reading a certain issue
of Jim Jam Jems containing an artl-
Gle on the Common Law and later
addressed a letter to the publishers
asking for a certain issle of the peri
cdical containing this subject, but
could not recall just when she receiv-
ed the issue. She stated that to the
best of her recollection she received
two issues in response to her letter,
but des pite the district attorneys eff
forts to. refresh her memory, she
could not say positively as to the
month they We're received. MIR. Hil-
dreth was plainly and disagreeably
surprised at his witness. He remind
ed her of her interview with him in
his office at a previous date and at
which time he attempted to slow that
size saw aEcertain- number of Jim Jam
Jems on his table there, but Miss
Faust seemed to have suffered a lapse
Of memory, for she rwouldan not admit
seeing them. The district attorney
opened a veritable bombardment Of
questions as to this certain issue and
it's presence on the table in his office
at that time, but failed to receive
satisfactory answer to the Importance
he placed on this point. III
Memory Is Faulty. ,.
Because of the intermission Of sew,
eral years, Or that time about which
the government entered it's charges,
Attorney Hildreth in his examination
of the tirst witnesses called upon to
testify, usually had to content him
self with answers that went to show
human memory is faulty. Witnesses
Walton and Faust could not recollect
certain things over that expanse of
time, and the next two witnesses call
ed upon were no exception. The third
to testify was Il . Newman of Great
Falls, Mont. Mr.. Newman is a rail
road news contractor. He IA unable
to state positively whether q not he
had seen the much discussed March.
number, Notwithstanding the fact that
the waybill exhibit showed a ship.
ment Of Jim Jam Jems to him at that
time. He testified that the periodi-
calls YER sent voluntarily on the part
OF the publishers at the suggestion
OF somebody else.
s. J.. Casey of Billings, Mont, who
is engaged in the stationery business
in that city, was the fourth and last
witness examined at the morning SEES
sion. He stated that he has ham
died the magazine ever since it's pub
1;oo4;oo h,,f 1;ko Noy,rnon could mot