Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-17

nouncing the gruesome discovery
shortly before seven o'clock of the
evening of May IL. He and coroner
Berry arrived at the scene of the trag.
edy shortly before shutdown.
Johns body was lying in the main
room of the house. The bridge of his
nose and his right eye were stove in.
Sven's body was found in the kitch.
en-. It was hacked up. There were
marks on his head and his right tenn.
pie was crushed.
Amund's body was found in the
barn with his head near the hind feet
Of two steers. His right temple was
crushed.
After closer examination the next
morning fresh bullet hole was found
in the top board of the partition be-
tween the first and second stalls about
five feet above the floor. The board
with the bullet hole was offered in
evidence and marked states exhibit
A.
A bullet was found in one Of the
tfmbers Of the barn. This had been
cut out and was offered in evidence
as states exhibit B. A picture of the
Jacobson home was identified by Mr..
Gilbertson and was introduced as evi-
dence.
Mr.. Gilbertson also testified that
one of the corner posts and the post
next to it in the yard had been brok-
en- off and that the staples holding the
wire fence to these posts had been
cut out.
Three empty pocket books had been
found on top Of the bureau in the
main room of the house. They had
been taken out Of the top drawer of
the bureau. The other two drawers
Of the bureau had not been opened
and did not appear to have been tam
pered with. In the lower drawer q
shoe box containing $2,764 and some
cents was found untouched.
DR.. Elsey testified that he had ex-
amined the bodies of the murdered
men on the morning of May Is. He
found that the upper part of John
Jacobson's face had been crushed in
and that the back of his neck was al
most severed. Sven's face was crushed
in. Scalp wounds were found which
had been cut with a sharp instrument.
He had found three or four wounds
which might have been caused by a
sharp instrument with a narrow blade
or by bullet. He had however, not
been able to find any bullet in the
body.
Both Of these men, the doctor tes.
titled, had been dead for a consider.
able length of time. The bodies were
in a good state of preservation.
Amund Jacobson's body was so put.
relied and the stencil was so great
that thorough examination was al
most impossible. He found round
wound in his chest, which had been
made by bullet. His face was almost
crushed in by some heavy instrument
and his face was covered with blood.
considering the moisture and heat in
the barn Amund had been dead the
same length of time as his two broth
ers.
Mrs. Gilbert Jacobson testified
that the three brothers kept their
money in a tin box in the upper bu-
reau drawer already referred to.
F. L. Winters, detective Of Mime
apolis, testified that he had worked on
this case since October 8. He testi-
fed that he had a conversation with
John Jacobson, one of the defendants.
for the first time a week ago the pre-
vious Thursday. He repeated the con-
versation verbatim. The substance
of it was that the defendant had cal
led on his uncles last January at the
time Of his grandmother's funeral and
that he had seen the tin box at that
time. He had been asked by an aunt
to get an address for an asthma medi-
cine company: and the uncles kept
this address with their money and
other valuables in the tin box. The
defendant, according to Mr.. Winters,
stated that he did not remember
whether he had asked his uncles for
q loan at this time. In this CONVEX
sation the defendant is alleged to
have admitted that he had made the
statement that he wished that some
one would kill his uncles. He had
declared however that he had made
it in a joshing way.
Mr.. GilbertsOn was again called.
to the stand and identified an old worn
hat and a brown cap which had been
found in the barn.
Gilbert Jacobson identified the hat
as having belonged to Amund Jacob
son.
Gilfred Syverson testified that eight
or nine days prior to the discovery of
the murder he had sold g. caNbre
liver Johnson revolver to a stranger
who had asked about train service to
Lowry. He had also sold box of 80
short cartr: dyes to the same man. He
could not positively identify John JAG,
OLSON as the man who had made the
purchase, but declared that he bore
q very strong resemblance to the party
who bought the revolver. His de-
scription Of the man who bought the