Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-07-27
Hanna is Blamed.

The questioning of Frohlich con-
tinued.
"You told Mrs. Hens that you
thought Hannah was in on this
shooting?"
YES"
"Why did you think so?"
John Mueller, thanking him for a
neck lace when John was Anna s
sister that Gus had trouble with?''
That was the same conversation
in which you say she told you John
looked as if he was mad?"
"Yes." .
Didn't you start fire in the
| Hens barn one day?'
"No."
And didn't the children try to
stop your making this fire and didn t
you tell them that it was all right
the darn barn was insured any
way?"
mo"
Eugina Frolich, a daughter of
Hens, was next called. She was mar
ried when 16, lived in jamestown
some years, and now lives in Can
ada. She corroborated what her
husband had said.
She stated in answer to Atty.
Thorp's questions that she felt it
was her parents own fault that they
had been shot.
The Frohlichs are evidently not
on very friendly terms with their
parents. They claim that it is be-
cause the elder Hens and his wife
permitted their girls to receive ques-
tionable notes from and to associate
with, the Mueller boys.
The state, however, is trying to
bring out that the trouble between
them is over the question of a will
that Hens made out. They hope
thereby to show that the Frohlich
testimony, that Mrs. Hens said Muel-
ler looked crazy mad, is not entire
ly credible.
DR.. M. H. Culbert was questioned
by Atty. John Knauf as to the NAL
ady that Mueller was suffering from
when different events testified to, oc-
cured.
He pronounced it epilepsy.
A number of physicians were in
the court room today while the ex-
pert was being examined.
The early history of the trouble
was reviewed by Atty. Knauf in his
questioning. He spoke of the at
temps that the elder Mueller had
made to get Gustaf to marry Anna
after they had gotten into trouble,
of his appealing to the states attor-
ney's Office to compel the marriage
to take place, and Of the failure OF
these attempts.
He also spoke of the friendly re-
lations that again arose between the
young people of the two families
last winter, of the incidents of the
day of the shoostag, of the accuse.
ton Of incest TIL valentine is al.
legged to have made to John a mo.
ment before the shooting, of the
shooting itself, and asked the doc.
tors opinion as to the cause.
Mental or psychic epilepsy" was
the alienist's opinion.
After each hypothetical question
that was put to the doctor as Atty
Knauf reviewed the testimony and
asked the cause of Mueller's actions
assuming the evidence to be true
the answer was the same. Finally
Knauf drew from the witness that in
his judgment the defendant was in.
sane when the shooting took place
Medical Experts Testify.
For several days the defense in
the Mueller murder trial has been
presenting it's side of the case before
the jury. After the principals in
the case had been questioned as re.
lated in previous issues of the Alert
medical testimony was introduced al
Saturdays sitting of the court. Part
of this has been reported in these
columns.
DR.. Francis Peake was placed on
the stand by the defense today. In
reply to the hypothetical questioning
by Attorney John Knauf, he replied
that Mueller, at different times cited
had been suffering from epileptic fits
"a psychic form, again from the re.
taxation following fit, again that
he was insane, and that he did not
know what he was doing.
Upon cross-examination, DR.. Peake
was closely questioned as to the
technical subdivisions of epilepsy
and grand mall,' and the relations
existing between psychic epilepsy
and some of these other sub-divis-
ions.
The term "pall mall' was given by
Attorney Thorp as an expression
used to describe combination of psy.
chic epilepsy with "mall' and other
forms, and the doctor apparently ac-
cepted the term and spent some time
in describing some of the symptoms.
Finally, Attorney Thorp suddenly
confronted the witness.
"Now, doctor, between you and I,
you never heard of the name pail
MALI as applied to epilepsy, did you;
but as applied to certain brand OF
lcigarettes?"
"Well-I don't know as I did. ]
thought you were manufacturing the