The Alaska daily empire., 1916-09-22
Prosecution Outlines Its Case Against Man at the Bar-EyidenCe
 to Be Given.
MOTION TO DISMISS
Attorney for Edw. Mause Loses Point = He May Introduce Evidence
 in This Case.

morning in the District Court when the attorneys for both the prosecu- ton and defense made their open ing statements and the taking of testimony begun.
 In the opening statements for the prosecution. assistant District Attor- ney J. J. Reagan read the indict- ment against Krause which states that on or about october 2Srd, Krause, "purposely wilfully felon- iously, and with premeditated afore- though did cause the death of James To. Plunkett by committing an as- sault on the said James O. Plunkett, the exact manner or weapons used being unknown to the grand jury"
 The indictment is in two counts.
 Continuing his statements. Mir, Reagan said. the government in- tends to prove that Plunkett was a man 30 or 55 years of age, a bachel- or that he had lived here many years and had all his property and possessions here, and had no known relatives at any other place. He owned the gas boat Lue and he made his living with the boat. He was of good character and habits and was very temperate, with many close personal friends.
 His disposition was such that it would have been impossible for him to have dropped completely from the life of his friends in the manner in which he did unless he had met with foul play, and th,, he knew Edward Krause, but that the ac- quaintance was not intimate or cx- tended.
 On Fatal Trip
 "On October 2Srd, Plunkett was in the cigar store of Tom McCaul and told him that he had an engage ment to take a party to snettisham, but that he had another rather sec ret trip which he must make first but that he would be back in time to take the party to Snettisham. At that time he pointed to Krauso, who was in the store also and stat ed that he was going out with that man.
 "The next morning the Lue was seen leaving Juneau with both men aboard. The men were seen on the boat again near one of the oil docks, where the boat of Krause was an chored. but the Lue yeered away from the oil dock and continued down the channel Later the Lue was again seen down the channel with both men on it and that was the last time Plunkett was seen alive.
 Letter Received
 -Four days afterward letter was received at the local customs house stating that the Lue had been de stroyed by fire off Hobatt Bay and sunk and that Plunkett was in Wrangell and was going south. The letter was written on a typewriter and was signed by what purported to be Plunkett's signature.
 "The prosecution will endeavor to prove that the letter was written by Krause on his own personal typewriter, and was signed by Krausc, forging the signature of Pluukett.
 Lue is Found O. K.
 "The prosecution will prove that several days afterward the Lue was found anchored in a sheltered bay off Duncan Canal in spot used by Krause, in front of a mining claim and cabin claimed by Krause, and that Krause, after leaving Juneau on the morning of October 24th, reached Petersburg at o'clock in the morning of the 25th in a skifi owned by Plunkett and used by him as tender to the Lue. Krause stayed at a rooming house owned by Sing Lee the balance of the night all day Tuesday and part of Tues, day night and was then called Go catch the steamer Humboldt for Juneau.
 "The prosecution will show that Krause remained here about a week and then disappeared and arrived in Seattle some time later under the name of Ole Moe. and was arrested there as he stepped from the boat
 "we will show that Krause left Juneau ia his own boat and reached Wards Cove just north of Ketchi- kan, where he left the boat in charge of Mir. Lee of the Fish Products Company and took the steamer Jef ferson from Ketchikan.
 Krause's oenials
 "We will show that at the time of the arrest in Seattle Ole Moe, or Krause denied that he was Krause, that he knew anyone of that name, or that he ever heard of Edward Krause. Later he admitted that he was Krause and stated that a man by the name of Christie had been taken from Treadwell by him and had disappeared and that he could not satisfactorily explain his disap
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