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

was Oetter, ne%SAsHt 10 Steep.
Then what you do?"
II went in ans worked little.
Then I hitched up and went to
Klundt's to try to hire Mrs. Klundt's
children to do some shocking"
'How did he look-was he pale?"
"He was very white"
"He looked awfully bad?"
"He looked distorted"
did he look awfully distorted?"
"He looked like anyone when they
roll their eyes about
''You worried about him?"
EYES,"
when you left him, was he still
asleep?"
EYES,"
did he have any froth running
out of his mouth"
'Not after he got over his sick
ness"
Where was he lying?"
"In the barley field, in the stub
ble"
That's where you left him when
you went to Klundt's?"
EYES,"
What did his father do them"
when John went to sleep, his
father took the horses and began to
cut, leaving John there asleep"
Witness is Confused.
At this point the witness became
somewhat confused. Atty. Thorp
asked, Father went back to the
binder before John fell down, did
he?"
EYES,"
He went away while he was
standing up?"
"No."
after the jerking had ceased,
father went over to the; binder?"
Did you send for . doctor?"
mo" y,~s
did you ever ask ithe doctor
what was the matter with John when
he ss' Nd th;s atd s.at to e. tel, any
among the people"
story is Not ''Frame Up"
"The first person you ever told
that John had fits, was John Knauf?"
Eyes, l thought of it and told
him."
isn't it a fact that John Knauf
told you that your boy had fits?"
mo, never
She first saw John double his
thumbs inside of his hands after the
binder trouble, she testified. and
then again on certain night after
she had returned from the Hens
home. She did not call for doc
tor or consult one, either time.
"You and Mr.. Mueller and Henry
and John were all pretty mad be-
cause Gustaf got Anna into trou-
ble?" asked Mr.. Thorp.
Henry was not at home. My
heart was bleeding because of the
way they treated U.S."
Were the father or the boys
mad?"
mo, the father did not become
angry, but he felt very sorry"
Were you mad at Anna?"
"No, she was young and was in
nocent."
Were you mad at Gus?"
,''No, it was his mothers fault"
- WAS John mad?"
"Once when l was tending the
baby, he said You blame your
did he blame you?"
mo"
when you were at Klundt's (af-
ter the binder incident) were you
worrying about John?"
"No, l saw that he was up"
Nov didn't you say this to Mrs.
Klundt, in substance, as follows:
That John wouldn't work any more
at home and wanted to leave home?"
II can't remember"
Didn't you say that your hus-
band had whipped John?"
"No."
"You swear that John had fit?"
eyes,"
At one time Mrs. Mueller came
from Hens and reported that Hens
had said that Anna Mueller's condi-
tion was due to one of the Mueller
boys. Then John had another fit.
Attorney Thorp questioned Mrs.
Mueller for long time to get from
her full description of the symp-
toms of the alleged fits.
Each time he had fit, he would
foam at the mouth, put his thumb
inside his hand, his arms would
jerk, he would become pale, his
eyes be distorted, and he would fall
down. Most of these symptoms,
the witness said, had been exhibited
by her brother when he had fits
years ago, yet she never thought of
Johns being afflicted in the same
way as the brother had been, until
after. John, had had the three at
tacks.
Mueller's Father on Stand.
Mrs. Mueller was excused and
her husband was then called.
Attorney John Kauai began the
examination. "You may tell the
jury what happened when John
came home from Hens"
II was sitting by. the table and
one Of the children told me, John 10
coming, riding asked him where
he came from. and he said he came
from Hens: ~, -