The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-07
.0'HARE CASE TO JURY
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SOME TINE THIS AFTERNOON
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Tor me deIense then moved that the
court direct a verdict for the defense
on the ground that the indictment cit
ed no specific violations of the defense
act. Judge Wade informed Attorney
Lowell that he did not consider this q
proper attack of the indictment: that
1t was opposed to good practice, and
that party was not entitled to YER
dict of not guilty because of defects
in an indictment.
Issues at the close of the second
days trial in United States district
court of Mrs. Kate OHare, Saint
Louis socialist and author, former ed.
itOr Of the Buzz Saw, and who has held
; every national and international cleo.
tive office in the gift of the socialist
party in the United States had devel-
Oped largely into a question of YER
acmy and fallibility of witnesses.
Thursday morning the government in
troduced a half-dozen witnesses who
were positive they had heard Mrs.
O'Hare say that American women who
became pregnant to produce sons to
become cannon fodder were not bet
ter than brood-sows on Montana stock
ranches, and that she said that young
men of America who enlisted in the
army were fit only to fertiliZe the
soil of France with their blood. Thurs
day afternoon the defense produced
an equal number of witnesses equally
as positive that Mrs. O'Hare's refer
ence to brood sOWs was made in con-
necti0n with her statement that Euro
pean women had been commanded to
give themselves to their soldiers that
the latter might breed before they
die, and that her reference to the
blood of American soldiers fertilizing
the soil of France was made in a
different spirit than reported, and that
she had asked Gods blessing for the
young men who chose to enlist and
had insisted that she not be under
stood or quoted as opposing enlist
ment in the United States army.
Totten First Witness.
z. B. Totten, Judge of Bowman coun-
ty and prominent lin Nonpartisan poll
Vticss WAS defenseis first witness foil
lowing Mrs, O'Hare, herself, Totem
Stated the Socialists or Bowman were
instrumental in gettingiMrs O'Hard
there and What the socialists repre1
scented one village, faction and that all
Of the witnesses for the, government
represented the other.
Totten admitted that he;himself was
not friendly to any of the witnesses
for the government, and Judge Wade
insisted that neighborhood squabbles
not be made basis for the adjudlca-
ton of the case, ~ GUU
Mrs. O,Hare. denied that she had re-
ferred to President Wilson as "Old
Patience, Who has t6the down off hid
pedestal, size Kept MS Out Of War;
andy plunger US into .waE'rone of tho
statements ,ascribea dto her She ada
mitted having been In communication
With German socialists before Ameris
ca declared war, but stated she had
had no intercourse of any kind with
Germany since. She stated she be-
lieved in democracy, and, while she
would not state this was war for
democracy, she said she believed de-
n,ocracy would grow out of it. She
denied ever having opposed any war
measures, the Red Cross, Liberty loans
or Y. NJ. C. A. campaigns.
Friendly to Defendant.
Mrs e. B. Totten, postmistress at
Bowman, whom Senator McCumber
sought to have removed after she had
entertained Mrs O'Hare at her home,
admitted on the stand that she was
friendly to the defendant and in &C.
cord with her. She stated that she
wanted to see her get square DEAL"
and that she had talked the matter ov-
er since Mrs. O'Hare's indictment with
her husband, Judge Totten. She adj
mitted there were young people of
both sexes in Mrs. O'Hare's audience,
but protested no words were used
which need give offense.
Charles D. Olson, a farmer member
of the Nonpartisan league, was
among the witnesses for the defense.
He approved of what he heard Mrs.
O'Hare say in her Bowman lecture.
John Williams, another Bowman farm
er, asked on cross examination If he
sympathized with Mrs. O'Hare said he
didn't believe she needed any sym.
pathy. He attended all lectures that
came his way, but never had attended
a temperance lecture, because they
don't have them in Bowman"
The prosecution sprung surprise
on the tlefense's last witness of the
afternoon when U. S. Attorney Hill
dreth on cross examination Numbered
at Mrs. e. ]. Cuett, wife of Bowman
h~~hor.
- = 4 Crucial Question.
did you know that your husband
had been reported to the government
as a man who was having congregate
at his place of business men who are
opposed to the war measures of this
government ..
Mrs. Cuett replied in the negative.
She stated she did not know her hus-
band to be a socialist and that the
Buzz Saw had until recently been a
regular visitor at their home and that
she read it faithfully.
Attorney D. Lowell, for the de- ,
Tense announced on adjournment |