The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-05-04
|MISSIVES THAT BURNED WITH
LOVE READ To The FEDERAL JURY
SWEET AND ENDEARING TERMS

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Miss Bernhard was on the stand
yesterday afternoon after the let
tiers were read. She is a young, in
nocent-appearing girl. Her testimony
brought out that she had at different
times been employed in a candy fac
tory and in a cigar factory. She
answered questions promptly and to
the point, though her feelings showed
themselves very strongly at times,
and when she told of the meeting at
Lakefield and the rebuff, she. burst in
TO tears on the witness stand. When
the attorney for the defendant, o. J.
Finstad of Window, in questioning
her about the letters, asked her if
her mother had written that the girl
had real golden hair, the girl said
that was true and she added en-
phatically, can l have got it." And
indeed she has.
The girl told of meeting Malchow
in the depot. Each said, 81 am glad to
meet you" Then he told her that she
did not look like the same girl as the
one in her photograph. She said she
had different hat On when her pic
ture was taken. He said he was not
satisfied. He asked her if she wished
70 go back, and she said she did, if he
was not going to marry her He fur
nished the money for the return trip
of herself and her companion. The
girl said she began to cry after this
conversation. She said she felt
ashamed to go back home and face
her friends. She declared that she
learned to love Malchow before she
had ever seen him.
The girl was asked about the ad-
vertisement in Cupid's Columns that
led to her correspondence with NAL
chow. She said she had not put that
advertisement in the paper herself,
but a girl friend had done it without
her knowledge and she knew nothing
of it until she began to get letters
She had letters from others than
Malchow in answer TO the advertise
ment.
Deposition Was Read.
A deposition was read in court
from Mrs. Minnie Masters, who &C
companied the girl from Louisville to
Lakefield and back. She told how the
two litigants met and related the
circumstances of his stating that he
was not satisfied. She said he fur
nished money for both of them to go
home, but not enough to get them a
sleeper. She admitted, however, that
they had no sleeper on their way to
Lakefield. Mrs. Masters said the girl
cried much on the way home and
would not eat. On the whole of their
way home all she would take was a
cup Of coffee.
|. The property of the defendant in
cludes an eighty-acre farm. He has
been married. He is twenty eight
years old. The plaintiff asks judg-
ment for $4,000.
Pleas to the Jury.
Both the attorneys made their pleas
to the jury this morning. Attorney
Knox closed for the plaintiff shortly
before noon.
In the evidences it was brought out
that Malchow in his letters TO the
girl and her mother let them know
that he was possessed of a consider
able amount of property and that his
relatives were wealthy.
MalchOW was married to another
girl about three months after he re-
jected Miss Bernhard in the depot
at Lakefeld. Mrs. Malchow was in
the court room attending the trial.
She had with her her infant son.
The case went to the jury at 1:30
this afternoon.
Mrs. Mabel Gillespie, sister of the
rn1oinfiff tho stand this
morning and testified that her sis
ter was happy before her trip to
Lakefield but respondent afterwards.