The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-21
H00VERIZING
HAS ITS DAY
IN HALL CASE
Morning Consumed in Telling
How to Live on $50
the Month.
DEFENSE WOULD IMPEACH
Seeking to Break Down Effect
of Wal|a's Testimony
on Jury.
STATE RESTS,

STATE RESTS.
The cross-examination Of Walia
was completed at 3 p. m. today
and the defense began its open.
ing statement. Jamestown resi-.
dents will be first ones called by
the defense.
Lessons in Hooverizing took up the
time of the district court in the trial
Of Secretary of State Thomas Hail.
this forenoon, when Eugene NJ. Walla,
chief clerk in the automobile registra.
ton department OF the secretary Of
states office, explained under a rigid
cross examination how he has man.
aged to live on $50 the month since
coming TO Bismarck in the spring OF
1913.
Mr.. Walla's meat bills, stated the
witness, run from nothing to no. more
than S. the month; grocery bills run
around $12 the month. He lives in a
modern five-r0om, hot-air heated
house, and has electric ligats and a
telephone. He owns an automobile,
for which he has bought tires and re.
pairs and built a garage. He Uuys
flowers for his wife wnen she is in
the hospital, which has occurred twice
during their residence in Bismarck,
and good toilet waters and cigars and
candy and ice cream. The suit which
he wore on the witness stand cost So,
and other items of merchandise men.
toned in large collection Of unpaid
bills which the witness produced in
evidence were of good quality. The
witness has also paiI some doctors
bills for his two little children.
Some months the family spends
nothing for meat, the witness expktint
ing that he puts in from 100 to 15O
pounds of gaife each year. He fur
ther advsed'tfle court that his wife
is good H0dsekeeper, and that his
only laundry oills are incurred twice
yearly when he sends some collars out
to be boiled He u"es about II tons
OF Ignite coal each winter.
The witness testified that since com
ing to Bismarck ne has earned in sal
ary and extras $1,000, all of which,
barring the $50 per month used to run
his home, has gone into bills at
jamestown. The largest single item
of outside earning noted was about
500 from the Standard Oil Co., which
paid cent per name for owners
whose automobiles were registered
with the department. Clerks in the
department who did the typing for
Walla received half cent per name.
Walla on redirect examination this
legged instances in which the secretary
of state came to him for currency
from the automobile registration fund
The state presented considerable evi'
dence tending to build up the charac'
ter which the defense is seeking to
tear down for purposes OF impcachins
the star witness for the prosecution
The state showed that Walla had been
prominently connected socially and In
business and political way at James
town before the smash-up there. The
defense again raked over the dead
Goals of that disaster and went very
thoroughly into Wallas living ex
penses, with an evident intention tC
prove that Walla. had errel when he
testified that during all the time he
has lived in Bismarck his living eX
penses never have exceeded $50 the
month. which fact has permitted hin
to clear up practically all of the larg'
Indebtedness he left behind in James
town.
Plans for the trapping" at tn.
home of Eugene Walla most of Nortl
Dakota officialdom, including no less
er lights than Governor Lynn
Frazier and Attorney General William
s. LANCER, not to mention Secretar!
of State Thomas Hall, brought up b!
the defense as alleged to have bee'
revealed by the witness to W. II
Stutsman. chief of counsel for Thoma
Hail. occupied much of long after
noon devoted to the greulling cross
examination of the chief clerk in th
automobile registration department
called by the state as witness
against his chief.
Walla admitted on cross examina
ton that counsel had revealed to hin
a plan to inveigle to the Walla hom
Thomas Hall with a view to commit
ting him there to some damaging ao
mission in the presence Of conceale
witnesses. Walla couldn't remembe
having made a statement to this e.
feet to c. A. Holiday, Walla's partne
in a Baldwin enterprise. But he admi
ted that counsel had such intention:
to his knowledge Counsel wanted t
get the facts said Walla at the en-
of a heavy volley of questions fror
Attorney George w. Thorpe of James
town. Counsel didn't want either Ha
or myself to know that witnesses wer
there"
Denied knowledge Of Burns Men.
Walla denied knowledge that Burn
dnAoc.ivos were to he employed to On