The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10

objected to the questions Of Mr.. Baker,
holding that he was leading the wit
ness. The court sustained the obiec-
! tions against several of the questions.
Not once did the boy tell the story Of
seeing the shot fred. Just as the ques-
tions led up to the actual firing Of the
shot the boy IS answers were always ~
can It remember" or II don't know
The boy was on the stand when
the adjournment was taken for the
| noon hour.
Mary Matthews Springs Surprise
Mary Matthews, the first witness
called at the afternoon session, brought
something new into the trial. She tes-
titled that she was working at the
Miller store near the Auster home and
that Mrs. Anster came to the store
three times during the afternoon to use
the telephone. On one of these occa-
sions, the witness said, Mrs. Auster
called up her husband and asked him
to come to the house and fix a light,
She said that Ausfer had promised to
come at six o'clock. 1t was evident
that the state attached great deal of
weight to the telephone conversation.
The attorney for Mrs. Auster vigorous
| " cross examined Miss Matthews, but
she insisted that she heard the CONVEX
sation and that she I'D told no one
about it until last Sunday when she
told the police. Her testimony was in
no way changed under the cross fire
Of questions by Attorney Baker.
Other Witnesses Called.
Floyd Anderson, who occupied the
upper apartment above the Auster
home, A. W. Bandley and Henry vogler,
the first people to reach the house af-
ter the shots were fred, were the next
witnesses. Anderson said that he heard
a scream and the shots just about the
same time and that when he went down
, stairs he met Mrs. Auster in front Of
the house and that she told him that
her husband had shot himself.
| Bandley and Anderson, both of whom
had known Mr.. and Mrs. Auster, gave
similar testimony, both stating that
Mrs. Auster had told them that Auster
had killed himself. These last two
named witnesses said that they had
lighted matches to make an investiga-
ton Of the house after the shooting
and that they had found the revolver
| lying near Auster s left hand and two
pieces Of broken light socket just a
little ways from his other hand. The
| last two witnesses declared that as they
reached the house they saw Mrs. Auster
coming from the side Of the house and
that she had called for help.
About three 'clocE Police Officer
Emil Clausen took the witnes stand and
told of the finding Of the body Of Aus
ter shortly after the shooting. After
this testimony was completed Judge
Belden declared a short recess Of the
court.
The state was expected to close its
case before adjournment this afternoon
with Patrolman Emil Clausen's testi-
mony relative to the conditions pre-
vailing at the Auster home when he
discovered the body of Auster and made
the first report of the tragedy to police
headquarters. The patrolman s evi-
dence emphasized the position in which
he found the dead man and the details
of his death as falsely related to him
by the plain IF. Tt also told the story
of other police incidents in the unhappy
marital life of the Austers.
Say Woman was Unbalanced.
The testimony taken by the attorneys
in Chicago on Tuesday was mostly in
teresting to the defense. Harry Levee,
who was one of the principal witnesses
heard, testified that Fanny Koplan had
lived at the same apartment house as
he and his wife in 1917-191S and that
Auster was frequent visitor to her
apartments. He asserted that one
time Auster was about the place for
whole week.
Mrs. Rebecca Sterling and Celia
Rosenthal testified that they had
known Mrs. Auster during January of
this year when she was conducting a
small store in Chicago and they testi-
fed that they had seen her beat her
head against the wall at times when
she appeared to be laboring under
great mental stress. This evidence will
be introduced in deposition form later
| in the trial.
Secure Jury Tuesday Night.
The jury to hear the evidence and
decide the fate Of Mrs. Auster was
completed shortly before five o o'clock
Tuesday afternoon and within an hour
and half after the sessions of the
court were resumed following the re-
aurn Of the attorneys from Chicago.
There were few Strikes recorded
on the part of either the state or the
attorneys for the defendant and in a
remarkably short time after the last
one Of the men in the box had been
examined the jury was declared to be
acceptable to both the state and the de-
PENDANT. It is made up of six men
from the towns of the county, five
from the city and one from the village