South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-01
JURY TO WEIGH
TESTIMONY OF
SCHULTZ WIFE
Defendants Former Spouse
Tells of Schultz Part In
Double Murder.

Cldl STATE NOunsel Sduuel r
Schwartz called the defendant
wife to the witness stand.
Mrs. Schwartz testified that she
IL the former wife OF II. 3. Stout,
the Pennsylvania railroad detective
OF Plymouth. Ind. who arrested
Schultz Ga an 2. Washington av.
place in March Of last year. She
also testified that she had also
been married TO a man named Har-
r. Emminger.
Mrs Schultz testified that the de-
PENDANT met Jacx Wright. who IS
now serving a life Imprisonment
term for participation in the murder
OF Muessel and Chrobot, IN Kansas
City, Mo, in May Of 1915. The wit
ness testified thar on the evening Of
Lee. 20. 1917 Schultz Danruther
end Wright returned TO Schultz
home on 40 " Lasalle az. about
6 o'clock Sne said that they had
left the house about $50 o'clock OF
that afternoon The witness testi-
fled that Schultz. Danruther and
Wright left the house at about the
same hour again on he afternoon Of
Dec 80, and thar about 6:3O that
evening Wright and Schultz re-
turned. The witness testified that
she asked the defendant why he had
kept her waiting supper and that he
had replied:
Ct have my own troubles to worry
me without thinking about you.
Mrs. Schultz said that the defend
ant then called Wright who, she
said. had gone upstairs. TO come
down 10 super The witness testi-
fled that while the two men were al
supper Schultz asked Wright why he
had let someone get so close 10
him when he had a gun, and that
Wright had replied:
you know that can't shoot
straight"
Threatened Life. She said.
The witness testified that during
the supper newsboys were heard
outside crying extras" Mrs Schultz
said that when Wright and Schultz
saw her in the kitchen where they
were eating. Schultz sprang up and
grabbing her by the throat pointed q
revolver at her head and told hel
that if she ever told what she had
Just heard he would kill her. This
witness also testified Wright ap-
peared to have been injured, and
that she gave him some linlment e
rub on his stomach and gave him q
piece Of flannel cloth 10 keep the
Iiniment from his clothing.
Mrs Schultz testified that the de-
PENDANT ordered her TO take q
bundle Of clothing TO the basemen
and burn IL up in the furnace. She
said that she told Schultz to tak'
it to the basement himself. but tha
later she did put the bundle. which
contained "a coat. a hat and a pain
Of gloves. in the furnace. She testi
fled that Wright left the house tha
night.
The witness then told OF one
morning later Of being told bv tho
defendant that she and he were go.
ing TO take a walk before breakfast
She said they walked TO the Jeffer
son blvd. bridge and that Schultz
had a revolver wrapped IN news
paper. She said that Schultz dropped
the revolver en- the river.
Mrs. schultz testified that II was
not until the following May that sh'
again saw Jack Wright.
Found Coat I'm Field.
Efforts OF the defense through
cross examination 10 attack Mrs
Schultz's character or that OF hel
sister. Miss Harker. were prevented
by a ruling of the court on objec
lions Of the state.
George W. Setter. 1917 w. Olive
ST. testified to finding a raincoa'
in field near the Muessel brewery
He identified the coat offered IL
evidence by the state as one worn
by one OF the murderers as being
the one found by him day or two
after the murder.
Adolph J. Muessel. superinten-
dent Of the Muessel brewery at the
time of the murder. and who lived
a short distance from there, testi
fled TO having seen two men come
out Of a field near the brewery and
being Joined by another man on the
afternoon before the evening os the
murder He described one Of the
men "a being tall and stopped
William Muessel who was wound
od at the time his brother. Henry.
and Chrobot were murdered. was
called TO the stand 10 testify 10 the
time Of the brewery shutting down
for the day. lie said that IL was
usually about O'Clock, depending
upon the rapidly with which the
drivers Checked uP.
a. Coddins. employed at the
brewery at the time of the murder,
testified To having seen two mon in
the Geld near The brewery on the
afternoon Of Dec. %.
state Near Close.
Mike Viozlotcn, another brewery
empIoye during 1918. testified 10
having seen two men running froi1
the brewery OF the evening OF the
murder. lie said that one OF the
men ran rs though ne was carrying
something and that there was
blinking Of money.
The state eXLects to close the in
PRODUCTION of its evidence by noon
today. The defense will probably
end its side Of the case by Monday.
This will allow the evidence 10 be
placed in the hands Of the jury By
Tuesday Of next week.
Yesterdays morning session was
taken up entirely with the Schultz
admission over which the opposing
counsel battled throughout Wednes-
day. The admission was read 70
the jury yesterday afternoon by
Special Counsel Schwartz. follow
ing Judge MontgOmery's ruling that
all relevant portions OF the admis-
sion go 10 the jury.