Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-09
KA1LLEL TRIAL
RESUMEDTOD[AY
AT CAVALIER
and Mother Maintain
That Peddler Killed
Anna Story.
tHerald Special Service

tHerald Special Service.)
Cavalier, N. d., Jan. 9.-Thc trial
OF Sam Kallel, peddler, charged with
first degree murder in connection
with the death of Anna Story, IT.
tyear-year old girl near Leyden on the
morning OF November Z. was resumed
this morning with Mrs. Story under
cross-exanination on the witness
stand. The jury for the trial was Sc
lected Friday and the first witnesses
Tor the state were called Saturday. ),
The first witness, called was the
ei~ght-year-old brother OF Anna Story.
His evidence was in substance about
as follows: :.
He was awakened. he said, about
$3.50 in the evening by someone rap
ping on the outside doc downstairs
and wanting to get in, the mother
calling. rs that you. SAM" and upon
receiving an affirmative answer. going
,down with an armful of bed clothes
ant letting in the peddler, the lad ac-
commanding her and hclp:ng carry
Ethe bed clothes. The mother made
Up a bed for the peddler on a folding
cot in the@kitchen. then the two re-
turned to their room. The lad was
sleeping with his mother and sister,
the other boy, IL years old, occupy
ing a separate bed in the same room.
Much later in the night. the boy said.
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mother also awakening and springins
from the bed to be struck in the head
by the peddler and apparently knock
&c downstairs.
Older Boy Awakcs.
At this time. the evidence contin.
ued, the older boy awoke and ran
downstairs to help his mother. Be-
tween the three of them they sue
Iceeded in getting the gun away from
the man and it was then that he ral1
and got a knife, explaining, "nf T. can't
Ekin you with a gun l will with a
knife" The mother ran upstairs evil
was heard to cry. my God. Anna, arc
YOU dead?' The boys running after
the peddler, reached the upstairs
room in time to see the peddler. upon
realizing that Anna was dead, throw
himself q the other bed and slash
his throat. with the knife. The moth
err then in terror started to run down
stairs again and the peddler with
blood streaming from his throat, arose
and ran after her brandishing the
knife.
Tho knife was wrested from the ped
dler's hand. the boy said. whereupon
IKa1lel seized a lid from the kitchen
stove and hegaS pounding himself ov-
er the head in an apparent attempt to
end his own life. but failing at this.
ran over and began to butt his head
violently against the frame of the
folding bed.
Older Boy Testifics.
The, testimony of the older boy
practically corroborated the testimony
Of the younger boy except in a few
minor details, his story beginning
from the time he awoke. which was
d few minutes later than the time the
others aWoke, the scuffle going or in
the kitchen when he reached there.
Mother Testiies.
The mothers story was practically
that Of the sboys. She told of letting
the peddler in about $3.50 or 9 in the
evening and of making him a bed in
1.-THE kitchen. h was awakened the
second time late in the night. she
said, by the sound of shutting feet in
the room. Two pistol shots were then
fred in rapid succession. n hitting
her in the Jaw, but she not realizing
that Anna had been killed by the 9TH
cr.
The story of the fight that followed
was in most details a recital of the
stories old by the boys. the mother
adding that the knife. which she iden-
tilted in court. she had taken outdoors
I. when she started for Leyden.
DR.. j. T.. Mulder, who conducted
the post-morten examination of the
Edead girls body described on the wit
ness tan the nature of the wound
that Anna Story received which caus-
cd her death. The bullet entered her
body from the front. he said. and
penetrated her heart and liver. lodg-
ing near the spinal column. DR.. Null
der also described the wounds found
on the throat Of the peddler.
The mother was on the stand when
court adjourned until today. >
Great interest is manifest here. the
court room. being crowded by specta-
tors.
Judge. G.. w. Buttz is presiding at
to trial. Attorney j. E.. Garvey of Cav
alier. is counsel for the defense. while
States Attorney Harold Thompson is
conducting the prosecution.