South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-26
Harry PouLn Defends His Innocence on Witness Stand

a. much this year as you did last?"
4 About the same maybe not so.
often this year
Did you have any more head
I achese"
Il am subject to headaches about.
once a month"
"Is your memory better on ques-
lions that happened a year back than
those that happened two months
/ bach? ."
no"
How many nights did you miss
/ Lenten services this year?''
About two nights
Il will call your attention 10 We'd
nesday night services, March 16.
/ What about that service p"
1T was a short service"
"Yosr memory is clear on that?"
Perfectly"
? You don't mind II I recall a little
incident on this Dight OF the special
/ service AT 81. Joseph church? Isn't
+ II true that you met Mrs. Herman be-
I fore church on the corner by Ho-
gan's drug store and you talked with
her a little while. and you both de-
cided TO go out TO the college"
{ NO sir"
and that you walked over %
/ the car and Mrs Herman got on the
car and YOU kept on walking and
/ that later she abandoned the car and
that you came back TO the church
and said 10 her. where did you 60,
missed two cars?"
NO"
At the same time Mrs. Herman
jumped from her seat and said.
! You are a liar. now"
Prof Herman said, Arrest him
: for perjury"
/ When order was restored. Judge
I DuComb asked that the same, court
/ esy relative TO quietude during testi-
mony that was extended TO the re-
I latriX's side by the defense be shown
the defense side by the relatrix.
Then Jellison mentioned several
/ consecutive Lenten dates during
. February and March. asking Poulin
If he attended Lenten services on
/ these nights and to each question he
answered that he had
Now on the 10th OF February,
We're YOU not out to Notre Dance"
NO sir
do you remember attending a
glee club concert at Notre Dame ,"
II did not, neither did my wife"
I'm not talking about your wife"
If I had been there she would
have been with me-"
Il want to direct your attention TO
the glee club concert at Notre Dame
Feb. 16, 1921. and ask you if it is not
a fact that you were there and that
you sat with Mr.. and Mrs. Herman ?"
NO"
Didn't you call up Mrs. Herman
after the concert and say, I wonder
what is the matter with you, you did
Mt thank me for the program I
gave YOU last night. Can't you come
down to the store?'"
'No"
Did you testify that on Tuesday,
Aug. 9. you were invited to your
fathers home and stayed all eve
ning?"
II had supper there, stayed there
a little while"
You slept at homer"
Yes"
DO you know the date your
wife returned?"
I Aug. s, Thursday"
Where were you the Tuesday oe-
fore?"
Fishing at Notre Dame"
And you stayed all night at
home?"
Yes"
Your sister testified that you stay
I cd at her home"
"She was mistaken"
Referring to the 10th Of February
al Notre Dame when you gave Mr..
and Mrs Herman a program for the
1 concert, have you thought about that
since ?"
No"
Don't YOU remember a Mr.. and
Mrs Reichart there and you gave
! them a program to-"
DO you remember a Mrs. w. q
won't mention her name) whom you
We're sitting beside
Parker-"You have 10 Use a name.
I object"
Now III also ask you IN refer
4 encc TO same evening. wasn't Mr. ard
1 Mrs NIc1Iichel there?"
Il couldn't tell you for the simple
I reason that I wasn't there
But don't you remember seeing
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodruff"
'\O-beCausc / wasn't there, I was
at a Lenten service that evening"
Did YOU call up Mrs. Herman
next day? Did you have any under
standing at alp"
NO"
Did she come in at her own
4 solicitation to the store that after
noon? ."
/ Il guess So"
Didn't you go upstairs 30
Il don't remember"
I Then you went TO the dentist?"
yes. at 1870. Then, when the
dentist wasn't there. I remembered
Mrs. Tiernah saying she was going
10 the Oliver theater and I went over
there I stayed about 10 minutes and
/ then 1 went back to the store. I got
home at p. m"
Then you were only there 10
minutes"
Yes"
Didn't YOU go up 10 the gallery?"I
No. 7 walked in. went In first
door 20 the left and saw Mrs. Tier
nan sitting in the last row"
Weren't you pressing her for the
/ first meeting at Notre Dance"
objection made and sustained
Judge (humorously) 1T might
have been a pressing circumstance. 30
When did you see Mrs. Herman
again after Thursday afternoon? ."
L don't remember. March 2. 7
| thirI, hut I wonldn,t say FOR srre-,