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out, to q farm about three quarters OF
a mile out Of town on the Sleepy Eye
road with Smith and Bill explained to
the farm manager TINT the mechanic
preferred to work IN the open air
rather than in q garage and arranged
to do their fixing on the premises:
The expert took the car apart, exchanged
some parts, and in general changed IT..
VIM. Pfeiffer was very wary on the
stand, however, and the county attor-
ney could not get him to admit that
the mechanic changed or erased the
engine numbers. He claimed he didn't
see that and that he thought Smith
was repairing the car.
Bill also claimed that he was asleep
at II 0 clock when it appeafs that
Geo. Clark and Harry Allen drove in
on the farm. The county attorney
asked him if he didn get quite ex-
cited and nervous when the two men
drove up, but Bill denied this and
claimed he was asleep at the time and
slept till the others woke him up at
about 2:30 in the afternoon. The work
on fixing" the car is said to have
begun about S or 6 clock in the
morning.
Sold Car For $3.50.
Bill then told how he had arranged
with LaGonda to sell the car, Got.
Miller buying it for $3.50 and q Chevro-
let touring car, the $3.50 going to Bill
Pfeiffer and the touring car being
La Gonda's commission. The check
for the $3.50 was post dated, but VIM.
Pfeifer managed to cash it by getting
a friend to endorse it with him. He
then paid a couple Of hundred dollars
to a friend who had loaned him money,
according to his testimony, and then
had Stanley Gieseke take him to Man
kato, taking the train for the West.
He left Mankato June 18th and arrived
in San Francisco, California on June
10th, stopping one day at Omaha,
and a. couple Of days at Truckee,
California. &,
County Attorney Traps Witness.
County Attorney Eckstein at this
point laid nice trap for Big Bill and
the big fellow walked into it very
nicely in spite Of his very careful and
wary way Of answering questions. The
county attorney insisted that Bill
had arrived at his fathers house at
S o'clock on the afternoon of June
10th. Big Bill didn't seem to know
just why the county attorney was 80
particular about this little point, but
he definitely placed the time Of arrival
at his fathers house at about 8 o'clock
in the afternoon Of the 10th, claiming
that he did net get there till the day
after he arrived at San Francisco. The
county attorney asked him if he was
staying with his father after that and
Bill said he had. After this had been
settled very definitely, the county at
torney asked him. i. he knew that his
father had mailed post card adj
dressed to VIM. Pfeifer, New Ulm,
MINI, which was mailed at San Fran
cisco, June 22nd, two. days after Bill
arrived at his fathers house even ac-
cording his own story. Bill saw that
he had been trapped and weakly sug-
gested that he thought the card had
been mailed before he got there. The
card in question was produced and
Bill admitted it was his fathers hand
writing and that the postmark was
plain as Of June 22nd. Nothing more
was said on this point, but it was quite
plain that Bills father had written
and mailed the post card after Bill
arrived in order to throw the officers
here off the scent and make it appear
that Bill was not in San Francisco.
How the card came into the posses
sion Of the county attorney did not
come out in the examination Of the
witness.
Bill Strong on Denials.
The judge examined VIM. Pfeiffel
in connection with the Rubey car which
was stored in Bill's barn. Bill denied
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