The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-08
DEFENDANT IN
MURDER CASE
IS GRILLED
Kasimir Schneider Contra.
diets Self in Long Question
ing; Makes Excuse
ASKED ABOUT ANALYSIS
Qucried Coroner as to What
Doctors Found Out About
Stomach Sent to ~"
ASKED ABOUT ANALYSIS

kasimir Schneider, Bismarck
laborer. charged with poisoning
his wife, was grilled by John F.
Sullivan, assisting States Attorney
Allen in the case for several
hours, during which Schneider
maintained his calm demeanor but
contradicted himself frequently in
answers to questions. In many inn
stances he declared his lack OF
knowledge of English caused him
difficulty, but few questions were
asked in German through an inter-
prefer and most of the replies
were asked in German through an
Interpreter and most Of the replies
were in good English.
The defendant, when turned
over to the state yesterday after
noon. was led through maze OF
questions for two hours and a half
and much of the morning session
today was consumed in further
cross examination, the state seek
ing to strengthen its chain of evil
dencr through the defendants own
attitude on the stand.
Schneider after denying a ques-
ton later admitted that he had
said tc Clara Fisher, who had tes
tilted for the state that Schneider
had told her he wanted to get rid
of his wife, that he had remarked
to her that he wished he had met
her before he married his second
wife. and after denying his wife
took any nourishment but milk for
several days before she died and
later amended his answer to say
that she ate an orange.
Knew The Reason
He denied vigorously that he
knew what authorities sought to
find out when they sent the sto-
mach of his wife to the University
laboratory at Grand Forks and O
further cross-questioning said tha
they wanted to find out what sh"
died of. He clung to his denial
that he had remarked to Frank
Xander that "if they look in tn
stomach maybe this liniment
didn't do any good"
Schneider was questioned con-
cerning the five separate illnesses
he said his wife suffered. He gave
her some pills and Arm and Ham
mcr soda during part of the time
During her fifth and last illness
he did not give her any medicine,
he said, and did not call doctor,
claiming she would not let him dO
He said he did not see her ca
on Friday, except to drink some
milk, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Tuesday or Wednesday before sh'
died Thursday morning. He said
she was out of bed for the last
time on Tuesday, and then fo
about Is minutes, the questions
evidently being directed by the
state to show that Mrs. Schneide,
could not have obtained poison
herself.
did you have any arsenic. at al
in the house he was asked.
"No."
"She couldn't have got any ar
senic in that house,"
mo, l don't think there was any
there"
did your wife expect to die?'
"No, she expected to get well.
Schneider then said the only
bottles of medicine in the house
was liniment.
"You didn't turn that liniment
over to the officers"
"Nc."
"When you went there will
Chris Martinson to- find the lini
ment it wasn't there?"
"No."
"After your wife's death there
was no kind of drugs or bottle!
of any kind ?"
"No." :.
"You didn't have any liniment? ?
EYES,"
"Did you tell the officers whel
you went down there that linimen
bottles were not there?"
"He never asked me. He asked
me about medicine bottles. / toll
him l never had any,"
"You never turned the linimen
over to him :"
"No."
Awake Three Nights
Schneider was then questione'
about his statements that he ha'
been kept awake. He said h
didn't sleep Monday night becaus
the baby was ill, only 80 minute
to an hour Tuesday night, an
Wednesday at midnight he wen
in his room and lay down and rea'
prayer book until a. m. H
slept an hour or SO, he said, 60
up, cared for the baby and walke
into his wife's room at $50 a. N
when she was breathing her last
"You didn't sleep Monday night
not more than an hour Tuesda
: night, didn't 60 to bed till mid
night Wednesday night, and the
when you went to bed you didn'
go to sleep but lay down and rea
prayer book for three hours :?
he was asked, and he maintaine
~ this was correct.
Schneider denied the story Clar
Fisher told on the witness stan
but on detailed examination ad
mitted he remarked ia her tha