The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-18
KELSCH CLAIMS
ARNOLD. THIELE
! WAS COACHED

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: WAS sCOAOHED'
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Under questioning by LANCER he said
that he had taken no steps to report
the incident to the bar association.
The defense rested yesterday aft
ernoon and the prosecution began re-
buttal testimony this morning. Kelsch
was the last rebuttal witness. The
case is expected to go to the jury late
this afternoon.
City Attorney Louis Connolly, as.
sisting in the prosecution, conducted
the direct examination Of Kelsch
which is printed verbatim below:
Connolly: You heard the testimony
of Mr.. LANCER?
Kelsch: "Yes".
Connolly: You heard the ,testimon,
relative to what took place in his Of
flee.
Kelsch: eyes"
Connolly: "What was it,"
Kelsch: II was at Mr.. .Langer's Of
flee shortly after examined Thiele
LANCER said 4 see you had Thiele up
l answered We did What was tn.
line of his testimony? LANCER asked
replied 'On general matters he talk
ed freely but on the important ele
ments of the crime his answer wa
that he did not know or did not re
member except that he recalle
shooting at an object LANCER said
4 told that fellow no matter II yo1
guys or lhe authorities called hir
up 20 or 80 times to say II don't re
member" BY golly, that's one tim
the defendant stayed coached"
"Langer asked ME il had cop
of the testimony taken at the pr.
liminary investigation. ] said ! al
not. but that one would be prepare
soon and I would see that he got
copy. make this statement unde
solemn OATH"
Cross Examination
LANCER: Can you tell me the hou
when this conversation took place
Kelsch: I am not sure. thin
it was in the afternoon.
LANCER: What day was it?
Kclsch: l am not sure. thin
it was two or three days after tt
examination.
LANCER, in his cross cxaminatic
of kelsch, repeated the same que
tions that Connolly had asked I
kelsch and endeavored to trip up u
states attorney on his answers, 81
Kelsch repeated verbatim the stat
ments made on direct examination.
LANCER: Who was present at tn
conversation? !,
Kelsch: Only you and I and Il
door was closed.
LANCER: Did you see my seer
tary, Mrs. Mills?
Kelsch: l think there were t'
women in the office.
LANCER: What was the first thu
you said when YOU came into
office?
Kelsch: don't remember.
LANCER: How long were you
my office?
Kelsch: Ten or Is minutes.
LANCER: You were surprised
the statement l made?
, Kelsch: l was. That's why
membered it,
LANCER: Did you make any
quiry after you left?
Kelsch: I made partial inquil
LANCER: Did you get any proof
kelsch: / did not. think 70
trail is a pretty hard one to foilc
LANCER: Did you lay complal
before the bar association?
Kclsch: l did not. =,
Mr.. LANCER then asked whetf
Kelsch had sought to trail LANCER,
he had inquired Of various perso
as to Langer's actions.
Attorney Connolly, objecting, v
sustained on every point.
Witness Tells of Quarrel
Freeman Grannum, night clerk
Mandan hotel, was called by
prosecution as one of the last v
nesses and testified concerning
quarrel between Thiele and his "
he had witnessed in the hotel lot
December 16.
q Mrs. Thiele accused her husbs
Of infidclity, he said.
The state rested its case at ~
and Milton K. Higgins, assists
states attorney Of Morton coun
gave the opening plea for the pro
cution.
Higgins advised the Jurors to G.
slider the facts only. He decia
Thiele's going about unassisted
the day Of the murder indicated
was not excessively drunk.
"Thiele's saying I have killed
head policeman shows he kr
what he had DONE" Higgins S.
"His throwing the gun away wi
he met Sheriff Charles Melon
shows he knew he was covered
his crying, MY God, what hav'
done on Christmas day?' shows
realized the nature of his crime
was filled with rem0rse."
= Nuchols Begins Defense Plea
S. L. Nuchols began the defe
pleas and was still talking WI
court recessed at noon. Much
cited the law of self-defcnse VIII
permits man to protect his pers
al property.
"The chief had no right to Ell
.aat house unless Thicle had G.
mittcd felony or public Offe
in his presence" Nuchols said.
declared the staying wss done
sudden impulse, disposing OF
"feloni0us intent" charged in
criminal information.
He advanced the possibility
Romcr might have struck at Tn
with the cane or "billy" he was
legged to have carried.
Nuchols argued, in closing, ths
1O-year sentence would mean
same as life to Thiele, declaring
the defendant probably won't
10 years." He declared that 'thi
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