The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-18

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him trying to rouse him. Potter, he
said, mumbled little but did not
talk except to make one remark.
Cameron took Potter home with
him where Potter. he said, slumped
down on the sofa and became appar-
emily unconscious. He remained
there until or q. m. when he was
taken upstairs and put to bed.
Verbal Fencing Match
Sullivan and Cameron put on a
verbal fencing match and once Sulli-
van became slightly confused In his
speech but later drew laugh by ask
ing Cameron If he habitually observed
the power of lights in the homes Of
his friends. The question was on the
strength Of the lights in the Potter
home. Cameron said he didn't see
Potter move after he fell on the sofa
lat Cameron'S.
He was trying to get Potter ready to
|go to the hospital. Cameron added,
when word came that Webb was dead.
Cameron suggested that the jury be
taken to the scene of the shooting so
las to see the Potter house and its
surroundings for themselves.
Sullivan objected to the Jury seeing
the house, on the ground that It
might have been changed since the
shooting.
In her testimony yesterday. Mrs.
Potter fatty denied giving statements
made by witnesses for the state that
Potter cursed Webb and herself i'm
mediately before and after the shoot
ing and that later he had remarked
Il don't care II do go to JAIL"
Seemed to Go Dead
Her story was that both Webb and
her husband were drunk at the time
of the shooting and that after the
shot was fired, her husband seemed
to go dead" and would not talk to
her.
She could not remember that her
husband was quarrelsome when
drunk or that he had been jealous
of her Or attempted to start q fight
at local dance hall q month before
the shooting. She had attended the
dance in company with Webb and her
husband.
Mrs. Potter was under cross-exam-
nation for two hours, the prosecution
getting her to admit that her hus-
band was not too drunk to walk when
the shot was fired. She insisted.
however, that he seemed to collapse
Immediately afterWard and that she
could not rouse him.
While she was taking Webb to the
hospital she said, he said to her that
the shooting was accidental. Asked
who had raised a question as to
whether it was an accident, she re-
piled. mo one"
Taken Violently Ill
Although she bore up well during
the examination, Mrs. Potter became
violently i'll as soon as the strain was
over. Her attorney said the strain on
her nerves evidently had affected her
stomach.
Defense attorneys finished exam
lining Mrs. Potter soon yesterday aft
ernocn and John Sullivan, special as
sis3ans to the attorney who is aiding
in the prosecution, cross-examined
MRS. Potter.
She soid her husband was not a
heavy drinker habitually. He never
before had been SO drunk as he was
on the night of the shooting, she
said. Four or five times in the pre-
viouS year he had been drunk, she
said.
Sullivan took her through the his
tory of the evening again. During
questioning about, her sisters going
to the show. Mrs. Potter replied that
she wouldn't say anything she didn't
know.
l. When she heard footsteps In the
hall at her sisters place. she said, she
knew it was her husband. She said
she knew her husbands walk, drunk
or sober.
Her husband. she said. announced
that he was looking for "Dooley'
(Wetb) and that hehad lost "Dooley."
When drunk. she said, her husband
had never been quarrelsome or
prone to be. jealous Of her.
The court overruled an objection to
G question about an occasion when
Sic, Potter, and Webb were at the
Dome dance hal about month be-
fore the shooting.
1. Mrs. Potter could not remember
that her husband went to Mandan
and came back intoxicated or that he
had threatened Webb or anyone else
because Of attentions paid to her.
The defense objected to q long Sc
ric3 Of questions on this matter. All
the objections were overruled. Sulli-
van then went back 20 this trip home
with her husband when they left her
sisters place on the night Of the
shooting.
Said He Was Shot
CollSy.n. the shot. she said. Webb