The producers news., 1930-06-20

tragedy, and appeared to forget
such of the confession as involved
the Hass family in any way. At
torney Slattery put Bakewell un-
der a grilling examination, fairly
taking the hide off from him at
times, disclosing the most amaz-
ing stupidity and actual ignorance
on the part of the county attorney
and the most incomDetent and ir-
regular handling of the case.
Bakewell was starchy white, and
beads of persperation stood out on
his forehead, and towards the end
of his ordeal, he could hardly ans
wer at all. Spectators declared
that Bakewell made a very poor
witness for the State and appear
ed to hold back much information.
Slattery also examined Bakewell
in reference to his conferences and
deals with defendant, going into
matter of Bakewells having Wan
da down to his house, and the
holding of her without warrant,
all of this time, disclosing that
Wanda was not under arrest, not
legally in custody of the sheriff at
any time: and that she had the
right to walk off if she had seen
fit.
The State then called Fulkerson,
the undertaken, and Deputy Sheriff
Robert Smith, who told of Wandas
visit to the morgue to see Hugo
and of Hugo's burial. Smith, Mad
sen and Radons identified bullet
which dropped out of Hugo's
revolver as his. which Madsen iden-
titled as the one he found in Wan
da's car at the Hanson farm when
he went to get her when she sur
rendered.
state Rests.
The State rested Tuesday night
and Wednesday morning Attorney
Slattery made the statement of the
defence's case to the jury, requiring
an hour.
The first witness called was Wan
da, who told the story of her life: of
coming to this country in 1914 with
her parents and brothers and sils-
ters when she was fourteen years of
age: of going to the Hass ranch to
work summers, and to her parents
at Kenmare, where her father was
a tailor, to go to school a couple Of
winters, and her return to the Hass
ranch to work for Grandma Hass
during vacations of 1914 and Is: of
her seduction by her Uncle Hugo
when she was sixteen: of her love
for him: of the birth of her babv
December 16, 1917: of the death and
burial: of her relations further with
her uncle: of his promise TO marry
her. and to provide for her: of her
grief and sorrow over her baby, be-
ing haunted by the belief ii had
been murdered: of her life after
leaving the Hass ranch: of her
abuse by the Hasses: of her desire
to move her baby into a cemetery
and to give it a decent Christian
burial: of the refusal of the Hasscs
to allow her to do so: Of her digging
to try to find the coffin and of
Bruno's ordering her off the place
and filling the holes she had dug:
of her trips in the night to her
baby's grave: of her settlement
with the Hasses and agreement to
leave the country: of how they did
not keep contract: of how Hugo,
who had promised to keep her. had
another sweetheart whom he was
going to marry, contrary to their
agreement: of how the Hasses
abused her and bounded her on
many occasions: of how Hugo had
assaulted her and choked her and
abused her and called her degrading
names: Of how VIM. ,Hass ha9
threatened her and reviled her: of
how they had threatened TO do
something desperate to her IL she
did not leave the country and stay
away: of how they had come to the
place where she worked: of how she
had in her fear come to carry
gun to protect herself from these
assaults by Hugo and her uncIes.
and how desperate and haunted by
daily fear of her fife, she had on
the 7th of April gone into town on
an errand, and on her way back had
passed Hugo who waved for her to
stop and that she had stopped her
car in the lane and come out into
the road to see him, for she was
alone at Tobins and she was afraid
to talk to him there, and felt safer
on the road: she told of how Hugo
had cursed her there in the road
and how he had made motion as If |
he was going to come out of the |