The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-12-01
WIND UP CRIMINAL DOCKET IN
DISTRICT court HERE TUESDAY
Bertrom Found Guilty Of Second Degree
Assault. Jiminez Taken To Deer Lodge.
Three Civil Cases Settled.

, The criminal docket of the
fall term of the district court
in and for Big Horn county was
cleared Tuesday afternoon, with
the completion of the case of
the state VS.. Rein Bertram,,
charged with second degree as
sault, committed last June 15s
on the person of his former
wife, Katie Bertram. tti
Monday forenoon was taken
up with the selection of the
following jury: Sam Kern, Adj
oiph Schaak, Albert May, Har-
din; Elvin Clawson, Mark Wolf,
Crow Agency; B. J. Kessels, ST.
Xavier; Elmer M. Miller, Rob-
ert Helton, Decker; Lester Bran
denberg, o. w. Wise, F. j.. Will
liams, Lodge Grass, and, Ed
Cavanaugh, McRae. -.
Judge Ben Harwood of Bill
lings is presiding. County At
torney C. C. Quinn is conduct
ng the prosecution and Attor-;
nev Bert W. Kronmiller the de-
Tense. ~
The prosecution alleged that
the defendant, Rein Bertram,
On June IS, at the C.P. New
kirk farm a mile and one-half
! southwest of Hardin, farmed
jointly by the defendant and
his son, Alex Bertram, commit
ted an assault on Katie Bert
ram, from whom he was div
creed in October, 1886, inflict-
ing severe bodily injuries, in
| Il n ont ,,nIar 0on QUO onR
numerous bruises.
Katie Bertram. the Complain
ing witness testified that on
June Is she went to the New
kirk farm from Hardin, where
she works. She told of being
divorced in October, 1896, and
admitted on croSS-eXam nation
that her former husband, the
defendant, had been given the
custody of the several children
by court decree. It was also
brought out that the couple
were prone to quarrel whenever
they met. She charged that
while at the Newkirk farm, the
defendant came there and that
he assaulted her, beating her
with his fists, cutting a cash
under one eye and bruising her
forehead and other portions Of
her body.
pht1scian and surgeon, testi-
fled that he treated Katie Ber-
tram, the complainant, on June
Is. He used three stitches in
closing a cut under one eye, and
dressed her wounds a period
of five days. g
Alex Bertram, son of the de-
PENDANT and the complainant,
testified that he took his mo-
Their to the Hardin Clinic to
have her Injuries dressed.
The defendant took the stand
as the first witness for the de-
Tense. His testimony was to the
effect that when he went out
to the place farmed by himself
and son on June 49, he found
his former wife, the complaining
witness there and that she at
tackled him with a butcher knife
with which she was cutting
cabbage when he entered the
house. He stated he took the
butcher knife from her and
struck her several times in the
face with his fists. The butcher
knife was offered in evidence.
Alex Bertram, who testified
as a states witness, was also
called by the defense.
Katie Bertram, recalled by the
state in rebuttal, denied that
she had the butcher knife in
her hand at the time of the
trouble with her former hus-
ban, June IS.
This concluded the testimony
and the court recessed until $50
am. Tuesday.
After the settling of instruc-
lions and argument of counsel
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