The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-02
Jurors Hear
Only 2 Cases
OF II Listed
RETURN $50 VERDICT
FOR MORGAN MAN;
THEN DISMISSED =

trial were heard by the October
district court jury, dismissed Fri
day afternoon with five days pay.
Judge A. B. GiSlason who pre-
sided at the session will be back
Monday to sit at cases OF law on
the calendar.
A verdict of $50 for the plain
tiff was brought in by the jury
about 4 p. m. Friday after two
hours consideration of evidence IN
the case of Emil KruSe, 29, or
Three Lakes township who asked
$4,000 damages for illegal arrest
and assault from Morris Jorgen-
son, night policeman at Morgan.
Judge Gislason instructed the
Jury to find some sum for the
plaintiff under fine point OF law
involving arrests for mis- 1emean-
at night without warrant or
commitment.
Evoked in testimony, the scene
out of which the case grew might
have been lifted from double
feature thriller. There were two
guns-or was it one--a chase III
Communicated car - blows =
threats hand-to-hand combat IN
d ditch-and handouts involved,
witnesses said.
Kruse, unmarried, lives with
his parents on a farm five ard
one-half miles out of Morgan.
After falling into window at
J. S. Janotta's Corner cafe In
Morgan, he pleaded guilty to
drunk and disorderly conduct be-
fore Justice F. S. Pollard Decem-
Der IT., 1888 and received GO
day Jail sentence, suspended en-
condition he keep out Of Morgan
for one year.
He spent st. Patrick's afternoon
and night in Morton and after
midnight left for Morgan accom-
panied by his cousin Otto Drusch,
Mrs. John Rucker and Mrs. Henry
Lattman.
At Morgan, he said, II was
coming down the highway when
car pulled out of the side street
and come toward me. When lie
came at me I started backing up
and backed the car so feet.
"Jorgenson got out OF the other
car and told me Get the hell out
of here"
The policeman waved revol-
yer at all occupants of the coupe
grabbed Kruse by the shirt, tear
ing it and told Kruse to come with
him, the plaintiff said. -
II told him I didn't have to and
he told me 1 did have to and then
he started hitting me. He threw
off his sheepskin coat and hit me
Is or 20 times"
81 backed away from him and
| tried to duck. We scuffed around
some more.
"He took his gun and held it
over my heart and asked me, DO
you want it now"
Kruse said he pushed the gun
aside and hit the policeman in the
jaw, telling him.
"He got up and came at me
again. We wreStled in the ditch
and l took his gun away and
threw it in the ditch and ran down
the road IS feet. A car came and
| l crossed into a cornfield. He fol-
lowed me with the car and fired
four or five shots. The first two
come close to my feet and throWed
up dirt in my face and the third
came inches from my head.
81 called to those people with
him I'd come back, l didn't want
to be killed.
"He said if he could help it I'd
get plenty after he put me in Jail.
He said I'd been talking enough
about him."
"He was drunk"
His testimony was closely paral-
leled by that of Drusch, Mrs. Rue
ker and Mrs. Latham. The
women said they had ridden to
Morton with Wally Drusch, no re-
lative of their later companion,
attended a dance ard caught a
ride home with KruSe.
Testimony was that KruSe was
brought before Judge Pollard
again the afternoon after the fra
Gus, that his 60 day sentence was
invoked and he served it at the
Morgan Jail.
Jorgenson's statement was that
he had been visiting his sister and
brother-in-law at Springfield that
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Ricke, also of Morgan, while his
father substituted for him.
I'm not dry" he said on the
stand when he told jurors that he
had had two bottles of beer at his
brother-in-law's liquor store early
in the evening, had eaten lunch
and left for home about l a. m.
Then he went on duty.
Receiving reports that Kruse
was coming into town nights,
Justice Pollard had ordered him to
pick him up, the marshal said.
That night he was travelling on
q side street when he recognized
the sound of the car and turned
onto the highway to meet it.
'He started backing and l fol-
lowed him until l got tired of that
and quit.
II told him he was under ar
rest, that he had violated his par
ole and he told me he didn't have
to go with me.
"He stepped out of the car alone.
had my sheepskin coat on, but
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