Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 2, 1911, Page 4

Rk 'STATE SPRINGS NEW 'DUNAS - CASE ‘THRILL (Continued from first page), X ever, see Mrs, Meyers, Behan's sister, at her home. Mrs. Meyers was brought into the court room and identified by Benner. Benner said he had tried to find Behan, Benner at Spooner’s Office. In cross examination, Benner ad- mitted he had been at Judge Spoon- er’s office frequently. He admitted that he had been introduced to Mr. Lane. He said he sat down and was asked questions about going to Osh- kosh. “Did T not ask you it Dr. Dumas had anything to do with your going to Oshkosh, or’ever tried to influence yoii in trying ot get Behan?” said Mr. Lane. “Well, I can’t remember just what happened.” “What? why, you weren’t you.” The answer, “No sir,” caused a roar of laughter. Again Attorney Lane asked if he hadn’'t asked Benner in Spooner’s office: “Did Dr. Dumas send you to Osh- kosh to get rid of Behan?" “I can’t remember.” “What, did Dr. Dumas say he sent you for?” “Well, he said to get Behan out af the country.” “Now, didn’t you say Dr. Dumas wanted to investigate the situation there?” . “Something like that I guess.” “Didn’t you say Kennedy owed you some money?” “\Vell, he owed me some money, | don’t know how much.” “The money you wired for was the money Kennedy owed you?"” “I don’t know.” “You came into Judge Spooner’s office voluntarily and said that Smyth was tipping you money every day?” Assistant Attorney Janes objected but the court permitted the witness to answer. “] can't say, but he was giving me money.” “Did you not say at that time that Smyth was giving you money?” “I don’t know, I've been pretty full.” “You remember of being alive and talking about going to Oshkosh?” “Remember of being alive.” “You remember of saying to us that you took Mrs. Meyers out for a ride in Oshkosh and pretty near had a fuss with her?” i “0, I remember of taking Mrs. Meyers out.” “You say Dr. Dumas gave you $50 to run Behan out of the country?” ‘Now, how do you figureshrdetao “Well| something like that.” “Now, turn around to the jury and tell them how it was the doctor gave you $50 to get Behan out of the country when, you say, the doctor told you he didn’t believe Behan was in Oshkosh.” “Well, T don’t know, 1 was pretty full at the time I guess.” “Do you mean to sit there and say that you are drunk all the time?” “Well, its been pretty near all the time the last two weeks.” “Now, Benner, you mean to say that your physicial condition, from drink and dope, is such that you are not to be believed?” “That’s about it.” “That’s all,” said Mr. Lane. On redirect examination Mr. Janes asked: “When you went riding in Osh- kosh with Mrs. Meyers, her mother and other relatives were along were they not?” “Don’t know about that—know Mrs. Meyers was there.” “Where was the first place you headed for.” “A saloon, I guess,” said Benner. Benner also said, in answer to questions from Mr. Janes, that he had told the defendant’s attorneys that he had told the truth in the grand jury rom. Mrs. Meyer, Behan’s sister, was next called and she told to having seen Benner in Oshkosh. were sober Saturday Afternoon Session. Following a* merciless grilling at the hands of Freeman P. Lane, the Minneapolis attorney, Robert E. Smhth, the young man who declares he led Dr. Dumas into a trap, which caused his arrest following the at- tempt of Mike Davis and Martin Behan to burn and rob the store at Puposky on the night of June 16 last, four other witnesses were put on late Saturday by the state|giq poor job the last time. This in an attempt to prove the charge|myst be a good one. that the Cass Lake Mayor is guilty of arson. Charles Lydick, a clerk in the Cass| the rest later.” After that I told Mike Lake store swore that he was with|that I wanted the safe blowed and the Cass Lake ball team at Hibbing | showed him postal pictures of pPu- on Jjune 17, when Dr. Dumas was|posky. arrested and said the doctor had a|of government money which he could check for $200, which the - doctor|havye, said had been given him by a patient,|to" load up with provisions to be This is the | ecaten while they were getting away check which the state alleges Was| _agked me if there was sasoline ang given by Smyth in part payment for|1 gaid no. the burning of the Puposky building.|some turpentine. Miss Hazel Bowers a Bemidji tele-|g map of station, store and tool phone operator told of calls put in|nhouge. by Dr. Dumas in his alleged plan to|brand of shoes I had in stock. Wante who was a homesteader. amination of Smyth questioned closely regarding an alleged short- age in his accounts amounting to about a thousand dollars while he was manager for A. E. Smith. The witness admitted that Smith had made suich a claim, but in the re- direct examination by Mr. McDon- ald, Smyth stated that Mr. Smith afterwards ascertained that he was mistaken and apologized. Smyth said that he did not go to Henry Funkley, the county attorney, who resigned and tell of the plot, but that he did notify the sheriff’s office. Smyth denied that he was unconsciously repeating things that he had been told to tell, and was not at times telling what he actually knew. e The following questions weré asked by Attorney Lane and answered by Mr. Smyth: Denies.Reauest From Dumas to Settle would write to LeClare at Grand would write to LeCiare at Grand Forks."” “Yes Sir.” “You saw the letter?” “Yes Sir.” “You saw the address.” | “Yes Sir, but I can’t say whether it was sent in care of the general delivery. I can’t swear that the letter was even mailed.” “The day before the saloon meet- ing in Bemidji, you had a phone message with Dumas.” - “Yes.” “Did he not ask you to meet him to settle as he was building a new house?*’ “No.*" “Well you don’t mean to say you gave Dr, Dumas $5 every time you called on him.” “Yes." “Where did you get the money.” “Had some income from saloon of Nebish.” “What other independent source had you?” “I don’t remember. got some from cedar.” “Where did you keep your money?” “In_the First National Bank of Bemidji.” “Did you write out a check to pay Dr. Dumas.” “Why, Yes?” “Have you the checks?” “No didn’t write any specially for the doctor’s service.” “Now, Mr. Smyth, when you went to Dr. Dumas, didn’t the doctor say it would take months to cure you?” “No." “Never was any bill rendered by doctor?”” “No Sir.” About the Saloon Meetine. “Now thep you came to Bemidji in June to meet Dr. Dumas?” “Yes 1 met him in front of the Rex Hotel.” “What was said?” “He said, “I've had a piece of good luck. Mike Davis came in yesterday on a freight. He is one of the best of “inside men.” "Well, I am not a detective? What is an “inside man.” * It's a2 man who goes after the safe and does the inside work.” “Well what happenend then?” “We departed at the Rex to mest at 4 P. M. in Larson’s saloon.” “Do you know that you both were being watched?” “No.” “When .you went into Larson’s you were directed into a rear room?” “Well, I discovered the room Mike Davis Enters. “How long had you and Dr. Dumas been there when some one else came.”” “About a minute?” “Then Mike Davis entered.” “Yes.” “And you were introduced.” . “Yes.” “How long before Behan came?” “About 5 minutes.” “Who let him in?” “The doctor I think.” “Now Mr. Smyth don’t you re- member that the doctor asked who Behan was so as to introduce him to you?” “No.” . “Do you mean to say, Dr. Dumas introduced him right off the reel.” “Yes.” “Was Behan Intoxicated?” “Behan was a little worse for liquer, wasn’t he?” “Perhaps some.” “Well, now as a matter of fact, did’nt Behan drop over on his arm and go to sleep.” “No, he did’nt. I know for I would have seen him, if he had.” “What did he say?” “Said he wanted . some tools, a monkey wrench, a wood chisel and a brace and bit.” “He said to Mike we must make a sure job this time or the stuff is all off with me?” “What else did he say?” “Nothing that I remember?"” “Surely he said something about money?” “No, I think not.” “Well, a few minutes after you met Behan, you began discussing the things that were to be done to com- mitt this crime.” “Then within 30 minutes after Yyou met Behan you were planning a crime?” “Yes.” “Where did you first meet Mike?” “At the saloon.?” About the Puvosky Plans. “Who opened the crime conver- sation?” “The doctor did. He said Smyth has a building he wants burned. You Might have The doctor said the proposition is this: ‘Smith is go- ing to give us $300; $100 now, and I told him there were $165 Mike asked for two old grips Kerosene? Yes. Also I then showed fim He wanted to know what thresh out dynamite. hreshing out dynamite.” low, except that it is getting: nitroglycerine ~from dyn-. mite.” L “You expressed desire at the saloon meeting to have your boks de- stroyed so much 8o you had them put outside of safe?” “Yes Sir.” ; “And after the Puposky affair these books were shipped out of the United States to Canada, to Winni- peg?” “They have been.” “You put tocls asked for under the safe?”-* “Yes.” : “Why, when you knew nothing was to be destroyed?” b i “I was told to by detective Field- ng.” “The dectective and sheriff-and the men with them had rifiles?”’ “They had fire arms?” “Yon knew there were gun holes in the building and ' either Davis or Behan or both might be murdered. And for $100 you plotted . this affair. “I regarded it as duty.” “So you regard it duty to go into a deal to have someone commit a crime with murder as the result.” “Yes.” “Were you influenced by anything but the lofty ideas which came to you when you became a detective?”, “No Sir.” JIim SHECKAHD FOR MANAGER Better Chance for Cincinnatl to Se- cure Clever Outfielder Thantfor Evers or Tinker. It the managerial position with the Cincinnati ball club is to be filled by a newcomer next season, where is that newcomer to be found, and from what select circles shall he be chosen? Tinker and Evers—soit is tipped good and straight—cannot be had. Chicago Wwill not give up either one of the famed infielders, and all talk of cap- turing Joe or John must be set aside 88 a sweet but gauzy dream. Where, then, can a sultable successor to the sturdy little chieftain of the club be located? To come down to cases, how- about James T. Sheckard, Cub, veteran ball player, strategist and fleld general? It may be said, of course, that the Cubs wont part with Sheckard any quicker than with Tinker or Evers. Nay, nay, and not so. Great as Sheck- ard is, there is a chance to get him for this simple.reason: The Reds can offer value in trade for him, and they couldn’t for the other two, writes Wm. Phelon in the Cincinnati Times-Star. There are no inflelders with the Cin- Cub ranks, and, right off the real, till the place that Evers or Tinker filled in the champlons’ machine. There James T. Sheckard. 2 | take the place of Sheckard. The Cuba could be given an able hitter and fast Belder—the Reds could obtain a fine fielder, matchelss run-getter and a leader of sagacity and ginger. Tip worth remembering: It is mot Impossible to get James T. Sheckard, ,| and Sheckard would make a whale of & leader. Million a Week oo PATTLE gy, M lmzl:.nm THE ORIGINAL HAS THIS SIGNATURE cinnati team who could step into the ) are outfielders with the Reds—so dit- | ferent are the duties of out and In fielders—who could go to Chicago and A GLIMPSE OF YOURSELF. Get It by Reading a Gossipy Lettor You Wrote Years Ago. There {8 nothing more interesting than to come across unexpectedly an intimate and gossipy letter that ome Wrote oneself ten or fifteen years ago. In reading such a letter one is looking ess s a good deal like looking out of the window and seeing oneself go past In the crowd. The strange part of the matter s that in reading such a docu- ment one I8 generally filled with a sort of pity for the fellow who wrote it. He seems to have been. rather uncer- tain of himself. He groped for his facts and his ideas. Evidently he did not' know much. He was merely an imperfect adumbration of the admira- ble person who is' iow overlooking his correspondence, eh? ‘Fhat is the first impression. But presently one feels differently about it. Those half baked opinions may now have hardened into dogmas. We may now be cocksure of what once we only surmised. But who is so hopelessly wrong as the tocksure man? If the person one Was fifteen years ago could contem- plate objectively the person one Is now perhaps he would pity the pur- blind dogmatist more than we pity the groping experimentalist. — New York Mail. NOTICE OF APPLICATION =tor— TRANSFER OF LIQUOR LICENSE. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Beltrami £ City of Bemldjl. Noice Is ‘hereby given, That application has been made in Writing to the city council of said city of Bemidji and filed inmy office. praying for the wranster of a license 10 seli Intoxicating liquors granted to Andrew Wilmar for the period terminatir g on April 1st 1912, by the following person, and at_the following place. as stated in said applica- tion, resp e ctively, to-wit: ANDY ANDERSON at and in the first floor front room of that certain tWo story franie building located on the South 25 feet ot the north 65 feet of lots 10-11-12, Minn. Said spplication will be heard and deter- mind by said city council of the _city of Bemidji at the council rooms in the city ball in said city of Bemidji, in Beltraml County, and State of Minnesota, on Monday, the 16th day of Oct. 111, at 8 o'clock p. m. of that day Wigness. my hand and seal of City of Be- midji, this 2ndday of Oct. 1811, (Seal) GEO, STEIN, City Olerk. block 19, original townsite, Bemidji 2t Mon. Oct.2-Oct, 9. 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