The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1928, Page 6

PAGE SIX ene BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY. | : AANA ADEA TRADES OUTBREAK LOOMS AS; | (tae ee : wa VICTORY FOR PEACE’ LAAAAAA LAAAAAAAAAAA ABA PPP DEES SSE ISITE Both Nations Announce - They Will Let Pan-American Conference Settle Issue Washington, Dec. 19.—()—In the balance since Dec. the Boliy Paraguayan row will in a victory for peace. have announced that they for the Pan-Am mediate their differ Only last Saturday began ¢ peared that the clash lasted ¢ via and Pa and nation aration is regarded in f let for the popular feelir the quarre!. Bolivia annour terdav that her troops had been or- dered to stop their « ce into the Gran Chaco reg ch is claimed by both her and F ‘The Leag ations through its council has been keeping in close touch with the South American crisis. Notes were sent to both coun- tries urging tration and at one time a me © council ° estions wai that the off n_ confer d the lez , especial- ly since th bt about the attitude of the U States to- ward league activities ir of the Monroe doctrine. AGRICULTURAL LOAN BODY GIVEN PRAISE, luck” when the redoubtable ¢ sisted of camera, here are members o} gh; Governor Ha olonel _a-hunting went in Roc! tting four quail in six tries, But the modest airman f the hunting party, lef! ight: y, Va., the other day, con- nse with his game before the Harry Guggenheim; Colonel Lind- rry F. Byrd, their host; H. G. Shirley and Nelson Page. Accused Contends | Memory of Events at Shooting Blank ned from nage one) iy The state drew . 50 far} the shooting of Webb might have been intentional, since he remembered nothing about it. Forgets Conversation Potter was uncertain as to what he told P. B. Webb, father of the dead man, the day after the shooting and | could not recall relating to him the exact circumstances of the affair. He said his wife had told him what had happened and that he might ave told Mr. Webb substantially | What she had told him. Agricultural Cciloge Interested in Seeing Organization | Made Permanent | Reconstructing what he thought must have happened when Webb was shot, Potter said he presumed that he rushed from his home with the shotgun in one hand and his boots in the other when his wife and Webb no cuts from the gun’s discharge on the night Webb was shot. Sullivan was inquiring into the details of Pot- ter’s actions as related by the defen- dant yesterday. He refused to say if Webb was |drunk or if M. J. Bartley had done | that somebody drank them. He remembered no conversatior | ter he, together with Webb and B. ley, reached the Bartley home. The | purpose of the trip was to ask Mrs. Bartley if Bartley could go hunting With them. He did not remember taking any drinks at Bartley’s house or of drinking at the home of Bruce Belk. He remembers something he did, {he Said, since having been reminded ;of his actions. The events of the evening, he said, are dim and after leaving the Belk home his memory failed altogether. He could not re- member telling P. B. Webb that he |remembered taking a drink at Belk’s or that he told Snyder and Reuben | Almquist that he had. }any drinking at Potter's home but! said he mixed a lot of drinks and/ ing, Sullivan asking about the clothes he wore. Sullivan again drew a blank abruptly. Cameron, for the defense, asked tion of the Potter home, particularly the size and number of steps leading | up to it. | Cameron again took the stand and gave details of the accidental dis-/ charge of Potter's gun when he was on a trip with Cameron. Under cross-examination he cou not say definitely that Potter had not | accidentally touched the trigger as he; picked the gun from the ground near his automobile. ‘eal F. C. Towsley, grain dealer, testified to hunting with Potter for a number of years. He said he saw Potter's gun discharged on two different occasions when it was not at his shoulder. Nothing to Shoot Cn neither occasion, he said, was there anything at which to shoot. Sullivan attempted to definitely fix the date of these accidents. Towsley admitted he was interested and dropped the aaa | | about certain details of the construc-| The Gasoline Alley Gang ne: They’re all very true to life. You'll find such folks in YOUR neighborhood. One oft the many new features soon to be added to the Fargo, Dec. 19.—(-P)—Activities of| drove up in Webb's car and that the | He did not recall visiting his sister- | in the JES Bisel epee the Agricultural Credit corporation) gun was discharged accidentally. in-law's room near the po: eee Weare ConL ORI tiBanTee=| in loaning money to farmers of| The cross-examination covered all | building, where he had found the one Potter North Dakota at low rates of interest | of the events which have been related | Wife, or of what happened were commended and officials of the at the trial bearing on Potter's | Potter admitted that he m organization in Minneapolis were; actions on the night of the shooting. | Walked from Belk’s to his asked to make the organization per-| manent in resolutions adopted by the| members of the extension force of the North Dakota Agricultural col- lege at their session here toda William 2 Grand Forks county, presented the | resolution, in which it w ated that | the credit corporation nization has been of great benefit to North Dakota farmers by loaning money at | low rates for the purchase of sheep| and dairy cows. E. J. Haselrud, county agent of Ward county, gave details at the} meeting today of ways and means| employed for conducting an alfalfa] campaign, based on one of the most successful campaigns of the kind ev conducted in North Dakota. In th campaign in Ward county 3,044 acres of alfalfa were planted in a county} where many farmers prior to the campaign were of the opinion that the soil and other ons were | not adapted to alfaifa growing. | Road Bond Boosters | Meet at Crockston! Srook: 2, x - —| Supparters of . 0) state | highway r ze | here today f t | | Speakers will in . L. Moth, | assistant maint 1 s | state highway Reynolds It closed abruptly after Sullivan had failed to tate what clothes ring when the Cameron that had been hunting with Potter and that tho latter's gun had dis- charged accidentally when he picked it off th ‘ound with one hand. Gun Discharged Twice wsley testified that he had hun’ ed with Potter over a period of -se' eral years I he had known Pott 5 go off twice, ap-} parently by accident, since there was. nothing to shoot at. Potter could not recall having told Robert Webb, a cousin of the dead man, it was Cameron's gun which h 0 off accidentally | when h ing with Cameron jlaw’s place and from there home ‘his wife. | The last thing Pot ss jhe could remember he was le: Eartley’s home. Mind Needed Refreshing | His mind needed refre: collect that he went to Bel could not remember whom he there, Detailing what probab when Webb was shoi, Pott supposed he grabbed h boots and started for the car in w Webb arrived in front cf the Po! j home. He admitted that he c {he did not deliberati because he did not k! | pened, and that, s remember, he did not and t iid not hunt with | Cameron a the latter was careles i Cameron denied th had gone off acciden' ile he was hunt- ing with Pot ked of Potter indicated will attempt t> show at id to Robert Webb about the gun before Oliver Webb was shot, and what he told several others about the shooting of Oliver Webb v occurred. Questions Resuming Potter this Sullivan, fo endless questions regarding Potter's night of the shooting. n indirect attempt idant’s memory. Was not certain when he th: whi ; talked with Donald Snyder about us- am Hunt of F j zict vice preside FORKS DRAWS JURORS Grand Forks, De‘ .—(Pi—Thirty- fix men and four women ci ns | BEGINS 38TH YEAR Grand Forks, Dec. 13.—(+)—Justice | gun, He was not cer- hotgun was cocked when he examined it at his home ear.y in the evening. He admitted he familiar with firearms and | had been most of his life He was not certain of the condi- tion of his gun when it went off un- expectedly while hunting last year nd earlier this year. Sullivan had a long discussion with Potter as to whether his gun would go off if the hammer were not fully d, He finally got Potter to ad- mit that the times when the gun had off unexpectedly it probably as because he accidentally pulled son was shot wh tempting to put car. He denied th: Webb's to tell Mr. W: cident happened. So far as he can tell took to tell Webb how the sh occurred. He told Webb. he Memory Since Is Good He did not think he told Webb that his wife was half a block away at the time of the shooting. His shooting is fairly good, he said, al- though he forgets some things be- cause he made no effort to remem- ber them. Webb, he said, was about I weighed more. he next questions related again to j Potter's actions after leaving the Webb store about 7 p. m. on the night of the shooting. He did not recall telling Robert Webb that, while hunting with Scott Cameron, the latter's went off accidentally or that he would not hunt with Cameron again because | the latter was careless with his gun. He again recounted his activities on ; the hunting trip a week before Webb was shot and also on the drinks he took before leaving his place of em- ployment on the night of the shoct- what his wife had told him about | | the shooting. He denied that h | telling Webb what he personaliy | membered. memory of what happened since the | casions. Potter was recalled to do this. The defense then rested its case. Potter's memory is a complete in so far as the shooting of | Webb is concerned, he told the | 1 Answering a direct question “Did | at his trial here yesterday. | you knowingly shoot Oliver Webb?” | Potter answered “No.” Answering the question, “Do you. | of your own knowledge, know how t his death?” Potter answered “I ‘0 not.” Potter was the last witness for the iefense and was under cross-examin- on when the trial recessed last ; examination will be | was that he had been turing the afternoon of the on which Webb was slain and e continued to drink with V 's after he went home in the evening. He left his job in the vebb furniture store early, he said, he did not want his employ- now he had been drinking. ained at home with Webb . J. Bartley, he said, and late; n the evening they went to Bartley’'s home. Later, Potter said, he went; | to the home of Hellie Belk but did not remember taking a drink there. He remembers nothing, he said, after eaving the Belk home until he woke up the next morning. He drew murmurs from the crowd ‘in the courtroom when he said he mixed his drinks by pouring’a tum- ‘bler a quarter full of alcohol. Later Attorney John Sullivan, who is as- sisting the prosecution, asked if that | were not rather a stiff drink and Pot- | ter said he always mixed them that way. State Witnesses Attacked Scott Cameron, counsel for the de- fense, and Frank Williamson took |the stand immediately before Potter yesterday afternoon in an effort to prove by their testimony that evi- dence offered by two of the state's most important witnesses was faulty. They testified that the lights in the Potter home could not be seen from the point where the serving maid and the soldier said they saw a light. The cross-examination of Potter took him into a discussion of his per- sonal habits. Potter refused to ad- |mit that he drank to excess, but said ihe occasionally drank too much in jone night. He said he got drunk about once every two months and BIGGER TRIBUNE Watch tor Further Announcement Send for a Trial Subscription Fill out and mail the blank below enclosing $1.25 for three months’ subscription to The Bismarck Daily Trib- une in North Dakota or $1.50 if residing outside the Be state. By carrier in Bismarck $1.80. | ' SUBSCRIPTION BLANK The Bismarck Tribune, of the Peace Phil McLoughlin today | the trigger. ing. that twice before the Webb shooting began his 38th year of continuous Thumb Caught Trigger s Back to Memory he had been so drunk that he did not, fervice as justice of peace in Grand| On one occasion when the gun went| From there the examination jumped |Femember what had happened. Forks county having been first ap-|off unexpectedly. Potter said, his| again to Potter's memory of what} Silllivan questioned him about an Pointed to office on December 19,| thumb was cut. He said he received ' happened immediately after the shoot-|¢vening at a Bismarck dance hall, 1. ley asking if he had not threatened a Tells of Slaying 7-Year-Old Boy pang taping ritincnecr tag ya Bismarck, N. D. we j Enclosed find.......for which send me the Daily Tribune for a FARGO'S FUTURE PLANNED en him home on that occasion. Potter eee sccccccoe woe e eer eeeeecosrcere Fargo, Dec. 19.—(*)—Representa- said he knew nothing about it other tives of Fargo’s civic and service| |than what he had been told. clubs will meet Jan. 4th to consider | male * & | The defense objected strenuously to ® proposal for the organization of aj | < é | this part of the cross-examination but development committee to look to- was overruled and the questioning ward the city’s future. The meeting ; Went on. Potter was hazy as to de- is called by the chamber of commerce ‘tails of the party at his home on the heard of executives. ieee ewes Ne i kre oes fo cc pslesabs Postoffice Address ........0scescceereeces State. ...ssccsceees PLEASE writz PLAINLY. TO AVOID MISTAKES WEST POINT VACANCIES Fargo, Dec. 19.—(?)—Word has been received by Jack Williams, state adjutant, American Legion, that 40 cadet vacancies exist at U. 8. Military Academy at West Point, to be filled by sons of of- ficers or enlisted men killed in world war and that North Da- kota young men are eligible for appointment. - MOORHEAD BOY DIES left the furniture store with -the truck driver to deliver some furniture. He could not say if the alcohol he had drunk was responsible for his lapse of memory. Hunted With Webb 2 Sp SPEAR ee | together since the season | the exception of one or two Sundeys and that he-and Webb always hed been good friends. 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