Rock Rapids Reporter (Newspaper) - February 12, 1903, Rock Rapids, Iowa JJ VOLUME rvS ROOK FEBRUARY NUMBER v h FOR KILLING OF HELMER DeBOER L I I r August Bunges Trial Now Re buttal 1 J When you plant Ferry M you insure a full not Why send away for seeds of unknown age and when your home dealer sells A FINE LEGAL BATTLE oclock the same She had went to town aa soon as she was told of the but was not admitted to his room until after the stricken man had recovered in some measure from the shock of the Upon being recalled stated that her husband had never owned a revolver to her knowledge and that she had never seen him with Had heard talk that he did have one at the time of a row m which he was engaged i i in the opera honse at but had jurors and his careful questioning of Lever seen each as to their belief in the law of marshal of told self defense made clear the position of of arresting the defendant and stated the attorneys in the There were twentyfive of the regu in every fresh as seeds can be You know your your dealer knows Ferry so you know what you get when you get Ferrys 1903 Seed Annual mailed FERRY Arguments Being An Early Verdict is Great interest has centered the past three days in the trial of August Bunge for the shooting of at George December and the court room has been packed almost to its that he had noticed nothing unusual in the mans was called and repeat iar jurymen in and after I ed his testimony practically as given these were exhausted a special venire at tnc He told of the removal of the deceased from the shoe store to his office and of his there until the time of his before the jury was In death on the afternoon of January all thirtytwo men were examined and tlie dying statement over of these three were excused for DeMoer and had seen him sign the it same and had made some chances in ton by the defense on chal the wording at the suggestion of the of twenty talesmen was ordered Of these seven were examined lenges and seven by the The jury as finally made up is as follows Dailey AH i rv r He admitted that the examin Over ation was a hurried one and that he only examined where the defen injured He also told of making an examination of the person of the T f in the failed to discover any limit during that interested ones from II Cash for Farm Loans WHO HAS CASH PIERCE OTHERS ABE OUT OF MONEY HE CONTINUES To SUPPLY ALL His ri make arrangements if you expect to You can secure th Besides the piace have been about sixty witnesses in at tendance and also a large number from the vicinity of George and Little where the principals to the shooting affray are best The case has been a hard fought one County Attorney Fisher for the state and t Parsons and Vogt for the de fense have strained every point to bring their side of the contest to a suc Behind Attorney Fisher have been seated John father inlaw of the man who was killed r the wife and a sister of the deceased besides Nagle and Frank Nine dant told him the pain He had noticed nothing peculiar in the walk are from Rock Rapids and of the of the defendant and had taken par others Shoemaker is a farmer near following him along the Crone is a painter at sidewalk for a distance of more than a j j ana farms near the same hundred He was satisfied from professional and personal experience that had the defendant been kicked w L om and Jacob The ladies are both attired in deep mourn and have frequently shown great emotion as the sad facts of the tragedy were 1 attorneys for defense 1 1 1 L i i ears charge of this of my Abstracts furnished accuracy Special attention given to correcting defective was dressing his Cottam followed with a closer account of the findings of the post The to the jury where he supposed he claimed to have wore begun at r oclock and County hc would have been put out of Attorney Fisher occupied forty min I Business for some little Mc Kinney upon being recalled stated utes in his outline of the The that he had found no weapon of any indictment of the grand jury kind on the person of DeBoer when he and the law relative to the case so far as it related to the including of the minor crimes of murder in the second I but none from degree and manslaughter in a charge testimony at the former He of murder in the first was identified the ball shown as He then 1 w W A up to the shooting and the left of the center of the breast and outlined the evidence which was half inch above a line drawn through would be presented by the It had been deflected by He was followed by Mr I breast bone and hod punctured the r Al y heart sack in two places and grazed Parsons for the defense with a synopsis the wall of the It had lodged of the testimony they expected to pro at the upper side of the ninth a luce and at 0 oclock Judge lower than where it entered the l body and about two and a half inches stated that from have left the body the extracted from the body of went over the I It had afc a Qne inch fco 11 i j listened attentively to every inches te progress Insurance Real Estate r Conveyancing her devotion to the has made Occasions examination of favorable impression on the public and the jury took occasion to urge the at mad there are scores who wish the to avoid every delay ant success for her The prisoner himself has made a i VV had discovered n examinations were hurriedly W 1 V Later he had made more The taking of the testimony began such a blow as the defendant claimed Wednesday morning and continued to have received and one that would I good impression aud has been the cool until time for adjourning court in the eat of directly interested in th the prosecution at that time of and in outcome of the He has listened having about completed its evidence in that he was r feet inches in height to all the proceedings without a change chief and County Attorney Fisher an and of physical of countenance and never speaks except that one more witness beng the average in to his his father or would be The evidence AT OST There have been several lively tilts produced was the same as On cross examination he said that between the attorneys and on two or at the preliminary hearing and which was a pretty good man physi three occasions Judge Hutchinson has is still fresh in tho minds of readers of P 1 felt called upon to remonstrate with The as it was printed in de ai them for the He has ex tail at that The minor happen matters as much as possible ings and occurrences of the day of tho and has brooked no delay in the tragedy were brought out a little more I Grant had dant in George on the day of the and liad noticed nothing un had ing or examination of but nothing of importance ad UUU 111LU UUUU lUUl Oy Ihe evidence in chief was completed was disclosed that is not familiar and DeBoer had kicked That the to make room for Spring There will be a good many cold days yet you j h will need All warm shoes and Slip r all overshoes of every kind go at wholesale It will pay buy them and keep them for next Remember my new last Thursday evening for the state the same witnesses were and defense and this morning the state is putting in its The argu THE day before DeBoer had tried to take him out of a that he had made threats against and that he had 41 Julius the only eve witness I a gun and made up his mind of the attorneys are expected to t that w DeBoer attacked him he last the greater part of the and unless a night session is held it is pro told of the shooting oa a mado of the aga Would shoot u sister of Dc wn i Img pointed out tho position of and Kruger told of that the jury will not be given the He was of the opinion conversations with the defendant in tho case for consideration before that DeBoer had stood a little to the I which hc appeared to be mad at the day The work of selecting a lurv was I tie tho at I latter would not rent him a farm as M the preliminary hearing he stated that had been talked and Miss Kruger lacked he stood directly in front of the said the defendant had told her lie hut ten minutes of five oclock when His as testified to by the wit was going to play a trick on DeBoer the last man was examined and ac would not have varied over a Al She thought ho in by tho opposing counsel For foot or two iu either He also tended to injure u i toltl of tt visit bv Attorney Vogt of the a retired farmer who lusher made a very defense whom he said had tried to in lives just east of George was called egun tho state careful examination of each juror and his He also stated told the same story as at the pre was particular as to their belief in that when DeBoer came into the store liminary about Bunge being at his had taxed him with pass home the afternoon of the shooting ng him on the street and not speak and of ruling to town with They He also said that when DeBoer had talked over the trouble and Bunge the infliction of the death penalty l nf y the event of o conviction for in the first Two jurors were was standing in the front of the store told uim lie would shoot DeBoer and objected to because of their scruples he had asked Feldman if his coat was when remonstrated with had said he in this but the objection was evidently would not do so if DeBoer did not T A TT tj not heard the for he made no him and that ho would try and held by Judge Hurchinson not to bo He was positive that Bunge I keep out of his After the shoot well For the defense Par had attempted to leave the store with sons conducted the examination of the I making a demonstration toward DeBoer and that the latter had been V Is r A Leicher Carriage Shop vr L O 1 A i kinds of wood work Repairing of any done as it should Buggy f A spring made to fit any h U Best quality rubber tires put n Call and see m Views on Ambition and the aggressor and had kicked the shoemaker in whose shop the shooting was the next witness and retold the The only new item of evidence brought out was that he had seen DeBoer stand ing near the door at the time he hand ed the shoes to but had not heard the gentleman ask if his coat was He was of the opinion that DeBoer had not left the coat at the time of his first THE OLD RELIABLE W T v and sometimes extinguishes the fire of Though great despite his complaint Field suffered from tion all his A tired stomach cant digest your It needs Tou can only rest it by the use of a preparation like which te it of work by Rest won restores i A ill rji ill 4i iti A your i r nfi was so closely upon his business that he had not noticed much that trans He told of the arrangement of the shop more in and the fact was brought out that the space be tween the row of boxes on one side of store and the counter on the was only fqur ani a half Heliner DeBoer was the next and she identified the i j 4 i L m T m by i j fl i r m j hT M A I V j Jr t H 1 FJV i i i r V i ing he had seen Bunge in the the latter had requested to see with was He had taken the overshoes from the marshal when the latter got Bunges buggy and had taken them back to On cross ex amination he said that when Bunge told him he was going to he answered quick that he had better and that Bunge had then would not if DeBoer left him alone and did not try to tight He had seen DeBoer motion to Bunge when the former was passing his home on the way to v Jacob a hired man at the De Boer was next called and told of meeting the defendant on the road to Little Hock the Thursday the shooting and that had told him that DeBoer was going to whip him and his brother Defendant said that if DeBoer touched Ed he would have him fined all he was worth and that when he met him ho would settle the affair aml would fix He had told Boer when he trot home and after sup per DeBoer had left the farm He went east the road to Little Bock that they travelled generally was DeBoer came back in about a half Fie had seen the defendant about town after the shooting at the time he took the train for Hock Rapids in charge of Sheriff Had noticed at the depot that ored his left as he At the preliminary trial had noticed defendant and at that time thought he favored his right After the shoot ing and before arrested by the marshal hc had noticed nothing unusual in his V Boslaugh who ministered first to the injured had seen Bunge and noticed nothing unusual either in his walk or Had heard him say he was the man who had done the shoot At this time the question of the ad of the dying statement made by DeBoer was argued and ob to by the defense for the that it was not sufficiently shown that it was made in extremis in sufficient as not thai had and that it was prepared un fairly by the county attorney opportunity given the defense to ex amine the injured man at the time it was The court held that it was Arthur Ripley was then and told of seeing and talking with defen dant after the Had noticed nothing unusual in or talk Said defendant had i rii A I J at the tima At the conclusion df the Arthur Ripley the state rested defense began their part of the The first witness called was August the and although he was on the stand for the greater part of the forenoon his story was told in a clear and connected and it was the general expression that he had made a good witness in his own He gave his age as 27 years and stated that he was born in His parents were He knew Helmer DeBoer and was to have rented some land of him in company with his DeBoer had come to the home of Kruger where de fendant was one evening and had told him that as they had not done as talked of he could not let him have the There were no hard words at the time and the next morning Bunge hod told that it was a mean trick for DeBoer not to let him have the place as he had made arrangements to take the place and was to have been married and moved to the place about the middle of He denied that he had threatened the deceased or called him names to but said that he told her he was sore over the deal and that he had been thinking it over during the night and felt mean about He had also had a conversa tion of a similar Miss Jennie Kruger at another hud made no threats to the latter and had no intention of doing DeBoer He told of the meeting with Jake Buss on the road Little Rock and said that at the time he had told the latter about the farm deal as Buss had been telling him about a little trouble he was He had said to Buss that he heard DeBoer going to lick his brother Ed and that if he did DeBoer would get i trouble as Ed was not age and it might cost DeBoer all he was Told him my brother would network for DeBoer and neither would anyone else who knew Dint say J would meet DeBoer in the road and Went to Little next day for Dick I was Met DeBoer way It was about a west of Little DeBoer to me and then jumped wagon and took both his called me a lot of names me to get out of the jumped on the side of the struck at me Grabbed the collar and hit me on drawing blood from a he made on the he jumped oft the went on to where at Protesters and had that about the said I could I i I J r f corner the JJ
