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‘ IW M,V UWVUI Jl. ...... ..M.V • OOM J WUJ\nt, if \mi1 be A week ago to-night; it was at the Bohemian Hall, it wu- a regular douce, and Joe to was there, i did not tulk with him hardly any. I vr *ow him there. low. and Joe w^re not together di ! wiieti I how them. Did not see them together that rv j night. I only hi aid ii util 11 o’clock. Did not know whether Joe had agin, or whether Tom. ViJt had. The last time j saw Joo Chmeiik, before last nigh , j t saw him day before yesterday over at NayratU's. i ii i v\ ; there at that time the whote «#f bis Jaru-Hy . .Mary 1 'MiuciiJ an I Kosa and I auci Joe Chaleos. Tom VlU win# hot there. I hat was day be* ton* yesterday. We at there till about lOoYlock. m Tout night I and Joe went with the girl* home. Wueii ihe girls went homo I went to my house. Joe came clear down here. Mary and Ko* aud Joe too and 1 were there till Id o’clock. 1 went over there about 7 o’clock, can t tell just exactly. Joe wan very friendly with the girls that night. Mary and Hosa and 1 and Joe and my brother-iu-lan ’s daughter.-* were there. Every thing seemed friendly.Did you M*e Joe between the time you wan at the Bohemian dance hail until yesterday I old not. I did not know Joe was going to be at ray brother-in-law’*. Did not know Maiy was going . to be there.\t j When was it that you heard that Joe threatened Mary if she did not swear its he wauled her to in the Viltcase? ■u , It was about n couple of weeks after the Jaw suit. When I heard that Joe had threatened Mary, when ho said he would slap her mouth, that was in the dance hull l«-t Hunduy night, a week to-morrow. Joe told that to me. f do nut think anybody else heard J *. I was standing in the south-west corner. None of the girls were near. They only stay there once in a wink*.en nei*i ilie |i »•* IretkurtV.i imd | What did Joe phy about Mary’s swearing nt that• line?lie said if he ever caught her any where alone he would slap her mouth, lie was very angry at her, because -tie had sworn as elm did at that trial. J ; knew just what he told me.: W hat else was sold about the trial?«N ythlug re. He commenced It himself. We were talking about the law suit, lie came Up to me and said: “bile js there in the hall, and if 1 cun j get her alone somewhere I will slap her mouth.” i did not see him talk to her that evening Hhe kept a way from him. I did not say anything to him iu reply to that remark.You say the lire! time you heard that ho hail made such threat ah »ut Mary was about two weeks alter the law suit? V\ Mere were you when Joe threatened Mary for testifying about that law suit? it was over at Czayek’s.At that tune Joe threatened to slap her mouth,did bev ' •* ™No, he did not make any remark, he only said •'Hhe swore to a lie.” r - ^'7rrWhat else was said?Nothing else. Was not talking about the law-suit Nobody ever asked me about it. That was all he said. He said, “She swore to a lie about the knuckles.*' Did not say she swore to a lie about striking the wall. He said the swore that he had brass knuckles, and that he did not have brass knuckles, lie did not say anything more. This was at C/.a- I peks when he talked about the bruss knuckles. He I did not *ay she should liave her mouth snipped. He djd iict t’ay '.pything else, only that she swore to alie about the knuckles. In the hail he said if he could get her alone lie would slap her month. He did not talk about the handcuffs in the hall, nothing about the knuckles either.You say that Joe, when you came hero last night, was very unfriendly to Alary because she swore to n lie in the Wilt case?He was unfriendly to her for about two weeks after the law suit. 1 can’t soy If ho whs unfriendly I to her this week** °u know that last Sunday night be came up to : you and raid nothing, only thut, if he caught tier I allt;rae ho would slap her mouth?\ sir. He did not talk with her last night, only when t?ho came from lt;*lenvllle he said, “Good evening, boys.” 1 did not tell Tom. Vilt that Joe wus going to Map Mary’s mouth. Did not tell Torn, anything about it. Tom. was not nt CzApek's when we were talking about the brass knuckles. Be»ore last Sunday night I had uoteeen Torn, until to-day. Before Sunday night 1 saw him, I don’t remember when. I he last time 1 was at the Bohemian Hall before last Sunday night was not since last fall. My cousjn last Hnnday night wanted me to go with him.
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Albert Lea Freeborn County Standard
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Thu, Feb 21, 1889
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