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Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947

March 26, 1925 · Page 6 of 10

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Seven NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page COUNTY MOWER Mar 26, 1925 sday, carefully. Pokornik, after the Owen he the force. Poelke fired Mr. and Mrs. said joining into the lins street recess. never your desk sergeant, Carmichael, A. R. FRIDAY ' knew Poelke until Duffy. he employed A. Mr. and yelled Pokornik of Pokornik eyed him him. ground Anton to parents to revolvers ACQUIT POELKE of exchange the of told Owen said he To whom did go? employed Q. When Pokornik reached carefully and with Bridge conversed to was you stop one succeed another. the When Poelke. state on by made ■+ <■ Lon Van Camp. The Chiefs Rector. the of if A. —— he Frank Pokornik, brother question street cut across corner that running drew out Friday found attendance cut examination tue cross Page One) (Continued from he had instructed Poeike Where did first relative Q. him? the between the houses the dead youth, waited in attorney’s to two you see lack of and Dunn due the somewhat exchange down to the made Poelke law enforcement house. At his reached that objected and A. When Poelke Promptly point he until o’clock. to two was make the imagined room didn’t sensational details which Poelke if know.” asked many “Oh. I don’t sustained. Poelke the mayor? called Q. Did yelled Pokornik the and shot the dot the Friday afternoon to stop to to was you see Thursday wanted bigger would enliven the trial. on he because change a “Why did make all of these you few stand minutes later and Yes. He thought Pokornik direct A. again. began and Mrs. hiding session and Mr. a on volunteered the information crowded was the to Carmichael court room was gun. then?” examination the Q. Did the job. in the back of the stand accept houses. Poelke few seconds before measurements in was on you garages carried hour before each came a capacity he that gun. session—some a an He until 3:40 spoke loudly Yes. the defense A. Mr. Sasse said would declared p. m. lunches court did them brought in was open. “I under orders.” even by Sasse: questioned When enough for hear Poelke didn’t and had said he assigned that Poelke show Pokornik Attorney Sasse the crowd its to to everyone was succeed be for see gave assured their order to seat "Who told make these to Mr. you do “Oh gun, you, hesitancy carry a Lon Van Camp and his duties you the and thought in answering questions. time his first thrill he that when at protested no The session. crowd, man afternoon the ?” Carmichael?” measurements testifying that he those officer. heard After 30, of other At had escaped until he sound authorities keeping the defendant was were served any talkative, hum restless and a were sent a , “Mr. Sasse.” be without one.” the world first he Colts He in married carried automatic “I wouldn’t from McKinley hurried him. He from appealed street. to was at war, heard throughout the an could be that White but Pokornik River and served deputy 38 exchanged it for hammer there found and and Judge Peterson that he the officers Sasse Mr. for poiice to as a “Don’t know that out it’s when Judge Peterson "Oh building but came customary you because sheriff and then moved California 38 the off I couldn’t automatic said. “I didn’t hit have 1:30 today expecting to went is it?” at of his feet you, courtroom looks inch six who about until to didn’t into this carry guns, every get case father, he easily. little later Scott visit his told why hit you.” A and his client but too counsel with to to entered there the real judge, was three “Yes sir.” preliminary?” the of the time Poeike he His married Q. Did have and told until Austin. trouble with McCoy arrived Scott him three allowed not to to came you of the of any diminution buzz see was a the of objection this the point Central At “No.” the here hotel? police sister about the building the station. Poelke He he call 2118, of o’clock. said minutes to wrote two voices. sustained. first “When made state inspection was and A. Yes—there Pokornik he thought he could drunks there. your helped lift into the constitutional deprived of his you being program were ambulance was Friday morning attendants however the Rector Police ?** Chief of orders was under that did do Q. How work here. He drunks the Austin did and then police rights. get to you to get went many you came heard the rather dramatic He defense. the for witness “No.” next there. shortly of night before Easter in that he 1924 and in out Later Judge Peterson: Well, Mr. Sasse, station. went phrase of murder trial, “the defense Poelke of employment any that.” told of the as do “Who told A. Thirteen few fourteen to and the days obtained employment five, the officers you with this is the first I have been informed county attorney a or as ready.” The Poelke is completed state said Rector officer. police “Nobody.” lather with four three Pete and a of the Ferguson. Until time. the shooting this. You the of at to return to a a scene may then F. G. Sasse, its and job. the apply for case didn’t it?” do “Why did he Q. Did hear Kimball it regular work he stayed with Mrs. you how occurred. and narrated with client to got you ante room your consult of the best known officer. state’s criminal good Poelke one ’said all right.” Rector that tell was a “I his sister, then testify that said “I have you Friday afternoon he established home with can At 1:50 him. gat, you a every a lawyers, famed for his inquisitorial about hearing of told Rector I’m trying what "Weil that’s to his only does it talk but it bties,” and of and his available the mother and brothers not in Dunn: Your honor, this is the Mr. seat court own room was well his the night, that late powers as sarcasm, shooting as the out.” find that? here live did with him. He the section been this occupied, witness first have informed of to you say came was occupied we outlined the defense of the police officer. the and station poiice conference find if that bullet at “I wanted out J. No. to worked for J. Welch, White A. window sills Eagle the doing in justice the and and to state want were we identity the learn of sending to hit fired would have which man a When the Oil Company and others. He Poelke denied conversation claimed jury filed kept was heavy duty. knew nothing of Mr. to a say we defense When the the slain if it of McKinley Ed. Eckhart the first man. witness the house street have been had was of 2 they busy spring and fall. in the on few minutes seemed Sasse being deprived of this right. to in presence a evidence introduce to tried to His hit the man.” of the morning. testimony followed hadn’t of Morgan and Stewart he Q. Did in which pepped for the afternoon’s seek job the properly Judge Peterson recessed be court to to up you a on police Pokornik’s found what show at the of Thursday into Stewart’s Dunn Attorney past was story said if he called he went up Sasse force? Attorney enable to work. Mr. Sasse consult with to stop, to a man was objection state’s the Dugan was sustained. Poeike’s alleged history Dugan length. relatives of to room would shoot him. He denied he at the A. No. of Poelke. the first attorneys to return ever Owatonna Officer Albert Lea, Morgan that he told of in working statement to (Continued studying his Q. Who about; 10) began Mayop Owen resumed testifying he to to and notes came you see on page very and when there dark “Wat it you would and “shoot if and Austin tried to get various anyone on the route officers of the other went over in farms. He from him.” some snappy was away Poelke?” by made taken especially those his replies Eckhart said On examination cross flashlights.” had “Yes Dunn quizzed to our Dunn. use emphatic by —we extra worked pool hall Clear he had in in a the light. him to as S. D., and that Lake, 14 months ago dark?” “Was it all around dark that it’s “You sav he worked there months. 14 light.” WEST’S wasn’t “It there?” very that,” demanded did do before “What good have reputation you Poelke “Did dark.” “Not ail a Sasse. officer?” couldn’t dark “But it an you as was so I tell you.” “That’s than more can “Yes.” road?” the anybody in see remember what “Don’t White sheriff of deputy you you Hight, John the until “Not got garages.” near you did?” defense. the called by N. D., River, was everything I working “I Poelke at knew He said he at was dark?” made it “Well what could do.” the lived and light White River the because across “It dark was of the you?” “How old and knew him obstructed from are Railway from street AU That street New Fashionable! was is and White in "Twenty-one.” bore he reputation trees.” good by trees—three Dunn tell “And what examination On jury htat River. you you were tell this can Do cross to you mean Poelke months before months fight doing 14 14 attention they when called to January a three trees ago?” light had there. have will obstruct leaves so no helps man’s “No.” think it dark?” “Do a makes place that it you a fight?” the district in The lights in accident light reputation off to a “Well, it engage anyway.” cut some the object what then for discussion in depends “It all came up more on SPRING of the calling the witness stand is.” to that fighting is of “What to want say you North of Burke, who lives door Michael is ip River part next dark down “White the whoie a country was bad lot of Charles Graves. there where Dakota are to there?” a it?” started the isn’t The ranch It’s county attorney country “No.” men. a COATS but ranches few questioning. is “No—there there that "Don’t know are a a you light Elm “Was there at many.” background between arc difference in the not an and of the night bad McKinley and there streets “But men made the some time are your measurement you bad the 1925?” bet January 21. the shooting chosen Poeike to night of the and was “Yes.” he?” wasn’t ones, deputized the street.” "Pretty plain necessarily—he most Not Fur “Yes.” was over Trimmed and supposed with ground covered “Was the to he whatever that with do know was “Don’t to snow you who witnesses snow?” Other character might have do. the night ground the on reputation “Yes.” good Poeike had said lighter?” been a Tailored Coats Miller light shining that Weber, “Was the Nick made I Austin when dark "Weil in —it were was former night?” Welch, his J. J. and Mellon inspection.” my “Yes.” told officer, employer. police Beckel, Frank Bengaline Coats The of Railway there light “Is the former after Zihl, operator Third Ward Art on the an arc of going to Poeike’s working of McKinley ?”_ south told of Poelke, Theatre, street Star and shooting accompanying He said River. “Ye*.” White others. for him in and the attorney county Zihl is McKinley?” “How from good. far fired reputation where he Kasha his a Poelke show Lined “Did Coats was feet.” “About 150 Poelke. of cousin shot?? first the f after the houses shortly “Would light it to rested east board. ’ defense bill The a “Yes. down near a Captain McKinley?” called and the the ock where o’c 3 state point “Did he on out second Fur Hems Fur Collars rebuttal witness. “Yes.” its first for fired?” Oots shot was examination Mr. Sasse In the the between somewhere "He said cross trial fact that Mr. Burke of the the hypothetical brought stage The houses?" ou two Embroidered Panels several and light that he point expert, this definitely?” developed was not “Did he was a at say the he could best testimony asked giving the to questions long as “No.” were incidence. angle of possibly his impression follow the but bullets, light of flash was to “Did use a course you technical light He testified that the other and footsteps?” trajectory Flared Hems the wrong. explicite ' be McKinley appeared sought south of to to The an “Yes.” state terms. and the light, with round globe information a dark ? ” to course reflector. “It arc as was deflected if it take would night?” bullet were “It was wound hill there “There is little the of in who resides on what R. Bruta and or a J. E. sort opening A Large List Choose From to there?” asked of the Railroad isn’t told Dugan Otts street assisted would make. composition who Third Ward and it there said and the bullets of Basse.’ in his measurements on was and Attractively Priced jacketed steel “Yes.” thing such the stand as a * recess. at noon was no between “How houses there afternoon the bullet. The attendance are at many of 25 distance south the Railway the that fired Elm and that the bullet showed at A on session a news deflected that it McKinley?” had directed side of end and approaching 30 feet so an to was case $16.75 $18.50 $21.50 suijface, o’clock horizontal “Three.” from At widely spread. been two a might Oots, the chart and the Sasse then to Captain Mr. filled went according to the court room was motion standing long discussion usual and there followed both its rotary continue in aisles had a occupants said He and their UP plain. of afternoon vertical the number TO $125.00 The and in trees to and sitting. warm a- a rock When pocket, the Mr. along struck size do if it street. bailiff plenty the to to a arrange however a gave would ; Baudler askee that through Mr. Monday Sasse The substance -ventilation. other the was any or might path of they and making kind be its what seemed resistacne, trees crowd much to offer were afternoon sidewise end told that they elm box working the and it take if changed day, or Wrigley be an were or it was I itmade brought He finally the whatever elder. and out anything. jnotion way jaws meant it object Burda with the fact that they stand. the took not its Burda contact were evergreens. Mr. of Youth Chooses form the Charles Graves called and be Mrs. It’s would taking measurements struck, that about told was able clear down shooting- told of being the to of the site see Dugan the opening. with on that show from the Elm McKinley sought street to a street The state show might She said she their deflected light. distance the went that out bullet “Did on Easter Frock measure was you However wound. the night of the north portion the blood mark in torn railway to on its from street a ear admission obtained and could distinguish her McKinley snooting of defense the* an the in center spots the J the unless husband and Mr. in reflee that Oots from street?” deflected tion of the light stood the unusually trey at great a as “Yes.” resistance was in its ■ of the accident. continue might it?” bullet far scene “How was Every of frock to type point the Then followed examina. make could and cross* feet.” path wear a “ 108 rotary I about without anything know wound—one severe tion. "Do <*■ contact you “This the first time have is revolver?” you shooting 'acerations. i a from “sun-up sundown” to by i this ? recalled in some.” been witness Kinsley I’ve shot case "Yes, William a was Pokornik “Yes.” that make experiments deny exi "Did any the to state you have said anything “You to ?” bullets G “My not go- shooting never by • claimed. are you . be in this Store. used anybody about what going this’’ may for any “Yes.” you were take or to me ing trial?” toward testify this to at they?” language vile to “What abusive were or officer ice.” “No.” police the accused bullets into the three shot “I Poelke as Printed Crepes. Candy examination “That’s all.” distance?” On testified. what “At has cross testified declared Dunn.” “State rests,” he that at feet.” admitted “About Kinsley ten Pokornik ’ bullets that the hearing There the usual “Ohs” preliminary’ and “Did the recover were you Stripes, Satin Backed Can- take going to “You “Ohs” when Mr. Sasse rather deliberately “Yes.” said’ not are the dent notice ’ raced the jurymen and began on this. “Did for any you me Ira Deputy ” bullet ? recalled of the his remarks in conversational, surface The state a Crepes ton with fluted pointed • Poelke that None said followed “No.” almost fatherly who Syck tone. he where the into place Sasse closely experiment approximate his remarks than the “When went the >ut more shot, second shooting by Burda the fired made by Now and then state’s witnesses. he when stood flounces and one fancy panel officers there pit. the gravel accompanied bullet into his emotions rifle betrayed by he night two a the or a a defense The smile Mr. Sasse won something said wrangle. the route. a as was over where permitted to place Burda the what they jiad point. testified fronts, the point lace he out was “Did trimmed counter to ran and taken bullet the when The usual motions of the defense that was stood-” he to. say jacket pit. the gravel steel be the that the jury instructed from “Yes.” to showed the lead that?” but phases of the tailored compression. disregard certain testimony silks. intact “Where was was between sidewalk the of and promptly denied north made “Just were Baudler drew examination ’ houses. by Judge Peterson. On the cross two hear-! the visited had about he anything that him from he “Did say Friday morning session Attorney At the and frequently “Oh”? shooting the of Pokornik say scene mg the defense. outlined He Sasse for the Priced examined garage west had “No.” would show that said the defense the garage holes. take to bullet he "Did you spoken Pokornik Poelke had to never made Dugan and he said Burda “No.” I arrested the night he him although before before Pokornik about this anything morning measurements he "Did sav frequently him he had seen called. not session G- By are the was saying," you morning suspected of handling bootleg with men this with ’” this didn’t take'me fur $16.75 "You to me $2150 $2750 come going SSO to of stuff. On the night the shooting, you?” did information not.” “He did Sasse. Mr. Poelke according to said Syck examination "No.” “On cross Pokornik bottle showing of a saw the he that developed Poelke since of Examinaiton custody had he liquor Snell’s pool in hall, to man a fired Burda jail. which of ice into the placed cakes in county was referred the the to tatooer. as man was of in instead the barrel two mint exact Poelke in “Did ut a were Poelke this When he saw by Hamilton. used night.” ' that pieces as spot Pokornik and in moved went away West resident, was.” he third ward where Dry Goods about Diets, said Mike he “No. Co. observed shifting the bottle. and was of told said it he defense, by the that called “You to say next mean When by the officer. the two the vicinity and relative hat to in somewhere making measurements was Poelke followed and demanded went out. with Dugan. the houses spot?” and blood the spots exact not that Pokornik the turn over looked from when they He said “Yes.” bottle of liquor. Pokornik denied Friday houses Poelke walk between the the “Did on spy cross you having the Poelke iquor and pulled road, his door of of the back the in standing the center by to spot noon the bottle from his belt. At the same said the other. he to observe what could hear neither jail the AUSTIN to in MINNESOTA time he told Pokornik witn to come he night that the admitted prisoners.” Deitz other the - him but Pokornik made at a pass the premises the lie.” prospected —that’s did over "I a not the bottle saying “you’re going not Railway Peterson Bridge and Judge and rested light sides at "Both not on was for this” to and arrest me ran. didn't take He said he Tuesday till adjourned streets. court Poelke followed and the two morning.” - measurements. any • down Railway Near Col- ran street.