The People of the State of Michigan - - - (Complainants)

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William Shimmel - - - (Defendant)

Fremont Brown

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F R E M O N T   B R O W N, having been produced as a witness for and in behalf of the people and having been first duly sworn, testified as follows:

 

DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. COBURN.

 

 

Q

Where do you reside?

A

Nunica

 

 

Q

How long have you lived there?

A

Well most of the time for 28 years.

 

 

Q

Were you there on the 23rd day of April, 1906?

A

Yes, sir.

 

 

Q

Were you in Zimmer’s saloon on that day if you remember?

A

I was.

 

 

Q

Were you there in the afternoon?

A

Yes, sir, somewheres about 3 o’clock I think.

 

 

Q

Who was with you at the time?

A

Frank Griswold.

 

 

Q

AND who was tending bar there at the time?

A

A fellow by the name of Andrew Sheler.

 

 

Q

When you went into the saloon who else did you find there besides Andrew Sheler, the bartender?

A

Well, there was a fellow by the name of Frank Green, I saw him there and a Frenchman and another fellow that the bar tender said was Shimmel.

 

 

Q

Is that the man that you saw there? (pointing to the respondent)

 

 

 

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A

I think it is, it looks like him.  I didn’t take very much notice of him, as much as I did of the Frenchman.

 

 

Q

Who was he with?

A

Why he seemed to be in company with the Frenchman.

 

 

Q

What was he doing if you know?

A

Well the Frenchman was talking and telling stories and finally asked Shimmel to come up and have a drink with him.

 

 

Q

How did you learn that it was Shimmel that day?

A

Why Mr. Griswold asked the bartender who those fellows was and he said that one of them was a Frenchman from Muskegon and the other one you ought to know, he used to live here that is Bill Shimmel he said.

 

 

Q

Did anyone come in there while you were there?

A

Yes, sir, my brother came in, Ed Brown, together with another fellow.  I thought at first when I first saw him that it was the sheriff, Woodbury, but when I came to look him over a little more I saw it was not.

 

 

Q

What time did you leave that saloon about, if you remember?

A

Oh I wasn’t in there over fifteen minutes, it must have been somewheres about three o’clock I called it, it might have been a little after, in the afternoon.

 

 

Q

Was Shimmel there when you left?

A

He was there, yes sir.