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The People of the State of Michigan - - - (Complainants) VS William Shimmel - - - (Defendant) |
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Frank M. Green Cross Examination |
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Page 60 ( Continued ) |
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CROSS EXAMINATION: |
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Page 61 |
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CROSS EXAMINATION: |
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How long have you lived in Nunica |
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In the township do you mean or in the village? |
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In the village? |
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I have lived there 14 years. |
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14 years? |
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Yes, sir. |
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You say you have retired from farming? |
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Yes, sir. |
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How far was your farm that you farmed from Nunica? |
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I didn’t own the farm; I rented. |
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How many years were you on the farm that you rented? |
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Well one farm I was on about 3 years and the other I was on 6. |
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How far are they from Nunica? |
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Two miles. |
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Do you know everybody that lives around there? |
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Pretty near. |
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And nearly everybody that lives in the Village of Nunica? |
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Pretty near: There has some strangers come in. |
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And you know what their business is? |
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Yes, sir, you might say. Of course if a man tends to his own business now days that is about all he can do. |
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How many saloons were there in Nunica April 23, 1906? |
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Two. |
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Who owned the two saloons? |
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Mr. Zimmer and Mr. Haas claimed to own it. |
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Was you in Hass’ ssaloon that day? |
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No, sir. |
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Were you in Zimmer’s |
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Yes, sir. |
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Were you in Zimmer’s saloon that forenoon? |
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No, sir. |
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Were you there the day after? |
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The day after, yes, sir, I may have been the day after. |
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Were you there on Saturday previous to the 23rd? |
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Yes. |
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Who was in the saloon when you were there Saturday? |
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I could not tell you the names. A lot of boys from the town were in, all playing cards. |
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Were they all playing cards? |
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Yes, sir. |
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Who was tending bar then? |
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Andrew Sheler. |
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Do you know whether you were in the next day after the 23rd? |
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Well I think I was, I won’t be sure, because I used to go in there very seldom. |
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Who was in the saloon when you were there then? |
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What time? |
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Any day after the 23rd, during the month of April. |
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Oh, I don’t know in particular. I think the Swanson boys was there I think they was. |
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Where did they live? |
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They live west and north of Nunica. |
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What day was that on? |
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Well I would not say; I think it was the next day. |
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What time of day was it you were in there, the next day? |
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Oh, about 10 or 11 o’clock |
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In the forenoon? |
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Yes, sir. |
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How many times were you in this saloon that day? |
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I could not tell you. |
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Once? |
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Yes, sir, I was there once but I could not tell you how many times because I go in and out and in and out. . |
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On the 23rd you can only swear positively you were there once? |
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On the 23rd? |
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Yes. |
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I was there once in the afternoon. |
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Were you there in the forenoon? |
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No, sir, I don’t think I was. |
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That is the only time you were in there during that day? |
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During that day. |
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What time was it when you went in the saloon that afternoon? |
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Oh, probably half past one or maybe two o’clock. |
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And you say you stayed in there about an hour and a half? |
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Pretty near that. |
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If you went in and stayed an hour and a half, you would go out at 2:30 wouldn’t you? |
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Well, yes, sir. |
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And if you went in at 2 and stayed an hour and a half you would go out at 3:30 |
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Certainly at that rate but I could not tell exactly what time I went in. |
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You are pretty positive that you went in at one o’clock though? |
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Well I would not say positively because I run in and out into the saloon, sometimes I would go in and out half a dozen times a day; I was in and out three times a day. |
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You are positive you were only in there once that day? |
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Only once I think that day. |
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Andrew Sheler is he the bar tender? |
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Yes, sir. |
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Who else tends bar in that saloon? |
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Well nobody without Mr. Zimmer came in. |
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He was the owner? |
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He was the owner of the bar. |
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Those two together wait on the custom there? |
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Yes, sir. |
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You are acquainted with Mr. Griswold? |
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Yes, sir. |
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You say you saw Mr. Griswold and Mr. Brown come in the saloon? |
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Yes, sir. |
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That was during the time you were in the saloon? |
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Yes, sir. |
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You were there before they came? |
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Yes, sir. |
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Did Mr. Griswold leave before you did? |
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Well I hardly think he did but still he might. |
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You think he was there when you went away? |
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Well, I won’t say that he was nor I won’t say that he was not but he was there when Mr. Brown was there. |
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And he was there when Ed Brown was there, a brother to Fremont. |