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The People of the State of Michigan - - - (Complainants) VS William Shimmel - - - (Defendant) |
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Fremont Brown Direct Examination |
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Page 17 |
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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. |
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Where do you reside? |
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Nunica |
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How long have you lived there? |
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Well most of the time for 28 years. |
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Were you there on the 23rd day of April, 1906? |
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Yes, sir. |
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Were you in Zimmer’s saloon on that day if you remember? |
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I was. |
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Were you there in the afternoon? |
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Yes, sir, somewheres about 3 o’clock I think. |
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Who was with you at the time? |
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Frank Griswold. |
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AND who was tending bar there at the time? |
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A fellow by the name of Andrew Sheler. |
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When you went into the saloon who else did you find there besides Andrew Sheler, the bartender? |
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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. |
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Is that the man that you saw there? (pointing to the respondent) |
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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. |
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Who was he with? |
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Why he seemed to be in company with the Frenchman. |
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What was he doing if you know? |
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Well the Frenchman was talking and telling stories and finally asked Shimmel to come up and have a drink with him. |
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How did you learn that it was Shimmel that day? |
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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. |
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Did anyone come in there while you were there? |
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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. |
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What time did you leave that saloon about, if you remember? |
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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. |
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Was Shimmel there when you left? |
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He was there, yes sir. |