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The People of the State of Michigan - - - (Complainants) VS William Shimmel - - - (Defendant) |
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Emil Rollenhagen Direct Examination |
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E M I L R O L L E N H A G E 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. LILLIE. |
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Whereabouts do you live? |
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Nunica. |
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How long have you lived there? |
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About two years. |
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Where did you live prior to that time? |
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Up in Ravenna Township |
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Are you acquainted with Bill Shimmel or William Shimmel as he is called? |
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Yes, sir. |
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The respondent there? |
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Yes, sir. |
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How long have you known him? |
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Why about twelve or fourteen years. |
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Which direction from Nunica do you live? |
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Northeast, up in Ravenna Township. |
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You misunderstood my question I guess. (Last question read) |
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At the present time. |
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Yes, sir. |
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About a quarter of a mile east |
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Whether or not your land joins the D. & M. Railroad right of way and whether the interurban, as we call it, right of way, passes through your land? |
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Yes, sir, the interurban passes it and it joins the Grand Trunk on the south side also. |
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Where you at home on the 23rd day of April 1906? |
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Yes, sir. |
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Do you remember of the fact of Martin Golden having been killed that night of the 23rd? |
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Yes, sir. |
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You remember of the fact? |
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Yes, sir. |
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Now that afternoon before Martin was killed where were you working? |
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Just across the interurban in a little piece of ground, dragging in oats. |
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That would be between the interurban and the D. & M? |
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Yes, sir. |
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And what time in the afternoon were you dragging there? |
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Why I worked there all the afternoon. |
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Now between four and five o’clock did you see anybody going east on the D & M track? |
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Yes, sir. |
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About how far from Nunica was that person when you saw him going east on the D & M track? |
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Why nearly a quarter of a mile or so. |
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How was the party dressed if you remember? |
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Why he wore a kind of a brownish looking overcoat or something |
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Page 22 |
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similar to it, a kind of a short coat, and a slouchy looking hat. |
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A black hat? |
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Yes, sir. |
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And at that time did you think you knew that party? |
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Why after he was gone by, as near as I could place him, it come to my mind that I thought it was Bill Shimmel that I used to know. |
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And whether or not in your judgment it was Bill Shimmel that you saw going by there that afternoon on the railroad? |
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I am not for certain whether it really was him or not but that was my idea. |
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That was your judgment? |
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Yes, sir, as near as I could place him. |