On Wednesday Mrs. Ruscher testified that Bergman came to their house February 9; he wanted to stay all night. Her husband said he could not very well keep him. The defendants came in. Schrier began to talk with Bergman in regard to settlement of the difficulty about his wife. They all joined in talking roughly and excitedly. DeWitt said Bergman must leave the house. Bergman said he would if the boys would let him alone. This they agreed to do. Bergman started for the door, De Luit struck him, knocking him against the table. DeWitt struck him a blow, knocking him against the door. They all went out. She heard screems from the road before she went out. When the boys came, they left several clubs on the stoop, which she noticed were gone after the boys left. Schrier carried a sword-cane, with a sword about a foot long.

Her husband testified substantially the same. He was at the barn, however, when the boys assaulted Bergman in the house, and he had heard a cry of "murder, murder." The clubs mentioned by his wife, he said, were stakes from his wood rack, two or three feet long. He found one half a mile down the road, after the affair happened. While he was in the house he noticed that Bergman was thinly dressed, having on but one shirt and one coat, thin pants, no drawers. The night was the coldest of the winter.

Cornelius Lokker, the officer who arrested them last spring, swore that Schrier had admitted to him, while on his way to Allegan, that he had knocked Bergman down twice and kicked him twice in the side. Also said he had heard that Bergman carried a revolver, and "he calculated to kill him with his sword cane if he had a pistol." Another defendant said he kicked Bergman twice in the side.

Several young men testified in regard to admissions made by the defendendants. The following will answer for a specimen: They had got $5 from Bergman, which they spent in drinking, etc. That they "gave Bergman enough so he would never come back." And one had told him that when they gathered around Bergman in the road he had said, "he had two revolvers, and would shoot them." They got him down and searched him, and found he had none. Bergman said, "for God's sake, don't kill me yet; I have an immortal soul." Schrier replied, "you have none; you are worse than a dog." Then they had taken him south, and afterward drove him back north to the corner, where he left them.

Gerritt Schuunman said that Schrier went to his house one evening, some time after the disappearance of Bergman; he talked about the affair in the presence of myself, my mother and sister; said they had taken Bergman from the house, thrown him down in the road and kicked and beat him; Bergman cried, "For God's sake don't kill--I have a soul to save." U. DeWitt had pulled out a knife and stabbed Bergman in the face and head until, as he said, there was not an inch of skin on his face that was not cut; after having done this they took Bergman to the corner, and he shook hands with them all and left.

R. Koning testified with regard to admissions made to him by some of the men. He met Schrier in Van Zee's store, in Overisel; Schrier asked him for advice about the Bergman matter; Koning told him that he could be arrested for assault and battery, and that he had talked too much. At another time, in Kronemeyer's store in Fillmore, Schrier said that Bergman told him and the others that he had pistols, and would shoot them if they molested him; that they threw him down and flogged him well, and that he cried murder. Koning said if he did not stop talking in this way they would yet send him to State prison. He said he did not care; that he would like to go for a time, for the way that he had used Bergman, and that he was glad they had used him so.