C W BERNHARDT, Sworn In For The State, 109th To Testify

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C. W. BERNHARDT, sworn for the Defendant.

I am a contractor and builder. This (Defendant's Exhibit 52) fairly

represents the back porch of the Selig home, as well as the first floor of

the house. Standing in the kitchen door you can't look through the passage

way and see into the mirror. If you move up a little distance you

can see about 18 inches of the mirror. You could see nobody sitting on

the south side of the table in the dining room, or on the north side of the

table, in fact you cannot see the table at all, or the door leading from the

dining room to the sitting room. Sitting in a chair against the jam of

the kitchen door, you could not see a man in that mirror. You would

have to be a foot or more inside of the door before you get any view of

the mirror at all.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

Taking a point between the door and the back porch and a point

about the pantry you could see about half of the mirror. The floor in the

dining room showed that this furniture had been standing in the same

position for some time. You could see the top of a man's head if he were

sitting at the table. If the mirror were turned you might get a view. It

depends on the angle of reflection. It is easy to move the furniture. The

mirror is rigid in the furniture.