The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-26

OUT and that then il might be all before he got
back. / went out of the room and down stairs.
After while he came down and asked me If / had
not been in GATHERINGS room i told him yea,
went there to wake her, but she was asleep, and
thought she was sick. She came down shortly af-
ter, and said had sneaked into her room and had
sneaked out again, and upbraided me in that way
He ate his breakfast, she wouldn't eat any He said
now unhappy he was. / said, never mind son, all
will pass of. thought he would go TO work, and
when he came back all would be right. lie did
not go TO work that day; he said that he could not
go to work; that he a very unhappy man; that
he had been deceived, and never could be happy
agan-that ne had been treated badly. He was
calm that day. said TO her, ssCatherine IL you
can't live happy here, you had better go and live
with your father; you have good father"
asked her to get up and fix her rooms. She said
| she wouldn't-she would go home; but she didn't
go home. then told her to go home. She said
she wouldn't go until her father sent for Jotn
said her father had been there, but had done no.
thing. She talked and carried on this way all day.
told her to GO home If she was not happy-that
she ought never to have married my son-that che
had deceived him. She said that she tanahzed
him all day in this way / said to him, "John,
take her away and get house--she shan't live
her clothes out OF the press. told her she was do
ing bad days work for herself; if she took them
out they would never hang there again. She said
she didn't care She took them out and packed
them all up. She commenced taking down the
curtains John objected TO this. ! told him to let
her have them, and she-[something was said
ABOUT her Claiming Ded Valiants Out 30 Qlecon-
nectedly that it conld not be understood.
Witness contintsed.-She commenced CONVEX
sation about her misfortune. She said it was the
first time, but would not be the last. John said.
That's TOO bad" She told him that she was
good as his mother or his sister. told her that
might be true, but that che had not acted right;
that she had deceived him, and should never have
married him. She wouldn't eat any dinner When
tea got he carried some up to her, and pressed
her hard to drink that tea, but she wouldn't. AT
ter that she went away, and after night she came
back with her father and mother. don't know
how they got in. Mr., Wood said, al wouldn't go
up stairs" staid down below till heard some
noise went up then, and on the landing stopped
while to listen heard her handling my name
frequently; then went in and said, Catherine,
don't handle my name" Mrs. Fridley said, "Mrs
Wood carries two faces" said How can
you say that3' related then to Mr.. Fridley all
that had taken place. When went into the room
found Mr. and Mrs Fridley there, and my son and
his wife, told him all, and said that would take
her home if she was my child. They did not APP
pear to be angry excited then. John1went end
sat down. Mr.. Fridley took up bund or trunk,
think bundle, to take down witl&him. Just
then John got up, and commenced crying; pitied
him; and he said she shouldn't go. There was a
little noise, scufie at this time. She asked about
some sheets. Mrs. Fridley had the shovel and tonga
in her hands; she raised them up; the candle was
knocked out; don't know how, but John didn't
do it. The candle was on the table; was nearer
the candle than John. think Mira. Fridley did it
with the shovel and longs threw my arms round
my boy and held him, and he took hold of his wife,
| and held her in his arms kindly. He had a brush
in his hands during the time, and when held him
he struggled to getaway, and in SO doing he struck
1t against the side Of the door and knocked
the handle off, ! didn't see him offer to strike
any one with it. He said she shouldn't go, and
went down gtairs; and while there a message
came down to know if would let them stay
there that night. said elbow can Mrs. Frid-
ley ask such n question that John is in his
own house, and can stay there az long as he
likes" don't remember MIR. Fridley stating
hat e ipAp ohp nf heb vic
occasion when She came home, nor Of Johns
offering to give security that he would never visit
Fridley's again. did say hoped he would put
the law in force if John went to his house making
noise, sc. Am certain didn't hear him say he'd
be damned if he didn't kill some one that night.
They went away saw her after, but never spoke
to her again She never came to my house. John
visited her, as l. understood he seemed to be re-
| conciled to her. He apologized to me Tor what
she had said to me-; he did not wish me to be
angry with her. ! saw great change in
him after the birth of the child. He appeared to-
be miserable and unhappy. He would go out 10
work, and would then come home again without
having gone to his work. would sAy to him that
not love me more than Catherine did" His usual
hour for coming home was about eleven O'Clock
He appeared, during the time after she left my
house, to speak kindly of her. ! never, to my re-
collection, heard him make of any threats.
She and ! have talked over very frequently about
the child, its birth, its father, &c. have asked
her many questions about it; she never appeared
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to me who it's father was, and she told me how il
looked. She told me the father Of the child was
AleCk Shekell.
Cross examined. II spent week at Fridley's the
first time visited them there. She (John's wife)
always appeared to be unhappy. She was as lib
tempered person as / ever cav. She appeared
to be dissatisfied with her situation. She
always jawing him. She said he did not work
enough; that he was always running around
idling his time away that he was too fond of other
ladies: he denied all of these charges She used to
| upset every thing in her room; have seen her do
this dozen times. He would be in the room at
| these times. On such occasions she would want to
go home. She would pack up her things; she never
touched my things She would wrangle and quar-
rel with him. She would overturn the chairs;
when said that she upset every thing in her room,
! mean she would pack up her thugs never saw
any one treated so badly as my poor boy was by
| his wife and by Mrs Fridiey. John told me about
| the child in Mrs. F.'s kitchen.
| When fret visited them | staid week there al
Fridley's house; every thing then poace. Mrs.
Fridley quarreed with and abused him once while
| ! was there. Mrs. +. gave my son an exceliens
character when went there, and before left she
| gave him very different character.
| never carried Mrs. Day with me visiting my
| acquaintance / never said to Mrs. Whitmore
| that she would make my son a good wife. have
said that taking the circumstance out OF the way,
| che would make clever housekeeper. Have never
| said that she would make my good wife if it
was not for his ugly temper, or ugly disposition.
| saw my son on the day he killed his wife. He
left home after he got his breakfast, and then re-
turned at dinner time, about one O'Clock. He was
calm. Can't recollect when he left-sometime in
| the afternoon. He looked if he was sick; this
| was at dinner time. He looked unhappy and
| strange, much so that was uneasy about him.
He eat but little breakfast or dinner; he was not
| much of an eater at any time. Saw no pistol with
| him at any time that day.
| Witness repeated some of the occurrences OF the
evening before that in which Days wife left finally
his mothers house; and then continued: My sons
cond uct towards his wife was that of good and
kind husband. He has talked to her about her de-
ceiving him; he would never do that without he
had cause He didn't appear to be very pleasant;
he did not abuec her curse her. He never used
bad language towards her, violent language.
He talked fhe had been deceived, and basely de-
ceived'
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