The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-14

10 give her deed Of trust but your husband said
~ must De done. The devil told you to 90 down
stairs and get the kitchen poker and YOU went
When you came up again it seemed to tell YOU to
go and get your husbands shirt and coat and put
them on, so that II you got any blood on you it
would look as though he did it, You did not think
ne could be convicted. You thought his good
character would acquit him. You went and put
on MS Shirt and coat; you then came down and
struck her great many times with the poker
and Just as you stopped she jumped up very sud
denly and ran to the window, which was up: IL
frightened you for moment, and then when you
had got there she had fallen out. You supposed
1t was her last strength You then went down
stairs and took the money and struck her sew
eral times again, and then washed your hands
at the hydrant, letting it run a few moments
You wiped your hands on n towel that was hang
ing there. You then went up in the dining room
and looked at the money. 1t had blood on it, and
you were afraid to keep it, and you put it in the
fire. You found after you went up to your bed
room that you had blood on your night cap, and
you put it in the stove and it was burned up. You
then got into bed. This was about half an hour be-
ore Sarah Campbell came home After you heard
the bell ring several times, you woke me up, and
asked me to go down and let her in and see where
mother was. This must all be in your own Ian
guage.
Camilla, II should de- who would nurse you
when you were sick? Who would be the company
for you that l cam have nursed you through
many weary hours of pain. If you should falter
or feel too weak to do this, think of that; think
how lonely you would be without me, and all the
world against you; but know you will not leave
me alone now. You will be asked great many
questions, but you must not contradict yourself
when you answer them. It is an awful, awful
thing for you to do this but it is the only thing that
can save my life, and would have done this to have
haI Lnn..
had done it, it would have cost me my life;
but they can't do anything at all with you now
can't even hold you under bail. If have to die,
the public generally will still believe that you
guilty, and If live will go with you to some
other State under an assumed name. will never,
never leave you will work and starve IL neces-
sary to provide for you comfortably. Only help me
to escape this awful, awful DEATH and know you
will do it. You will not deceive me in this dread
full hour Of peril Do not for anything let any eye
but your own see this. AS soon as you are done
with it burn it up. Twill give you all the necessary
instructions how to do it, when to do it, and where
to do it.
Second You did not do it, nor see it done but
you know that your husband did not do it, You
had made no arrangements with Mr. Gilbert to
have it DONE He first spoke to you about it one
afternoon, two months before it was done. You
happened to meet him at the corner of Fifteenth and
Pine, as you were coming down Pine, having been
taking walk; he spoke to you, and walked down
Pine to Twelfth street with you He asked you
how your mother was, and remarked what
trouble she must be to you. If she was
to die how nice you would be fixed. The
next time you saw him was about three weeks
after. You met him on Eighth street below Race.
He again asked about your mother; how she was?
il she was not rather childish? This time he
asked IL she did not carry a good deal of money
about her. You asked him how he knew any
thing about it, He said that your husband acci-
dentally mentioned it once when he was talking
about her, and also that Mr. Henderson had told
him. He left you at the corner of Filbert street.
About week afterwards you met him in the car
on Ninth street. He spoke and asked how your
mother was. You got out at the corner of
Ninth and Arch streets and left him in it. Two
or three days afterwards you saw him again. You
were looking in the window at the pictures at
Gutekunsts, in Arch street, above Seventh, when
he came up and spoke to you He then asked you
If you were going up the street? You told him you
were. He said he would walk up with you. He
walked up to Tenth, where you took the car to
come home. On this walk he asked you how your
mother was and again said how nicely you and
your husband would be fixed If she should die, and
how imprudent it was for your mother to carry
her money about with her, and asked you if she
did not stay up very late at night? and whether
you and your husband stayed up with her q? You
told him that we went to bed very early. This
was all about the trouble with him about the will
He apologized to you for reading 1t to your mother
You never told your husband Of meeting him, for
he did not like him, and said he was bad man.
You did not see him again for about two weeks,
when you again met him in Eighth street. above
Chestnut He spoke to you, and walked up Eighth
to Arch, where he left you, going down Arch
He again got to talking about your mother;
how troublesome she must be, and if she was
to die how nice we could live, nothing to
trouble us. He also asked about our servant; /;
whether we had good one; how hard it was to
get a good one. That they always wanted an af-
ternoon and evening every week. He asked you
If we gave our servant this? You told him that
she had every Thursday afternoon and evening,
and every other Sunday afternoon and evening.
He then asked you if your mother allowed her to
stay out later You said she came home generally
between nine and ten o'clock. He also asked you
IL YOU waited up for her or gave her key!
You told him your mother always waited up
for her; that you and your husband went to bed.
He asked what time? You said about o clock.
He then told you that he had been on to New York,
and had an elegant time. He said that he took
the world very easy; that nothing ever troubled
him, You saw him few days after this in Chest
nut street; he going up and you going down. He
bowed to you. You saw him again, the thursday
hefore the murder, at Eighth and Chestnut; he
ioined you and walked up as far as Cherry, when
he left YOU and went up Cherry street. On this
occasion, as usual, he talked OF your nother.
rte asked Won how much money she carried about
herr You told him you thought ABOUT w. VoO. he
! eaid n was a nice pile. You asked him how he
wonld like to have it. He SID first rate. You
told him he could have il If he would send for II
TIa asked when time