Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-03

er in Portland: told him did not know him
he said he thought he went to see his (Ilos-
well's) wife, and asked me if / saw any one
i calling there to let him know it.
! Cross Ex.--I did not wach for him.
Cyrus III. Elems, having been sworn, testi-
fied-Reside in Hallowell; work in p. & X.
/ X. r. shop; am acquainted with Mr.. Hos
WE'LL he worked in the shop few rods from
whore | worked; had known HIM 10 or j
months; he had worked in the shop about
that time; we did not work in same shops
saw and talked with Iosweil most every day
about his troubles he would meet me in the
| the engine room; lie seemed very much
grleved and troubled, once while talking with
Tic of his troubles, he shed tears; he said the
trouble was jealousy of his wife think he
spoke of Butler; it was at time he
burned up all of her clothing; said he
thought Butler and his wife were intimate
said that why he burned the clothes was be-
cause they were bought with his money and
he did mt feel as though he wanted other men
riding with his wife with those clothes; he
| thought he had right to burn them; he came
| voluntarily and told me his troubles: he came
and talked with me think about every day
about his trouble. | cannot repeat his Ian
| guage. When he first came to me he SPOKE
| to me about man named Gardiner; do not
know where he lives; said somebody had told
him she had rode down with Mr.. Gardiner
did not say who told him; l think he TOLD
| me that was why he tore up his wife's clothes
Mr.. Libbey put into the case as evidence
the written tesiimoy of City Marshal Fowles
of Hallowell before the coroner's inquest.
At % Mr.. Li5bey moved that the prison
| er be sworn.
The Court to the prisoner. Do you desire
to be witness in your own behalf ~
| Answer. | do.
| Mrs. Hoswell, as the prisoner stepped te
the witness stand, bowed h II head and buried
her face in her handkerchief
! Examination of prisoner by Mr.. Libbey be-
| gam
Q.-What is your age, Mr.. Hoswell? A
| Ferty-seven last September.
Q.-Where was you born? A.-Pautuck-
ct. II. l.
Q.-What was your fathers name? A.
| James Roswell.
| Q.-Your mothers: A.-Carolinc Hos
well.
| Q.-When did your mother die? A.--When
l was about seven. or between seven and
eight.
| Q.-Is your father dead: Ayes Sir.
| Odd they leave any children besides
you? Ayes sir.
Q-How many: Al had a sister and a
brother.
Q.-Are they living? A.--No sir.
Q.-When did your brother die? A
When he was fifteen years old, sir
| Q,-When did your sister die? A.-She
was about twenty when she died, sir.
Q,-Have you any relations living now. be-
sides your wife? A.-Not that know Of
| Have not heard from home since / married
| this wife.
! Q.-When was you first married? A
! When was about Twenty-Five; could not tell
| exactly when.
| Q.-Where was you married first: A.
1t was in Springfield, Mass.
Q.-When did your first wife die? Al
think it was in 1860, in Lawrence Mass.
Q,-What time in the year? Alt was il,
| the latter part of August.
| B.-When was you married TO your pres
ent wife? A.-July, 1861.
| Q.-Where? An Lawrence.
| Q.-What was her ame before you mar
| ried her? A.-Jane l.. Norton.
Q.-liad she been previously married: \.
Yes sir.
90 whom? A.-John E. Smith @
| Q.-Whether she was divorced from him D.:
| \. Yes sir
Q. When did YOU frs. live in Lawrence
| \. | could not tell exactly; / think it was
| somewhere in 1855.
| Q. How long did you remain there? A.
L
| Q. Keep house therel \. Yes sir; kept
house and boarded. r.rEIr
@. Where did you move in 1862? A.
| Piermont, n. Y.
Q. How long did you live there? A.
| a bout year. ....... -
Q. Keep house there? A. Yes sir; board
| ed in the first place, then went to keeping
house. ......
Q. Where did you go when you moved
! from Picrmont: A. Moved to Hudson City,
n. j. -.
@. How long did you live theres A.
| About five years.
@. Keep house? A., Yes sir. CA ss.. .sr
Q. Then where did you go? A. l went
| over into New York City.
| Q. How long didiyo stay there? A. Six
or seven months.
Q. Then where did you go? A: Moved
to Hermon, Me.
i @. When did you move to Hermon? A.
In the Spring of 1868.
Q. Did your wife live with you all the
the time at these various places? A. Yes
! sir.
Q. What is her age, now: A. / think i.
is thirty-four.
q. Did you at anv time become jealous OF
her? A. Yes sir; have ~ A.. =
Q. Where? A. | think the first jealousy
we had to amount to anything, was in Her
mon, Me-
| g. What was the cause of that? A.
About some shirts she bought unbeknown to
me. When we moved from New York to
| Hermon, she made some shirts and sent them
back to Hudson City
| q. Had she told you for whom she was
making them? A. She told me they were
for the husband of a lady we had known in
New York City. "Sf
Q. What did you learn? A. BY an en-
velope that found, discovered that they
were going to doctor in Hudson City. m
@. You were jealous of her and the doc
tor? A. That was the cause of the trouble
we had in Hermon. ,,q-e-v.--. ,.e--r -4
| Q. Now state what you did in that trouble
| to her clothes. A. | was at work on my
farm; Mr.. Kimball got me to do some work
On She being away in Bangor; and that
morning was changing my clothes; had
a shirt stud, Qike one of the same have on
now laid it on the table; happened to
think of it, and went back to get it; it was
gone. and | asked her where it was, and she
did not know where it was,-said Mr. Kim
balls boy had stolen it. did not think the