Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-05

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Q. What was the cause of your Burning
her clothes there? A. Jealousy.
Q. Where were You the day before yor
burnt her clothes? \. Twas at work.
O. Whore? A. At the Portland ant
Kennebec paint shop.
O. Did you see her at noon? \. Nc
ir. / came up in the first train in the morn
ng. and went back in the six o'clock dummy
| Q. What occasioned your jealousy At tina
ime? A. This man inquired at the depo
where I lived.
@ What man? A. Alonzo Butler.
. Q. What did he say? A. He inquired
where | lived. He told them that l hac
moved from the Central House from Augusta
md they told him they didn't know.
Q. Who told him they didn't know? a
The station agent, Mr.. Thomas, and the ex
press agent.
Q. Did you ask them? A. No sir.
@. Where did you go then? a. wen
up to Mr.. Dudleys; did not go to the houst
when | came down. | found my wife at MIR
Dudley's, where took my meals.
Q. Was that the night you TOT her clothes
up? a. No sir.
Q. Did you have any difficulty with your
wife about this Mr.. Butler! A. No DIM
Guilty. | told her about it and asked hel
what she thought it meant.
@. On the day preceding the night when
you tore and burnt her clothes up, what was
the cause, what did you see that induced you
20 do that? A. On that day | came home
As usual 1t was the 10Th of July; know
it was for the circus was here in Augusta
When went home, while l was eating my
supper-she did not come as usual. Mr..
Dudley asked me where my wife was. he
had ten or twelve boarders, and some sao
she was there to dinner 'and some said she
was not. | asked Mrs Dudly where she
was, and she said that she didn't know-that
she had not been there since morning. just
about the time had finished my supper, my
wife came in and sat down by the side OF me.
got up and she said, wait till am done
my supper" l made no reply, but started
for the house. | turned round and saw her
running after me.
Q. For the purpose of overtaking you
x. Yes sir She was running after me but
did not stop. l went on and got to the shop
first. By shop he means where his wife
cut and made dresses. was not in there but
Il few seconds before she came in. l asked
her where she had been. She said she had
been ND to Augusta. Don't remember what
f was said, but | took a newspaper and sat
down by the back door that leads into the
back yard, and was reading it. Mr.. O'Brien' 5
daughter came in to see something about a
dress, and she and my wife were in the other
room talking. Very soon there came very
loud and heavy rap at the door, so that it
started me. got up to go To the door my
self. but she got there before me. She went
there very quick, and head a mans voice
say, ''there was a carriage driven down here
Just now-twenty minutes or haltpn hour
ago, and a lady got out and came in here.
We want to find out who that man was drlv-
ing the carriage" She said-s'no lady came
in here" lie sad-''yes there was She
said-"no, you are mistaken, she did not
come in here Don't you know said he,
''about any carriage coming dewn here with
Lady that got out and come in here" She
said-''no," that it was a policeman, and |
never knew till sometime afterwards that ii
was a man who kept store on the opposite
side of the street-o Water street did
not see the man, and he went away, and she
shortly shut the door and came in. | asked
her what it meant, and she said she didn't
know. and said there had not been anybody
in there. | looked at her and saw that
she was dreadfully confused and looked
wild
@. What did YOU do then? A. stepped
into the room where the little boy slept, put
on my coat, put on my nat, and then took my
revolver-~no, /
Q. Took your revolver, did you? a. No,
t did not take it. | recollect was going to
get it, but did not take it.
Q. How do you recollect you didn't take
it? A. Because was going to get a team
if had been coming up on foot should have
taken it. Witness continued She said
where are you going" because l remember
distinctly when l went to get up she came and
put her arms around my neck and said
r where are you are going?' l said l was
/ going out and she said don't CO." when
e went II my trunk to get my revolver.
Mr.. Reed-Wiat was your object in getting
your revolver then? A. l have always car
red one with me ever since l was on the
police, nights when l was going out. When
| didn't carry it, kept it in my trunk
Witness continued. She put her arms
you all about it," She wanted me to sit down
| sat down and she did not proceed to tell me
} l said, 'What is it? Tell me or am going
out" She said, at was me in the carriage
! | got out of the carriage and came in here.
, | said, 81 am going out to see about it" and
she begged me not to go out. | think she
said she would give me back the deed Of that
d farm. She said, Il have thought so all along
that had better give yeu the deed of thai
! farm back" l said, II cannot live and
5 must go out to see what this means" Invent
right up to the boarding house and asked Mrs
Dudley if she was certainly there to dinner
D She said she was not. went right down tc
Mr.. Niles stable, which is on the same street
. and asked him if he had team that he coulC
carry up to Augusta, and right back. Sh,
e had told me that she did not know who this
man was that brought her down from Angus
Ia, but DIR. Thompson got him to bring hel
: down. ! told her l would see; that did no
know but what it was so. l went and got
team and a man so drive me up. He asket
# me if | didn't know how to drive myself, ant
| told him did not want to drive, for wa
. excited. l came up to DIR. Thompson's, ant
he told me that he did get this man to driv,
r her down.
d Mr.. Reed-Was that the reason why 20,
It tore up her clothes? A. l will tell you, ifyol
will allow me. l went back and said to her
e That man you didn't know that DR.. Thompson
!; got to bring you down; said where have 20,
been and why she didn't come down on thu
). dummy with me, as she knew l was there
She said she did not want me TO know she wa
Il up there: she wouldn't tell me where she hat
d been, and could not get any satisfaction.
1t told her if she would not do better that we ha'
s better break up. She went directly out
Mr.. Reed-Then you had no occasion t.
i. tear and burn up her clothes! A. / though