The Morning herald., 1875-09-13
..-. CHARLIE ROSS.
THE TRIAL OF WESTERVELT,


SHE BREAKS DOWN AND SHEDS TEARS
| AN AFFECTING SCENE.
The attendance at the opening of Court on
Saturday was as large as ever. The cross
examination of the wife of Westervelt was
continued. The questions regarding Wester-
velt's visit to Philadelphia IN June were
minute and searching, and close inquiries
were made as to the dates of departure and
return, the preparations for the trip, and
Westervelt's actions, his comings and 60
ings, after his return. The answers were
not definite, and there were many points on
which the witness recollection was not
clear. The answers to the questions in
volved the relation of many particulars of
household hardship and bitter poverty. The
date Of the Goth of June, the second day
after her husbands return, was fixed upon
witness memery by a painful experience.
The rent was coming due, and there was no
money with which to pay it. A consulta-
tion was held between husband and wife,
and as the result she took small breastpin
Of his and pawned it. The money received
was not sufficient, and a small watch was
also taken and pawned, and thus money
enough was raised to pay the rent. BY the
date of the tickets she fixed the date. and
knew that the arrangement of these details
kept her husband at home nearly all day.
At this point of her testimony the forti-
tude of the witness broke down altogether
and she wept quite bitterly. The little
daughter, sitting by her fathers side, cried
in sympathy with her mother, and was sad
and subdued during all the session, her face
catching the shadow on her mothers at all
times.
The questions put by Mr.. Hagert followed
the defendant up through every days ex-
perience and acts until the 9th of July. 1t
was testified that he passed great portion
OF the time during the period at home.
Some days he was home nearly all day, and
when he went out, ostensibly at least, TO
seek work or to see about the police business.
He was rarely out at all evenings, but on
the evening Of the Sd of July he went out
about eight o'clock, and she did not know
where he went, as he did not tell her, and
she did not ask him. As to the pic-nics
she had the testimony Of others as we'll as
himself that he was there; besides, he
brought home from there refreshments OBJ
tained there, and the money received for his
attendance. One of these pic-nics was held
on the Fonrth of July and another on the
fifth, Sunday.
The questions regarding the 9th of July,
the day when Mrs. Peer testified to having
seen Westeryelt in street car, with little
boy answering the description of Charlie
Ross, were very minute and close. On that
morning witness arose about O'Clock,
leaving her husband in bed. She did not |
see him again until nearly noon, and she had
every reason to believe that he remained in
bed all that time, although she did not see
him after she left him there.
AT ABOUT NOON
he came, dressed, out of the bedroom into
the room where the wife did the cooking,
and asked for his coffee. There was door
from the bedroom into the cooking room,
and one from the cooking room into the
hall. The bedroom was dark room,
lighted only by hall window, above reach.
The door between the two rooms was kept
open all the time for the sake of ventilating
The room. Witness explained that when
she said she did not see her husband be-
tween O'Clock and nearly noon, she meant
that she did not see him up. She passed
,he bedroom door several times in the inter-
val, and saw him lying in bed. This she
vas positive of. He did not 60 out at all in
;he afternoon, but took pillow and blanket
md lay down in the hall. In the evening
le went out. n
The next day he went out early, and did ;;
lot come back until about o'clock, when
le said he had been out seeing about the
,olice business. This was fixed on the wit
'ess' memory, she said, by the fact of it's
'eing the day after the 9th, her birthday. 6
Mr.. Hagert pressed for the connecting link '
# association between the two days in the
mind of the witness. A similar association
occurred on the 30th of June, because 1t was t
lad to pawn the breastpin and the watch. i
The 18th of July was date which witness n
emembered because she had to pawn some C
more articles on that day. She was able to t
ay positively that William Mosher was not
t their house on that day, and witness did a
lot see him at all until between the 11th and P
4th of August, t
The visits of Mosher to the Westervelt t.
rouse were closely inquired about. Mrs.
Vesteryelt, to Judge from her manner of \
peaking Of Mosher, did not regard him Il
ordially, and said she had no idea why he o
anne to their house, as he was never in G.
tied there to her knowledge. On the occa- Il
ion of his first visit her husband was out. fl
dosher inquired for him, said he would call a
gain in day or two, and after a few SEN q
ences exchanged, he went away. Witness "
i'd not ask him his business. n
SHE TOLD HER HUSBAND.
n his return of Mosher's visit, and he #
sked what he had said and what he w
vanted. Mosher's next visit was a day or
wo later. Westervelt was home when Mo- r
her and Douglass came, but he was going j
ut to see his lawyer, Col. Fellowes. The b
wo men waited until his return, and then OF
taid to dinner. She knew that her hus- Al
and saw Col. Fellowes, because he brought n,
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