The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-22


Up stairs arm inarm, singing I'VE
re marching along" to his room.
rhey were discovered as stated.
When MYERS was taking her home
o her fathers he swears she asked |
lin if they couldn't get along to-
5ether in future; and when they
'eached her fathers she threw her
.rms about his neck and kissed him
good by.
Nathan Wood, a neighbor Of De
Waters, saw De Waters and Nivers
holding private,consultation on the
Dist of June. MYERS left De Wa
ters' farm soon afterward, and De
Waters said he had discharged NV
ers for fear people would say that cit
was put-up job," and that he had
told MYERS he had better go away
for awhile. II.
The story Of Beach Fuller, Of
Wells, Pennsylvania, is direct as to
there having been conspiracy. He
swears that he met MYERS in that
place soon after he left Southport.
They became very intimate. MYERS
took Fuller into his confidence. He
said that De Watts had discharged
him for being in bed with his wife,
but that it was all understood be
tween them. De Waters, MYERS
said, wanted to marry Emma MYERS,
and must have divorce. He agreed
with his hired man to pay him $50
if he could manage to make it appear
before witnesses that there was an
illicit intimacy between him and
Mrs. De Waters. He managed it
and got his money. De Waters had
told him to 60 to Pennsylvania and
stay there until the excitement died
out. MYERS declared to Fuller that
De Waters always had loved his sis
ter Emma, and that he was deter
mined to get rid of his wife in some
way. MYERS did not tell Fuller the
circumstances that he swore occur
red between him and Mrs. De Water!
when he was taking her to he
fathers.
| According to De Waters own ties
timony he had a watch dog tina
made loud outcries at night whel
anyone approached the house, but i
he was unclaimed he always wen
away to farm where he was origi
nally brought from. On the nigh
of the Goth Of June the dog was TN
chained and was nowhere about tn
premises. The outside cellar doc
was also always locked on the inside
On the night in question it was nc
fastened. These facts, the prosecu
ton claim, 60 to show that the seen
that was witnessed by his fatber-ir
law and Schnick at midnight ha
/ been all planned. The dog was dis
, posed of to prevent giving an alarr
on the approach of the men to th
:, house, and the cellar door was lei
| unlocked so that east entrance coul
be had to the house.
: Mrs. Dc Waters was in the coul
asking to be heard in her own beha
but her evidence was objected to b
J, the counsel for the defendants, an
; the objection was sustained, He
: story is, however, that she was i'll @
' the night her husband went ava,
! MYERS said he would get bottle ,
+ medicine that was in the pantr
He went after it, and as he was gol
: some time Mrs. De Waters foliowe
4 him. into the pantry. MYERS ha
the bottle in his hand, aud was
4 the act of replacing the cork, whie
he had removed. Mrs. De Waite
E took dose Of the medicine, and in
e short time became drowsy and st
: pid. The last thing she remembe
S ed until she was aroused by her hu
:, band was trying to fight against Il
d overpowering s|eepiness. She b
J. lieves that MYERS drugged the med
j. cine she took, and when she was II
der its effects, carried her to bed 81
Hay down beside her. It was ear
J. in the evening, and by the time h
e husband and his witnesses arriv,
n the effects Of the drug had main
i passed off and she was easily ava
j. ened. To all who know the natu
a of Mrs. De Waters her story CARR
e conviction.
e. An important fact elected On t
], trial is that on the Friday previo
j. to the Goth of June De Waters b
,e declared to both his parents and /
e, wife's that he had nothing to S
80 arainst his wife exppnt that he h