Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-07-15

killed. | went to the door and Claudia
Vould't let me out. halloed to John, sd
lilled pap 1 requested to stay at the in
Iuest but was refused. | said the baby was
Tying, and wanted to see pap brought in
md cared for. Four men came into the room
md arrested me; wouldn't let me have bon
let or shawl; Phil Neihart said it was al
ihame; was taken down the path, but l said
wanted to go the other way. The consta-
Die said he wanted no contrariness; some one
pushed me nearly on the body. Had diff |
:ulty on Saturday before; got in his way,
md he took hold of me and called me Ike |
Ramsey's - said you got up wrong
md foremost, didn't ye?. Neither spoke to |
he other that day Sunday morning he got
lp in better hunior; Ike Ramsey vas there
.wo hours; l asked how he got along raising
told him ours was not hatching; ;he
said he'd bring me fresh eggs; Pap didn't look
pleased, and after he went away Pap said
Nancy Duvall said Il was acting bad l said
she was liar. He picked up a stove wood;
| went into my room and locked the door; he
tried to get in; we quarTeled at dinner, and
Claudia and John had come in; Claudia ask
ed where ma was, and he said out in the
bushes with Mike Hess, as usual She went
to getting dinner; came out, and John said,
Mike Hess had gone and didn't get to see
her; told him Ike Ramsey was here and
Hess got mad All the time at dinner we
were quarreling; he tried to employ Mike
Hess to cover corn for him. Nothing took
place that day. Monday morning took
breakfast otter he did, and then worked in
the garden. He called on me to send that
id little - of - to drop corn. | said
he was not up, and that I'd come; he said no,
and called me names. Davy said he wouldn't
I
said he'd beat his brains out; Davy run and
pap threw down his hoe and picked up some
thing and threw it at him. He said, Now,
your id hearts blood will pay for this; you
told him to run and encourage him not to
mind me- he came at me with a hoe, but l
had hoe and told him to keep away. At
supper l was out hoeing. l staid in a little
room that night with the door locked. Pap
was at the door two or three times, and l
asked him what he wanted, and he said he
would show me some time. Tuesday at din
ner Cora Helms was there. Pap said, how
did it happen that Mike Hess would work
for me and not for him. He called me liar,
and bad words were used on both sides; he
threw up Mike Hess and Ike Ramsey to me,
and /, Nancy Duvall to him. When out on
the porch he looked back and said, Cora,
when you go over on the Run, tell everybody
you see that caught Mike Hess with her in
the bushes all day Sunday | threw milk
on him. He said - you, and picked up
an iron last, and l struck him with a rolling~
pin, and then went into the room. told my
little girl if she saw pap coming that after
noon to tell me. About o'clock he came to
the cellar, and she told me he was coming;
went to the window, and he had a hatchet
and threatened to strike me. He said he
bod frNo Il > 4
he would kill me. 1 said the gallows would
get him. He said he would kill me if he
hung in ten minutes When he was in a
good humor he would say he was not jealous.
| told Claudia on Wednesday evening not to
call me to supper when the rest came. l was
in the field northeast of the kitchen; saw him
at the gate at the old house as l came in.
Claudia gave me warning on Wednesday; she
said, 'mJther, you have very little satisfac-
tiOn;' she said, you and pap will not live to-
gether long, She said, you should make
your peace with God, you will not live long,
and told me what he had said to John Tscha-
pat about beating my brains out when the
corn was planted. Davy, about 2 o'clock,
said, Go over to the cornheld; pap said he
would beat your brains out and leave They
expected to finish that evening | went and
hunted a revolver, but didn't find it. ] went
to the cornfeld, but pap didn't see me, and
staid till smoke started at the house. Went
b lck and found it about half past 3; asked
Claudia where the revolver was; she said she
didn't know; afterwards she got it; l then
went TO the truck patch to work. Left word
if he came to tell him | had taken the gun,
and if he came Pd shoot; had not seen the
revolver since John brought it home after
New Years. Pap told NE to get it to keep
boys out of the peach orchard. got John
to Ering it home; he had it borrowed, and l
got him to bring it home for something both
cred the chickens, and pap told me to do so;
he used it sometimes to kill hogs. | have
four children-one infirm-not much mind,
and can't see or hear good; the youngest child
was six years old last March. Mike Hess
never said anything to me about injury to my
husband or me to him. DR.. Riggs attended
me when | was sick last October; pap had
struck me across the back with a piece of
stove wood. slammed me once against the
bureau and threw a knife at me; the next
morning | was sick in bed. The doctor ask
ed me what caused the hemorrhage, and said
| was about to have miscarriage, and / told
him Mrs. Duvall had told pap tales and he
came home and made fuss. The doctor
said Take the broomstick and drive him Off >
l don't remember of telling him how much
thought of Mike. l was sick about four
months; don't remember saying to the doctor
that | had tried to drive pap away all sum-
mer. Last summer he threw a corn cutter
at me. He struck me twice at supper We'd
nesday, On the face and head, and my head
was made very sore; blood came from my
nose for about ten days. 1t was on Tuesday
that l had a skillet handle, and not a revolver,
after striking him with rolling pin; he said
he'd cut my heart out, and believe he said,
will eat il, and / stuck the handle out and said
I'd give him that.
Cross examined-I said il from the little
room window. Had got the handle off of
the mantel in the big room. Had used it for
nine years as hammer. Think Claudia was
on the porch; think it was before noon On
Tuesday, and before Cora Helms came. /
usually went to that room to get away from
him. He came to the cellar for seed corn.
Can't tell what the dispute was about then.
Don't think told Claudia it was the handle.
l asked Cora in jail yesterday, how it happen
ed she could tell on me and not on pap. She
said she didn't like to use the bad language
on the stand. told her l had a notion to
have her locked up in Jail. l never could
like her for swearing to lie. ! told Hiram
Warren last summer that pap was mighty
cross to me. told DR. Riggs about as much
as had told any one Didn't tell himit was
fright that caused the hemorrhage, but it was
he that said so. Ny back and side were blue
with the bruises. When l threw the rolling
pin he had picked up keg and laid it down,
and then stopped to pick up the iron last. l
didn't see whether the pin struck him. /
think he then went away from the house.
Yes, we had qusrrels often. After supper,
Tuesday. Claudia called him, and l went into
the big room, and pap came to the porch. 1
didn't hear what was said. l didn't see him
next day till evening, when he asked about the
sx; told him didn't know, and to go about
MS business; knew that he was mad.
Testimony of defendant closed here.
Testimony Of State in rebuttal.
Harrison Msssie sworn-Before the Coro
ler Claudia! !Tschapat testified that she tried
% keep the door shut, but, between her faith
,r and mother trying to get the door open,
The was overpowered, and as soon as she got
he door opeR her mother fired. l was at
Warren's house the next day, and Claudia
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