Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-15

three days before the shooting. 1t
had been common for me to carry guns
on the streets. On the 9th [ left the
bank for home about O. clock, carry
ing the gun. | don't remember talking
with any one. On the way to Cen
tralia [ sat down on Garrison (
Whittlesey's store steps, where Jack
son met me. Don't remember our
conversation. Sat there but a few
minutes when | saw Rossier's hat
and part of his face in his and Hay
denis office door. He looked at me
second, and then disappeared. In
minute he again looked, and in
not over five minutes came out with
Hayden and stood at the door. |
thought they came out to look at me,
and walked by them twenty-five or
thirty feet, when
TURNED SUDDENLY AND FIRED.
/ When [ passed them [ thought they
were jeering at me, and was put in
such rage that | whirled and fired,
not caring what | did | walked by
! them and Rooster said, "What have
you done?" l made no reply. Met
jackson, who said, "You ought not to
have done that l didn't reply. [
saw DR.. Whitney picking Hayden
up. Walked over to Grand Rapids,
called at Gardeners and asked for my
brother. He was lying on lounge
in the back Office, l told him to send
for the sheriff or his deputy and |
believed Hayden would keep up his
pursuit of nay wife down to the last
moment. After the killing, when out
on bail, [ met DIR. Whitney in front of
saloon. He was very drunk and said
he would do the best he could to send
me to States prison.
The defense wishing time for consul
tation, and likewise the prosecution,
court adjourned over until Monday.
Mrs. Cochran made her first appear
ance in the court room this afternoon
for few minutes. She is pale, thin
nosed and Tipped little women, plainly
dressed.
Storrs eloquence has captured the
audience, if not the jury. The gener-
al belief is the jury will acquit in
spite of proof and law.
The direct examination of Cochran
is practically ended, and his cross-ex-
examination will commence on Monday.
HAYDENs WIDOW,
with her three young and fatherless
children, listened to Cochran's story
! of her husbands baseness with no out
ward show of the heart torture she
must have experienced. She is clad in
deep mourning her mobile features.
though careworn, her jet black eyes
and wealth of wavy hair turned pre-
maturely gray, yet bearing self-sufi-
cient evidence of the regal beauty she
once possessed.
MERIDIAN, Sept. 12-The large
crowd of ladies and gentlemen assem-
bled in court to-day betokened that
the bawdy features Of the case as pub
lished had been carefully studied by
Neillville's elite Cochran resumed
his testimony is as follows:
w. T, Jones told me Hayden ap-
preached him previous to the Masonic
trial and asked what the sentiment of
the lodge was toward his expulsion;
told him if he was guilty of adultery
with my wife he ought to be expelled.
Hayden replied: "Oh, hell that
makes no difference; she is damned
-, anyway" in the spring my wife
frequently came home with shawls and
overshoes loaned her by Mrs. Quimby
to meet Hayden; [ was away great
deal nights attending to my mill; some
times till II o'clock. Neeves told me
| ought not to so out unarmed; that
Hayden was dangerous man, went
armed, and might put me out of the
way some night.
Crossed Examlned-I took no notice
of Neeves warning. only to load my
gun and keep it at my beds head;
since my wife's confession I think we
met at least once week down to the
resent time; on the 18th of June she
confessed to criminal intercourse; don't
remember the exact terms she used,
whether criminal intercourse, connec-
ton or what; she said she had met
Hayden at certain places i'll the dark;
saw Hayden frequently and it always
PUT MY HEAD IN A wHIRL
and when [ saw his name or horse,
there would be a rush of blood to my
head, a whirl, frenzy; [ attended to
the general business of the bank;
sometimes it was hard for me between
the 18th of June and the day of the
homicide Mr.. Talmage said his wife
said that DR.. Whitney said Hayden
said L had lived with a - twelve
years; Chase had heard the same
thing; no one told me who had heard
Hayden say so; l heard Hayden had
written my wife to meet him, that be
would give anything to know he was
forgiven; heard that Rossier said she
never had made a confession; never
talked with him nor heard him say so;
he told Erickson he supposed it was a
thrust at me and her; that I WIS a
tool and she was a -; don't know
whether he told Erickson she did or
did not confess, when I said would
take my little girl away if that strum-
pet, Mrs. Quimby staid with my wife,
she came out in tears; [ didn' t say it
in the presence of Mrs Quimby, as |
stated In my direct testimony; my
wife said she had lied to Mrs. HAYDEN |