St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-01

When asked how wealthy Mrs. Rich was
| he said he did not know exactly. She had
railroad stock that paid her 81, 400 a year.
Her father died leaving $3.50, 900 or more to
be divided between three heirs. II was
possible that she might be worth Sl00, 600.
He did not know, bat presumed so. She
would have been very glad TO have gwen
half of it
TO GET RID OF RICH.
When asked whether the relations in the
East would have the bodies forwarded. he
replied that he could not say. 1t was Mrs.
Rich's wish, frequently expressed, that he
should not be buried with her or in her lot.
He could not tell. though. whether the rela-
tives in the East would carry out her wishes
in this respect or not. When they left Coble-
skill the understanding was that their rela-
tives should keep close watch on Rich.
Mrs. Rich had two farms and she placed
him on one, but he was too shiftless 10 get
a living. He let everything go TO ruin. He
did not know how to farm or how to do
anything to get living. He made her life
miserable and she could not live with him.
He kept his eyes on her all the time and
would not let her get out of his sight sim
gle minute "Why, sir. she has gained
twenty pounds since she has been i'm Min
neSOta. She has been as happy as any one
could be. Since she has been here she has
been lively, and bright, and light-hearted.
She was a great favorite here in the hotel.
Everybody that met her liked her. Rich
would have killed her in the dining-roOm If
had not cOaXed him TO 90 up stairs to my
room. 1t is wonder to NE that we were
not all shot in the dining-room. He in
tended to shoot and some time ago told
her that if she ever left him he would fol-
low her around the world and kill her as
certain as she lived. The people here have
no idea how miserable he made it for her.
How different it was here! Here she was
so happy! So happy! All our arrange
ments were going on so satisfactorily as
long as he did not know where We were.
We had made all arrangements in Dakota
for our divorces and had everything so
nicely fixed. In a short time we would have
been married and then everything would
have been settled and no more trouble. OH
it's too bad, too bad, and we had everything
so smooth and so near an end. Why, all
her folks advised her TO leave him. He was
outrageous to her."
On being asked if he knew Judge Netha-
way of Saltwater he admitted that he did,
and said the judge knew her family in
CObleskill, and that they (Dr. Gale and
Mrs Rich) intended to go over to Saltwater
to see him. She often spoke of it and they
would probably have gone over there this
week. Rich's whole intent and purpose was
undoubtedly
TO KILL HER.
He made up his mind to that at Cobleskill.
He had only one idea in his head aud that
was to find her. and if she would not go
back with him to kill her. The papers
made great mistake this morning about
those books that they said were found here.
Those were not her books at all. She never
owned them. Rich brought them here him
self. They are books that he got on the
cars and read on the way out here. Another
mistake that was made by the papers was
in regard to those photographs. They were
not the photographs of my children at all.
Talk about honor! He is the one that did
the scaly work in that Trimble matter.
don't understand it very well. She had TO
pay Trimble a good sum of money to get
rid of him. did not care enough about
the matter to inquire about it, and the sub
| ject was not very agreeable" He then re-
verted again TO the shooting, and gave his
view or theory of how Rich intended TO
proceed. He said: "Rich undoubtedly in
tended TO get the police to arrest
me, and then while the police had
me in custody to seek an interview
with her and endeavor to get her TO 90
over again with the account of the way
Rich came into the dining-room, and said,
''if we had anticipated any such thing as
this, we would have gone to Europe and
given him plenty of time to cool off. 1t
was four weeks of happiness TO the poor
thing any way. If we had gone to Europe
there would have been no trouble Now
we can see it. but we could not before ii
happened. We had better have left the
country. Rich had only $50 with him. He
could not have followed us very far with
that and could not get any more. 1 shall
always think he was insane. Her uncle
thought so, too; but she's gone, poor thing" "
On being asked how he would fix up
matters with his own family, the doctor
said, that's all right There will be no
trouble at all about that" All through the
interview the doctor was struggling to sup
press his feelings. and sighed continually.
His whole conversation carried the idea
that he had done nothing wrong; that the
parties had all agreed to the arrangement
for the doctor and Mrs. Rich to get divorces
and be married, and that Rich was TO be
paid certain sum TO relinquish his wife.
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