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tempted to smother it, and 1t had to be re. moved and cared for by others. Her mother said she was nothing more nor less
 than grandmother right over. After her recovery she had delusions, imagining that she heard terrible noises in the house, and on one occasion asserted that the house
 was brilliantly lighted when in fact there
 were no lights. In these hallucinations she was sincere, and could not be argued out of her statements. At night she would
 walk about the house, waking up the members of the family, but would go back to bed when told. About seven years ago witness found the accused at work with a spade, and when asked what she was doing she replied that she was digging her grave. At another time she started to dig what she called her grave. Just before her marriage to MT. Johnson she imagined she saw snakes and rats in her work, and would scream and run from the house. After her marriage to Johnson witness never heard her say anything about her husband. On the occasion of one of Mir Johnson's visits to the house of witness about year before tlIe shooting, he said Martha thinks hirt with the girls, but its all in her mind. She's crazy" Mrs Johnson laughed, but said nothing. The witness referred to several times when the accused imagined she heard fnotsteps, and would get up in the night.
 Lyman Moore, of Union, owner of the house occupied by Johnson, in Stafford springs, testified that when he collected the rent from Mrs. Johnson he was i'm pressed that she was not all right She appeared excited and irritable, and said she wanted to move because her husband was flirting with other women. This was repeated number of times until witness thought 1t was mania. March 2sth last the witness called at the house and found the accused crying and choking. She ap- peared to be in great trouble caused by jealousy of her husband, whether real ol imaginary the witness did not know, On cross examination, witness said that at ev. cry interview with the accused, she referred to her troubles, ,and appeared to be ebony" on the subject of jealousy. He had men. toned his opinion that she had mania to number of friends before the shooting.
 Ward w. Webster, of Northampton, Mass, the youngest of two sons of the ac- cused by her first husband, testified that he remained at home until 17 years old. Since his earliest recollection his mother showed Arrangement of mind She i'm agined she saw people about the house when she was alone. In the night time
 
 cellar, and even out of the house, and, when spoken to, would say she heard noises. She complained that she could not sleep. On different occasions she had called witness and others to see lights in an unoccupied house that stood opposite, and when told there were no lights, she would say it was strange others could not see them. She would insist that she was right and no amount of argument could change her. She prophesied at times that something awful was going to happen 10 some member of her family, and on one occasion when her husband was away she called witness to the window and said Here's hearse with your fathers body. He's been killed" When told that no hearse was in sight she began crying and had to be assisted to bed. At times she would shut herself in her room and remain without food for two or three days. Wit ness visited his mother at Stafford Springs after her marriage to Johnson, and was on the best of terms with him. On gunning trips, Johnson would sometimes take m old army musket from home, and at other times he would procure guns from neigh bors. During these visits accused told witness that Johnson hirted with other women, that she had seen him, and one night when she was sick that he had a woman in the house. When the witness attempted to persuade her that she was mistaken she replied "Oh, no my eyes never deceive me-" At another time wit ness overheard conversation between Mir. and Mrs. Johnson, when tue latter was charging her husband with flirting, by swinging his lantern to the girls in a house near by. Johnson turned to the witness and said: "Ward, your mother is crazy. She's always talking to me about flirting" Witness told his mother that she was mis- taken, but she maintained she was not These delusions were repeated several times.
 On crosse examination by State Attorney Bill, witness said his mother was always nervous. Her midnight trips about the house did not seem remarkable to him, as they were frequent, and all members of the family were accustomed To being aroused. At the time his mother called witness to see the hearse he was II years old. On the occasions when she shut her self m a room she was not sick. Witness was at school on these occasions, and was not home during school hours, but was obliged to help do housework which was left undone because his mother remained in her room.
 George Hale, q nephew of the accused, testified to her halluclnations about her husbands flirting, and to his own opinion that she was not sane woman.
 Typhoid fever is quite prevalent in some sections of New England just at present, the peculiar weather this season seeming to favor this class of disease, and the need of adopting preventative meas ures is all the more evident Apure water supply is we'll known factor in the ward ing off of diseases of a typhoid or diphthe- retic nature. The use of wells in thickly settled neighborhoods is always attended with danger, and where the use of such wells is apparently unavoidable, as 1t is iu some localities, physicians recommend boil. ing the water and letting it cool again for use. Stafford Springs has public water supply which will rank above that of the average New England town. When the system has been somewhat more extended it's benefits will be largely increased. The use of water furnished as public supply, such as there isin town, is always to be rec. commended in preference to water from wells in the more thickly settled localities. New houses being built, as a rule, are be ing supplied from the aqueduct
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