St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-15
She Cannot Remember Any
thing About the Atrocious
Killing Of Doherty.
Relief Agent Hutchins Discov-
ers a Peculiarly Revolving
Case of Inhumanity.
The Park Commission Favors
a Breeze Reservation on
the West Side.

jury and attorneys Dy the cneef1ulneSS
of the prisoner, and her clear and dis
tinct testimony. She resumed the
stand in the morning, and testified
until the court adjourned at noon. She
began her story from the time she had
her jaw broken on East Seventh
street, in February. 1855. On
account of this injury to her
face, which was brutally inflicted
by Doherty, she was ill in bed in
house corner of ROSabel and Seventh.
where several physicians attended her.
She was confined to her room for two
weeks after the assault, and has always
suffered more or less since from the
effects of the dislocatiOn of her maXil-
Doherty took her back to 222 East
Seventh street, where the two con-
tnued their former relations. While
here she suffered such torturing pam
from the innumerable bruises and con-
tusions upon her head and body that
she was compelled, as she says, to take
morphine to alleviate it. In April
she left for Hot Springs, hoping
to recruit her health and vitality. Her
jaw still remained indented, nOtwith-
standing that several st. Paul doctors
had vainly attempted to straighten it.
While at Hot Springs she received
letters daily from DOhertv, addressed
to Mrs. Clara Doherty. She also paid
her own expenses and had deposited
s325 with Doherty before she left,
which he never returned to her, al
though often requested to do so. In
June she returned tn st. Paul and
asked Doherty to marry her as he had
I'd fn dn q
some excuse on this occasion as he had
done before, and again put her off with
new promises, all of which he failed to
fulfill. After living awhile in a
private house on Jackson street,
She furnished room in the
Blakemore block, at 420 Wabasha street.
Here she lived at the time of the mur-
der. All this time Doherty was still
her companion, but another request to
marry, urged by her in November, was
dOffed, as on former occasions. She
claims that Doherty never contributed
one cent to her support and always
spent his months salary few days
after he received it. When she asked
him for the rent money he always re-
fused, and she had to pay it or be
ousted from the house. She again
begged him to marry her and keep
house, but he gave her no satisfaction,
but an obstinate refusal. He was
drunk nearly all the time, and she says
that all of his money was spent in that
way. While out on spree, he burned
his clothes, completely running them.
She furnisheduhim with new outfit.
and he went on drunk again as usual.
She claims she made and bought every
thing for him, from socks to hat, but
still he remained the same diSsolute and
improvident "Dotty." LII January of
the present year he left her company
entirely. Previous to this, and as
nocturnal carnival dedicated TO himself.
he smashed and beat the prisoner in a
most cruel manner. At one time he
THREATENED TO KILL HER
and did strike her such a wicked blow
between the eyes as to knock her over
the center table. On the mornings fol-
lowing these fights Doherty would pro-
fess his SORROW. and the pair would
make up, forgive each other and wait
for the next row. The last of these oc-
Cured on the 29th of January. almost a
month before the tragedy. On this
night DOherty left the apartments on a
run. Several nights afterward he re-
turned, and, changing his clothes, left
for the last time-tO meet his abused
mistress on the night of the shooting.
At this stag of the proceedings the
clothes which she carried on her mur-
derous errand were produced. When
shown the muff and gloves she denied
having ever seen them before. She
actually disclaimed any and all knowl-
edge of the clothes. poker chips.
pipes and other domestic effects in the
large bundles before her. She said she
had never seen the woman from whom
she secured the ring. The only article
she did recognize was the revolver,
which she said she procured from her
sister at Hot Springs. Thursday she
testified that her sister had given her
the pistol to settle any trouble she
might have with Doherty. She asserts
that she knows nothing whatever of the
murder, and after the incidents of that
day were recounted to her she claimed
she remembered absolutely nothing.
All she seemed to know about the inter-
val from the time of DOherty's
abrupt departure to the homicide was
that she was in very poor health,
taking very little nourishment and
brooding over her lost love. When she
resumed the stand at o'clock Attorney
Egan croSs-eXamined her about the
identity OF the clothes. She positively
SGdCtQ ttldG SIG COulu llOb tCll Wtiut pdl
of the clothes were her own, but en-
phatically denied the ownership of over
half the articles, and knew nothing of
either buying or wearing the gray wig.
There is something very singular about
the clothes. There were several old
dresses, straw bonnet, four mems
linen shirts, about dozen collars and
cuffs three cigar boxes filled with small
articles, cob pipe, ETC., plush
mutf, petticoats and gentlemen's
and ladies' underwear. about 300
poker chips, an empty bandbox and
other unmentlonables, all of which
made several large and cumbersome
bundles. and how One-twelfth of a dozen
women could possibly have lugged them
all is mystery which is startling to the
minds of all who have watched the trial.
Her cross-eXamination elected the fact
that she pawned her sealSkin sacque
and diamond earrings for money with
herself. Between the day on which
Doherty left the prisoner and the date
of the murder the prisoner acknoWl-
edged that she had repeatedly called on
Doherty at the American express Office,
| add had on these visits endeavored
to bring about a reconciliation.
He refused to go back to
her room, however, and she claims that
he even went so far, to rid himself of
her, as to instruct the barkeeper at the
City hotel, where he was then living, to
shoot her if she showed up there. Two
| days before the prisoner killed Doherty
she called at his room in the City hotel,
but was refused admission. Her MEM
ory, she claims, failed her after this
date, Feb. 25, until the day after the
murder had been committed, when she
found herself in Jail. She states that
Noherty was twenty seven years old,
| and that he represented to her that he
was earning S75 per month. The wit
ness then left the stand Grace Brown
| ing, contemporary of the prisoner,
engaged i'll the same immoral