The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-28

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or three different occasions. The
first time in August in the pres
ence of my niece. 1t was, in my
house; he had been drinking; he
struck me with his fist on both
sides of the head. Can't remember
what he said and don't know any
reason for it, he struck me four or
five licks at that time. / did not
do anything to him. The second
time about a month before the
shooting he was drinking a little
at the time. He struck me with
his fist and kicked me it was about
8 or 10 O'clock in the evening. He
did not say why he did it that l
remember, he was angry. One year
ago this spring he hit me with a
whip, it was wagon-whip, and he
struck me twice. He was sober at
the time. / was not feeling well, l
was going to bake biscuit and the
stove would not get hot and he
opened the stove door and / closed
it. He said if / closed it he would
whip me. / closed il again and he
struck me with his fist and twice
with a wagon-whip he had been
mending. My brother, Henry Nc
Curgish was present and told my
husband that he ought to be
ashamed of himself. He often
threatened to whip me when he
would be angry or drinking. I don't
know how often he threatened me.
1 don't know whether my brother
knew of these assaults or not, l new
er told him. / was in poor health
during the summer. Nov Oath my
husband was drinking. The even
ing before there was several peo-
pie at our house and Ezra Town
send stayed all night. My hus-
band told Townsend that the one
who woke up first should go and
fetch something to drink. They
began drinking about or 5 o'clock
a. m. Viola Geen worked for me
about two weeks before Mark was
killed; she came to OuI house the
day of the shooting and washed my
brothers clothes and her own and
some clothes for me. She washed
for my brother while she lived with
me. The clothes were hung on the
line in my yard and my husband
cut the line, 1 think. He came in
to the house with his knife open
and told Viola to gather up her
clothes and leave, and she did SO
I went up to Van Sickle's saloon
about 6 o'clock and told my BROTH
er he had better come down and
watch his shanty, then turned
and went back home. When my
brother and Madison came to the
shanty and saw the broken win
dow, Madison called and asked
who did this? l heard my hus-
band say of my brother in presence
of Viola Green that he would kill
him. Once in presence of Arthur
LaFollette, some time before the
shooting, Zone month, perhaps,) he
threw rocks at my brothers shanty
while my brother was at home and
at another time he did the same
thing in presence of Viola Green,
in reply to my question, he an
swered that he did it because he
wanted to. Question of HI. B. Nc
Curgish's reputation for peace and
quiet, witness replied that it was
good. On cross-eXamination stated
that she had been married to one
Simms, about seven or eight years
ago and he after living with her
for about three years left her, and
she never heard of him since; some
time after she married LaF'ollette,
I was never divorced from my first
husband, have had three children
one to my first husband and two to
LaFollette one of whom was born
before we were married.: That she
was possessed of temper of her
own and some times called her
husband names not mentioned al
his christening. He always provid-
ed enough to eat but did not clothe
her as well as she would like.
DIR. Pritchard testified same as
DIR. Gable.
Lizzie McCargish, live at Nelson
vile; knew Mark LaFollette anC
wife, lived with them in the house
in Murray City. Was there aOou
four months and during that time
Mark and his wife had difficulty
about his giving little girl pair O.
shears, and at that time he struck
her on right side Of the head with
his fist. When he was drunk ht
would whip her. Saw him strike
her with horse-whip three or foul
times one morning. Henry McCur
gish was there at the time. Cross