The Jersey City news., 1892-06-15


| twenty minutes 10 warm myself aud then
my wife said why don't You go upstairs
and change your clothes | did so. WheuI
came down my mother-in-law aske d me TO
have some whiSkey and she filled glass
of whiskey for mo. drank it, and then
all hands had q drink, my wife drank
also she said don't ill my glass l have
enough. The next round emptied the
bottle and Dunno said What's the matter
amt there enough TO drink. Bremner
said no, and Dunno wanted to send Tillie
for some more Bremner said no will
paw for this and he sent TiIiie for it. We
had two or three drinks, my wife drank
each time.
A GENERAL wRANGLE.
''My wife then said, Arthur, you want
to LOOK out for youiS2lf.' Ireplied, Yes,
you came home once and told your mother
that you had gang lying for me-
don'tremember distinctly what took place
after that. but my wife flew at me
and so did the mother-in-law and Mamie.
My mother-in-law said:-'Katie, you have
always made trouble; you don't know
what in hellyou want. always accused
Arthur of much trouble, but since he has
been boarding here the last time l find 1t
is you who cause the trouble
when they were talking about play
ing cards, Mamie and Dunno got into the
bed room. While they were playing
cards Dunno called Bremner to come into
the bed room. Bremner said, 1--WE got a
good hand wait Dunno called Bremner
again, and Bremner got up and said
I'll watch the room. There is where the
trouble began. / didn't feel like playing
cards any more, but did. Bremner came
out and Joined us, could not see the bed
except the foot of it. don't know what
took place there.
SHAMELESS CONDUCT.
"When Dunno was blackened, my wife
did it. Bremner was near the bedroom
door and my wife went in aud said.
Come. Jack. break away Then she
added, That puts me IN mind of my
young days. hugging. kissing and low
ing,'
"Bremner followed my wife in the room
and all four were there five minutes and
then Dunne and Mamie came out. My
wife and Bremner remained in there.
sat some distance from the bedroom and
my mother-in-law hit me on the back and
said, Arthur, cheer up, there
are better days for you.
rot up and walked about
| the room. in a fit of rage and went into
| the bed room aud my mother-in-law fol-
lowed me.
"If," continued Stocker dramatically.
''she would tell you what she and l saw
| there. would walk home today free
man."
Continuing his sad narrative Stocker
said he was positive that Bremner and
| his wife were in the room when he looked
| in 81 went up stairs and came down.
| My wife was out of the bedroom. l told
| her to dress the child and would take
| her for walk. She refused and l went
| alone"
What were you thinking about when
you had your head on your hands before
you went outf" asked ex-Judge Hoff-
man.
II was thinking of my unhappy past
| life, how we had only lived to-
gether again one month and
| then this trouble had to come.
| When / came back from my walk / saw
my wife against a wall in the ROOM
| Bremner was with her. Their actions
| were such that don't remember what
did beyond going upstairs.
| A DRAMATIC EPISODE
| "What was ityou SaW?" asked ex-J udge
| Hoffman,
| Stocker, trembling with excitement,
| claimed:-
| "Pll give my life before Ill speak the
| word; / want to spare my little one the
| disgrace"
sit down." shouted Prosecutor Win
| field, eve have had enough of this dra-
| matte effort"
"He is my witness, Mr.. Winfield, and
| he shall tell his story as he pleases," re-
torted ex-Judge Hoffman.
| Then, after some persuasion, Stocker
| UOlQ Inc Jury WDHL he saw.
ALL A BLAND.
"What did you do then~ eX-Judge
| Hoffman inquired.
II only remember that l went up
| stairs"
| "Do you remember getting a pistol up
stairs?"
DO you remember shooting Mamie?"
"No, sir"
"Do you remember following your wife
and shooting her?"
mo. sir"
do you remember following Dunne2"
"Do yon remember returning to your
wife and kissing her, saying, Katie, you
| died easy?
"No, SIR"
"Do you remember saying to a Mr..
White, when he arrested you, L was drove
| to do it; bought the cartridges this morn
mo, sir"
oUARRELs UPON oUARRELs.
"How mauy times did you and your
wife SCI arateW
Several times. The first time was be-
| cause of quarrel ABOUT my supper. The
second time we sepa, ated was because of
| a quarrel She always left me; | never
| left her. When we separated the last
time we were apart eighteen months,
| but last year we came together. When
we separated we were living on CenJfal
| avenue. She went to her mothers; was
| not allowed to see her. l tried to claim
| the child by law, and then we came to-
| cether again. l took the child One
| Saturday night l saw her with julie
Boston in Hoboken drunk, and on
| Decoration Day l took the child
| and she brought suit to recover it and We
| became reconciled. We lived happy two
| or three weeks, and then l found l had
| become diseased and charged her with
| having been the cause. We separated.
| but thought so much of the woman and
| my child that | wanted her to live with
! me. She would have lived with me had
| she not been ashamed to let her father
and mother know Of my sickness caused
by her."
| 81 never made any threats to shoot my
| wife or to iniurs her."
Cross-examined by the Prosecutor
i Stocker said:-"I knew my wife two OF
| three years before l married her. My
child was born five or six months after"
| wasn't it three monthsf"
mo, IL was longer than that. My
| child was born June 6. | do not know
that it was in February that l was mar
ried. 1t was during the year of the bliz
| zard."
"Where did You buy the cartridges thai
were in the pistol which you told the po
| liceman you boughtP
Il never bought the cartridges"
"Where did you get this revolver anC
whenF'
| ~ don1t know that I ever had this re-