The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

The STATES EVIDENCE.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE I.

Gaddis was standing in the doorway of
the pantry when he was shot, took a few
steps backward and sat down in chair.
Gaddis told Mrs. Cornell TO go for doctor
and when she started for the doctor the
witness heard Gaddis say that he wanted
to go into the sitting room.
He got up, walked alone and went to
the sitting room, where he fell In front Of
the sofa
She asked him IL he thought he was
going to die. lie replied. II think not
IL thought was going TO die would
make my will and send for my mother
and brother"
Mrs. Cornell and DR.. Winsor then came
In and Gaddis asked II the wound was a
serious one. The doctor guardedly said
that Inflammation might set in and that
il he had any business to transact he had
better attend TO IL at once.
Dr. Winsor took out q piece of paper,
and In the presence OF the witness pre-
pared to take down t1addis' statement.
Mrs. Reynolds swore that for six months
prior to the murder she had heard Cor
nell say many times that she was a bad
character, and that he would shoot Cad
dis and that nothing could be done to him
for il.
On cross-examination Mrs. Reynolds
said that she did not know who Gaddis
called to see when he came TO the house
She was very particular to impress upon
the court the idea that when Gaddis called
Cornell sat In the room with him:
She WAS asked l. she ever heard Rhodes
Cornell tell John Gaddis not TO come to
the house again.
Gaddis was not at the house the Sunday
before the shooting.
Gaddis had not been drinking on the
day of the shooting; but Cornell had liq-
uor. but he could walk well enough.
John Gaddis never interferel in any
way in the affairs OF the household until
that fatal afternoon:
1t was not true that he, Mrs. Cornell
and the witness ever put Cornell out OF
the house.
1t was true that Cornell sometimes slept
on lounge in the basement, but that was
because he had quarrelled with his wife.
1t was possible that two Sundays before
the shooting Gaddis came TO the house at
0 o'clock in the morning and remained
there all day.
1t was her sisters husband not Cornell
But when pressed to answer she admitted
that while her sister bought the house aud
gave q mortgage OF 500 upon IL that Cor
nell paid 500 of the mortgage out of a
legacy that came TO him from his father s
house.
There was liquor in the house that
night, and it was in the witness's room.
1t was not true that Gaddis ever
brought bottle of whisky to the house.
III WAS nOJ tTuc tudt Wucu OOTucll CdIic
into the kitchen Gaddis had his hands up
on the witness. Cornell did not say to
Gaddis that he did not propose to have
his house turned into a house of illfame.
1t was trae that Cornell had marks upon
his face, but they might have come from
the fight he had with his wife before Cad
dis came In.
She WAS positive that Gaddis did not
throw Cornell to the floor aud that he did
not choke him, aud she was equally as
positive that she never told anybody that
Gaddis had choked Cornell.
1t was not true that she had ever told
anybody that Gaddis was shot in the
pantry.
1t was true that Gaddis had called at
the house when both she and Rhodes
Cornell were absent.
Medical Examiner John A. Winsor. de-
tailed the character of the wound received
by John Gaddis, the autopsy aud what
Gaddis said to him directly after he arriv-
ed at the Connell house to attend the
injured man.
Gaddis told the witness that he thought
that he should get out of it-mesning his
injury. But subsequently Gaddis inti-
mated several times that he was going to
die. He said: This finishes me-" At
o'clock recess was taken for one hour.