The record-union., 1894-01-30
her if Mrs. Gilman had not instructed her

her if Mrs. Gilman had not instructed her
to have no callers during her absence.
Shortly afterward the man (Madison)
came down stairs and witness told kim
he had no right to enter his house and go
to the rooms occupied by his children.
He ordered Madison off the premises and
told him not to come there again.
Going to the kitchen he found it in a
neglected condition and scolded the serv-
ant for neglecting her work. She said
she had good notion TO leave, and he
told her he thought it the best thing she
could do.
He supposed she did go away, but the
next morning he was surprised to find
her still there and that she had breakfast
| ready. She asked if she was not worth
$40 per month, and he replied that he had
already written Mrs. Gilman to bring
another servant home with her, if possi-
BILE. but he would leave the whole matter
to her. The hostler, however, had told
him he had seen men leaving her room,
and witness did not think, after what
had occurred, that she had better remain.
That afternoon Mrs. Truitt called at
witness store and asked to be allowed
credit for some goods, but this the wit
ness declined. She then asked him to
lend her SO, and when he refused she
said she ought TO be allowed something
for what she had done during Mrs. Gil
mans absence, as she did not have any
money.
at the breakfast table that morning
Mrs. Truitt told the witness that the man
he had seen in her room was one to
whom she was engaged to be married,
and witness said Ii he had known that
fact he would not have spoken so harshly
on the day before.
Mr.. Gilman then told Of his visit to the
Bee office, saying that he requested the
managing editor not to publish the ma
| llciOus statement of a woman whom none
OF them knew. He was told that he
could also make his own statement, but
that if Mrs. Truitt should swear to a COM
plant Of the kind they would have to
! publish it as news. Gilman replied that
| that would not be news-only lie con-
cocted by matchmaking woman lie
did not object to their publishing the
complaint itself, if one were sworn to.
but did object 10 the publication of her
statement in connection herewith.
The witness here declared that if there
was a word of truth in the charge made
by Mrs. Truitt he hoped he might be
paralvZed.
Continuing, Mr. Gilman said that when
Mrs. Gilman went away he asked Barry,
| the hostler. to sleep III the house. Barry
atterward told the witness that on the
night Of the alleged assault he heard nc
noise in the house. He told Judge Post
the same in the presence of the witness.
When witness daughter, Cordelia, went
away on August llth she left the hall door
to her room unlocked and the key in it.
That night he found the door locked and
the key gone. There is also door open
ing from this room upon the porch.
q. n. Post was then called and testified
that when Gilman was arrested he had a
conversation with Barry, the hostler.
| They went through the upper portion OF
the Gilman residence. Barry told the
witness that he had heard no noise in the
house on the night OF the alleged assault,
and knew of no disturbance there.
Gilman was then examined by
Mr.. Jones at considerable length. He
swore positively that on the night Barry
said he and the witness went TO Shears
place and got drink, nothing of the kind
occurred. The first intimation that wit
ness had of there being anything wrong
with Mrs. Truitt was when Barry, the
hostler, told him he thought he had heard
footsteps as OF some one leaving Mrs.
Truitt's room at night.
The cross examination of Gilman will
be continued at 10 O'Clock this morning.