The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-06-06
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DO I understand you right Mrs
Buxton?r asked the Judge DO you
accuse your husband Of wanting 70
murder your child?7
NO. not Just that answered MS
Buxton. You see. =
zone minute. your honOr-allow me
10 explain exclaimed Mr. BuNton II
Is like this We have one child a year
ana half old, and pair Of twins.
six months old. small cherubs, both o.
them: their mothers pug nose and my
handsome feature
And his red hair interrupted Mrs
Buxton
Before we were married she always
said II was chestnut brown. but II mat
ters not Yesterday she went 10 attend
a committee meeting Of the ladies ala
society. I staid home with the chill
dren. Three children, your honor,
have not three arms Wien two OF
tberu screamed / had 70 lay the third
one down and carry the two. Then the
one had laid down commenced, so
picked him up and laid down one Of
the others. But then that one began
] had to carry one on my back but
that would not do, for he fell down
and bumped his nose on the floor I'M
apine nv positioni Il was not at al
one 10 be envied ! was near going
mad To make matters worse ! had
only two nursing bottles and while /
fed the two the third oae yelled like
an Indian
Couldn't you make him suck your
thumb2~ asked the judge, who by TINS
time was becoming interested IN the
case, As he himself was a married man
My wife cannot tolerate that She
has strongly forbidden IL Well
made the lest OF II as well as ] could
But then boy came IN with message
from my wife asking me 10 take care
of Mrs. Wilson's child, too, while she
was attending the meeting, which, by
way, was held at her house Now !
had four children 20 mind. and / win
say. that if Mrs Wilson's boy grows
up and intends 70 become a missionary /
and wants 10 preach to the heathens |
Of Africa he can do SO without leaving |
his home lie has a voice like a bugle |
horn. As soon as he arrived he com ]
mcnced to scream and the others Joined |
IN with him out Of pure sympathy
1T must have teen very pleasant"
the Judge remarked
- dars say IL was. But I soon Hit /
upon an idea pat one Of the twins
into one cradle. rocking Il with my /
right foot the other twin into another /
cradle. rocking this with my left /
Then ] sat Mrs Wilson's boy on one |
knee and John on the other and by /
thus moving both nv legs / managed I
10 keep ali four IN motion at the same /
time Do you understand? Well Just [
as I had got quiet restored the mes /
senger came again with the secretary's /
little baby and d note from my wife 1
asking me also 70 take care Of that as [
the secretary was busy writing up the 4
minutes Of the meeting"
'.Nvas It asleep"
40, indeed not Well, lido not want I
90 exaggerate the case. l have given
Inv oath 20 tell the truth only, and /
VIII explain it all IN as mild a way as l |
possibly can. But don't believe there /
is d child on the face OF the globe that
can make as much noise as the secre-
tarv's Young one. He screamed and
wlined tin I was scared ont Of my wits,
and Immediately Mrs. Wilson's blessed
bov Joined IN, and our three did not
take a back seat They all fell in with
the chorus Imagine a whole kinder
garten getting stomach trouble az one
time and you can just about realize the |
situation.
Couldn't you sing for them?'
-Sing. God bless you; one couldn't !
have heard a bass drum.
-Weu, then. what did you do?"
y gave one Of the twins our family
Bible and the other a dictionary TO
play with. Then 1 ran down stairs to
try and get some milk for all of them.
When I came back had, as ! before
stated. only two nursing bottles, and
50 ] emptied a bottle of hair-oil that
my wife uses and bottle Of lamp-ol
Z also poured milk into an old bottle |
in which there had been some kind OF /
pain-killing medicine and then car |
ried them around. When I came TO the 1
twins they had the Bible and diction- |
AIRY on top Of their chests and they |
were turning black in their faces. The |
books were too heavy for them, your /
honor had TO pick the children up /
and hold them under the hydrant to /
get life back into them again. As / /
returned / found Mrs Wilson's child in /
a very bad condition as a result Of the /
hair-oL Mrs. Secretary's young one /
had swallowed a cork ana the third /
one looked as though he did not relish 4
the lamp-oiL 4 minute or two after l
my wife came in with Mrs Wilson and /
the secretary. and on seeing the chill /
dren drove me ont OF the house. Sine 1
then 7 don't know what has happened. /
out I believe Mrs Wilson has put my /
wife M TO say that wanted to murder
the child"
Discharged, and the case is dis
missed, said the judge
Mrs. Buxton has since procured
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