The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-05-16


good investigated matters. She claims
according to the reports, that she listened
at Miss Hagood's bedroom door one
morning when Mr.. Hasood was in there
The conversation at first was loud but
later il quieted down to low tones, aud
Just ut this interesting time she opened
the door She discovered Mr.. llagood
and his daughter sitting on the edge OF
the bed, and says that Mr.. llagood had
his hand on the inside of his daughters
dress cares-ing her bosom, and that the
girl was crying.
The women say they could stand IL no
longer, and on Friday they told their
neighbors of their troubles and left
home, fearing that IIagood would do
them violence when he returned, as he
had threatened to kill them il they told
on him. They accuse him of having
long been tyrant in his family, and say
that he would never give them any
money, but when asked for any, would
curse and storm about.
| hIS. ildBOOu bdgS buub siit lONtS OOfd
Hagood as her own child, and that she
was induced to make this exposure to
save the girl from being ruined.
Whether these reports are true or not,
the women all seem to be actually fright
ened, and the young lady sides with her
step-mother and grandmother
They all seem to have perfect aversion
for Mr. Hagood.
Upon the other hand it is said that
Mr.. Hagood declares that it is all piece
of spite work, and plot upon the part of
his wife and her mother to ruin him.
He boldly and positively denies the
charge and says that he is as innocent rs
any man.
lie says that he loves his family as
well as any man could love, but that his
wife and mother-in-law have combined
and plotted for some time to make his
home hell on earth for him. He says
that they have estranged his daughters
affections, his only child by his first wife,
and turned her love away from her
father He has noticed all this going on
for quite a while, and tried to counterfeit
the effect OF the plot by holding his
daughters love. He has plead with her,
professed his fatherly love for her, and
begged her not to turn against him, and
follow the footsteps and ape the ways OF
her step-mother and step grandmother
but to stand by MIN and she would be
happy. He has told her that they were
poisoning her mind and il she listened
to them that they would ruin the JOY of
her youthful life and that her happi-
ness might forever be blighted
All these things, he claims, she has
told them, and they have malciously
placed base construction on them and
poisoned his daughters mind with all
their hellishness till she, in her inno-
cence and purity, believes them.
All the momentous time, when his wife
opened the door upon them, he had been
talking to his child in the manner de-
scribed, and his afIectionate pledings
had melted her to tears. With a heart
bleeding from the effects of domestic
troubles, he was holding his child in his
arms while his soul went out to her
with all the ferver OF fathers love for a
motherless child whose life had fallen
among evil counselers and under the
bane of evil influences. That he had his
hand beneath her clothing, he denounces
as an infamous lie.
His business kept him almost contin-
ually away from home, leaving early in
the morning, and getting back, usually
late at night, and many times being gone
for several days at a time. He claims
that OF late his wife and her mother have
tried to manage to keep him from seeing
his daughter and enjoying her company
what little time he was at home. At
last, growing desperate, when his re-
quest to see his child had been refused,
he kicked in the door opening into her
room. That he made any threats of
violence to any person he earnestly
denies.
He says that he has always been lib
eral provider. That he has bought him
a nice home, built nice and good house
on it and has it nicely furnished. And
he also says that, while his last wife is of
an eminently respectable family, both
she and her mother, since they have
been at Irvington, have moved in
higher class of society than they ever
did before. They have associated here
with wealthy people and gone in the very
best circles. This he was pleased to see,
though it was very expensive, and some
times it pushed him to the very last
notch to keep expenses within the limits
OF his income. He paid their bills and
gave them what money he could spare.
His wife is extravagant and spends
money foolishly, At the last payday he
gave his wife money and she squandered
ii on visit to Louisville, and such ex.
penditures sorely pressed him.
This information, as we have said be-
fore, is not gained directly from the
parties themselves, but from hearing the
pleas OF the friends of both sides 1t is
| just about the way IL is talked at Irving
ton, and in the main, it probably APP
proximates the truth though the people