The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-06-29

tneN ala so. neY CnurneU, washed
MIXED and sewed when we did no.
have hired help. Whether sick OF
well she was treated right by defen
dant and the rest. She claimed thai
she had fits and that she took medi
cine for same Drs Dent and Mack
ey prescribed for he3 when sick
One day when witness was washing
on the porch she told him she
thought Of drowning herself because
she was so much trouble on account
of her being unwell in mind and
body and that she did not like tt
see him washing; that it did moi
look as though she was doing bel
duty. Witness assured her that he
did not object to washing and tol6
her not to think of her troubles
The morning that witness and hi.
father and brothers went to help
uncle Thomas thresh wheat Mis-,
Maggie Zimmerman had not made
her appearance. He and Lee Roy
got breakfast They all walked t.
uncle Thomasis.
His father did not tell him in jai
to destroy a bottle of poison that
was at home; and he never saw any
poison there. The bed where defen-
dant and wife slept was mussed thai
night On cross examination he
stated thaqhe never told Marsh Haw
kins that his father had told him te
tell Marsh that defendant would
pay Marsh's father $40 if he was
summoned on the jury, and would de
him justice. and he never told him
so in the presence of Marsh 8 wife.
He did not remember that be said
before the Justice that he left home
for the school house at Sis o'clock
but if he said certain time il was
true; he thought that be did not
then have a timepieee Defendant
and wife and Roy had trouble but
no trouble that morning. Never
heard his father say a short word to
her They did have some trouble
after she told that Mr.. Snider had
advised her TO leave and had offered
her house and money II she would
do SO, and talked to her against the
Musgraves They we're married in
September 80. Either Roy or faith
er said at the pool when we found
her "ain't that her" referring to an
object in the cfeek. Witness saw
the object before the question was
asked. Roy went in water and found
that it was her and he raised her and
brought her to the shore where he
laid her down on her face, and then
father and he helped Roy to take
her on the bank. Water was drip
ping from her hair when Roy
brought her from the pool. Every
thing was pleasant at supper; ali
the family present. She seemed tC
be all right mentally and physi
cally and she was talking and laugh
ing to father. On account OF hel
threats he was not surprised wher
they found she had drowned herself
Witness did not see anybody on thu
bank but Roy and his father whet
she was brought tut of the creek
He did not hear of her at the seheo
house He and father and Roy wen
through the bars but did not go di
rectly 10 same Roy did the mos
of the cooking On the morning o
Dec 18th she went to Michael's b,
a round about way and not the hes
road One day wiIeu he @as washin!
clothes on the porch she told hin
that she thought of throwing her
self in the creek in order to get shu
of her troubles, bodily and mental
and that be tried to discourage he
from doing same Witness did no
remember whether the horses wer,
harnessed the morning that they
went to Thomas Musgraye's broth
er Of defendant, to help thresh wheat
His father did not tell him at tn,
jail to break bottle Of poison tina
was at home On cross examination
he denied that he had told Marsl
Hawkins that defendant had sem
him to tell Marsh that defendant
would pay his father $40 if he woulC
do him justice as juror and WORK
in this case. He never heard hi,
father give his step mother a short
word except that there was some
unpleasantness when she told of the
offers of money and house which she
said had been made to her by Sny
der if she would leave, she saying
Snyder talked against theMusgraves
and advised her to leave. But nc
serious quarrel. When she wal
found ii was either Roy or father
who said when the object was seen
"Ain't that her2' All the family
ate supper and everything was pleas
ant. She was in her usual state OIL
health then. He was not surprised
at finding her in the pool though
excited, because she had threatened
to throw herself in the water ano
end her troubles-her mental ano
bodily troubles, she told him so or
the porch when he was washing
clothes-this was sometime before
her death. The horses were har
messed before we went threshing tC
uncle Thomas When she went tc
Michael's the morning OF her death
she went through the fields and moi
by the nearest route.
Witness Allen Stevens: Bower
Stephens mother and defendant
wife's mother were cousins, and T.
B. Steel and Jefferson Steele rela
tives of defendants wife.
Witness Marsh Hawkins: Wit
ness said that John Musgrave die
tell him as to the $40. (See Mus
graves testimony.
Witness Mrs. Robert Layton re
called: She saw no sticks in Mrs
Musgrave's hair. She did not no
tice that her mind was unsound anC
this was the testimony Of the fol
lowing witnesses who testified OF
Monday morning: Mrs. Sarah A
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