The morning times., 1896-05-30
BUTTONS SEE RANDOLPH
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A. Yes, sir.
q. hIhcu was that; was that before you
fired the pistol or after?
A. II was lust before | got hold of the
pistol he struck the children.
Q. 1id you become unconscious?
A Yes, sir.
q. You DIDN'T see him come back?
A. No, sir.
Q. LnIil ne came into the room?
q. MI buxton, then you are certain he
struck the children before the pistol ex
Dloded'
O. bid be lean over you and strike your
wife?
A. Yes, sir.
q. 30 you know what occurred with
reference 10 your wife after YOU fell on
the floor ard became unconscious?
Q. bid you see him catch hold of your
wife?
A, No, sir: never saw my wife at al
until arer she had raised up IN be bed and and
went Off The little child vas lying on
the floor and she sCreamed.
q; Bid you understand anything thatshe
A No, sir.
Q, He leaned over you and struck her?
A. Yes. sir.
q Wnen did YOU regain Consciousness"
A. 1t wasn't long; 1t was less than three
minutes: after | heard him strike the chn-
drea l got my revolver and lantern and
went down stairs.
Q. Thea you say as soon as YOU regained
consciousness you grabbed the lamp anu
went down stairs?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Was it lighted then, Mr.. Buxton?
a. Yes, sir
O. Were YOU well enough TO recognize
person out OF the door: was it light
enough 10 see them ?
A. Yes sir
Q. Do YOU think you could recognize
that man now If you would see him?
A. Yes. sir; l told a pretty good story
from what they told me.
Q. 10 YOU tank ii was Neal?
a. No. sir.
@ The first intimation understand YOU
had the man was in the room was the lick
on. the. back OF your head:
Q. Did you see him strike your wife?
| A. Yes. sir.
O.. Was that after he had struck You
A. l could not say about that. l don't
| think 2ny man could say. when n man IS
struck on the mead Ike l was. 10 rctneinber
Q. Mr. Buxton, did YOU hear any noises:
| did the children make any ontcry when
! they were struck?
a. Yes sir.
q. Could you distinguish which one OF
! them IT was?
A We'll / don't know that could; both
/ Of them hollereI at the same titne the
| liCEs passed right together
C. \ uu IIind Gnen frotn what YOU heard
| that there were only two licks struck the
| children"
A Yes sir
q. or cuLrse when yoI went TO the room
after YOU returned upstairs they didn't
| know anything about what ha happened?
| A. No sir; when | went upstairs they
were both upstairs in bed and the sinallest
one was crying; ] told the little one to
stop crying the doctor would be there
! i'll little while.
| O.. Was she III a condition to make any
intelligible answer TO what y"a s1li To her:
| A. No sir only she knew fuy voice.
Q. What7w was that ciIild'S name?
A. Sadie.
be conscious?
| A. No sir.
Q. sne seemed to understand your voice?
A. Yes sir.
O, Your wife. as / understand it, at the
| time you came 80, had run out OF the house
| with a lantern?
A. Yes sir.
STATEMENT OF MRS. RI CXTON.
O. Mrs. Buxton. do you know when
| that man came in the room"
A No. sir: we were all asleen.
@ Did you see him when lie struck
your husband?
A No. sir: the first thing ! felt some
thing on TRy mead 1T felt Ike the whole
house had ctIne down on Iny head. i nj
jumped out tf he'd; my husband was lying
right down opposite the beti;i was scared
SO and | don't know what made me say
it, but l said ta him, why did yOn hit
me | don't know what made yoU hit me, =
and ne said No. Somebody has hit me. ~
@. Was he lying on the led then:
a. He was on the floor and then
thought OF my TWO children and | ran
TO the room where they were.
O. Did you hear him skcor the pistol?
a. didn't hear the pistol al all
. Did v"p see the man when he came
In the room?
a. NJ. hH.
O. Did he coEnc out Of The children s
room and eaten you by the the threat or
A / didn't see him: didn't see him
when | first went in the ohi,Cren's room;
he thought, | suppose, that L was going
O. When you said to your husband
A lie said some one was killing him.
O. Then what did you do
'-i~-' TO lift him up; tried. but
couldn't do it.
ro,' aIte, you lifted him up?
A. II couldn't lift him.
@. You went in the room where the cf'i!-
dren were when he choked YOU?
A Yes. sir; tried 10 reach him in the
| face but could not.
o. He had struck the two children when
| YOU got there?
A. Oh. yes; he had knocked them both
O. He ran out and left you in the room
A He choked me until my arms hung
O. Did he have the ak in his hand at the
time?
A. No. sir.
| u. on uulil ,tC ANY dA dl tii-
| A No, sir; haven't seen any ak at al
| then heard my baby cry and ran back il
| my bed room and got the child ana then
| @. Did he strike YOU before he did YOU
| husband, do you think
A. He must have struck him first ant
then me- for when jumped out of bed IN
husband was on the floor.
O. The first thing you saw OF YOU
husband he was lying on the floor?
A. Yes, sir. ] might have been knocked
1 out of nay senses like.
Q. Do you know Of your husband gettins
| un that night at any time?
A. No, sir
. o. There was light in the hall?
, A. Yes, sir; we always kept light Ii
, the hall every night.
q. And there was nonein theroom wher
A. No, sir, because we keep one in th
hall.
. intimation you had that anybody was ther
was this person striking you over the head
A. Yes, sir.
: Q. Did you see him after that?
J Q. You didn't hear the pistol go off?
A No, sir.
q. You saw the man when he came ou
| of the room and went down stairs?
A. / don't know which way he went.
Q. Do you think you would know bir
if you saw him!
A. No, indeed.
O. Was he a colored man?
A. He was black: / couldn't see yer
we'll for the blood on my face; he was
. the back of me.
O. Was he q large man?
A Yes. sir; he seemed so to me, fo
I am 4 very small woman.
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Gladstone FIunked
When Mr. Gladstone was young studcT
: he met with an amusing disaster in tt
: examination room. 1t was when he went
= for his ''SmalIs" at Oxford.
What books do you take up?''the exam