Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-10-17

II" wanted me to. He got me a nlaca
~ the hospital and afterwards I met q
f"IIsh woman. | could not talk En-
6A$h, and she said she would get mo q
place, and lombard came ana hired me
ala not want to Sc, and cried three
days, but she told me he was a good
man. and l could do nothing else so
went When l went out he told me
should occupy his room, but / told him
/ came to work, and not to be his wife
lie had a glass needle, in which he mt
some white medicine (she meant n hypo-
dermie syringe and morphine) and he
said if l did not yield to his demands
he would stick me with that. | said
would not do it, and when | turned nv
back he put some of the white medicine
in my coffee, but threw the cup away
and would not drink it. He made me
occupy the room with him. Last Sunday
morning at 2 o'clock / was sleeping, and
lombard had his arm over me so | could
not get away, when John another Ital-
ian) came into the room and said the
barn was afire. We got up, and LON
bardi said he would lose his money, and
asked me If l took it. l did not know
where he had any money, ara said if |
took it they could take me TO town and
put me in Jail. I then said l would go
to town, but lombard said No. no.
Marie. / no want you to so away.
like you, Marie. You stay here Then
he did not say any more about the money.
Monday night he came in and got his
coat, and said he was going to Five Mile
prairie to get a load of hay and would
be back in the morning at S o'clock. |
wash the dishes and the cook say | must
come TO his room. I told him no, but he
took me in the ROOM locked the door
and tied handkerchief over my mouth
50 l could not make any noise. All the
night I could not sleep, and once |
looked at the window and saw lombard
looking in. About o'clock in the morn
ing I went out, and lombard was there.
He grabbed me by the throat and choked
me and hit me with his fist on the side
of the head. Then he make me put on
dress and my shoe3 and he push me
across the road choking me all the
time John he came out and told LON
bardi he had hurt me enough. All the
time Lombard kept saying, III kill you
I'll kill you Then the other man took
me-"
It would seem from her story thai
there were three man-LomDardi. Johi
and q man always referred to as the
"other fellow"
This other fellow took me and bent
my arm behind me, and then knocked ms
and kicked me in the back with his
knees. Then he brought me to httle
house where he threw me on the iio2l
and jumped on me and knocked me III
the stomach with his knees. lie hello
me by the throat and cut me on the face
with his knife and stuck me with the
point of It. All the time he kept saying,
tn kill you for taking Lombardi
money. l told him | did not take the
money. and he held the knife to my
throat and said he would cut it if / did
not tell him where the money was.
said if he cut my head off ] could not
tell him. Then he would say again. J Il
kill you for taking Lombardfs money
This was the story she told over and
over again, always the same and corfop-
Grating In every particular the story She
told Mrs. Ballard the day she was
brought to the house. According 10 her
story It was o'clock in the morning
when she was seized and choked by LON
bardi, and Mrs. Ballard says 1t was AFTER
2 in the afternoon when she was brought
to the Ballard house. From this 1t would
seem she was in the hands of her tor
tlIrers nearly 70 hours. The body is the
best proof that she has received a most
terrible punishment though her story
is denied by the Italians. They say she
ran into barbed wire fence.
AGAINST THE GOLD DEMOCRATS