Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-13
SELLERS STUCK TO THE GIRL
States Side of the Tragedy Involving Olive
Hiscox.
STORY RELATED BY THE VICTIMS WIFE
EHorts Had Been Made to separate
the Couple, hut without sue
cess. Though Roth Families
We're Interested.
STORY RELATED BY THE VICTIMS WIFE

TEKAMAII Ncb.. Nov. (Special)-
Tho Hiscox murder trial opened this morn
ing with the further examination Of Mrs.
Sellers. on the cross-examnatiou efforts
we're made to draw from the witness stale
mcnts that her husband sought out Olive
Hiscox and to acknowledge that she had at
different times threatened the girl with send
ing her to the penitentiary. number OF
letters purportng to have passed between
the Hlscox girl and Sellers We're Identified
by witness on behalf OF the state.
On redirect examination the witness
said she had three children living, all boys,
aged 10, ~ and 10 years, and that she had
lost three children during their infancy,
all being the children Of Fred Sellers When
she was married she went to live on the
large Sellers farm Mr.. Sellers parents
and his two unmarried brothers were liv-
ing there at that time. One brother after
ward married and it was his wife that em-
ployed and brought Olive HiscoN to the
farm. She had seen her husband under
the influence OF liquor and knew that when
he left her on the night prior to
the murder he was not in any way IN
toxlcated. About a year prior to his death
her husband failed in business and since
that time had been in rather straitened cir
cumstances. His credit prior to that time
had been good and when she married him
he owned a farm adjoining the one on which
they lived
County Attorney Sears was next put upon
the stand He described the condition and
location OF furniture and the body in the
house In which the deed was committed and
identified two revoveTs that he found there.
In one revolver he said he found three
shells. one unloaded, one showing recent
firing and being in line with the barrels.
Knew where the revolver was, from talk
he bad with Grant and Calvin HiscOX, In
the Jail Grant told him that after the
firing. Calvin took the revolver from Olive,
and that he took 1t from Calvin and went
and put it In a washstand, which was in
tr1duccd in evidence. The other revolver
the attorney fret saw in the kitchen OF the
house. and took it from the hand of the
coroner. No shells in that revolver showed
recent firing.
GIRL ONCE THREATENED SELLERS.
Dan Fuller was called and he testified
that he had been resident Of Cherokee
Ia, for eighteen years. Had known the
Sellers family for seventeen years. Knew
all the HiscoX family except Grant Had
known Olive Hscox about eight years. He
frst became acquainted with them at Quin-
by la. He worked for Fred Sellers
for two years on the farm. Olive
was there for four or nve months
while he was there He knew her
before she came to the farm and knew
of the relations of Sellers and the girl at
tne tlule Sne WIS WOIklUE lntTt lie ndl
conversed with the girl and she had made
a statement to him at one time that she
would kill Sellers and would like to Kill
both he and his wife. He said he knew of
Sellers giving her money at two different
times and also knew of him giving money
to both the brothers, Calvin and Eugene.
Warren Sellers, brother OF the victim
OF this tragedy, was called. He said he
was living on the farm when Olive worked
there and he remembered of seeing her in
RtTI t.s..s, 10. ..Ftt
to the barn and found her. staining in one
of the stalls. He sad 10 her: "Olive, you
have quito L layout here" at which she
began crying. lie took her to the door and
they sat down and he talked kindly to her
trying to persuade her to go away and give
up her attempts to break up his brother
Fred's family. She said she was going
and that a way had been prepared
for her; that she would be gone the next
day. He told her If she needed any help
or money he would see that she got It,. lie
told her Fred could not think anything OF
her. or he would not leave her in a barn, at
which she got angry, and said she would
kill Fred He asked her II she was the
woman who stood off a number of men with
A revolver down in the gravel pit some
days previous, and she said she was, and at
that time was on her way to the barn He
testified that during his conversation with
the girl, she admitted that she came there
against the wishes of Fred.
Mrs. Peter Lund OF Oakland. living next
door to the house occupied by Olive HiscoX
testified that the girl had lived there about
six weeks and was known to her by the
name OF Mrs. Traverse. The witness sold
the HscoX girl milk. Had seen Calvin
there at two different tirncs. At one time
he stayed about week and was accompanied
by Grant. She saw them como there the
morning of the tragedy. They
came with a team and lead
Ing pony. One went tc
The house aud went into a back kitchen.
where he remained few moments and then
went back 20 the barn, and the two boys
put the horses in the barn. Afterward Olive
went to the barn and then all went to the
house. During the interval between the
boys first trip to the house and olives trlE
10 the barn. the witness took the milk over
She entered the house and Olive came from
the bedroom in a partially dressed Goudi-
lion. The witness saw no ono else there In
about an hour aftorward she was calle(
TO the house by the cries of Mrs. Sellers
whom she found in the front room OF III,
house kneeling beside her dead HUSBAND
and crying. On this latter visit the His
COX girl was sitting in The kitchen Tn,
witness said she noticed that windows aut