Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-12


was extinct and had been for some time. Dr.
Sward Identified the clothes form by Sellers.
lie also located the course of the bullet,
which entered the breast near the left nip
plc passed downward through the lung,
scvcring several blood vessels, and lodging
against lower rib. wound which, the doc
tor sal must have caused almost instant
death. lie described Sellers as about six feet
in height, weighing $50 pounds and with an
upright and erect carriage.
Mrs Sellers wife OF the victim OF this
tragedy, was on the stand during the after
noon She said she had known the prisoner
since she was s or years of age ana thought
she must now be about 22 She saw her hus-
band for the last time alive about o'clock
p. m the night before the tragedy. lie said
be was going to Bancroft and did
not know when he would be back.
She saw him next dead at the HiscoN
house Oh the morning OF June 2. That
morning the IliscoX woman came TO her
house and told her to come out, as she had
something shc wanted to show her she
answered: you have nothing | want to
see" To which the Hiscox woman re-
piled: Not even the body OF your dead
husband?"
In the conversation that followed the
Hiscox woman said that she killed Sellers
for revenge upoh Mrs Sellers for turning
her out OF the house several years pre-
yious and that II Mrs. Sellers would not
bury him she would She also said. Mrs.
Sellers testified, that she would not suffer
punishment, but would kill herself first
SAW HER HUSBANDS BODY.
Mrs Sellers accompanied the woman to
the house. Calvin. the brother, opened the
door and said to her: Hattie, 1t Is sad
ending"
During the stay at the house Of an hour
or more the girl and her brother had a
consultation in an adjoining room. Olive
kissed the face OF Sellers, and in the pres
ence OF Mrs. Sellers acted as though she
Olive) was his wife.
She said she had known the girl Olive,
Intimately for over four years. The reia-
tiOns of her husband and the woman first
came to her knowledge in April, 1893 At
that time Olive was working as domestic
in their family. Mrs. Sellers confronting
her husband and the girl with her knOwl-
edge of their misdeeds she told Olive she
must leave. but upon their pleading for
Givenes3 and promising not to sin again, she
allowed Olive to stay Their actions after
ward were such that In about three weeks
Mrs. Sellers says she insisted that the girl
should leave, but again she relented, and
asked the girl not to go yet, for If sire did
Fred would be so ugly that she Che wifo)
could not live with him. Olive left, how
ever, Mrs Sellers saw her next at Early.
Ia, where they were brought by the sheriff
under arrest for passing themselves off as
husband and wife, Mrs. Sellers had caused
their arrest upon intercepting a note that
Olive had sent to the husband.
MRS. SELLERS is FORGIV1NG.
Aftorward Mrs. Sellers dismissed the case
upon renewed promises OF both parties that
they would quit their relations At thi.
time 1t was agreed that Olive should be
sent to school at Carroll. At that time
Olive said Sellers had spent $3.50 on her
and that he was keeping her at a $2-a-day
house, while his wife remained at home
olive was sent to Carroll, but in a short
time Mrs. Sellers learned that she was back
again on the Sellers farm and staying In
an old barn. she went to the barn and
found Fred and Olive there. At that time
Mrs. Sellers was given to understand that
Olive would leave and 20 to where she had
a child, of which she claimed Fred was the
father, Mrs Sellers said few days after
ward she again visited the barn SUSPECT.
Ing the woman had not left. She found her
there and the two women came to an under.
standing that Olive was to be taken away
TO some place where she was not known
and where she could live different life
Olive also told her that she did not have q
child and said II II had nut been for Dan
Fuller the trouble would never have oc.
CURED. Nrs. Sellers said il was agreed that
she was to take Olive away and If at any
time Olive was in want or sick she would
assist her.
She did take Olive away and furnished heI
money TO assist her and gave her some new
dated Weeping Water, Neb., but mailed on
the train. Next she was informed by Calvin
Hiscox that Olive had been at Lamars but
did not think she was there then and that
he thought she was with Sellers. She neXt
learned of Olive at Shenandoah and Marcus
Ia. she receiving from the latter place a
letter written by Olive to Sellers and subse.
quently found in his coat pocket another le,-
ter from the same source.
GIRLS PECULIAR VIEWS.
Going back, Mrs Sellers said Olive said
at the barn that il she ever did Sellers any
damage II would be to kill him. She also
told Mrs. Sellers that she (Olive) had a right
to Sellers If she could get him and that
Mrs, Sellers had right to him if she could
keep him
Mrs. Sellers said when her husband re-
turned from Shenandoah she remarked 10
him that he was growing gray and bald. and
he replied that If she had some one hang
Ing around her all the time she would get
gray and bald, too. She told her husband
at that timo to go with the other woman II
he wanted to; that she would not molest
him. but would stay there and care for the
children. He told her he did not want to
go; that he did not want the Hscox woman;
that he and she could not get along to.
gether two weeks.
On cross examination Mrs Sellers ad-
mitted that Olive was greatly influenced
by her husband, and that his reputation in
the community was that of man given to
unChastlty.
Adjournment was taken until morning.
when Mrs. Sellers will again take the stand
Feeding Much stock in Dodge Counts
FREMONT Nov. ll.-(Special)-T low
price Of corn and feed have been the cause
of more cattle and sheep being shipped in
here for feeding than any season before
Fifty-fve thousand head of sheep are being
led in this vicinity. Among the large feeders
are Mahoney & sullivan Turner & Haeb.
ner. W. H. Turner, w. f, Brown and
+. NJ. Griswold. 1t is difficult
TO get at the number of cattle being fed
as the herds are mostly small. There have
been a much larger number of chattel mort
cages of feeders filed this fall than ever be-
fore.
District Court nt FnIrbury.
FAlRBURY, Neb., Nov. 11.-(Speclal)-
District court convened yesterday. Judge
Stull presiding. The entire day was con.
sumed in empanelng a jury in the case OF
the state against George 5. Williams
charged with the murder of Charles
Smiley. Smiley was shot by Williams in q
quarrel, August 90 1894 and at the sprinl
term OF court 1895 Williams was conyicte,
and sentenced to the penitentiary. His at
torneys took the case TO the supreme court
whero new trial was ordered